The world today that we live in is constantly changing with newer technological advances. Information technology has had a tremendous impact over our lives. It has brought in instant connectivity and is helping build a collaborative and connected world! The principles of technology can be applied to improvising clinical care to patients, educative training programs in health care and communities and research. From the point of view of e learning and education, there are distance education courses in psychology, psychotherapy, e platforms and online trainings. Videoconferencing help in sharing of knowledge at a global level and one can can attend and participate in webinars and interact from the comfort of one's consulting room! This helps in gaining newer perspectives without having really to travel the distance to attend at the same time additional skills can be learnt! Mental health consultations online are newer concepts which are showing developments at their own pace with mental health professionals providing services online especially to cater to population that do not have adequate mental health resources at their settings. Online consultation, online counselling and psychotherapy are newer concepts emerging. Booking clinical appointments via app based applications are newer concepts emerging. The younger generation being technological savvy have the potential to connect to positive mental health campaigns via the internet which can help in psychoeducating the community about mental health problems, psychiatric disorders, psychological problems, and help towards clarifying misconceptions and work towards reducing stigma towards mental health problems! However, technology has its own critiques and concerns, but the focus has to be for a better world and a positive mental health!
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