aged 13 to 17
SPACE – Break phone addition
Free. Offers In-App Purchases
Young adult feedback
Allows users to set and monitor the number/length of time they would like to use their phone each day.
Expert feedback
This app sets out to help users find phone/life balance by monitoring and tracking phone usage. It has a clean and simple design and while not designed to be engaging, it may help curve phone usage by using reminders and highlighting patterns of use.
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Seek
Free
Young adult feedback
Job searching app; pretty much exact same as the website but more compact.
Expert feedback
A popular and widely used app that allows users to find jobs using a wide range or filters and categories. Allows customisation and can alert you when new jobs get listed that match your search preferences.
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Sit With Us
Free
Young adult feedback
Encourages kids to create lunch events with people they know (from school or people around them etc) so that no one ever needs to sit alone at lunch. Good concept for an app - theoretically though, it could be misused.
Expert feedback
Sit With Us promotes inclusion in schools by connecting students through organised lunches. A great concept, however only works well if others in your school have and use the app. There is an opportunity to become an ambassador and promote this app in your school community.
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Fabulous
Free. Offers In-App Purchases
Young adult feedback
Aims to help create new health habits.
Expert feedback
This app aims to build healthy habits and routines in your life to increase your energy levels, help you to sleep better and to loose weight. Fabulous motivates you to achieve these goals one small step at a time. More features can be unlocked the more you use this app or through buying a subscription.
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Calm Harm
Free
Young adult feedback
Calm harm uses the principles of “urge surfing” and “behavioural activation” to target individuals who have the urge to self-harm. Whilst these principles are appropriate for this population, they may require more active involvement to be satisfactorily implemented with this, a low help-seeking group.
Expert feedback
The app has a great idea in attempting to prompt users to participate in distracting activities while they ride out the urge to self harm. The app is quite passive, however, in that it expects users to complete each activity completely on their own. Some activities could easily be facilitated by the app but not so easily by a user. One, for example, involves rolling a dice. Whilst the app could easily incorporate a function to roll a dice, a user is very unlikely to have a dice on hand. In this way, I believe the app places a little too much onus on the user and does not deliver as much functionality as it could. That said, it functions well and is a great idea.
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Cracks in the Ice
Free
Young adult feedback
Lots of information on this, not sure if it would be overwhelming to the average user or more of a resource that people would use to learn more as oppose to using for help.
Expert feedback
Cracks in the Ice has a wealth of trusted and evidence-based information on Ice for a number of different community members. While scoring low on engagement, the app has done well to present this information in a clear and concise way.
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Recovery Record
Free
Young adult feedback
Provides a wealth of information and resources about eating disorders and nutrition.
Expert feedback
A well designed self-monitoring app to help track and monitor eating habits along with thoughts and feelings. It has a great array of features including strategies and motivational affirmations. Would be a great tool to be used in conjunction with therapy.
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MoodPath
Free. Offers In-App Purchases
Young adult feedback
I thought Moodpath was an excellent app both visually and practically. The method of questionnaire on current mental state is novel. The amount of knowledge available in the app is also of a very high quality and the visual presentation of your journey is excellent.
Expert feedback
This app seems to be an excellent resource for clinicians and patients alike. Although it is not specifically designed to entice young people who are not already interested in addressing their mood behaviours, it would be a excellent resource for those do are contemplating change.
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I’ve got the courage to talk about it even though it's really awkward
I was really close friends with this guy for 2 years before we started dating. It was my first relationship and I felt really comfortable with him. We started doing some physical stuff and it was good. After a while, the pressure to go further got more intense. He wanted to take that next step in our relationship and have sex. My parents never gave me the ‘sex talk’ so I didn’t know a whole lot about it.
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