Two weeks with Woebot and Youper
Reading Time: 4 minutes For the past two weeks, I’ve been chatting daily with two mental health chatbots, Woebot and Youper. Chatbots are computer…
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Beyond Mindfulness: Using Technology to Train Skills of Well-being
Reading Time: 4 minutes Did you know that the average person is distracted 47% of their waking life? Let that soak in for a…
Living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder during COVID-19: Re-opening
Reading Time: 3 minutes “Re-opening.” A word that has been on our minds for months now. We were open, then we were closed, then…
My Week With Nod
Reading Time: 3 minutes All I can say about 2020 so far is that it has not been the best year. My commencement ceremony…
Living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) during COVID-19
Reading Time: 4 minutes Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) affects 1 out of every 40 adults in the United States and 1 out of every…
Digital Mental Health for Workers: Unprecedented Times Call for Social Innovation
Reading Time: 3 minutes There was, prior to COVID-19, growing recognition of the increasing mental health and substance abuse problems in the U.S. workforce.…
Adapting to Virtual Group Treatment during COVID-19 – What Clinicians Need to Know
Reading Time: 3 minutes These days, we all crave human connection more than any time before. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lives dramatically,…
Financial Apps in the Era of Coronavirus
Reading Time: 3 minutes April is Financial Education Month, and it seems even more relevant now amid the COVID-19 pandemic to talk about how…
Is My Online Counselor Competent?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Online Counseling (web-based, app-based, messaging-based counseling, video-conferencing, etc.), as opposed to in-office sessions, is increasing in popularity and has a…
Social Work and Technology (It’s complicated)
Reading Time: 3 minutes When you think about social work, what is the first thing that comes to mind? It’s probably child protective services…