Special Interest Groups

This draft position statement was drafted by the Special Interest Group on Law and Ethics for eMHIC for presentation at the eMHIC Congress in November 2021.

Now more than ever, the global mental health community must look to innovative solutions to curtail the ‘second epidemic’ of mental ill-health sweeping the world. The Forum has partnered with Deloitte to create a set of standards to vet digital mental health solutions called the Global Governance Toolkit for Digital …

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 …

Commissioned by the Ministry of Health and developed by the Health Navigator Charitable Trust, the assessment framework – known as the Digital Mental Health & Addiction Tool (DMHAT) – will help anyone involved in the design, development and use of e-mental health tools to ensure the products meet acceptable quality …

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.

StayWell is an accessible, low-intensity population-level mental health intervention. Participation in StayWell focused on COVID-19 mental health coping skills and was related to improved depression and anxiety symptoms.

Kids Help Phone’s Indigenous Advisory Council has challenged Kids Help Phone to achieve seven ambitious goals through the implementation of Finding Hope: Kids Help Phone’s Action Plan for Supporting First Nations, Inuit and Métis Young People.

The World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Mental Health partnered with Scientific American to select the ten innovations doing the most to create a better world for everyone suffering from mental ill-health.

Free online counselling therapy for anxiety and depression is being provided nationally in Ireland following the success of an initial pilot. Some 88 per cent of patients who presented with severe anxiety and depressions experienced significantly reduced symptoms after the online counselling sessions, the pilot found.

In this webinar, eMental Health International Collaborative leaders will discuss how to get the policy and standards context right.