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Summary
People’s mental health needs are changing, and that requires innovative solutions.
As the conversation about psychological well-being has become more commonplace in society at large, mental health conditions are increasing worldwide.
Imagine when you first meet your therapist for your first session, you are told to create an avatar in a virtual world. It allows participants to make choices that would be difficult for a mental health professional to replicate in real life.
You can make a case that these bots don’t provide that therapeutic relationship because, after all, they are not human. Dr Fulmer suspects that as the use of AI continues to expand in mental health services, there will be some heavy push back against it, specifically in regard to data security and the lack of rigorous studies about human-to-AI relationships.
Show Notes
People’s mental health needs are changing, and that requires innovative solutions.
As the conversation about psychological well-being has become more commonplace in society at large, mental health conditions are increasing worldwide.
It allows participants to make choices that would be difficult for a mental health professional to replicate in real life.
Riding this wave of interest were a string of mental health companies such as Woebot.
“There’s every indication that AI will continue to advance across the board, including in mental health.
