This appeared a few days ago.
Digital approaches to adolescent mental health: a review of the literature
9 Oct 2020
Lucia Rost, Fiona Samuels, Carmen Leon-Himmelstine, Rachel Marcus
Publisher
Overseas Development Institute
Resources
Digital approaches to adolescent mental health: a review of the literature 3.94 MB
Description
Young people are more engaged with digital technologies than ever before, and health interventions increasingly build on these new technological opportunities. This literature review investigates digital approaches to addressing adolescent mental health and psychosocial-related challenges with a focus on low- and middle-income countries.
Key points:
- An increasing number of studies show that digital approaches have the potential to address the mental health and wellbeing difficulties of young people – for example, reducing depression and anxiety or helping to detect emerging mental disorders among adolescents.
- However, most studies on digital approaches and mental health centre on the Global North, and there are gaps in knowledge about how technology can be used to support adolescents in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
- It is important that a range of actors are included when designing, implementing and evaluating digital approaches to young people’s mental health, and that inequalities of access (mediated by factors such as gender, age, socioeconomic background and location) are addressed.
Publication Details
Copyright: Overseas Development Institute 2020
License type: CC BY-NC-ND
Issue: ODI Working Paper 592
Post date: 11 Oct 2020
Here is the link:
https://apo.org.au/node/308779?mc_cid=86328808fe&mc_eid=4f746cd244
Given the shortage of skilled mental health practitioners compared with the demand – especially in COVID times – this seems to be important and valuable work to assist our young population when they hit issues.
Given how it is widely known that early intervention is the most likely to be successful this is really good news.
A report worth browsing!
David.
The biggest risk here is data privacy, the damage to perception and trust caused through the my health record cannot by ignored. I am sure we all recall the closure of the GP clinical for youth in Tasmania. That was only a rip of the ice berg. I see no evidence the government and its bureaucrats have improved. They seem unconcerned that 50 passengers were allowed to travel to COVID hotspots unchecked, presumably to then be allowed to export COVID to their home country unchecked. So why would I trust them to do the right thing here?
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ReplyDeleteOctober 19, 2020 8:37 AM - how do? It seemed a far comment and related to an inability to manage even small things. It is obvious the Government is making mental health and youth health a priority. This is a good thing. Their track record is a worry.
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