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Digital mental health

Also known as: E-mental health, Digital therapeutics

The use of digital technologies including AI chatbots, mood tracking apps, and online therapeutic platforms to support mental health assessment, monitoring, and intervention. Designing accessible and explainable AI for digital mental health is particularly challenging because mental health conditions are situationally emergent rather than linearly progressive, therapeutic contexts require nuanced decisions about when to share information, and users' cognitive and emotional needs dynamically change.

Category: mental health · assistive technology · artificial intelligence

Related: Cognitive accessibility · Emotional regulation · Explainable AI

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