Demystifying the Role of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Mental Health

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is transforming mental health care by enabling early detection, diagnosis, and intervention for conditions such as depression, PTSD, and suicidal ideation. Advanced AI models like BioBERT and Med-BERT help analyze speech patterns, cognitive behaviors, and psychological markers to support medical practitioners in providing more effective and timely care. By leveraging deep learning and AI-driven assessments, NLP can enhance behavioral monitoring, improve treatment personalization, and optimize mental health interventions. As global mental health challenges continue to rise, integrating NLP into healthcare systems presents a crucial step toward more accessible, data-driven, and proactive mental health support. Demystifying the Role of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Mental Health explores the latest advancements in NLP for mental health care, highlighting its role in diagnosing and treating conditions like depression, PTSD, and suicidal ideation. It examines AI-driven models, speech analysis, and behavioral monitoring techniques that enhance early intervention and personalized treatment strategies. Covering topics such as suicidal identification, emotional recognition, and patient response, this book is an excellent resource for mental health practitioners, medical practitioners, social workers, computer scientists, professionals, researchers, scholars, academicians, and more.

Ashutosh Mishra received his B.Tech. in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India, in 2008. He completed his M.Tech. in Microelectronics & VLSI Design from the National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India, in 2011, and his Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India, in 2018. He has served as an Assistant Professor in Electronics & Communication Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Raipur, India. Dr. Mishra was awarded the Korea Research Fellowship (KRF) in 2019 by the National Research Foundation of Korea through the Ministry of Science & ICT, South Korea. He also worked as a Brain Pool Fellow in the Seamless Transportation Lab at Yonsei University, South Korea. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering at BITS Pilani, Dubai, UAE. His research interests include smart sensors, intelligent systems, autonomous vehicles, convergence technology, and artificial intelligence.

Satya Prakash Yadav is currently the Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, G.L. Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management (GLBITM), Greater Noida (India) and has completed his Postdoctoral under the supervision Prof. (Dr.) Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque, from Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Ceará, Brazil. He has awarded his PhD degree from Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU) (formerly UPTU). Currently, 4 students are working for Ph.D. under his guidance. A seasoned academician having more than 17 years of experience, he has published four books (Programming in C, Programming in C++ and Blockchain and Cryptocurrency) under I.K. International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. Including Distributed Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Published December 18, 2020 by CRC Press. He has undergone industrial training programs during which he was involved in live projects with companies in the areas of SAP, Railway Traffic Management Systems, and Visual Vehicles Counter and Classification (used in the Metro rail network design). He is an alumnus of Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT), Delhi University. A prolific writer, Dr. Satya Prakash Yadav has published two patents and authored many research papers in web of science indexed journals. Additionally, he has presented research papers at many conferences in the areas of Image Processing, Information retrieval, Features extraction and Programming, such Digital Image Processing, Feature Extraction, Information Retrieval, C, Data Structure, C++, C# and Java. Also, he is a Editor in Chief in Journal of Cyber Security in Computer System (MAT journals), Series Editor in Bentham Science and Lead Editor in CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group Publisher (U.S.A), Tech Science Press (Computer Systems Science and Engineering), Human-Centric Intelligent Systems -International Springer Publisher, Science Publishing Group, (U.S.A), and Eureka Journals, Pune (India).

Manoj Kumar completed his Ph.D. from The Northcap University and M.Sc. (Information Security and Digital Forensics) from Technological University Dublin, Ireland in 2013. He received fully-funded scholarship for the M.Tech and M.Sc. program from Irish Government and MHRD respectively. Dr. Kumar have more than 13+ years of research, teaching, and corporate experience. Dr. Kumar is currently working on the post of Associate Professor-Cyber Security in the University of Wollongong in Dubai, UAE and Research Head for Network and Cyber Security Cluster @UOWD. He has published over 150 articles in International refereed journals and conferences. He published over 10 patents and delivered three international research funded projects. He published three textbooks and eight edited books for the most famed publishers like Springer, CRC Press, IOP, Bentham Science, Taylor & Francis, and Elsevier. His specializations are Digital Forensics, Machine Learning, Information Security, Image Processing, IOT and Computer Networking. Dr. Kumar is member of numerous renowned professional bodies including IEEE, ACM, IAENG, ISTS and UACEE are a few of them. In addition, Dr. Kumar delivered several guest lectures, seminars and chaired the session at various national and international conferences. He is also acting as an associate editor, Guest editor, and member of editorial board for various scientific journals. Dr. Kumar received the Best Researcher Award in 2020, an outstanding Scientist Award in 2021, and a Young Researcher Award in 2021 from recognized international professional societies.

Soly Mathew Biju, CEng MBCS CITP FBCS FHEA, has been in the field of academic and IT industry for a total of 25 years. She has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and also an MBA in IT management. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Wollongong in Dubai. Dr Biju has achieved the CEng status awarded by Engineering Council (UK). She also has achieved the Chartered IT Professional status which is a symbol of excellence in the field of IT and is also an ISTQB-certified software testing professional. She is also a Fellow Higher Education Academy, UK. She was nominated for the Teaching Excellence and Research Excellence awards at UOWD on numerous occasions and received the prestigious Teaching Excellence Award in 2012, 2015 and 2019. She was also awarded the prestigious Amity Global Academic Excellence award in 2020. She spearheads the 'Global Health and Wellbeing ' cluster at UOWD. Her research interests include machine learning, data security, software testing, cryptography, e-learning, innovations in teaching, agile software development, online teaching, network security and programming techniques. She has papers published in reputed journals and books and presented and reviewed papers at national and international conferences and journals. She has been a scientific and organizing committee member and session chair and content chair on various reputed national and international conferences. She was nominated for the Teaching Excellence and Research Excellence awards at UOWD on numerous occasions and received the prestigious Teaching Excellence Award in 2012, 2015 and 2019. She was also awarded the prestigious Amity Global Academic Excellence award in 2020. Her research interests include machine learning, data security, software testing, cryptography, e-learning, innovations in teaching, agile software development, online teaching, network security and programming techniques. She has papers published in reputed journals and books and presented and reviewed papers at national and international conferences and journals. She has been a scientific and organizing committee member and session chair and content chair on various reputed national and international conferences.

Ganesh Chandra Deka is Joint Director at Regional Directorate of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship- Assam, under Directorate General of Training, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India, India. His research interests include Blockchain Technology, Bigdata Analytics, NoSQL Database and Internet of Things (IoT). He has authored 2 books on Cloud Computing (Publisher- LAP Lambert, Germany, Co-author for 5 text books on (4 Fundamentals of Computer Science, 1 Free and Open Source Software). He has Edited 21 books (7 IGI Global, USA, 7 CRC Press, USA, 3 Springer & 4 Elsevier) on Bigdata, NoSQL Database and Blockchain Technology. He has authored 12 book Chapters, published 8 papers in various reputed Journals (2 IEEE, 1 Elsevier 5 others) and around 47 research papers in various IEEE conferences. He was Guest Editor for 4 Special Issues of indexed International Journals [SCOPUS & SCI Journal]. As of now, he has Organized 8 IEEE International Conference as Technical Chair in India. He is Editorial board member and reviewer for various Journals and International conferences, member of IEEE, the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India and Associate Member, the Institution of Engineers, India.