MOBILE SOCIAL WORK
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Category Archives: Anxiety
DBT Self-help – An App To Support Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a form of psychotherapy that was originally developed by Marsha M. Linehan, a psychology researcher at the University of Washington, to treat people with borderline … Continue reading
Feelings in a Flash – An Android App For Kids To Track And Share Their Moods
Feeling in a Flash is an Android app by teens and for teens that enables children to track and share their feelings with friends on Facebook. The free app helps … Continue reading
Online Tools for Psychotherapy with Young People
Here is a list of online tools that psychologist Dr Michael Carr-Gregg uses in the work work with young people. This list of online tools is taken from an interview … Continue reading
Top 10 Mental Health Apps | World of Psychology
by SANDRA KIUME, http://psychcentral.com With so many apps on the market, it’s hard to know which are useful. Many are designed by software developers instead of psychologists, without scientific testing. They … Continue reading
University’s depression app is an iTunes hit – Health and beauty – Lifestyle – gethampshire
By Paul Cassell gethampshire.co.uk Psychologists at The University of Reading have launched a free iPhone app to help people with depression get help without needing to go to their GP. … Continue reading
Smartphone apps become ‘surrogate therapists’ – CNN.com
Elizabeth Landau, CNN, lists some useful apps for social workers: The Live OCD Free app for iPad or iPhone makes use of a well-tested treatment for OCD called exposure and … Continue reading
A Video Game Designed to Treat Depression Worked Better Than Counseling – medGadget – The Atlantic
Researchers from the University of Auckland in New Zealand just published promising results of a study comparing a video game they designed to help treat depression in teenage kids against … Continue reading
