Search engines and content providers could have a role to play in helping young people find the most reliable mental health resources online.
With well over 10,000 apps in the mental health area, quantity is not the problem. It’s much more about understanding people’s lives and how they communicate and, of course, it’s about quality.
AyeMind aims to create a digital platform to support young people in mental wellbeing and create digital resources for it; and DocReady is designed to help with a person’s first GP conversation on mental health.
- Read Digital for mental health on BCS, November 2016, and Search engines ‘could help young people find best mental health resources’, eurekalert, 8-DEC-2016.
- Image credit @BCS_HealthScot.
- DES studies on gender identity and psychological health.