TY - CHAP AU - José A. Carmona Torres AU - Adolfo J. Cangas Díaz AU - Álvaro I. Langer Herrera ED - Luciano L'Abate Y1 - 2012-01-13 PY - 2012 T1 - Applications of 3D Simulation in Mental Health: Utilities and New Developments N2 - In the book "Mental Illnesses - Evaluation, Treatments and Implications" attention is focused on background factors underlying mental illness. It is crucial that mental illness be evaluated thoroughly if we want to understand its nature, predict its long-term outcome, and treat it with specific rather than generic treatment, such as pharmacotherapy for instance. Additionally, community-wide and cognitive-behavioral approaches need to be combined to decrease the severity of symptoms of mental illness. Unfortunately, those who should profit the most by combination of treatments, often times refuse treatment or show poor adherence to treatment maintenance. Most importantly, what are the implications of the above for the mental health community? Mental illness cannot be treated with one single form of treatment. Combined individual, community, and socially-oriented treatments, including recent distance-writing technologies will hopefully allow a more integrated approach to decrease mental illness world-wide. BT - Mental Illnesses SP - Ch. 3 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/29597 DO - 10.5772/29597 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-25 ER -