‘Mental Health Crisis? There’s an App for That’ (PluggedIn – June 18, 2024 – Full Article)
Article Excerpt: The nonprofit Mental Health America estimates that more than 28 million of those potentially struggling folks, young and old, don’t receive any kind of treatment at all. And in many cases, that’s because they live in federally designated “mental health shortage areas,” where good docs are in short order.
So, what’s to be done? Well, it turns out there may soon be an app for that.
According to an NBC News article, researchers at Dartmouth College have been running clinical trials on an artificial intelligence-powered therapeutic app for a while now.