The rise of digital therapy
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Mental health care apps have boomed during the pandemic. But can receiving therapy through an app ever be as good as face to face? And do they raise concerns over our privacy? Tamasin Ford speaks to Brad Kettridge, founder and CEO of the mental health care app Brightside as well as the co-founder of the Oliva app, Sancir Sahin, which is aimed at businesses. We also hear from writer Julie Peck who suffers from bipolar disorder on why she sought help from one of these apps. John Torous, director of the digital psychiatry division at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and Heleen Riper, professor of eMental-Health and Clinical Psychology at the Amsterdam University Medical Centre, discuss some of the concerns around privacy and effectiveness of digital mental health care.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Tamerson Ford. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:06.8 | The world of digital mental health care has taken off during the pandemic. |
| 0:12.3 | What we have seen in terms of technology as an enabler for getting access to mental health services has been enormous. |
| 0:21.8 | More and more of us are looking online for help, but some experts are concerned over our privacy. |
| 0:28.4 | A lot of these technology platforms may not always keep data protected to the degree that any |
| 0:35.2 | reasonable consumer would expect. |
| 0:42.1 | That's a lot of sensitive information that's all going to, well, we don't know where. |
| 0:48.8 | In today's Business Daily from the BBC, we take a look at the rise in digital mental health care and explore whether virtual therapy can ever be as good as face-to-face. |
| 0:57.6 | Digital mental health care isn't new. |
| 1:00.5 | The first computerized psychotherapist was called Eliza. |
| 1:04.9 | She was created by a professor at MIT University in Massachusetts in 1965. |
| 1:11.4 | Men are all alike. |
| 1:13.2 | In what way? |
| 1:14.3 | They're always bugging us about something or other. |
| 1:17.0 | Can you think of a specific example? |
| 1:19.0 | Well, my boyfriend made me come here. |
| 1:21.1 | Your boyfriend made you come here. |
| 1:22.7 | He says I'm depressed much of the time. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm sorry to hear you are depressed. |
| 1:27.3 | It's true. I'm unhappy. |
| 1:30.1 | Do you think coming here will help you not be unhappy? |
| 1:33.0 | I need some help. That much seemed certain. |
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