{"id":164439,"date":"2023-05-23T21:23:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T02:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/chatgpt-is-giving-therapy-a-mental-health-revolution-may-be-next"},"modified":"2023-05-23T21:23:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T02:23:05","slug":"chatgpt-is-giving-therapy-a-mental-health-revolution-may-be-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/chatgpt-is-giving-therapy-a-mental-health-revolution-may-be-next","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT is giving therapy. A mental health revolution may be next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chatgpt-is-giving-therapy-a-mental-health-revolution-may-be-next3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> This new gold rush with AI will bring new jobs for even Psychiatry and Therapists which is already leading to new bots with human like therapists in texts. This could lead to even better mental health for the global population.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cPsychotherapy is very expensive and even in places like Canada, where I\u2019m from, and other countries, it\u2019s super expensive, the waiting lists are really long,\u201d Ashley Andreou, a medical student focusing on psychiatry at Georgetown University, told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople don\u2019t have access to something that augments medication and is evidence-based treatment for mental health issues, and so I think that we need to increase access, and I do think that generative AI with a certified health professional will increase efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The prospect of AI augmenting, or even leading, mental health treatment raises a myriad of ethical and practical concerns. These range from how to protect personal information and medical records, to questions about whether a computer programme will ever be truly capable of empathising with a patient or recognising warning signs such as the risk of self-harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>face_with_colon_three This new gold rush with AI will bring new jobs for even Psychiatry and Therapists which is already leading to new bots with human like therapists in texts. This could lead to even better mental health for the global population. \u201cPsychotherapy is very expensive and even in places like Canada, where I\u2019m from, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1878,1495,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-employment","category-health","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}