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 Week with Calm
Reading Time: 4 minutes Calm is an app that focuses on “improving sleep quality, reducing stress or anxiety, improving focus, and self-improvement”. Calm’s main…
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…
Digital Drop-Ins: Learning about mental health apps and creating community
Reading Time: 2 minutes Visit our News & Events page to register for a Digital Drop-In Entering the field of digital mental health, I…
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…
ADHD: Harnessing the Power of Technology & Apps
Reading Time: 4 minutes Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a neuropsychological disorder characterized by symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity, and dysregulation (NIH, 2020). While commonly thought…