Blog: Technology

A workplace mental health strategy has never felt more essential to protect the wellbeing of employees whilst also increasing productivity. Although, what would that look like?

How should we protect our mental health from the onslaught of negative news stories and the cycle of damaging social media content? Katy Moyes invites us to take a step back and gain perspective on the damaging content that has in many ways overtaken our lives.

Gaming is known to improve mental health, as well as be a symptom of negative wellbeing. Dr Sarah Hodge, senior cyberpsychologist at Bournemouth University, introduces the Mindful Resilience Programme created to support and equip mental health practitioners with the skills to better understand the role of gaming in the lives of children.

Previous Minister for Health, Lord Darzi of Denham, write the pandemic saw a seismic shift towards the use of digital technologies for health, including mental health. He argues that we still need to fully embrace the use of these technologies to better understand the scale of the mental health crisis and to better support the general population. 

New technologies are constantly being developed to assist in the therapeutic process, but what can one of these technologies tell us about what has changed in how we as a society treat mental illness? Aziz Kaddan, CEO and co-founder of Myndlift, told Mental Health Today about his new neurofeedback device, explaining what the product can do and why it could potentially be considered innovative.