Why Computer Science Is Good For Mental Health
By McDonald. T | July 23th 2018 A.I. is not a discipline in its own right; however, it does fall under a subset of psychology called cognitive sciences and computer science. Although cognitive science does not include therapy, it is still a good idea to have some understanding of mental health and if any parts of the mental health system can be automated. For your interest, cognitive science includes anthropology, neuroscience, philosophy and linguistics. Ultimately, computer science can provide advanced technology to improve mental health services: automating tests; supporting people in the home and understanding the way a person solves a problem. Advanced technology provided by computer science can improve automated testing of mental health. Surveys are a good way of extracting information from people and computers do surveys really well. Furthermore, in computer science there is a subset called data science, which uses scientific methods to extract knowledge from data