Better behavioral health therapy is tech-supported — and it's already here

(BPT) - The need for behavioral health therapy, the broader term for how actions, habits and behaviors impact a person's overall physical and mental well-being, is on the rise. Yet, in this age where most everyone has a digital device in their pockets, the tools available to therapists and mental health care clinicians, to help their patients are still rudimentary.

The success of behavioral health therapy is as reliant on what occurs in between sessions, the individual work and record keeping as it is during the scheduled check-in. Patients often are encouraged to write in their journal daily or weekly and practice mental health exercises before their next session, with the hope that vital details could still be recalled at the time of journal entry. They need better tools than pen and paper to help them document progress and keep needed details to share with their mental health care clinicians.