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Text Messaging: The Next Gen of Therapy in Mental Health

from Dartmouth College via ScienceDaily

Text Messaging: The Next Gen of Therapy in Mental Health Dartmouth College via ScienceDaily In the U.S., approximately 19% of all adults have a diagnosable mental illness. Clinic-based services may fall short of meeting patient needs. In the first randomized controlled trial of its kind, a team investigated the impact of a texting intervention as an add-on to a mental health treatment program versus one without it. A new study finds that a text-messaging-based intervention can be a safe, clinically promising and feasible tool to augment care for people with serious mental illness. READ MORE

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