ArticleBJPsych bulletin2015
Mobile telephone apps in mental health practice: uses, opportunities and challenges.
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- Cognitive training using a mobile app as a coping tool against COVID-19 distress: A crossover randomized controlled trial.Journal of affective disorders · 2022Trial
- Quality and Privacy Policy Compliance of Mental Health Care Apps in China: Cross-Sectional Evaluation Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Digital Mental Health Interventions for Adolescents and Young People: Evaluating Efficacy and Accessibility.Cureus · 2025Review
- Developing and testing preliminary effectiveness and acceptability of a mental health application in Ethiopia.Discover mental health · 2025Article
- Digital Well-being Through the Use of Technology-A Perspective.International journal of MCH and AIDS · 2023Article
- Research Trends on Mobile Mental Health Application for General Population: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Insights into mobile health application market via a content analysis of marketplace data with machine learning.PloS one · 2021Article
- Unlocking the potential for digital mental health technologies in the UK: a Delphi exercise.BJPsych open · 2020Article
- Digitising psychiatry? Sociotechnical expectations, performative nominalism and biomedical virtue in (digital) psychiatric praxis.Sociology of health & illness · 2019Article
- Considerations for Designing Context-Aware Mobile Apps for Mental Health Interventions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Do mental health mobile apps work: evidence and recommendations for designing high-efficacy mental health mobile apps.mHealth · 2018Article
- How Do People Experiencing Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders or Other Psychotic Disorders Use the Internet to Get Information on Their Mental Health? Literature Review and Recommendations.JMIR mental health · 2017Article
- Electronic monitoring of self-reported mood: the return of the subjective?International journal of bipolar disorders · 2016Review
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- Mobile telephone apps first need data security and efficacy.BJPsych bulletin · 2016Article
- TechCare: mobile assessment and therapy for psychosis - an intervention for clients in the Early Intervention Service: A feasibility study protocol.SAGE open medicine · 2016Article
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Abstract
Smartphones are used by patients and clinicians alike. Vast numbers of software applications (apps) run on smartphones and carry out useful functions. Clinician- and patient-oriented mental health apps have been developed. In this article, we provide an overview of apps that are relevant for mental health. We look at clinician-oriented apps that support assessment, diagnosis and treatment as well as patient-oriented apps that support education and self-management. We conclude by looking at the challenges that apps pose with a discussion of possible solutions.
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