{"id":13215,"date":"2024-02-04T13:37:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T12:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/04\/they-thought-they-were-doing-good-but-it-made-people-worse-why-mental-health-apps-are-under-scrutiny\/"},"modified":"2024-02-04T13:37:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T12:37:40","slug":"they-thought-they-were-doing-good-but-it-made-people-worse-why-mental-health-apps-are-under-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/04\/they-thought-they-were-doing-good-but-it-made-people-worse-why-mental-health-apps-are-under-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They thought they were doing good but it made people worse\u2019: why mental health apps are under scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As experts worry over privacy issues, ineffectiveness and even harm, the UK is looking at whether the plethora of digital mental health tools need regulating<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if I told you one of the strongest choices you could make was the choice to ask for help?\u201d says a young, twentysomething woman in a red sweater, before recommending that viewers seek out counselling. This advert, promoted on Instagram and other social media platforms, is just one of many campaigns created by the California-based company BetterHelp, which offers to connect users with online therapists.<\/p>\n<p>The need for sophisticated digital alternatives to conventional face-to-face therapy has been well established in recent years. If we go by the <a href=\"https:\/\/digital.nhs.uk\/data-and-information\/publications\/statistical\/nhs-talking-therapies-for-anxiety-and-depression-annual-reports\/2022-23\">latest data<\/a> for NHS talking therapy services, 1.76 million people were referred for treatment in 2022-23, while 1.22 million actually started working with a therapist in person.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2024\/feb\/04\/they-thought-they-were-doing-good-but-it-made-people-worse-why-mental-health-apps-are-under-scrutiny\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c48511629fe18d79c553cd2bf0723957634ff55f\/0_31_2480_1488\/master\/2480.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=636ef65cd848e18a2bff92a8f0fca1c5\" title=\"\u2018They thought they were doing good but it made people worse\u2019: why mental health apps are under scrutiny\" \/>As experts worry over privacy issues, ineffectiveness and even harm, the UK is looking at whether the plethora of digital mental health tools need regulating<br \/>\n\u201cWhat if I told you one of the strongest choices you could make was the choice to ask for help?\u201d says a young, twentysomething woman in a red sweater, before recommending that viewers seek out counselling. This advert, promoted on Instagram and other social media platforms, is just one of many campaigns created by the California-based company BetterHelp, which offers to connect users with online therapists.<br \/>\nThe need for sophisticated digital alternatives to conventional face-to-face therapy has been well established in recent years. If we go by the latest data for NHS talking therapy services, 1.76 million people were referred for treatment in 2022-23, while 1.22 million actually started working with a therapist in person. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As experts worry over privacy issues, ineffectiveness and even harm, the UK is looking at whether the plethora of digital mental health tools need regulating \u201cWhat if I told you one of the strongest choices you could make was the choice to ask for help?\u201d says a young, twentysomething woman in a red sweater, before &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/04\/they-thought-they-were-doing-good-but-it-made-people-worse-why-mental-health-apps-are-under-scrutiny\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018They thought they were doing good but it made people worse\u2019: why mental health apps are under scrutiny<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13215"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}