Encyclopedia (Oct 2021)

Digital Mental Health Amid COVID-19

  • Luke Balcombe,
  • Diego De Leo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia1040080
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 4
pp. 1047 – 1057

Abstract

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Digital Mental Health is information and communication technology used in mental health services delivered or boosted through the Internet and related technologies, smartphone and wearable technologies as well as immersive solutions (e.g., Virtual Reality and video games). It is predominantly used as self-help services or with the assistance of a (para-)professional and/or artificial intelligence for the provision of mental health promotion as well as mental ill-health identification, prevention and intervention.

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