What is Digital Mental Health?

Digital mental health refers to mental health services and information delivered or enhanced through the internet and related technologies. Technologies include but are not limited to: mobile health apps, web-based interventions, virtual care, secure messaging, and chatbots.

- Mental Health Commission of Canada

The goal of our research is to leverage digital technologies to support mental health service design and delivery, where and when people require them. As the need for mental health services continues to rise, the opportunity to utilize digital technologies to support care has never been greater.

The digital mental health lab works with patients, health professionals, and caregivers to ensure that digital mental health innovations are best utilized to benefit those who can use them the most. To achieve this, we use implementation science and knowledge translation methods to ensure seamless integration of innovations into routine practice.

Using this approach, our lab studies various aspects of digital mental health including:

• Clinician Burnout

• Public & Population Mental Health

• Digital Health Compassion

• Meaningful Consent

• Digital Health Privacy & Trust

• Mobile Mental Health Apps