{"id":265877,"date":"2025-11-16T10:20:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/265877\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T10:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:20:23","slug":"amid-a-mental-health-crisis-building-ai-therapists-may-be-good-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/265877\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid a mental health crisis, building AI therapists may be good medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-c-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">In recent times, several drivers of the SMI crisis stand out. The first is the way our world was transformed by neoliberal ideas that prioritised corporate interests, amplified inequality, marginalised trade unions, enshittified jobs and increased precarity. The second was the enforced isolation imposed on many vulnerable people by the Covid-19 lockdown, which caused a measurable global spike in mental health problems (especially anxiety and depression). And the third was technology \u2013 specifically, heavy social media use, which has been linked to increased anxiety and depression, particularly in adolescents and young adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In recent times, several drivers of the SMI crisis stand out. The first is the way our world&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[733,102,2960,1906,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-265877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}