Governing Digital Mental Health - Introducing the 5P Model and the Digital Behavioral Health Expert

This book presents a bold governance blueprint for an era in which mental health systems face a historic transition: as care delivery becomes increasingly shaped by code, platforms, and predictive algorithms, new governance frameworks are needed to protect equity, ethics, and human-centered leadership. At the core of this blueprint is the 5P Model Predictive, Preventive, Personalized, Participatory, and Precision-based a transformative framework for building equitable, effective behavioral health systems in the age of AI.
The book introduces the Digital Behavioral Health Expert (DBHE), a new professional role designed to bridge clinical care, policy systems, and digital infrastructure. Unlike traditional mental health models that focus on professional interaction alone, the DBHE enables coordination across platforms, stakeholders, and jurisdictions turning governance into a strategic, ethical, and human-centered function.
Designed for stakeholders across the ecosystem policymakers shaping regulation, managers implementing care systems, clinicians navigating hybrid models, developers building ethical tools, and investors backing scalable solutions this book equips each with strategic insight for a digitally governed future of mental health.
"A timely vision for ethical, inclusive governance in digital mental health."
Professor Anil Thapliyal, Executive Director, eMental Health International Collaborative (eMHIC)

List of contents

Chapter 1 The Historical Evolution of Mental Health: From Nation-State Paradigms to Borderless Care.- Chapter 2 Economic Transformation: Reframing Mental Health Governance Beyond Workforce Metrics.- Chapter 3 Theoretical Foundation for Digital Behavioral Health Governance.- Chapter 4 The 5P Model as a Governance Framework.- Chapter 5 Governance and the Role of the Digital Behavioral Health Expert.

Product details

• Authors: Juan José Martí-Noguera
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 18.07.2025
• EAN: 9783031947629
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3194762-9
• No. of pages: 130
• Illustrations: XVII, 130 p. 2 illus.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; Psychotherapie, Psychiatrie, Gesundheitspsychologie, Public Health und Präventivmedizin, Medizinverwaltung und -management, Psychiatry, Public Health, Psychotherapy, Health psychology, Health Administration, Medical and Health Technologies, ethical AI in healthcare, Healthcare workforce transformation, Digital behavioral health, AI governance in healthcare, Future of digital health, Digital health governance, AI mental health policy, Mental health innovation, AI in mental health, Public health and AI