After very slow adoption of digital mental health solutions by the public sector, the pandemic could be the tipping point for mass adoption. In this talk, Louise describes the unmet need and costs facing health and social care of providing good quality support to autistic people and people with mental health difficulties. She explains how Brain in Hand has pivoted their model of delivery to a virtual offering that combines personal support with a digital tool. She summarises research into the user experience of virtual onboarding and the role of users in future product development.

I explore the impact of a crisis on communication and how rapid mobilisation of video-based art therapy in mental health community services opened new doors to understanding how we can reach those people that are less likely to access psychological help. I argue that in today’s world we should be thinking about all people whose health may be severely impacted on by COVID-19, not only the majority. This can be achieved by providing a range of care options. Tele-arts therapies during COVID-19 has demonstrated the importance of broadening the offer to provide increased accessibility and acceptability of mental health practice across a range of commnities.

The distrACT app provides information and support for young people who self-harm and may feel suicidal. It is available on the NHS Apps Library and won the 2019 British Medical Association 'Patient Information Award' for wellbeing. The talk introduces the app and presents some basic quantitative and qualitative data around its use.

This talk aims to give some detailed context of the challenges which face people who have complex needs and live in a deprived area. It is designed to help those who are designing services and /or products which may impact upon these people. The focus is particularly relevant to financial and technological developments.

This talk presents preliminary results of a project that is gathering physical, cognitive, behavioural and emotional manifestations of stress during COVID19. It uses a clinician developed online instrument and compares data captured since April 2020 with data sets pre-COVID19. This is an ongoing project and participation is requested.

Key Holmusk leaders share their views on what we've observed related to COVID-19's impact on mental health and how we're mobilizing our real-world evidence solutions to address the issue now and for the long haul.

Andy and Ana discuss changes in the clinical presentation of patients related to COVID-19 between January and July 2020. Deep-learning technology is used to analyse the content of assessment and treatment sessions. Significant changes are observed in worry themes and symptom profiles – including both exacerbation and attenuation of specific symptom clusters.

In this short talk IncomeMax founder Lee Healey talks about the impact the Covid crisis has had on the families his organisation supports and how long standing financial vulnerabilities have been exposed because of coronavirus. With a 35% increase in customers during this time compared to the year before, the Covid situation has meant more people have needed to seek advice from IncomeMax on the financial support available to them. Money stress has triggered high levels of worry and this has been evident though conversations with customers and via social media. It is clear to Lee that we must now put money and mental health at the heart of building back better.

This presentation will reveal early insights and trends in data around the impact of COVID-19 on mental health referral and treatment for adults in England, as seen in data collected by services in the NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme.

MeeTwo is a pre-moderated peer support app for young people aged 11 - 25. Examination of discussions on MeeTwo before and during lockdown reveal the impact of school closure on youth mental health.

The mission of MIELI Mental Health Finland, MIELI, is to support and promote good mental health, considered essential at all levels of society and in all spheres of life. This presentation gives you insight on two leading online chat services for youth. We'll also go through some statistics for the services from corona spring and last year.

We share our experiences as a digital service provider during the Coronavirus pandemic, and give our thoughts on the future of digital healthcare in Europe.

Noise Solution has been at the forefront of digital youth work for the last 10 years. Ranked as one of the Uk's top 100 performing social enterprises (NatWest SE100, in 2019 and 2020) the organisation's founder talks briefly here about focussing on well-being as an outcome. Our work uses Self Determination Theory informed music mentoring (often beat making) that is enhanced by our own online platform. That platform not only helps us create, capture and safely share positive digital narratives featuring the weekly highlights of that mentoring work with family and key workers but also measures and automatically analyses NHS well-being outcomes, looking for statistical significance, range of change and automatic comparison against a UK national average well-being score.

If you can think of any aspect of health and wellbeing which you wish to monitor or improve, you can be certain that there already exists an app for it. What is uncertain is whether such apps will work as advertised, and, most significantly, whether they will ‘first, do no harm’. ORCHA, along with other key organisations, is working to overcome this challenge by identifying and actively promoting the most clinically effective, safe, and beneficial apps to patients, professionals, and systems.

We provide a platform that offers virtual and in person companionship and support services to older people by connecting them with Papa pals. Our goal is to produce a positive impact on the lives of older adults by reducing loneliness and isolation where possible. We offer support through companionship, transportation, support with groceries, picking up medications, learning about technology etc. Here we discuss how we assess and measure outcomes of this using our programme.

Dr. Rebecca Resnik addresses fundamental flaws in psychiatric and psychological diagnostic systems and describes how nosologies and "descriptive theories" contribute to misdiagnosis, "mental health deserts" and deaths by suicide. She presents ideas for enhancing clinical practice with language technology. Dr. Resnik challenges the audience to embark on the quest for the "holy grail" of inexpensive, fast, valid tools for identifying patients at risk.

Sentio Solutions did a retrospective analysis of the emotional space, represented by the emotions experienced by our users, from February 2020 through April 2020. Our technology consists of a wearable wristband that continuously measures physiological data and algorithms that detect changes in emotional states. The purpose of this retrospective analysis was to measure the effects of Covid-19 on our mental health using objective tools.

The aim of this presentation is to describe what actions SilverCloud has executed at different levels, how the pandemic has changed the service needs and how SilverCloud has adapted to meet them. Even though SilverCoud platform has been mostly based on a supported model of care, this new situation has produced an increase in the use of SilverCloud through unsupported and blended care models. Overall, large organizations have leveraged SilverCoud platform to make preventative mental health interventions freely accessible through nationwide rollouts. All these efforts have led SilverCloud to be offered to more than 100 million lives across different countries and settings.

Matthew presents suicide prevention in a digital world, discussing the current situation, sets out a vision for the future and details the road map to achieving the vision.

TRIGGER WARNING - This video contains content discussing suicide. If you feel your mental health could be affected by this video, we advise not viewing it. We also recommend reaching out to get support with your mental health. As this is a global audience, we can't provide your location specific signposting. If you contact matthew@stigmastats.co.uk or becky@beckyinkster.com, we will do our best to signpost you to the appropriate support.

When the World Health Organization declared the global pandemic, SuperBetter immediately took action. SuperBetter CEO, Keith Wakeman shares an update on the company’s response, insights learned so far, and plans to continue addressing the mental health crisis during and after COVID-19 -- especially among youth and young adults which are populations that will be disproportionately impacted.

Whilst the team were working towards a Digital Mental Health Act before Covid-19, the pandemic highlighted the real need to move away from paper. Arden and Ross will discuss what’s changed over the last few months and insight gathered so far.

This talk presents an analysis of ONS wellbeing data for Turn2us service users during coronavirus, and qualitative analysis of main concerns and anxieties for people on low incomes during the lockdown

We take a high-level look at user data from the Unmind Index, a self-report measure of mental health and wellbeing. We compare Index data over 3 discrete time points: pre-Covid, peri-Covid, and easing of lockdown. Although our analysis has limitations, we can see some interesting patterns.

Brazil is the new global epicenter of the pandemic according to the World Health Organization. We will discuss mental health insights during COVID-19 and reflect on the current scenario of “one country, many epidemics”. Data was gathered via Vitalk, a smartphone application which comprises a mental health chatbot and a team of human Psychologists.

A survey of 2,108 Woebot digital therapy users reveals that some of the groups most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, including essential workers and older populations, are faring better than others, while people 25 and younger report more sadness and anxiety than any age group. However, there is a flip side to the pandemic story: many respondents also say the situation has helped them identify personal strengths, increase their appreciation of life, and strengthen their interpersonal relationships or spiritual connections.

We have seen a spike in usage and need for mental health support during the pandemic. This video is a report from the front-lines, of observations and a provider perspective on user behaviour, patterns of usage, and new partnerships emerging in digital mental health support. This is not only a time of change, but also an opportunity.

Using presenting issues data from our 42000+ users of digital counselling and support platforms Kooth and Qwell during the period of lockdown and beyond to compare year on year trends as well as in year week on week trends in concerns and issues raised