The digital redesign of mental health: leveraging connected digital technologies for agency-driven patient-focused care.

Sarah Margaret Goodday Daniel R KarlinStephen H Friend

Published in: The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science (2022)

Digital psychiatry could empower individuals to navigate their context-specific experiences outside healthcare visits. This editorial discusses how leveraging digital health technologies could dramatically transform how we conceptualise mental health and the mental health professional's day-day practice, and how patients could be enabled to navigate their mental health with greater agency.

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