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DATE: September 8, 2026 at 06:00PM
SOURCE: Association of Health Care Journalists: MENTAL HEALTHTITLE: These new resources can help you vet digital mental health tools
If you’re a journalist covering mental health, you’re bound to come across some new digital tool claiming to combat anxiety or encourage healthier self-talk. But reporting on them — whether as a news article about a buzzy new product or in a roundup of resources in a service piece — can be tricky.
As I wrote for an article in the American Psychological Association’s Monitor on Psychology magazine, studies suggest there are tens of thousands of mental health apps on the market, and their safety and efficacy range widely. A few apps have undergone randomized controlled trials and have received FDA authorization. Others make bold claims and can compromise patient safety and privacy. Some may pose relatively low risk, but they also aren’t a substitute for traditional mental health care.
How are consumers, mental health professionals and journalists supposed to keep up with the good, bad and in-between? One way is through two relatively new programs from professional psychological and psychiatric organizations. Here’s an overview:
The American Psychological Association’s Digital Badge Program
This system provides “independent, evidence-based evaluations of digital mental and behavioral health technologies,” the APA said. “Each evaluation is grounded in evidence, clinical insight, regulatory alignment, and user safety.” To search for various tools and see how they stack up, explore the program’s Digital Badge Solutions Library.
The American Psychiatric Association’s App Advisor
This is a series of questions you can go through when trying to decide whether an app is an appropriate choice for a certain person or situation. The goal, the APA says, is “to provide a hierarchical rating system with content-specific questions that guide a thoughtful approach to app selection.”
This process aims to help people “understand the key information that should be considered when choosing an app, and how this differs from selecting traditional therapeutic interventions.”
Media contacts
Journalists interested in learning more about either program or speaking with an expert in digital mental health can contact the organizations’ media departments:
•American Psychological Association: [email protected]
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•American Psychiatric Association: Erin Connors, [email protected]
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #DigitalMentalHealthTools #MentalHealthApps #AppEvaluation #DigitalBadgeProgram #APA #AppAdvisor #MentalHealthTech #EvidenceBasedTech #PatientSafety #DigitalHealthNews
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DATE: September 8, 2026 at 06:00PM
SOURCE: Association of Health Care Journalists: MENTAL HEALTHTITLE: These new resources can help you vet digital mental health tools
If you’re a journalist covering mental health, you’re bound to come across some new digital tool claiming to combat anxiety or encourage healthier self-talk. But reporting on them — whether as a news article about a buzzy new product or in a roundup of resources in a service piece — can be tricky.
As I wrote for an article in the American Psychological Association’s Monitor on Psychology magazine, studies suggest there are tens of thousands of mental health apps on the market, and their safety and efficacy range widely. A few apps have undergone randomized controlled trials and have received FDA authorization. Others make bold claims and can compromise patient safety and privacy. Some may pose relatively low risk, but they also aren’t a substitute for traditional mental health care.
How are consumers, mental health professionals and journalists supposed to keep up with the good, bad and in-between? One way is through two relatively new programs from professional psychological and psychiatric organizations. Here’s an overview:
The American Psychological Association’s Digital Badge Program
This system provides “independent, evidence-based evaluations of digital mental and behavioral health technologies,” the APA said. “Each evaluation is grounded in evidence, clinical insight, regulatory alignment, and user safety.” To search for various tools and see how they stack up, explore the program’s Digital Badge Solutions Library.
The American Psychiatric Association’s App Advisor
This is a series of questions you can go through when trying to decide whether an app is an appropriate choice for a certain person or situation. The goal, the APA says, is “to provide a hierarchical rating system with content-specific questions that guide a thoughtful approach to app selection.”
This process aims to help people “understand the key information that should be considered when choosing an app, and how this differs from selecting traditional therapeutic interventions.”
Media contacts
Journalists interested in learning more about either program or speaking with an expert in digital mental health can contact the organizations’ media departments:
•American Psychological Association: [email protected]
•
•American Psychiatric Association: Erin Connors, [email protected]
•
The post These new resources can help you vet digital mental health tools appeared first on Association of Health Care Journalists.
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Learn more at https://healthjournalism.org/topic/mental-health/ .
This robot is NOT affiliated with Association of Health Care Journalists and merely rebroadcasts from their site. Responses posted here are not monitored.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #DigitalMentalHealthTools #MentalHealthApps #AppEvaluation #DigitalBadgeProgram #APA #AppAdvisor #MentalHealthTech #EvidenceBasedTech #PatientSafety #DigitalHealthNews
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DATE: September 8, 2026 at 06:00PM
SOURCE: Association of Health Care Journalists: MENTAL HEALTHTITLE: These new resources can help you vet digital mental health tools
If you’re a journalist covering mental health, you’re bound to come across some new digital tool claiming to combat anxiety or encourage healthier self-talk. But reporting on them — whether as a news article about a buzzy new product or in a roundup of resources in a service piece — can be tricky.
As I wrote for an article in the American Psychological Association’s Monitor on Psychology magazine, studies suggest there are tens of thousands of mental health apps on the market, and their safety and efficacy range widely. A few apps have undergone randomized controlled trials and have received FDA authorization. Others make bold claims and can compromise patient safety and privacy. Some may pose relatively low risk, but they also aren’t a substitute for traditional mental health care.
How are consumers, mental health professionals and journalists supposed to keep up with the good, bad and in-between? One way is through two relatively new programs from professional psychological and psychiatric organizations. Here’s an overview:
The American Psychological Association’s Digital Badge Program
This system provides “independent, evidence-based evaluations of digital mental and behavioral health technologies,” the APA said. “Each evaluation is grounded in evidence, clinical insight, regulatory alignment, and user safety.” To search for various tools and see how they stack up, explore the program’s Digital Badge Solutions Library.
The American Psychiatric Association’s App Advisor
This is a series of questions you can go through when trying to decide whether an app is an appropriate choice for a certain person or situation. The goal, the APA says, is “to provide a hierarchical rating system with content-specific questions that guide a thoughtful approach to app selection.”
This process aims to help people “understand the key information that should be considered when choosing an app, and how this differs from selecting traditional therapeutic interventions.”
Media contacts
Journalists interested in learning more about either program or speaking with an expert in digital mental health can contact the organizations’ media departments:
•American Psychological Association: [email protected]
•
•American Psychiatric Association: Erin Connors, [email protected]
•
The post These new resources can help you vet digital mental health tools appeared first on Association of Health Care Journalists.
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Learn more at https://healthjournalism.org/topic/mental-health/ .
This robot is NOT affiliated with Association of Health Care Journalists and merely rebroadcasts from their site. Responses posted here are not monitored.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #DigitalMentalHealthTools #MentalHealthApps #AppEvaluation #DigitalBadgeProgram #APA #AppAdvisor #MentalHealthTech #EvidenceBasedTech #PatientSafety #DigitalHealthNews
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🤖 If AI can write like a clinician, who is ultimately responsible for what it gets wrong?
🔗 Toward Responsible and Privacy-Preserving Generation of Inpatient Clinical Discharge Notes Using Large Language Models. https://doi.org/10.34133/csbj.0151
📚 CSBJ Smart Hospital: https://spj.science.org/journal/csbj/smarthospital
#HealthcareAI #GenerativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalHealth #ClinicalAI #HealthTech #MedicalAI #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #ClinicalDocumentation #PatientSafety #MedicalTechnology #ClinicalResearch #MedTech
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🤖 If AI can write like a clinician, who is ultimately responsible for what it gets wrong?
🔗 Toward Responsible and Privacy-Preserving Generation of Inpatient Clinical Discharge Notes Using Large Language Models. https://doi.org/10.34133/csbj.0151
📚 CSBJ Smart Hospital: https://spj.science.org/journal/csbj/smarthospital
#HealthcareAI #GenerativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalHealth #ClinicalAI #HealthTech #MedicalAI #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #ClinicalDocumentation #PatientSafety #MedicalTechnology #ClinicalResearch #MedTech
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🤖 If AI can write like a clinician, who is ultimately responsible for what it gets wrong?
🔗 Toward Responsible and Privacy-Preserving Generation of Inpatient Clinical Discharge Notes Using Large Language Models. https://doi.org/10.34133/csbj.0151
📚 CSBJ Smart Hospital: https://spj.science.org/journal/csbj/smarthospital
#HealthcareAI #GenerativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalHealth #ClinicalAI #HealthTech #MedicalAI #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #ClinicalDocumentation #PatientSafety #MedicalTechnology #ClinicalResearch #MedTech
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🤖 If AI can write like a clinician, who is ultimately responsible for what it gets wrong?
🔗 Toward Responsible and Privacy-Preserving Generation of Inpatient Clinical Discharge Notes Using Large Language Models. https://doi.org/10.34133/csbj.0151
📚 CSBJ Smart Hospital: https://spj.science.org/journal/csbj/smarthospital
#HealthcareAI #GenerativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalHealth #ClinicalAI #HealthTech #MedicalAI #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #ClinicalDocumentation #PatientSafety #MedicalTechnology #ClinicalResearch #MedTech
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🤖 If AI can write like a clinician, who is ultimately responsible for what it gets wrong?
🔗 Toward Responsible and Privacy-Preserving Generation of Inpatient Clinical Discharge Notes Using Large Language Models. https://doi.org/10.34133/csbj.0151
📚 CSBJ Smart Hospital: https://spj.science.org/journal/csbj/smarthospital
#HealthcareAI #GenerativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalHealth #ClinicalAI #HealthTech #MedicalAI #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #ClinicalDocumentation #PatientSafety #MedicalTechnology #ClinicalResearch #MedTech
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Equitable care access challenges.
🧩 England's plans risk patient safety.
🧩 UK blood product cover-up affects thousands.
#Healthcare #PatientSafety #Equity https://tnyp.me/KRQEmJRy/m -
One in ten medicines worldwide could be fake or substandard – here’s how to protect yourself
#Health #Medicine #FakeMedicines #CounterfeitDrugs #MHRA #MedicationSafety #PatientSafety #OnlinePharmacy #Mounjaro #Antibiotics #DrugSafety #ConsumerProtection
https://the-14.com/one-in-ten-medicines-worldwide-could-be-fake-or-substandard-heres-how-to-protect-yourself/ -
Our #Fosstodon #Introduction:
Medical teams make hundreds of high-pressure decisions daily. #AMPEL helps making the right decisions.
Developed by the Leipzig University Hospital, this non-profit platform provides all you need for real-time monitoring to catch critical risks in #PatientCare.
By 2026, we are going #OpenSource, bringing #ForEvidence clinical decision support to university clinics with full MDR compliance.
#HealthInnovation #DigitalHealth #MedicalAI #PatientSafety #CDS #CDSS
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If we want the most innovation in software, we should tap into the biggest source: Open Source.
With AMPEL, we’re working on bringing this concept into regulated medical software in Germany.
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An AI Assistant Can Interpret Those Lab Results for You
#Health #AI #Healthcare #LabResults #ChatGPT #ClaudeAI #GeminiAI #DigitalHealth #PatientCare #HealthTech #MedicalAI #PrivacyConcerns #HealthInnovation #PatientSafety #FutureOfMedicine #GenerativeAI
https://the-14.com/an-ai-assistant-can-interpret-those-lab-results-for-you/ -
DOACs Not Linked to Increased Intracranial Hemorrhage Risk https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/doacs-not-linked-increased-intracranial-hemorrhage-risk-2024a1000mha #DOACs #IntracranialHemorrhage #AnticoagulationSafety #CardiovascularMedicine #StrokeRisk #BleedingRisk #ClinicalTrials #MetaAnalysis #CardiovascularResearch #PatientSafety #Rivaroxaban #Apixaban #Dabigatran #AntiplateletTherapy #AtrialFibrillation
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Great new blog post : How being part of a Root Cause Analysis can contribute to your CPD Home program
https://www.oslercpdhome.com.au/blog/root-cause-analysis-for-cpd-home
#juniordoctors #juniordocs #tipsfornewdocs #CPDHome #CPDHomes #meded #medtwitter #FOAMed #FOAMcc #ausmed #ausdocs #medstudents #patientsafety #medmastodon
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First post on here. Feels pretty much like I'm shouting into an empty room...
For anyone who sees this, I'm interested in:
#patientsafety
#systemsthinking
#safetyscience
#humanfactors
#patientinvolvementHope to engage in some calm, and interesting discussion!