This document discusses how technology can support mental health in several ways: by reducing anxiety triggers in the environment, helping with organization and notetaking, aiding wayfinding and location sharing, boosting self-confidence through iterative tasks and error checking, providing additional proofing tools, enabling mindmapping for visual planning and structuring thoughts, and helping to reduce isolation through communication and coping with change by triggering necessary alerts. Overall, the document argues that technology can act as a "scaffold" to create a framework that supports one's mental health needs.

1. Assistive
Technology and
Mental Health
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2. Technology and the relationship with Mental
health

3. Mental Health and
disability
• Mental health can be the primary or
secondary disability for a person
• Mental Health needs can be triggered
by a variety of issues including
financial issues
• Mental Health needs can be directly or
indirectly related to another disability

4. Technology and Flexibility
• Working within an environment where the
triggers for anxiety are reduced
• Agoraphobia
• Panic Attacks
• Technology can assist us to build
confidence
• Technology can augment and enhance
human support

5. Evernote and Note
taking
• Using storage and retrieval tools can
be helpful
• Reduces anxiety over maintaining
records
• Reduces physical clutter and sense of
loss of control over the physical
workspace

6. Wayfinding and Locations
• Reduces anxiety around
changes of location
• Can be used to share
location with colleagues or
sources of support

7. Technology and Self
Confidence
• Iterative
• Planning projects and tasks
• Checking documents
• Spelling
• Grammar
• Reduces anxiety over errors

8. ClaroRead
• Additional proofing tools
• Allows anxiety over errors to be
further checked
• Allows materials to be
represented in a secondary
format seamlessly

9. XMind
• Mindmapping allows visual organisation of thoughts
• Planning
• Organising
• Sequencing
• Useful during periods of stress when maintaining a
structure of work is a challenge

10. Technology and Isolation
• From Bullying to Support
• Links to Self Help
• Social Communication in the workplace
• Coping with change
• New technologies can trigger alarms and
alerts as needed

11. Technology – a Scaffold
• Technology can create a framework of
support around a persons mental health
needs.