Managing the prevalence of mental health problems is both socially and
economically challenging. Technological advancement in recent decades has provided
potential solutions to this issue. In particular, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the
research areas that has expanded into several behavioural, neurological and mental
healthcare areas by fulfilling the main objectives of P4 medicine - personalized,
predictive, preventive, and participative medicine. In this chapter, we give an overview
of recent applications of AI for screening, detection, and treatment of mental health
problems; summarize the economic and social implications; present a systematic
overview of which AI technologies are used for the different mental disorders and
identify challenges for further development. Based on this, we identify some future
research questions that could be solved with the use of AI in mental healthcare. The
chapter concludes with an in-depth discussion on the key challenges of the application
of AI in mental health interventions.
Keywords: Affective Computing, Ambient Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence,
Cognitive Based Therapy, Deep Learning, Internet Delivered Treatment, Machine
Learning, Mental health, P4 medicine.
