EPISODE 102: Dame Til Wykes, King's College London: Digital Mental Healthcare - Balancing Innovation with Responsibility

Interview with Dame Til Wykes - Head of the School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences Prof. Wykes is the Head of the School of Mental Health & Psychological Sciences at the National Institute for Health Research. She founded the Service User Research Network at King's College, London and focuses on innovative treatments for schizophrenia and eHealth/mHealth projects such as myhealthlocker. As a leading voice in mental health research, we invited her to discuss how digitizing mental health care is changing the world. On The Menu: 1. Access to digital technology solutions for underserved communities 2. Ensuring the efficacy and dependability of digital technology options for mental health care 3. Integrating virtual reality and immersive technologies with traditional forms of therapy and treatment 4. Ethics, transparency, evidence-based practice in developing digital mental health interventions 5. Potential harms of promoting untested or ineffective treatments to vulnerable individuals 6. The future of digital technology solutions for mental health