The Youngster Thoughts Institute, a kids’s psychological well being useful resource, has partnered with the California Division of Healthcare Companies to launch Mirror, an intuitive psychological well being journaling app for teenagers.
Freed from cost, Mirror goals to reinforce emotional processing and provide a supportive setting for self-reflection.
The Mirror app permits customers to self-express and perceive patterns of their psychological well being by way of day by day temper monitoring, guided prompts and voice, picture, textual content or video entries.
The initiative is backed by Youngster Thoughts Institute’s scientific experience and is offered in English and Spanish.
The corporate mentioned that Mirror will not be a alternative for remedy however reasonably a instrument to empower youth to take an lively position of their psychological healthcare.
Key options of Mirror embody:
- Multi-modal journaling that permits for self-expression by way of textual content, voice, picture or video entries
- Temper check-in, which tracks day by day feelings within the app
- Guided journaling prompts geared toward encouraging self-reflection, emotional processing and inventive expression
- Insights that present visualizations of temper patterns over a time frame and summaries of entries to offer readability
- Disaster detection and assist with fast entry to emergency contacts and helplines.
“The youth psychological well being disaster is ongoing and there is a clear want for accessible psychological well being assist for teenagers,” Dr. Harold Koplewicz, president and medical director of the Youngster Thoughts Institute, mentioned in an announcement.
“We perceive that journaling can function a instrument for self-expression, emotional regulation and private development, particularly when paired with temper monitoring. With Mirror, teenagers have an accessible and personal house to specific themselves freely in writing, movies or voice recordings to discover their feelings and develop self-awareness with out worry of exterior judgment.”
THE LARGER TREND
Different firms within the kids’s psychological well being house embody Woebot Well being, maker of an AI-powered psychological well being chatbot.
In 2024, the corporate signed a three-year settlement with Ohio-based nonprofit pediatric healthcare system Akron Kids’s Hospital to offer pediatric psychological well being assist to adolescents 13 to 17 years.
Woebot’s non-prescription digital psychological well being instrument consists of content material particular to teenagers, together with media literacy, bullying at school settings, and physique picture and psychoeducation.
That very same 12 months, Momentum launched a digital well being psychological well being program for younger folks in Australia with out counting on the comfort of synthetic intelligence.
Momentum, backed by the Australian authorities’s Medical Analysis Future Fund, offers free entry to instruments, strategies and remedy that tackle widespread psychological well being issues skilled by Australians 7 to 17 years of age.
It assesses the person’s state of affairs to find out their want for assist after which builds a customized program with classes concentrating on subjects related to their situation.
The platform permits customers and their households to trace progress, examine how their emotions change every session and use this system to observe real-world abilities.
In 2022, pediatric teletherapy firm DotCom Remedy acquired Wolf+Associates, a assist app for fogeys of youngsters with particular wants, psychological well being issues and studying disabilities.
The acquisition marked DotCom’s first acquisition because it was based in 2015. As a part of the deal, Wolf+Associates’ group app included assist teams facilitated by DotCom’s psychological well being professionals in addition to instructional content material and skilled Q&As.
