SelectCare—in aid of psychotherapists' treatment decisions

摘要

In this paper we describe SelectCare, a computer system to support psychotherapists in their decision making for the treatment of depressed patients. Treatment decision tasks are complex and ill-structured: it is not clear what the relevant bits of information are and how these should be integrated into a correct decision, or even what a correct decision is. Still, treatment decisions are important and merit thorough consideration. We therefore set ourselves the goal of equipping psychotherapists with a system that helps them improve the completeness and overview of their considerations for treatment decisions.