Mobile Phones and Psychosocial Therapies with Vulnerable People: a First State of the Art.
Mobile phones are becoming a communication tool commonly used by people all over the world; and they are started to be adopted in psychosocial therapies involving vulnerable people. We are herein presenting the results of an academic literature review. We identified scientific papers published betwe...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Medical Systems Vol. 40; no. 6; pp. 1 - 13 |
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Springer Nature
Jun2016
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