Competing Responsibilities and the Ethics of Care in Young People’s Engagements with Digital Mental Health

Mental Health

“…The proliferation of digital monitoring technologies and AI-assisted interfaces-such as computerised therapeutics, online clinical platforms, smartphone apps, and wearable self-tracking devices-has constituted new fields of digitised mental healthcare (see e.g. Birk and Samuel 2020;Brandt and Stark 2018;Fullagar et al 2017;Minozzo 2022;Pickersgill 2019a;Trnka 2022). Self-monitoring of 'mental well-being' is now part of many people's daily health regimen as everyday activities of eating, sleeping, work, and recreation have become digitalised objects of observation shaped by ambitions to 'encode wellness' and promote personalised forms of health surveillance (Cearns forthcoming; Bruun forthcoming).…”