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Conversational agents and the making of mental health recovery.
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Surveillance of Suicide Ideation in Adolescents (VISIA)
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Entanglements of Technologies, Agency and Selfhood: Exploring the Complexity in Attitudes Toward Mental Health Chatbots.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2024Article
- A non-randomized feasibility study of a voice assistant for parents to support their children's mental health.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Evaluating User Feedback for an Artificial Intelligence-Enabled, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-Based Mental Health App (Wysa): Qualitative Thematic Analysis.JMIR human factors · 2022Article
- Inequalities in recovery or methodological artefact? A comparison of models across physical and mental health functioning.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- Smart Solutions to Keep Your Mental Balance.Procedia computer science · 2022Article
- The Use and Promise of Conversational Agents in Digital Health.Yearbook of medical informatics · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundArtificial intelligence (AI) is said to be "transforming mental health". AI-based technologies and technique are now considered to have uses in almost every domain of mental health care: including decision-making, assessment and healthcare management. What remains underexplored is whether/how mental health
methodTaking conversational agents as our point of departure, we explore the ways official online materials explain and make sense of chatbots, their imagined functionality and value for (potential) users. We focus on three chatbots for mental health: Woebot, Wysa and Tess.
findings"Recovery" is largely missing as an overt focus across materials. However, analysis does reveal themes that speak to the struggles over practice, expertise and evidence that the concept of recovery articulates. We discuss these under the headings "troubled clinical responsibility", "extended virtue of (technological) self-care" and "altered ontologies and psychopathologies of time".
conclusionsUltimately, we argue that alongside more traditional forms of recovery, chatbots may be shaped by, and shaping, an increasingly individualised form of a "personal recovery imperative".
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