Tag: mental health apps

Mood tracking can make someone realize: I’m starting to become manic, and this is why, and this is what I can do about it.

“Unfortunately, the ethical considerations of incorporating these tools are rarely acknowledged in published prediction articles,” the researchers write.

MIA's Emaline Friedman interviews Hannah Zeavin about what the history of teletherapy reveals about its limitations and radical potential.

MIA's Tim Beck interviews psychologist Ian Tucker about the relationships between digital technologies, emotion, and mental health.

While the developers are promoting the apps as a public health initiative, they are effectively an AI that would be snooping on you at all times—ostensibly coming to know you better than you know yourself. And ultimately doing so for commercial purposes that will expand the psychiatric enterprise.

Research illustrates privacy concerns with how mental health applications collect and share users’ data.

A new study finds that mental health apps promote a one-dimensional view of mental health.

New meta-analysis of smartphone based interventions demonstrates small-to-moderate effect.

From the Pacific Standard: “Mental health apps offer therapeutic solutions at far more flexible price points, schedules, and platforms than traditional therapy. But with...