2025 ESRC Festival of Social Science:
Therapy Reimagined: The Digital Future for Mental Health
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Keeping safe with AI
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DCP 4th Annual Digital Healthcare Conference:
A.I. and Future Psychological Practice: Opportunities and Risks
What is AI and how will it transform the work of psychological practitioners? How can we harness its powers to enhance the service we offer to our clients? What risks might it pose for us ethically and practically as practitioners? These are some of the questions this year’s conference sought to answer while achieving the following aims:
- Enhance practitioner knowledge and understanding of AI, focusing on emerging innovations, policy guidance, and best practice evidence
- Facilitate discussions on the potential and risks of AI in clinical practice
- Bring together a network of practitioners to inform the DCP digital healthcare subcommittee forthcoming advisory paper. ‘Utilising AI in Psychological Services-What might the future hold?
Through a series of engaging sessions and interactive workshops, speakers and facilitators from a diverse spectrum of psychological services and research areas explored critical AI themes. Expert-led presentations spanned topics from leveraging AI for administrative and therapeutic support in clinical practice, to understanding clinicians’ perceptions and readiness for AI adoption. One workshop provided a deep dive into the application of AI within clinical practice, education, and supervision, while another tackled risk, legal, ethical and environmental considerations. A roundtable discussion that brought out further insights and contributions concluded the webinar.
With this comprehensive approach, many aspects of what practitioners, service providers and commissioners need to consider to work towards a digital future which includes effective use of AI were unpacked and analysed. AI can certainly be seen as both friend and foe. This conference moved clinical psychology stakeholders that much further in understanding how we can maximize AI’s groundbreaking capabilities to innovate and elevate practice while responsibly countering its potential negative impacts.
To cap off an insightful day, in-person attendees were invited to a book launch for the recently published Psychological Digital Practice: The Basics And Beyond
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Free your mind with Heidi
Digital Inclusive Practice:
Can our Digital Services achieve this
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Slides: Digital Inclusive Practice Conference Introduction
Prof. Helen Pote & Dr Alesia Moulton-Perkins
Slides: Digital Inclusion – from policy to practice
Dr Ayesha Rahim
Developing your digital practice skills:
Current Practice and Beyond
Current Practice and Beyond
Webinar: A year working remotely: What does the future look like for Clinical Psychology?
