Increasing access to digital mental health supports

(Source: https://avondhupress.ie) WHO research indicates that mental health is one of the greatest social and economic challenges of our time, more pronounced now than before the pandemic. According to research from Maynooth University and Trinity College earlier this year, 42% of Irish adults have a mental disorder.

The HSE has now announced a national partnership with digital mental health platform SilverCloud®, that will help address the growing need for access to mental health support in Ireland. Through this partnership, clinicians can refer to SilverCloud’s evidence-based digital CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) programmes.

A leading digital mental health platform, SilverCloud enables providers, health plans and employers to deliver clinically validated digital health/therapeutic care that improves outcomes and increases access and scale while reducing costs. Developed in Ireland in 2012, the multi-award-winning digital mental health platform is a result of nearly 20 years of clinical research with leading academic institutions.

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