Topic: Anxiety Disorders
Pipi-in-Your-Pocket: Co-Designing Digital Wellbeing with Young People
Real shares how co-design with young people and frontline staff shaped Pipi-in-Your-Pocket, a digital wellbeing tool designed to strengthen connection, support and continuity of care between face-to-face sessions.
Guided Chatbot Intervention Reduces Anxiety and Depression Among Young People in Jordan
A randomised controlled trial in Jordan found that the WHO’s guided STARS chatbot significantly reduced anxiety and depression among distressed young adults at three-month follow-up.
Innovations to Improve Outcomes and Uptake of Psychotherapies for Mental Disorders: a State-Of-The-Art Review (Key Takeaways)
Innovations in psychotherapy and digital mental health continue to advance through incremental gains, with growing evidence for the effectiveness and scalability of digital, simplified, and workforce-adaptive models rather than any single transformative breakthrough.
Understanding How Interventions for Youth Depression and Anxiety Work: Report Summary
A new Wellcome-commissioned report examines how and why interventions for youth anxiety and depression work, identifying major gaps in mechanistic evidence, prevention research, and lived-experience integration, and setting priorities to guide more precise, equitable, and youth-centred mental health research globally.
MHRA and NICE Receive £2 Million from Wellcome to Improve Safety and Effectiveness of Digital Mental Health Technologies
UK regulators MHRA and NICE have received £2 million from Wellcome to strengthen frameworks for the safe, effective, and evidence-based use of digital mental health technologies.
Can AI Read Human Emotions? Large Language Models Put to the Test
GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 LLMs can reliably recognize human facial emotions at near-human levels, showing promise for healthcare and social applications, though subtle expressions like fear remain challenging.
Transdiagnostic Mental Health Apps Show Promise in Managing Depression and Anxiety
A new meta-analysis of 19 trials finds that transdiagnostic mental health apps—designed to address both depression and anxiety—produce small but meaningful improvements in symptoms. These apps show comparable effects to disorder-specific tools and highlight the potential for scalable, accessible support
Resilient Minds: How Personalized Support Builds Women’s Brain Resilience
Google Launches Dual AI Initiatives for Mental Health
Google has launched two new initiatives to explore how AI can support mental health treatment and expand access to care globally, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
The Big 5 – Simple Actions, Serious Science
Discover MindSpot Australia’s The Big 5: five simple actions with serious science behind them. This article explores five key behaviours, meaningful activities, healthy thinking, goals and plans, healthy routines, and social connections, that are consistently linked to lower symptoms of
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