Artificial Intelligence in Behavioral and Mental Health Care
Artificial intelligence software development offers enormous potential in behavioral and mental health care. ArtificialIntelligence.health is an AI software development company interested in promoting the use of AI in mental health care. From computer psychologists, to mental health chatbots, to broader coordinated care, artificial intelligence can enhance psychology and psychiatry practices in numerous ways that help patients get a diagnosis, more actively manage their symptoms in between in-person consultations, predict and prevent potential flare-ups and relapses, and more.
Artificial Intelligence Mental Health Therapy Software
Artificial intelligence in behavioral and mental health care begins at the diagnostic level. People with various mental and behavioral disorders have classifiable symptoms that can be detected in verbal output (spoken or written), tone of voice, facial expressions, body language, and more. Here, artificial intelligence solutions like natural language processing, facial recognition, and computer vision work together to develop a patient profile that helps give an initial pre-diagnostic screen for consideration by patient and practitioner. Depending upon the particular application, a virtual computer psychologist/therapist will be able to pick up these cues to help support diagnosis as a part of a psychological clinical decision support (CDS) system. Such tools may also be made available as standalone applications for personal use, for those who suspect they may have a problem and may be thinking about seeking professional help.
Beyond pre-diagnostic screening, computer/robot psychologists can be used to help monitor symptoms of those undergoing active mental health therapy so help provide additional support between counseling sessions. The same medical AI features that work to determine potential mental disorders can also be used to pick up on signs of active flare-ups of symptoms or relapses. When these occur, AI psychology and psychiatry apps can encourage users to engage in specific therapeutic techniques to ease symptoms and/or prevent or end relapses. From cognitive behavioral therapy to mindfulness exercises and more, artificial intelligence psychology and psychiatry apps will help patients stay active in their self-care to ensure better management of their disorders and optimal mental and behavioral health.
Mental Health Chatbots
One particularly promising area for the use of artificial intelligence in mental health are chatbots. While mental disorders still carry much social stigma, and many people struggle to communicate their thoughts and feelings directly, mental health chatbots offer the opportunity for those who are too inhibited to get direct professional psychological and psychiatric help to put their first step in the door towards self-care. This is particularly important as those with mental and behavioral disorders will tend to have thoughts and feelings that lie outside the acceptable range for which general social expectations allow the expression. Mental health chatbots may be particularly beneficial to men, who are far less likely to seek support when experiencing a mental or behavioral health problem due to higher social stigma attached to male vulnerability.
Natural language processing can combine with unique artificial intelligence mental health machine learning to help profile users and guide them to both techniques they can personally use for self-care, plus encourage them to find professional and non-professional support when applicable. Mental health chatbots can likewise be used to prevent symptom flare-ups and relapses, and to strongly encourage immediate professional support when circumstances become life-threatening. In these ways, mental health chatbots can both provide initial support for those not ready for professional or non-professional help, or to supplement that help in between engagement with psychologists, psychiatrists, and peers.
AI in Coordinated Healthcare
Another promising use of AI in mental health is to coordinate physical health care with mental health care. When individuals are given new diagnoses, or undergo particularly stressful treatments such as surgeries, they can often experience more significant symptoms of their mental health disorder(s). Artificial intelligence mental health care applications can be developed that help users keep actively engaged in their treatments during these stressful times. Computer psychologists can provide exercises that specifically target handling stress from a new diagnosis, treatment, or physical recovery program, and chatbots can help encourage users to seek further professional and/or non-professional support as needed. Artificial intelligence healthcare applications may also help alert physicians of mental disorders that may have physical health impacts when making decisions about treatment. AI will help provide a more holistic framework for making judgments on the best way to deliver health care targeted to the unique needs of each individual.
About ArtificialIntelligence.health
ArtificialIntelligence.health is an AI software development company that is focused on democratizing the use of artificial intelligence by a broader audience of medical professionals. As a division of DDA, it is built upon a 30-year-long history of continuous innovation in custom interactive medical platforms of all kinds. You may learn more about how AI can benefit your medical organization by exploring this website further, or you may contact ArtificialIntelligence.com today to request a free, no obligation consultation.
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