Interview Summary: Maria Paviour talks about her experiences as an NHS whistleblower in what Channel 4 described as the "worst scandal in the history of the NHS". She discusses how we must learn to embrace the idea that we can work collaboratively in changing culture, and that changing culture needs to start from then top and without compromise.

Lia and Arden will discuss the challenges and opportunities of developing modern clinical software and balancing time, resources and money with user experience, efficacy and clinical safety, whilst also ensuring the patient remains at the centre. The Thalamos Team have been pioneering methodologies to make this happen in practice. Thalamos is a for profit for purpose business currently focused on digitising the Mental Health Act. We believe that a digital first eMHA will be able to support delivering care more swiftly, simply and safely.

Talk Summary: This talk provides an insight into trauma, the impact on the lives of those who are living with it and the hope for recovery. Freya draws on the perspectives of lived experience, her work with other survivors of trauma and science, based on academic research into trauma.

This talk briefly discusses work using smartphone-derived digital biomarkers to passively assess mood and cognition. In addition, keys to successful translation of digital mental health apps to clinical practice are highlighted.

Talk Summary: This talk gives practical recommendations on how to involve global youth ethically and meaningfully in research, policy and public engagement in digital mental health, with examples from MMOH digital campaigns and research. 

Talk Summary: We have been tracking over 8000 families in the UK since the beginning of lockdown in March 2020. Here, we share with you our findings on how families have been doing, how this has changed throughout the course of the pandemic and what groups of children are struggling more than others.

Talk Summary: Paranimo is a mental health technology company that has created a platform that matches vulnerable people to the right support, reducing the time and complexity when seeking that support, and uses real time data insights to help them take control of their mental health. Our matching intelligence aims to understand an individual's unique mental health challenges and needs, presenting them with the right support at the right time, ensuring the best possible outcome

Are you a start-up developing products in mental health? Do you need real world data to understand how your product might work in the clinic? Or are you an academic doing mental health research, with a track record of using clinical data to answer your questions? Holmusk is inviting applications for the NeuroBlu™ Award – an opportunity worth € 50,000, that gives you free access to the world’s largest real-world dataset in mental or behavioural health – and the analytics power to interrogate it. The NeuroBlu™ Award gives you a free 6-month subscription to the NeuroBlu™ platform, technical support, and an honorarium of € 3,000 to support your research. With the most robust behavioral health database of its kind and seamless AI-powered analytic tools, NeuroBlu gives researchers, pharma, clinicians, and other industry partners the ability to create insights like never before. More than just an analytics tool, NeuroBlu enables discovery to improve lives. Learn more at neuroblu.ai.

Talk Summary: Minddistrict is an online mental health platform that enables healthcare organisations to provide digitally enabled therapy. In this short video, we take a look back at some of the data we reported on during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of our platform usage, and we compare those insights to current data. How has platform usage and the number of video calling appointments changed? And has there been a shift in our most-used online modules since Covid-19 restrictions have eased? We also look at how significant digital solutions may be for tackling the mental health crisis of children and young people as we come out of the pandemic. 

Talk Summary: This video contains basic information about Mental Gaming. The service offers youth a safe place to chat with over 16 000 other youngsters from Finland. Our chat offers low threshold help for the youth, since you can be totally anonymous on it. Chat is also very actively moderated and online 24/7.

Talk Summary: This video is for those who want to create an online community or are interested about the procedure. I will explain what you need to prepare and think about before you start making one. I will also share my take on good steps on building the community and how you should keep working on it once it's made.

Talk Summary: In this video, I introduce a type of research in which researchers explore the applicability of machine learning methods to mental health issues using data from social media platforms. Today, we have plenty of studies using an algorithmic approach to predict a person's mental health status. Do people want an algorithm to detect their mental health status? What can we do to improve mental health technologies? I will explore these questions in this talk.

Talk Summary: The diverse culture and stigma in Indonesia means there is an extra barrier for achieving better mental health. Riliv has seen around a 500% increase in the number of people that seek mental health services. Our psychologists and self-care contents will continue to work and provide help as best as we can to get through the pandemic together as a nation. Warning: This video contains images and references about mental health that might be difficult viewing, distressing, triggering.

The session captures highlights from the National Mental Health Debate for Young People in Wales in 2021 jointly hosted by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Wales & TEC Cymru National Mental Health Debate for Young People, where multi-school panels argued for and against the motion ‘Does technology improve your mental health?.’ The young people in the video are members of the TEC Cymru Youth Advisory Panel: Ebony Johns, Abbie Spurgeon, Saiba Ahuja, Jamie Brind. The National Mental Health Debate for Schools attracted entries from across Wales, with Brynteg School being awarded as best team. Prior, and post-debate, the audience were polled on how they agreed with the motion. 63% believed that technology does improve your mental health prior to the debate, 58% agreed with the motion once the debate was complete. Prof Alka Ahuja MBE introduces selected highlights from the recent National Mental Health Debate for Schools on the motion 'does technology improve your mental health?'. The National Mental Health Debate for Schools attracted entries from across Wales, with Brynteg School being awarded as best team. Prior, and post debate, the audience were polled on how they agreed with the motion. 63% believed that technology does improve your mental health prior to the debate, 58% agreed with the motion once the debate was complete.

Talk Summary: With concerns surrounding the increasing number of self-harm and suicides in children and young people, I have decided to use the opportunity of DIMH2021 to look at how the negative effects and inappropriate behaviour eminating from today's digital media can detrimentally influence their mental health and the resulting actions.

Talk Summary: In his talk he speaks about implementing a Mental Health First Aid team at a University in Germany and the kind of challenges as well as advantages that are associated with that. In particular, the overwhelming range of online services on offer can be difficult to navigate. Dr. Huthoff is responsible for the training program of doctoral and post-doctoral researchers. During his chemistry studies and his PhD research, he developed a severe anxiety disorder that had a major impact on his life despite finding ways of successfully completing his scientific work. Nowadays, he is active as a mental health advocate to improve provisions at institutes of higher education and to highlight that mental health problems can be solved with the right kind of support.

Talk Summary: I have broken down mental health stigma into generalized and personalized stigma. Personalized stigma is of grater concerns since it inhibits the individual, their friends and family from seeking help. I lay out three methods we use to combat the latter form of stigma with a focus on relatability and co-creation.

Talk Summary: Poor mental health among academics and researchers has long been a problematic and pervasive issue but, until recently, it has largely been ignored or even denied. Recent research (Evans 2018, Woolston 2019) and the increased pressure of the COVID19 pandemic, however, have rendered mental health in academia an urgent topic. In this talk Dragonfly Mental Health aims to destigmatize mental health struggles and start the conversation about how we as a community can better support ourselves and each other.

Talk Summary: There is an opportunity to reduce burnout and increase client engagement using technology. A program benefiting from increased perceived clinical/non-clinical presence between sessions would support progress momentum and long-term behavioral change, producing desirable sustained outcomes. Clinicians, counselors, and coaches using such a program might find it easier to make progress across clients and would experience less emotional drain, including with difficult clients who might otherwise be referred away.

Talk Summary: The presentation tries to place the potential uses of technology for mental health in the context of where practise has come from and where it is today. It covers some of the barriers to adoption and tries to bring out some of the more important but less observed wider factors that affect successful adoption. The presentation is based on a paper published at https://medium.com/@kevinflanagan/beyond-pen-and-couch-fb692af974b3 and the full discussion can be viewed at https://youtu.be/2BYdKvHh6ao

Talk Summary: There is only one thing that organisations must address to create psychological safety in the workplace. This is a call to action for all wellbeing experts, tech developers and practitioners. Collaborating can change work cultures and make the world safer and happier for everyone - join the movement- because together we are stronger! Find out more from me here: https://www.cariwellbeing.co.uk/

Talk Summary: The Dishes of Change project, funded by the Lotteries Community Fund and run by the LGK Charity in Walsall, has supported over 150 families in Birmingham and Walsall in the West Midlands, UK, during COVID. By combining the delivery of healthy food parcels and the use of Zoom and other online platforms, the project has taught recipients how to make nutritious meals with basic cupboard ingredients while bringing families from different backgrounds together to cook online during a difficult lockdown period. This programme highlights the potential to combine the universal language of food with the technological demands of the current times, providing holistic support to families by encouraging healthy food choices and improving digital literacy.

Talk Summary: Scents are an important medium for our memories. I will talk about how to record scents from a chemistry perspective and ask questions about how to record scents from a neuroscience perspective.

Talk Summary: A whistlestop tour to provide insights into the complex connection between the mind and skin. The talk aims to provide a flavour of how skin conditions can be linked to mental health and how this manifests in a variety of ways that we observe in the dermatology clinic.