Staying appy: mental health apps deliver mixed results

The number of apps geared towards improving wellbeing is increasing, but how helpful are they?

It doesn’t matter what the problem is, someone will have developed a app to deal with it – so it should come as no surprise that there are now thousands of apps that promise to improve your mental health and wellbeing. But do they work?

The mental health app marketplace is “very messy”, says André Tomlin, who runs the Mental Elf website that offers up-to-date information about mental health policy and research.

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Continue reading... October 10, 2017 at 03:24PM