title: Social networking sites: an adjunctive treatment modality for psychological problems.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Social networking is seen as a way to enhance social support and feeling of well-being. The present work explores the potentials of social networking sites as an adjunctive treatment modality for initiating treatment contact as well as for managing psychological problems.
  
  
  METHODS
  Interview schedule, Facebook intensity questionnaire were administered on 28 subjects with a combination of 18 males and 10 females. They were taken from the in-patient and out-patient psychiatry setting of the hospital.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Facebook was the most popular sites and used to seek emotional support on the basis of the frequent updates of emotional content that users put in their profile; reconciliations, escape from the problems or to manage the loneliness; getting information about illness and its treatment and interaction with experts and also manifested as problematic use.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It has implications for developing social networking based adjunctive treatment modality for psychological problems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology, National Institute of mental Health & Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Indu S
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: Menon
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology, National Institute of mental Health & Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Manoj Kumar
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of mental Health & Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Prabha S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Chandra
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, National Institute of mental Health & Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Thennarasu
keywords: Adjunctive treatment; psychological problems; social networking sites