Digital Tools and Solutions

In this presentation, Sapna Mahajan outlines the importance of maintaining and supporting mental health, overcoming stigma, and ensuring psychological safety in the workplace.

In this presentation, Andy Ellis and Rachael Reeves discuss “Small Steps”, a digital mental health tool developed by Rachael and the Clearhead group with the intention of enabling digital autonomy and increasing peoples’ access to mental health care.

Loneliness is a growing public health issue that has been exacerbated in vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 pandemic. Computer agents are capable of delivering psychological therapies through the internet; however, there is limited research on their acceptability to date.

In September 2017 the Mental Health Commission of Canada in collaboration with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador and Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) launched an e-mental health demonstration project to introduce Stepped Care 2.0 into the mental health system.

Like it or not, young people use social media all the time to talk about suicide-related thoughts, feelings and behaviours…So rather than to take the view that you shouldn’t talk about suicide on social media, we decided that it was important to develop some safety guidelines for young people who …

You’ll have been hard pushed not to have heard the word “metaverse” over the past few months.Before you stop reading, this article is not going to be a review of deep tech, but more a heads up that a future world of immersive technology and environments is going to fundamentally …

Henry Jones (CEO, Togetherall) gives his presentation at the November 2021 Congress event on the power of community, with a focus on “Togetherall”, a for-profit social impact business that strives to increase the connectedness of their users to each other.

Mohd Akhtaar (CEO & Founder, Mindful Muslim) discusses his journey through developing the mental health start-up “Mindful Muslim”, which is the world’s first Islamic mental health app.

Despite the exponential growth of available chatbot apps for users to engage with, James Murray ( Vice President, Business Development and Enterprise Partnerships, Woebot Health, USA) and colleagues felt that an empathetic connection was lacking in these user-service interactions, with these interactions feeling more transactional than realistic.

In this HIMMs Virtual Care paradigm series podcast, experts discuss how virtual care for mental health can benefit not only patients, but also physicians themselves, who face many barriers to mental health care and as a result suffer from high levels of stress, burnout, and even suicide.