Academic Collaborative Center Digital Health & Mental Wellbeing
We aim to make the usage of digital tools and interventions for mental wellbeing and a healthy lifestyle accessible for everyone by 2030. But how can these tools and interventions support us? How do we know that they will actually work? How do we make sure they work for everyone, and what is needed for them to become a part of our daily life?
Real impact on mental health and wellbeing
Digital tools and technologies are often presented as solutions to reduce costs or workloads in healthcare, to prevent or manage mental health problems or to promote healthy lifestyles. However, there is still much to explore when it comes to the use and effectiveness of digital tools and technologies. The Academic Collaborative Center can have real impact on the mental health and wellbeing of people in Dutch society and elsewhere, by working closely together with researchers and (civil society) organisations on these topics and finding solutions to the questions that really matter to society. Outputs developed by the Center will be relevant to academia and practice.
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Collaborating on Digital Health and Mental Wellbeing
20th June 2023The kick-off symposium for the University-wide Academic Collaborative Center for Digital Health and Mental Wellbeing, which took place on the 13th of June, brought societal partners and researchers from Tilburg University together. Saar Hommes (post-doctoral researcher at the Center) provides an update on what happened that afternoon.
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Grant for digital self-management platform for people with severe mental illness
22nd March 2023Researchers from Tilburg University and partners received a grant for the development of a digital self-management platform for people with severe mental illness. The goal is to give this vulnerable group more control over their own mental health and thus reduce the pressure on mental health care.
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University-wide academic collaborative centers: A matter of give and take
When it comes to addressing the really major issues, collaboration involving several disciplines and societal partners is required. With that in mind, Tilburg University has established a series of university-wide ‘academic collaborative centers’ to work on themes such as Digital Health & Mental Wellbeing. This particular center has identified a wonderful mission for itself: ‘To make working on your mental health the most normal thing in the world by the year 2030.’
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In 2030, working on your own mental health will be the most natural thing in the world
Mental health is just as important for you wellbeing as physical health. That may be stating the obvious but, as a rule, few people are open about psychological issues. Digitalization can play a role in breaking the taboo, says Professor of Innovation in Mental Healthcare Inge Bongers. “Lots of new, online forms of self-help and other therapies are becoming available. This technology makes it easier for people to talk about psychological vulnerabilities and will increase people’s individual control of their mental health and wellbeing.”
