Meeting the challenge of digital mental health

It is well known that mental health problems are highly prevalent whilst many people living with them are not getting help from health services. Greater use of technology promises solutions to improve efficiency and availability of interventions, to facilitate self-management by individuals and to support their recovery, and to help with prevention, maintenance or to manage crisis situations. In particular, digital mental health refers to the use of computers or mobile devices such as smartphones or wearables and the internet in the mental health domain. Video calling and virtual reality platforms have also come of age for applications in mental...