Apr 15,2022

Therapeutic Alliance: Building Relationships With AI Therapy Chatbots

A recent peer-reviewed study in Frontiers of Wysa, an advanced conversational AI for mental health, shows people develop an emotional bond with its chatbot in much the same way people bond with a human therapist. The study of 1,205 people evaluated users of mental health app Wysa who were experiencing measured symptoms of anxiety or depression. The results show that within five days of using Wysa, the therapeutic alliance was comparable or better than scores found in traditional in-person cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), in-person group therapy and internet-based tools for CBT.

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Jul 01,2022

Your next therapist could be a chatbot app

Today, anyone with a smartphone can access conversational agent phone apps, or chatbots, meant to help users cope with the anxieties of daily life. These AI language-processing systems can imitate human discussion via text — in this case, by simulating conversations with a therapist. (For now, though, they aren’t usually branded as therapy.) One version, Woebot, was launched by clinical research psychologist Alison Darcy and other Stanford University scientists in 2017. Darcy says she looked into Woebot to tackle disparities in access to mental health care, though she acknowledges it’s only part of the solution.

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Sep 28,2022

Woebot Health is part of BrightInsight Ecosystem

Woebot Health, the world’s first mental health ally for people and businesses, with products that put personal growth in people’s hands, wherever they are is part of BrightInsight Ecosystem, a network of the world’s leading healthcare and technology companies collaborating to solve healthcare’s biggest challenges to drive digital innovation, adoption and engagement.

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May 11,2021

Large-Scale Study Finds Mental Health App Forms Bond With Users, Marking Key Evolution in Digital Therapeutics

Woebot Health, a pioneer in the development of relational technologies and tools to support mental health, today announced that the results of its most recent study, titled “Evidence of human-level bonds established with a digital conversational agent,” have been published in the open access journal JMIR Formative Research. Among a large sample of 36,070 users, the study provides evidence that Woebot, the company’s proprietary relational agent, establishes a therapeutic bond with users—a construct long thought to be the unique domain of human-to-human interactions. The findings are unprecedented in a commercialized product and could mark a foundational step toward purely digital solutions’ ability to help meet surging demand for mental health care.

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May 26,2021

Digital chatbot Woebot lands FDA breakthrough designation to tackle postpartum depression

Digital mental health company Woebot Health has landed FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for its postpartum depression digital therapeutic, WB001. WB001 combines cognitive behavioral therapy and elements of interpersonal psychotherapy with the company’s conversational chatbot, Woebot, to deliver treatment directly through patients’ phones.

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Oct 18,2021

New Survey Shows Paradigm Shift in American Attitudes and Opinions About Mental Health Technology

Woebot Health today released the results of its proprietary survey, “A Paradigm Shift: Consumer Attitudes Toward Mental Health Technology in 2021.” The survey, which was designed to capture Americans’ attitudes and beliefs about their mental health, current mental health care habits and views on mental health technology, found that United States adults have favorable views about how technology, including mental health chatbots, can improve their mental health.

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Mar 24,2021

Mental health chatbot Woebot could be adapted to tackle substance use

A recent study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) shows initial support for a new version of Woebot – a text-based chatbot app designed to address mental health issues – that is designed to reduce substance use and other measures tied to substance use disorder (SUD). Conducted by researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine and Woebot Health, the investigation found that 101 participants in the eight-week program reported reduced cravings and increased confidence in their ability to resist urges – among other encouraging outcomes.

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Apr 02,2021

Do AI therapy chatbots work? Sometimes better than a therapist, says Woebot CEO Michael Evers

It’s no secret that the state of mental health across the country is worse than ever, mainly due to the effects of the pandemic. As more and more people search for access to therapy, a new class of startups has grown in popularity: AI therapy platforms. One of those platforms, Woebot Health, created an AI chatbot that listens to users and guides them through clinically validated treatment. Woebot’s current CEO, Michael Evers, never even worked out of the company’s San Francisco offices — he started right after the pandemic hit. Despite that, he saw something special in the startup.

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Jul 15,2021

AI therapists are on the rise—but can they really fix us?

Enter San Francisco’s Woebot Health, which claims that its virtual therapist Woebot has a 98.9 percent accuracy rate in detecting crisis language, and also forms an empathetic bond with users, marking an evolution in digital therapeutics. The chatbot, introduced in 2017, uses natural language processing and learned responses to all the stuff regular psychiatrists scribble down on their notepads, to mimic the decision-tree-structure of patient-therapist conversations. It also remembers past sessions.

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Aug 31,2021

The Top 12 Health Chatbots Features a Cancer Mobile App Chatbot OneRemisson

New York-based OneRemission launched its chatbot with the aim to help ease the life of those involved in the fight against cancer with the information they need. For cancer patients and cancer survivors, the app empowers them by providing a comprehensive list of diets, exercises, and post-cancer practices, curated by Integrative Medicine experts, so that they don’t need to constantly rely on a doctor.

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