From Cibersalud to AI health
The initiative carries forward years of work in digital mental health and translates that experience into the current AI health context: governance, professional responsibility and clinically meaningful human oversight.
AI health · digital mental health · clinical governance
Redesigning mental health practice for AI-mediated contexts
DigitalMentalHealth.eu is an international initiative focused on AI and mental health: higher education, digital clinical practice, governance, and the emerging role of human oversight in sensitive professional settings.
eMHIC 2025 Country Leadership Excellence Award Spain
What is changing
Care, education and prevention increasingly involve data, behavioural signals and algorithmic inference before the professional encounter begins.
What this requires
New competencies, new governance models and structured human oversight that preserves clinical responsibility.
About the initiative
DigitalMentalHealth.eu builds on the Cibersalud trajectory in digital mental health, cyberpsychology, tele-mental health, professional training, international congresses and applied publications.
Congress and publication history
The work is grounded in international knowledge exchange, congress activity and a publication path that moves from cyberpsychology and tele-mental health toward ethics, governance and AI-mediated care.
DBHE and human oversight
Current developments include the Digital Behavioral Health Expert concept, operational human oversight materials and recognition through the eMHIC 2025 Country Leadership Excellence Award for Spain.
Why this matters now
The question is no longer only whether universities should teach AI, but how they prepare professionals who can supervise, govern and remain accountable in AI-mediated clinical contexts.
Curriculum redesign
Training models built for a pre-digital environment need revision as AI becomes part of the professional context itself.
Professional transformation
Active professionals require reskilling to navigate new tools, environments and risks without reducing practice to automation.
Human oversight
Oversight preserves accountability, intervention capacity and governance when AI systems enter sensitive settings.
What we have built so far
The line of work moves from digital clinical practice and tele-mental health toward ethics, governance and accreditation-related thinking for AI-enabled systems.
Reskilling active professionals
Knowledge resources, training content and applied methodologies for digital mental health practice, including tele-mental health, AI literacy and digital navigators.
Upskilling toward a new role
Development of human oversight as an emerging role in AI governance, risk prevention and professional responsibility in sensitive contexts.
Many institutions are building AI programmes or resources. DigitalMentalHealth.eu works on the structural layer: competencies, governance and future accreditation for professionals expected to supervise AI-enabled systems in real practice.
DigitalMentalHealth.euSelected publications
These publications reflect a continuous evolution: from digital tools in clinical practice and tele-mental health toward ethics, governance and human oversight in AI-mediated environments.
Governing Digital Mental Health
Introducing the 5P Model and the Digital Behavioral Health Expert
Governance architecture, professional accountability and structured human oversight in AI-enabled mental and behavioral health systems.
Ethics in Digital Mental Health
A Comprehensive Guide to Responsible Practice for Professionals in Training
Ethical foundations for digital mental health systems, AI-enabled practice, data responsibility, professional judgment and responsible innovation.
Open to academic and institutional conversations
DigitalMentalHealth.eu is available for selected conversations with universities, professional bodies and organisations exploring curriculum transition, AI in mental health and human oversight in clinical contexts.