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At eMHIC’s Congress Colloquium in November 2021, Dr Yuri Quintana, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA spoke on approaches developed to reliably evaluate eMental Health, ways to scale up eMental Health solutions and a methodology for co-creation.

This webinar is about Workplace and Digital Mental Health Approaches with experts from the USA, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Ireland.

In this presentation, Piers Gooding, Richman Wee and Nick Titov outline and discuss their drafted position statement on the ethics and law of eMental health. In its early stages, this position statement aims to pave the way for future discussion of the ethics and laws governing the eMental Health space.

Dr. Lyndy Matthews (Clinical Director, Pathways NZ and Clinical Lead, Whakarongorau, New Zealand), and Lisa Toi (Senior Manager, Francis Health, New Zealand) spend their time at the eMHIC congress discussing the development of WAKA — a digital self-management tool for New Zealanders with schizophrenia.

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.

With a standard scientific information database like PubMed, even an unrefined set of search terms like “AI” or “artificial intelligence” or “machine learning” in combination with “mental health” or “psychiatry” will yield an increasing number of “hits” for publications involving humans.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …