Supporting Women Digital Health Professionals: A Conversation with Dr. Clare Purvis
Reading Time: 7 minutes As we celebrate Women’s History Month, we want to acknowledge some of the amazing women doing work in digital mental…
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My Month with Headspace
Reading Time: 3 minutes Headspace is a mindfulness meditation app with a mission statement to “make the world a happier place.” Headspace accomplishes this…
Digital Tools for Men’s Mental Health
Reading Time: 3 minutes “While broadly speaking, mental illness does not discriminate across gender, the tendency to seek help for mental illness does.” For…
Can a chatbot help my mental health?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our recent digital drop-in focused on a discussion of Chatbot Apps. Chatbots are software programs designed to act like a…
Mental Health Apps for the Latinx Community
Reading Time: 3 minutes At our recent digital drop-in, Digital Tools and Mental Health for the Latine/Latinx Community, we centered on the mental health…
Mental Health Apps for Workplaces
Reading Time: < 1 minute U.S. working adults spend more time engaged in work than in any other activity (apart from sleeping). Employers therefore have…
Headspace brings a new meaning to Netflix and Chill
Reading Time: 3 minutes Having received enthusiastic mainstream support for years from scientists and popular voices like Oprah, meditation’s potential to make us healthier,…
Identity formation and community-building through creative, social technologies
Reading Time: 3 minutes Mainstream social media first emerged as digital journals and photo albums—tools that allowed early users to document and display their…
mHealth Apps: Is my data secure?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Have you ever entered information into an app you downloaded to your phone and wondered where that information was going?…
The Keys to Understanding Mental Health Information Online
Reading Time: 3 minutes It seems to me that we turn to the digital landscape for pretty much everything these days. From ordering groceries…