Published on in Vol 9, No 1 (2022): Jan-Mar

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/28301, first published .
Coaching to Support Mental Health Apps: Exploratory Narrative Review

Coaching to Support Mental Health Apps: Exploratory Narrative Review

Coaching to Support Mental Health Apps: Exploratory Narrative Review

Authors of this article:

Ashley Meyer1 Author Orcid Image ;   Hannah Wisniewski1 Author Orcid Image ;   John Torous1 Author Orcid Image

Journals

  1. Werntz A, Amado S, Jasman M, Ervin A, Rhodes J. Providing Human Support for the Use of Digital Mental Health Interventions: Systematic Meta-review. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2023;25:e42864 View
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  5. Kornfield R, Lattie E, Nicholas J, Knapp A, Mohr D, Reddy M. "Our Job is to be so Temporary": Designing Digital Tools that Meet the Needs of Care Managers and their Patients with Mental Health Concerns. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2023;7(CSCW2):1 View
  6. Fundoiano-Hershcovitz Y, Breuer Asher I, Ritholz M, Feniger E, Manejwala O, Goldstein P. Specifying the Efficacy of Digital Therapeutic Tools for Depression and Anxiety: Retrospective, 2-Cohort, Real-World Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2023;25:e47350 View
  7. Henry L, Compas B. Review: Preventing Psychopathology in the Digital Age: Leveraging Technology to Target Coping and Emotion Regulation in Adolescents. JAACAP Open 2024;2(1):6 View
  8. Silverstein G, Styke S, Kaur S, Singh A, Green S, Jariwala S, Feldman J. The Relationship Between Depressive Symptoms, eHealth Literacy, and Asthma Outcomes in the Context of a Mobile Health Intervention. Psychosomatic Medicine 2023;85(7):605 View
  9. Lane E, D’Arcey J, Kidd S, Onyeaka H, Alon N, Joshi D, Torous J. Digital Phenotyping in Adults with Schizophrenia: A Narrative Review. Current Psychiatry Reports 2023;25(11):699 View
  10. Perret S, Alon N, Carpenter-Song E, Myrick K, Thompson K, Li S, Sharma K, Torous J. Standardising the role of a digital navigator in behavioural health: a systematic review. The Lancet Digital Health 2023;5(12):e925 View
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  12. Chen K, Lane E, Burns J, Macrynikola N, Chang S, Torous J. The Digital Navigator: Standardizing Human Technology Support in App-Integrated Clinical Care. Telemedicine and e-Health 2024;30(7):e1963 View
  13. Weiner L, Crowley R, Sheeber L, Koegler F, Davis J, Wells M, Funkhouser C, Auerbach R, Allen N. Engagement, Acceptability, and Effectiveness of the Self-Care and Coach-Supported Versions of the Vira Digital Behavior Change Platform Among Young Adults at Risk for Depression and Obesity: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Mental Health 2024;11:e51366 View
  14. Gorban C, McKenna S, Chong M, Capon W, Battisti R, Crowley A, Whitwell B, Ottavio A, Scott E, Hickie I, Iorfino F. Building Mutually Beneficial Collaborations Between Digital Navigators, Mental Health Professionals, and Clients: Naturalistic Observational Case Study. JMIR Mental Health 2024;11:e58068 View
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  16. Schwarz J, Heinze M, Scheunemann K, Schönbeck J, Schubert D, Speck J, Torous J, Uchtmann L, Wolff J, Meier-Diedrich E. Digitale Navigatoren zur Akzeptanz- und Kompetenzentwicklung mit Mental Health Apps. Nervenheilkunde 2024;43(12):701 View
  17. Chong M, Hickie I, Ottavio A, Rogers D, Dimitropoulos G, LaMonica H, Borgnolo L, McKenna S, Scott E, Iorfino F. A Digital Approach for Addressing Suicidal Ideation and Behaviors in Youth Mental Health Services: Observational Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2024;26:e60879 View
  18. Zainal N, Eckhardt R, Rackoff G, Fitzsimmons-Craft E, Rojas-Ashe E, Barr Taylor C, Funk B, Eisenberg D, Wilfley D, Newman M. Capitalizing on natural language processing (NLP) to automate the evaluation of coach implementation fidelity in guided digital cognitive-behavioral therapy (GdCBT). Psychological Medicine 2025;55 View
  19. Choi S, Kang H, Shin J, Chu S, Choi J. Ecological Momentary Assessment to Measure Social Connectedness in Older Adults: Integrative Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2025;27:e66324 View
  20. Bojic I, Ong Q, Ito S, Liu J, Lawate A, Palaiyan M, Nair E, Lwin M, Theng Y, Chia M, Lee C, Abisheganaden J, Car J. AI-empowered health coaching for university students: A mixed-method process evaluation. Computers in Biology and Medicine 2025;194:110271 View
  21. Schwarz J, Chen K, Dashti H, Heinze M, Schönbeck J, Schubert D, Senst B, Speck J, Torous J, Wolff J, Uchtmann L, Meier-Diedrich E. Piloting Digital Navigators to Promote Acceptance and Engagement With Digital Mental Health Apps in German Outpatient Care: Protocol for a Multicenter, Single-Group, Observational, Mixed Methods Interventional Study (DigiNavi). JMIR Research Protocols 2025;14:e67655 View
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Books/Policy Documents

  1. Gnanasekar S, Shaposhnyk O, Yankovyi I, Yanushkevich S. Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, and Image Processing. ICPR 2022 International Workshops and Challenges. View