Journal of Marital and Family Therapy· 2026Q1
Co‐Designing a Family e‐Hub: A Systemic, Relational, Digital Mental Health Resource
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A co-design process involving family therapy consumers and therapists yielded recommendations for the Family e-Hub, a self-guided digital resource for systemic family mental health.
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Key points
- Co-design process involved consumers with lived experience and family therapists.
- Developed recommendations for content, design, and implementation of the Family e-Hub.
- Identified systemic techniques translatable to a self-paced digital environment.
- Provided strategies for maintaining individual and relational safety.
- Included recommendations for supporting accessibility for diverse families.
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Abstract
Access to family and systemic therapies remains limited. Digital mental health interventions offer potential to extend access; however, most are designed for individual users, presenting challenges when engaging multiple members of a family. This study used a participatory co-design approach to inform the development of the Family e-Hub, a systemic, self-guided digital resource grounded in family-specific design principles. Drawing on the perspectives of consumers with lived experience of family therapy and family therapists, the study aimed to co-design recommendations for Family e-Hub content and strategies for design and implementation that may enable engagement by families. Findings identified systemic techniques that may be translated to a self-paced environment, recommendations for maintaining individual and relational safety, and strategies to support accessibility for diverse families. The paper summarizes these recommendations and discusses future directions for the Family e-Hub and the broader development of systemic digital mental health interventions.
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Field: Applied Psychology
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