This Seems To Be A Useful Resource To Help Select A Mental Health App!

This appeared last week.Depression and mental health apps: How to tell the good from the badRN By Antony Funnell for Future TensePosted Wed at 11:12am December 6, 2017There are currently more than 10,000 depression and anxiety-related self-help apps available to download, the American Psychiatric Association estimates. But less than 1 per cent have been professionally evaluated.Cause for concern? Well, yes. But not a cause for depression, says Harvard Medical School's John Torous, who leads the association's working group on smartphone app evaluation. In fact, he sees great promise in digital mental health technologies."We can begin to push evidence-based interventions through smartphones," he says."And we have the potential to capture a lot of exciting real-time data that may give us clues about how people are feeling and how they are functioning in real life, in the community."Mental health apps, Dr Torous predicts, will eventually play an important supplementary role to... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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