Digital Solutions to Promote Adolescent Mental Health: Opportunities and Challenge for Research and Practice
There is little doubt about technologies’ potential to disrupt and transform adolescent mental health, however, we still have some way to go before we realize this potential and progress will require global action. This opinion piece discusses current solutions and their performance, and suggestsions for future directions.
From Treatment to Healing: Envisioning a Decolonial Digital Mental Health
This article critically examines how technology-mediated forms of mental health care might amplify historical injustices, and erase minoritized experiences and expressions of mental distress and illness. The article dissects the impacts of colonization, and makes recommendations for more equitable futures.
The Great Digital Health Reset – and How IT Leaders Should Plan for What’s Next
The pandemic saw the rise in acceptance and use of digital health tools but recent trends have shown reduced downloads, and financial difficulty for start-ups. What role will financial resources and economic influences play in the future of digital mental health?
What’s the 411 on the New 988 Hotline? 5 Questions Answered About a National Mental Health Service.
988 is a new number in the United States focused on providing lifesaving suicide prevention and crisis services, established to address longstanding concerns in mental health care. This article explores the difference between 988 and existing services.
Five-Year Budget Impact of a Prescription Digital Therapeutic for Patients With Opioid Use Disorder
Prescription digital therapeutics (PDTs) have the potential to facilitate and expand access to OUD treatment by delivering evidence-based neurobehavioral treatment in a convenient, familiar, and confidential form.
Virtual Reality in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: Patient Emotional and Physiologic Responses
Long-term hospitalization, especially with minimal interpersonal engagement, is associated with risk of delirium and delayed recovery. This study explores the emotional and physiological responses of critically ill children experiencing VR.
Mental Health Awareness is Everywhere. Why Shouldn’t Virtual Care Be Standard?
Geoffrey Boyce describes the gaps that digital mental health approaches can fill, and why its importance should extend beyond the pandemic and have a permanent place in mental health strategy.
How MoodMission Capitalises on the Strengths of Mental Health Apps
MoodMission aims to capitalise on the incredible flexibility, portability, and adaptability of mobile apps. When a user feels anxious or low, they simply open the app, report how they feel with three taps, and are immediately offered five different “Missions” they could use to cope.
Challenges in Participant Engagement and Retention Using Mobile Health Apps: Literature Review
This study aimed to better understand how mHealth studies conducted in the past 5 years have addressed the challenges of participant engagement and retention.
Interview: Virtual Care for Mental and Behavioural Health
One of the most dominant areas of demand for telehealth is mental health. Personal Collective Health Alliance Managing Director Rob Havasy and Cloudbreak Health CEO Jamey Edwards […] discuss the perils and potential of virtual care for behavioral health.
