Anna Freud Centre

"I just let him cry...": Designing Socio-technical Interventions in Families to Prevent Mental Health Disorders

Interventions that help children develop protective factors against mental health disorders are an inherently social endeavour, relying on a number of actors from within the family as well as the school context. Little work thus far in CSCW and HCI has examined the potential of technology to support or enhance such in…