{"id":5351,"date":"2022-04-13T10:38:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T08:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/13\/young-and-depressed-try-woebot-the-rise-of-mental-health-chatbots-in-the-us\/"},"modified":"2022-04-13T10:38:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T08:38:16","slug":"young-and-depressed-try-woebot-the-rise-of-mental-health-chatbots-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/13\/young-and-depressed-try-woebot-the-rise-of-mental-health-chatbots-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Young and depressed? Try Woebot! The rise of mental health chatbots in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schools are encouraging students to use mental health chatbots to address a surge in depression and anxiety. Critics worry they\u2019re a Band-Aid solution unsupported by evidence<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen-year-old Jordyne Lewis was stressed out.<\/p>\n<p>The high school sophomore from Harrisburg, North Carolina, was overwhelmed with schoolwork, never mind the uncertainty of living in a pandemic that has dragged on for two long years. Despite the challenges, she never turned to her school counselor or sought out a therapist.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/apr\/13\/chatbots-robot-therapists-youth-mental-health-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a7fca73ef7f2ce698fbc6e54f114f3027540baf5\/0_167_13334_8001\/master\/13334.png?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6e3831974fa7f769c024e99b1de5e3e7\" title=\"Young and depressed? Try Woebot! The rise of mental health chatbots in the US\" \/>Schools are encouraging students to use mental health chatbots to address a surge in depression and anxiety. Critics worry they\u2019re a Band-Aid solution unsupported by evidence<br \/>\nFifteen-year-old Jordyne Lewis was stressed out.<br \/>\nThe high school sophomore from Harrisburg, North Carolina, was overwhelmed with schoolwork, never mind the uncertainty of living in a pandemic that has dragged on for two long years. Despite the challenges, she never turned to her school counselor or sought out a therapist. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools are encouraging students to use mental health chatbots to address a surge in depression and anxiety. Critics worry they\u2019re a Band-Aid solution unsupported by evidence Fifteen-year-old Jordyne Lewis was stressed out. The high school sophomore from Harrisburg, North Carolina, was overwhelmed with schoolwork, never mind the uncertainty of living in a pandemic that has &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/13\/young-and-depressed-try-woebot-the-rise-of-mental-health-chatbots-in-the-us\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Young and depressed? Try Woebot! The rise of mental health chatbots in the US<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5352,"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\/5351"}],"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=5351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}