Research Team Recommends Social Network Monitoring for Depression
October 19th, 2009 |
A GoodTherapy.org News Headline
The prevalence of online interactions and communications means that many young people are experiencing a greater portion of their social lives over the internet, a trend which researchers from the University of Victoria posit may be of use to suicide and violence prevention efforts. The researchers have developed a keyword-parsing model which identifies phrases and words associated with risky behaviors, and offers those social networking bloggers identified the option to respond to the question of how they’re doing. A response that they’re not doing well and need help leads them to a site containing appropriate information and resourceful links, in an effort to prevent harmful actions.
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7 comments so far
The right way to deal with the young generation, in my opinion… As personal interaction takes a back-seat, newer and innovative methods like these need to be thought of to involve and help those with problems.
A good step forward to involve those that are tech-buffs and are hardly into actual,real-world socializing… this will definitely help a lot of people who are just too busy to come out of their virtual world…
With the advancements in technology, we now have online counselors, and soon, these counselors and therapists may actually replace or over-shadow the mainstream, old-school ones… why, a video therapy session is much better than one on the phone, isn’t it…?
Getting rid of depression requires an outlet, and interacting with other people, in whichever way, is an outlet good enough. For people who do not socialize much outdoors, this should come as a boon.
A lot of teens are hooked on to online networking sites and many of them have problems socializing in the outside world. For most of them, this problems is the result of being hooked with online stuff. Nevertheless, at least this is a light in the dark sky for such people…
Great theory but how honest are people going to be online?
any kind of a distraction or activity is good for persons under depression and for those that stay to themselves and don’t hang out and are glued to their computer screens, this is a new-age solution, and I think will be very very effective.