MOBILE SOCIAL WORK
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Category Archives: Health
Using The Placebo Effect To Enhance Your Life With An App? [VIDEO]
One of the most fascinating things you come across as someone working in health related professions is the placebo effect. Depending on how you define this effect it can either … Continue reading
Smoking Cessation Support By Phone: What Information Do Smokers Want?
There are different approaches to support smokers that want to quit smoking. In the mobile area there are on the one hand services based on texting like for example Smokefree … Continue reading
Mobile Messages To Empower Mothers – MAMA – The Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action [VIDEO][INFOGRAPHIC]
As it is Mother’s Day today it could be a good idea to have a look at the link between mobiles, mothers and social issues. In June 2012 we already … Continue reading
Virtual Reality Compares Favourably With Face-To-Face For Weight Loss
A study from the Department of Dietetics and Nutrition at the University of Kansas Medical Center compared weight loss and maintenance between a face-to-face weight management clinic and a clinic … Continue reading
23 Facts About Kids And Technology You Might Not Know
The Huffington Post, the first commercially run, United States digital media enterprise to win a Pulitzer Prize, recently published a post on a study about kids‘ use of social media … Continue reading
How young people use social media and social networks for sexual health communication
Researchers from Australia explored how young people use social media and social networks for sexual health communication. Here is the abstract of the article publishes in the The International Journal … Continue reading
txtm8 – Using Text Services to Provide Advice and Information to Young People [VIDEO]
How can mobiles be used to provide advice and information to young people? Txtm8 – a free and confidential sex and relationships text service for young people in London, United … Continue reading
Pain Squad – kids with cancer control their pain through gamification with back-up from Flashpoint characters [Video]
Two years ago me and my wife spent our holidays in Canada. We had a great time travelling in the east of Canada and spending some time in Ottawa, Toronto … 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
