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MENTAL HEALTH APPS
DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR SELF-HELP
Check out the thinkninja app here (opens in google play or search from other providers) it is specifically designed to educate 10-18 year olds about mental health, emotional wellbeing and to provide skills young people can use to build resilience and stay well.
Calm Harm is an award-winning app developed for teenage mental health charity stem4 by Dr Nihara Krause, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, using the basic principles of an evidence-based therapy called Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT).
Calm Harm provides tasks to help you resist or manage the urge to self-harm. You can make it private by setting a password, and personalise the app if you so wish. You will be able to track your progress and notice change.
Read more about it to see if it is for you via the NHS website here or click the Calm Harm logo for information about accessing the app.
Click the logo to be taken to their page which lists self-help strategies that are appropriate for young people.
