Expert Opinions

Professor Nick Titov, Founding Executive Director of the Australian MindSpot Clinic, reflects on ten rewarding years delivering digital mental health care to people across Australia.

People are using ChatGPT, a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence for advice on their mental health, even though it wasn’t designed for that. While the chatbot is knowledgeable about mental health it can’t be relied upon for an accurate diagnosis, advice or treatment and is therefore not a substitute for …

Wearables offer addiction treatment providers tantalizing opportunities to improve care outcomes. […] But there’s a serious problem. Researchers and practitioners still need to figure out what to do with the mountains of data that wearables could produce.

Behavioral health will continue to take center stage in 2023. It is critical that industry stakeholders collaborate to identify critical mental health needs and leverage available technology to produce meaningful change.

eMHIC Board Member and President and CEO of the National Mental Health Commission of Canada, Michel Rodrigue shares his thoughts on the eMHIC Congress held in November, 2022, saying “It gave me the a chance to examine some of the ways technology (while not the answer to all our problems) …

In this episode of eMHprac’s Digital Mental Health Musings Series, host, Dr Tania McMahon speaks to Associate Professor Neil Thomas and Dr. Hailey Tremain from Mental Health Online. They discuss the story of Mental Health Online, their pathway to blended care, their therapist-assisted program and how health professionals can use …

Learning from personal experiences, and the lived experience of other survivors, Dr Sandersan Onie shares his work that uses online data tracking to serve targeted suicide prevention ads.

In the face of high unmet mental health needs and overburdened mental health systems, scalable approaches to increase use of evidence-based interventions are essential. […] A key opportunity for both appeal and stickiness is increased use of gamification.

BBC News Interviews Greg Cross, Co-founder and CEO of Soul Machines to discuss the future of how real and virtual people could connect in the Metaverse.

The recent inquest into the death of British teenager Molly Russell in 2017 has concluded that the 14-year-old “died from an act of self harm while suffering from depression and the negative effects of online content”. For some people, this ruling will be confirmation of what they have long suspected …