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APPs that Work!

For Clients and Practitioners

Apps for IPhones, IPads and Smartphones  


Mental Health Professionals Apps  

 

DSM-5 Criteria This is the mobile app for clinicians to utilize in diagnosing their clients. It is an easy to use system which lists the criteria for all of the DSM-5 diagnostic catagories with the criteria listed for each diagnosis. Read more about this app at: http://www.appi.org/Pages/DSM5Mobile.aspx


Psychological First Aid  a useful app for mental health professionals when working in disaster or trauma settings. Read more about the app at: http://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/manuals/psych-first-aid.asp

 
 
PE Coach Prolonged Exposure Coach is for clients as they work with their clinicians dealing with the use of prolonged exposure therapy to deal with PTSD. This app allows the clients to record the PE clinical sessions as an audio file which is used as homework in between sessions. It provides reminders for homework, keeping track of tasks accomplished between sessions, and keeps track of the PTSD related symptoms experienced by the client over time. This is not a self-help tool for clients but to be used only as clients are involved with their therapists who are using PE with them to treat their PTSD. You can read more about the app at: www.pstd.va.gov/public/pages/pecoach_mobileapp-public.asp.
 
mTBI Pocket Guide The Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Pocket Guide mobile application for health care providers gives instant access to a comprehensive quick-reference guide on improving care for mTBI patients. Designed to reflect current clinical standards of care, the mTBI Pocket Guide mobile application can help you improve quality of care and clinical outcomes for patients. Read more about it at: http://t2health.org/apps/mtbi

 

Co-Occurring Conditions Toolkit The Co-Occurring Conditions Toolkit targets common co-occurring conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, chronic opioid therapy, and substance use with recommendations based on the VA-Dod Evidenced Based Clinical Standards of care. Read more about it at: http://t2health.org/apps/cct

 

Provider Resilience Provider Resilience gives health care providers tools to guard against burnout and compassion fatigue as they help their clients be they civilians or service members, veterans, and their families. Providers can take a self assessment to determine if they are at risk and steps they can take to ward off such burnout and fatigue. Read more about it at: https://www.t2health.org/apps/provider-resilience
Medical Treatments and Psychopharmacology Apps

Medscape The most comprehensive coverage of all psychiatric conditions including the evidenced based practices as well as the most uptodate coverage of the psychopharmacological treatment of these conditions. To be able to download the complete Medscape program you first must enroll with Medscape at: http://www.medscape.com/ when you sign up and register you then can download this information to any Iphone, Ipad, or smartphone. 

Micromedex Drug Information: a free app from Thomas Reuter's Healthcare which is a handy quick reference to look up information on any drug at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/micromedex-drug-information/id390211464?mt=8
 
Micromedex Drug Interactions: a free app from Thomas Reuter's Healthcare which is a quick reference on the drug interactions at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/micromedex-drug-interactions/id391763035?mt=8

Helpful Apps for Clients


Many of these Apps are available on National Center for Telehealth and Technology http://t2health.org/ and other sites.


Apps for Breathing and Relaxing

 

Breath2Relax Breathing exercises have been documented to decrease the body's 'fight-or-flight' (stress) response, and help with mood stabilization, anger control, and anxiety management. This app uses diaphragmatic breathing to help clients reduce their stress. Read more at: http://t2health.org/apps/breathe2relax

 

Tactical Breather This app can help clients gain control over physiological and psychological responses to stress. Read more about it at: http://t2health.org/apps/tactical-breather


Apps for Behavioral Change and Resilience Building 


Mood Tracker This app enables clients to self-monitor, track and reference their emotional experiences over a period of days, weeks, and months. Users can self-monitor emotional experiences associated with common deployment-related behavioral health issues like post-traumatic stress, brain injury, life stress, depression and anxiety. Read more about it at: http://t2health.org/apps/t2-mood-tracker

 

LifeArmor Clients can self-monitor emotional experiences associated with common behavioral health issues like post-traumatic stress, brain injury, life stress, depression and anxiety. Read more about it at: http://t2health.org/apps/lifearmor

 

Goal Setting - Clients can use this Comprehensive Soldier Fitness App which helps clients to build resilience through use of this goal setting program. Read more about it at:   http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/goal-setting-comprehensive/id441222534?mt=8
 
Quitter This app is set up for clients to monitor their efforts to quit any bad behavior(s) they choose to quit so as to increase their physical and mental health. Read more about it at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quitter/id284944935?mt=8

Positive Activity Jackpot This app uses a professional behavioral health therapy called pleasant event scheduling, or PES. This is used to overcome depression. While this app does not require clinical training to use, it should not be sued as a substitue for treatment by a therapist. Read more about it at: http://t2health.org/apps/positiveactivityjackpot#.UYa3R7UsmoM


DOD Safe Helpline This app is set up for military personnel to cope and deal with the short-term and long-term effects of sexual assault. This app can also be used by civilian because it includes emergency contact information; a Chat Safe Helpline; a Self-Care Planner; and Resources including lesson on sexual assault and exercises which one can use in dealing with the aftermath of this unfortunate act. Read more about it at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dod-safe-helpline/id536773115?ml=8
 
Apps for Sleep Disturbances

CBT-i Coach This app is to be used with clients who have sleep problems. They can design their own Sleep prescription to improve their sleeping habits. They have a number of tools at their disposal to do this on the app. They also have an extensive learning program and daily reminders to use to help them improve their sleep. Read more about it at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cbt-i-coach/id655918660?mt=8

White Noise HB Lite: provides ambient sounds of the environment to help clients who have problems falling asleep to relax or sleep. Read more about it at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/white-noise-lite/id292987597?mt=8

App for PTSD

 

PTSD Coach This app will assist clients who are experiencing symptoms of PTSD. It is intended to be used as an adjunct to psychological treatment but can also serve as a stand-alone education tool. Read more about it at: http://t2health.org/apps/ptsd-coach
Suicide Prevention
 
Ask and Prevent Suicide App an app which helps clients to recognize
when they need to reach out and ask for help to prevent suicide. At http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ask-prevent-suicide/id419595716?mt=8
 
Guard your Buddy App an app developed by the National Guard to help friends help other friends from attempting suicide. At:
 
Wingman Project App an app developed by the Air National Guard to help friends help their own friends from attempting suicide. At: