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Mental Health App That Cost Australian Taxpayers $33m Did Not Result in ‘Clinical Outcomes’

Mad in America

Despite receiving $33m from the government via a non-competitive grant, transparency and mental health advocates expressed concern about the closed grant process and argued an open and competitive tender for the $33m investment would have ensured value for money.

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A user’s guide to therapy on your smartphone

National Association for the Advancement of Psycho

More than 75 percent of Americans now own a smartphone, up from just 35 percent in 2011, according to Pew Research Center studies published in 2017.When When on our smartphones, time is increasingly spent on applications, or apps, with U.S. When on our smartphones, time is increasingly spent on applications, or apps, with U.S.