New Zealand continues to face alarming youth mental health indicators, including persistently high suicide rates and increasing demand for psychological support services.
Despite growing up with technology and the internet, young people of New Zealand have expressed a strong preference for in-person help when it comes to their mental health. Research led by the ...
Research into New Zealand’s mental health system has repeatedly found that long waiting times can discourage people from seeking help or reduce engagement with treatment. Extended delays have also ...
A nationwide rollout of an AI-powered clinical documentation tool, called AI scribe, to emergency clinicians across public ...
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission reports rising psychological distress, with 23% of young people affected. Access to mental health services for young people has declined, with long wait ...
D ean, aged 37, was admitted to hospital under the 1992 Mental Health (C Assessment and Treatment) Act for treatment of an acute episode of psychosis. He was in hospital ...
“It was like a cloud had lifted, and she could think more rationally again.” That’s how one mother described her teenage daughter — a sufferer of “erratic mood swings” — after eight weeks on a ...
Rugby legend Sir John Kirwan is helping to launch the first AI-powered wellbeing guide for adults endorsed by Health New Zealand. Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey said Ask Groov provides strategies ...