POSITIVE AI FOR MENTAL HEALTH: MAINSTREAMING POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY TO ENHANCE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY

Abstract

Mental health is a concept that is as rigid for our self as it is fluid, including our emotional, psychological, and social well-being and how effectively we are able to deal with the problems in our environment, relate to others, and make decisions. Positive Psychology field emerged to ensure that the individual is able to enhance their strengths and displaying virtues that bolsters one’s mental health. Positive AI is a type of AI that has delivered mental health services to individuals who requires it. This research aims to understand and analyse the different concepts that Positive AI model can utilize to enhance the effectiveness of their interventions and tools used to identify those intangible aspects of positive psychology that can be used to develop a stronger model of Positive AI; and to enumerate, understand and elaborate on the need of using Positive AI models by individuals who require mental health services. A wide range of concepts and principles of the field were found to be relevant to include in development of Positive AI models to enhance the delivery of its mental health services such as hope, successful ageing, and forgiveness.