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Technology as a help and hindrance to student flourishing

Ed Pinkney MPH e.pinkney@connect.hku.hk

Friday, 15 September 17

Background

• Four years developing student mental health

societies

– Mental Wealth UK (now Student Minds), Leeds Metropolitan

• Two years running campaigns and training

– NUS, Mindfull

• Three years implementing research and

digital programs

– Hong Kong University, TalkLife

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What is your attitude now? Where was it five years ago?

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Hypothesis

• Weʼre growing more relaxed about the

internet because:

– Fears have often been exaggerated. – We accept that itʼs here to stay. (Normalisation; other fears emerged) – Moderation is improving.

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Primitive Approach to Moderation

Moderation: “the action of making something less extreme” Moderators: anyone with control over what others see (governments, corporations, parents)

• The predominant way of moderating has been

to censor content and ban users (G Ḙ Ḛ Ē Ġ Ȩ H Ḙ Ḟ Ǵ Ẽ Ḙ Ğ Ē Ġ Ȩ Ǵ G ) Is this approach sufficient?

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Balanced Approach

• Accept block-ban (‘negativeʼ)

moderation as necessary but not sufficient.

• Aim to provide a balance between

restricting content, and also attempting to educate and

• contextualise. (Ǧ

Ǵ Ḡ Ȩ Ġ Ȩ H Ḙ ḞǴ Ẽ Ḙ Ğ Ē Ġ Ȩ Ǵ G )

• For example, ‘buddiesʼ; signposting

to resources and helplines. (See FB/ Google.)

*Positive and negative in the sense of addition and subtraction, rather than emotionally

Restrict Block Ban Educate Signpost Contextual ise

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Digital Wellbeing Services

• Screening for mental health issues (A.I.)
• Online CBT/therapy
• Education (MOOCs?)
• Peer-support

Benefits: scalable, geographically independent, data-driven. (These can also be disadvantages!) “the overall results indicate equivalence [between ICBT and CBT]” Andersson, G. et al., 2014, World Psychiatry BUT..

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Continuing challenges

• Adherence
• Impersonal (empathy gap)
• Data privacy
• Online disinhibition effect
• Group validation of maladaptive behaviours

Importance of safeguarding and risk assessment

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Integrative Ways Forward

• Online-offline integration (behavioural - e.g.

wearables)

• Human - automation
• Private sector – public/third sectors
• Utilising third party software

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