Mental Health and the Promise of Technology

By Nancy Spangler, PhD, OTR/L

President
Spangler Associates

Interest in workplace mental health is on the rise with employers. For workplace professionals who are responsible for prevention, treatment, or disability management related to mental health, technology promises to play a helpful role.

Technology as a Problem-Solver

Some of the challenges in addressing mental health include stigma, a sense of isolation, and difficulty navigating or accessing quality treatment. Technology helps reduce these challenges in several ways. Users of digital interventions can learn mental health skills and habits that previously were accessible only through face-to-face treatment. Such skills include support for learning mindful awareness, emotion labeling and regulating, mood monitoring, changing cognitions and self-talk, and building social interactions. Technology has expanded mental health assessment and personalized approaches to finding the right therapist.

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