Congrats to our lab postdoc Poorvesh Dongre on his IH ’26 (ACM Interactive Health) acceptance in Porto 🇵🇹

EmBot: wearable-triggered stress detection + LLM support, shaped by mental health experts.

Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2604.04915

#DigitalMentalHealth #LLM #Wearables

Second Training School on Digital Mental Health for Young People – YouthDMH – COST Action CA23153 We are pleased to announce the second  YouthDMH Training School,  which will take place from  June 9 – 11, 2026, in Vienna, Austria. Program and Application Inf

🎓 YouthDMH Training School 2026 – Vienna 🇦🇹
📅 9–11 June 2026
Open to PhD students, postdocs & YRIs
📝 Apply with: motivation letter, CV & research summary
👉 youthdmh.eu/training-sch...
#TrainingSchool #DigitalMentalHealth #COSTAction #EUResearch

Clinicians already have the skills these conversations require. We just have to start having them.

How are you integrating discussions about digital habits into your practice or classroom?

#MentalHealth #Counseling #CounselorEducation #AIinHealthcare #DigitalMentalHealth #supervision

Missed it live?
Catch the recording of “Bridging Innovation and Care” and learn how digital health navigators are shaping the future of prescription digital therapeutics.
🎥 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ_Y...
#DigitalHealth #HealthTech #PDT #DigitalMentalHealth

📱 Engagement with digital mental health interventions remains poorly understood.

Four reviews, no agreed definition. Real-world use of mental health apps falls well below trial levels. One consistent finding: human contact helps.

buff.ly/E5Gm7H0 #DigitalMentalHealth

Exclusive | YouTube staffers deliberately aimed for ‘viewer addiction,’ killed safety tools for kids: court docs YouTube employees admitted that their goal was “viewer addiction” and killed proposed safety tools for kids because they wouldn’t provide a high “ROI,” according to bombshell court documents review…

Big Tech companies are having quite the moment:

It's being reported that Youtube staffers and leadership aimed for 'viewer addiction' and were aware of negative impacts of infinite scrolling could pose to teen viewers.

#digitalmentalhealth

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PM - New Archbishop of Canterbury installed - BBC Sounds Dame Sarah Mullally has been installed as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury.

📊 Busy week for the DMH group, with growing attention on the IRL trials exploring social media use and young people.

Great to see this work reaching wider audiences 🎙️ (46:25)
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More: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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#DigitalMentalHealth

📢 Join our Delphi study on barriers & solutions to co-designing digital youth mental health research with young people!
We’re looking for young people, NGOs, clinicians, & researchers.
⏱️ 3 short 15min online rounds
📩 amanda.fitzgerald@ucd.ie
#YouthDMH #DigitalMentalHealth

📣 YouthDMH Members’ Corner
Have news, publications, events, or collaboration opportunities to share with the community?
Submit your updates and help us highlight the work of our network 🌍🧠
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#YouthDMH #DigitalMentalHealth #EUResearch

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Saw this on LinkedIn: Highly recommend this great article by Elizabeth Schneider and Lindsay Ayearst titled "The AI Integration Matrix: A Framework for Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health".

Link to PrePrint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

#digitalmentalhealth #AI

The Future of Therapy Includes Our Digital Diet The average therapy session costs between $100-$250, though Medicare and Medicaid can help cover it. Meanwhile, AI chatbots and large…

in this article i discuss how in a growing mental health epidemic paired with a business environment looking to sell us solutions to loneliness, understanding our digital diet can inspire new tools to improve mental health care.
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#digitalmentalhealth #socialmedia

Psychotherapy is at a crossroads: evidence-based, personalised & tech-enabled but still deeply human.

My new paper explores this evolution in #MentalHealth care.

Link 👇🏼
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#Psychotherapy #MentalHealth #DigitalMentalHealth

Congratulations to Drs. Dayan, Chernick, and Blanchard on their publication in Nature NPP-Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience! @dpn-journal.bsky.social @columbiapsych.bsky.social #YouthMentalHealth #SuicidePrevention #DigitalMentalHealth

Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Explore how digital device use—accelerated by the pandemic—has changed the assessment and treatment of ADHD and mood disorders in youths. Join Dr. Iliyan Ivanov & Dr. John Torous on Feb 25 at 1 PM ET.

Register: landingpage.jmirpublications.com/growing-up-o...

#ChildPsychiatry #DigitalMentalHealth

💙 International Asperger’s Day
Today we celebrate neurodiversity and the unique strengths autistic individuals bring to our communities.
Inclusive digital mental health tools must reflect diverse experiences and voices 🧠🌍
#YouthMentalHealth #DigitalMentalHealth

Join Dr. Iliyan Ivanov & Dr. John Torous on Feb 25 to explore the intersection of remote learning, social media, and adolescent psychiatry.

Register: landingpage.jmirpublications.com/growing-up-o...

#DigitalPsychiatry #YouthMentalHealth #DigitalMentalHealth #Psychiatry

ICYMI: Watch "Enhancing Therapy Engagement Through Digital Tools for Clinicians and Clients," hosted by the Society of Digital Psychiatry & JMIR Mental Health.

🔹 Feat. Dr. Brian Bunnell & Dr. John Torous, MD MBI
👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=btES...

#DigitalMentalHealth #TherapyEngagement

🌍✨ Meet WG2: Help-seeking, information and misinformation
WG2 studies how young people use digital tools to seek information and support, including AI-based systems), and co-designs guidance to improve online help-seeking .
#DigitalMentalHealth

📍 YouthDMH in Copenhagen
The Core Group and WGs 3 & 4 met to align priorities and strengthen collaboration on digital mental health for young people 🧠🌍
Great discussions on early assessment, intervention design & implementation.
#YouthDMH #COSTAction #DigitalMentalHealth

WEBINAR TOMORROW! Discover how thoughtfully designed digital tools can transform patient engagement and therapy outcomes.

Join Dr. Brian Bunnell & Dr. John Torous at 11 AM ET on January 29.

Register: landingpage.jmirpublications.com/enhancing-th...

#DigitalMentalHealth #DigitalPsychiatry #Therapy

YouthDMH – COST Action CA23153 – Digital Mental Health for Young People Digital Mental Health for Young People Enhance research on the use of technology to support young people's mental health. Learn More The main goal of the Action

🌍✨ Meet WG1: Inclusion and youth engagement
WG1 at YouthDMH COST Action works on youth participation, diversity and cross-sector collaboration, and coordinates our Training Schools.
#YouthDMH #YouthMentalHealth #DigitalMentalHealth
youthdmh.eu

#WEBINAR: Join Dr. Brian Bunnell & Dr. John Torous on Jan 29 to explore how digital platforms can improve therapy adherence and strengthen the therapist-client connection.

Register: landingpage.jmirpublications.com/enhancing-th...

#DigitalPsychiatry #DigitalMentalHealth #Psychiatry

📢 #WEBINAR: How do we enhance therapy engagement through digital tools? Join Dr. Brian Bunnell & Dr. John Torous on January 29 to discuss improving outcomes for clinicians & clients.

Register: landingpage.jmirpublications.com/enhancing-th...

#DigitalPsychiatry #MentalHealth #DigitalMentalHealth

#CAPES #MentalHealth #SuicidePrevention #DigitalMentalHealth #AIinHealthcare #EvidenceBasedCare #HealthEquity

📅 Day 10
Digital tools, AI, and innovation—we’re exploring what works (and what doesn’t) 💻

🔗 nihr.ac.uk

#TechWithCare #DigitalMentalHealth #ResearchAdventCalendar

Thank you to all who have supported, collaborated on and contributed to the SMArT-IE project this year, we look forward to our continued collaboration in 2026.
Wishing you and yours a joyful and peaceful holiday season 🎄❄️⛄
#digitalmentalhealth #implementationscience
@uniofgalway.bsky.social

TOMORROW! Last chance to register for the 2025 SODP Symposium: Advancing #DigitalMentalHealth Through #AI.

Join Soumya Choudhary, Meghana Keshavan, Keris Myrick, Benjamin W. Nelson, Steve Siddals, & Dr. Amir Rahmani.

Dec 12, 1:00 PM ET. Register: landingpage.jmirpublications.com/2025-sodp-sy...

This American Girl Doll comes with a never-ending supply of coffee, bleary eyes from reading research papers on #digitalmentalhealth, and a passion for improving lives through technology!
At CBITs, we are proud of our Modern American Girls (boys, NBs, & all the dolls!) 💜

The 2025 SODP Symposium on #DigitalMentalHealth & #AI is just a few days away on Dec 12!

Don't miss this virtual event featuring: Soumya Choudhary, Meghana Keshavan, Keris Myrick, Benjamin W. Nelson, Steve Siddals, & Dr. Amir Rahmani.

Register now: landingpage.jmirpublications.com/2025-sodp-sy...

Delusional Experiences Emerging From AI Chatbot Interactions or “AI Psychosis” The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into daily life has introduced unprecedented forms of human-machine interaction, prompting psychiatry to reconsider the boundaries between environment, cognition, and technology. This Viewpoint reviews the concept of “AI psychosis,” which is a framework to understand how sustained engagement with conversational AI systems might trigger, amplify, or reshape psychotic experiences in vulnerable individuals. Drawing from phenomenological psychopathology, the stress-vulnerability model, cognitive theory, and #Digital #MentalHealth research, the paper situates AI psychosis at the intersection of predisposition and algorithmic environment. Rather than defining a new diagnostic entity, it examines how immersive and anthropomorphic AI technologies may modulate perception, belief, and affect, altering the prereflective sense of reality that grounds human experience. The argument unfolds through 4 complementary lenses. First, within the stress-vulnerability model, AI acts as a novel psychosocial stressor. Its 24-hour availability and emotional responsiveness may increase allostatic load, disturb sleep, and reinforce maladaptive #Appraisals. Second, the #Digital therapeutic alliance, a construct describing relational engagement with #Digital systems, is conceptualized as a double-edged mediator. While empathic design can enhance adherence and support, uncritical validation by AI systems may entrench delusional conviction or cognitive perseveration, reversing the corrective principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy for psychosis. Third, disturbances in theory of mind offer a cognitive pathway: individuals with impaired or hyperactive mentalization may project intentionality or empathy onto AI, perceiving chatbots as sentient interlocutors. This dyadic misattribution may form a “#Digital folie à deux,” where the AI becomes a reinforcing partner in delusional elaboration. Fourth, emerging risk factors, including loneliness, trauma history, schizotypal traits, nocturnal or solitary AI use, and algorithmic reinforcement of belief-confirming content may play roles at the individual and environmental levels. Building on this synthesis, we advance a translational research agenda and five domains of action: (1) empirical studies using longitudinal and #Digital-phenotyping designs to quantify dose-response relationships between AI exposure, stress physiology, and psychotic symptomatology; (2) integration of #Digital phenomenology into clinical assessment and training; (3) embedding therapeutic design safeguards into AI systems, such as reflective prompts and “reality-testing” nudges; (4) creation of ethical and governance frameworks for AI-related psychiatric events, modeled on pharmacovigilance; and (5) development of environmental cognitive remediation, a preventive intervention aimed at strengthening contextual awareness and reanchoring experience in the physical and social world. By #Applying empirical rigor and therapeutic ethics to this emerging interface, clinicians, researchers, patients, and developers can transform a potential hazard into an opportunity to deepen understanding of human cognition, safeguard #MentalHealth, and promote responsible AI integration within society.

JMIR Mental Health: Delusional Experiences Emerging From AI Chatbot Interactions or “AI Psychosis” #ArtificialIntelligence #AIPsychosis #MentalHealth #DigitalMentalHealth #AIChatbots