A trend over the past few years toward the growing popularity of online mental health services, smartphone applications (apps), and support groups may revolutionize the mental health care system worldwide.
Technology has the potential to revolutionize the mental health care system and to eliminate barriers to access by expanding availability to populations that have traditionally been difficult to reach.
Virtual reality therapy (VRT) combines technological advancements, mental health care, and psychotherapy.
Although current studies on online mental health care have yielded promising results, they have also highlighted potential challenges and shortcomings.
A psychological condition that typically begins during early childhood, selective mutism is considered to be a complex type of anxiety disorder.
Rather than having one episode of depression, whether short or long, a person with recurrent depressive disorder will experience additional episodes of depression after periods of time without symptoms.
When someone experiences chronic, severe symptoms that require professional treatment, their disorder will typically be referred to as major depressive disorder or clinical depression.
Family therapy is an evidence-based form of psychotherapy that works to help people overcome individual and group issues in the context of a family.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is a form of therapy designed to help people directly access distressing memories and process any lingering trauma associated with them.
Although everyone experiences fear at some point in life, people who suffer from specific phobias struggle with irrational, intense fears of specific situations or objects.