* C25K – This app offers a structured plan for new runners to gradually build strength and stamina. It not only allows you to track stress, anxiety, and mood, but also allows you to track exercise and diet.” Counselor: “Pacifica sends you reminders to check in around mood and anxiety during the craziness of life. It offers a user-friendly way to monitor emotions and can be a great adjunct to counseling or helpful on its own. * Pacifica – This mental wellness app provides users with psychologist-designed tools to address stress, anxiety, and depression based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness meditation, relaxation, and mood/health tracking. Offers timed and guided meditation… free, simple, and straightforward.” Counselor: “A great simple app to begin and practice meditation. There is also a support group feature for those who want to be part of a meditation community. Insight Timer has more than 5,000 guided meditations from some of the world’s best meditation teachers. It has a timer with a pleasant chime, which can be used for silent or guided meditation.
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* Insight Timer – This app is the most popular free meditation app in the Apple store. Counselor: “I think it creates a positive message of mindfulness and encourages taking a break and checking in with yourself.” It helps combat stress, anxiety, depression, and constant negative thoughts. * Happify – Happify is a mental health app that provides effective tools and programing to help take control of emotional well-being. Counselor: “The items in Mood Kit are very specific and simple, not overwhelming.”
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* Mood Kit – This app offers professional psychology tips and tools for everyday life to help improve mood and overall well-being. The Top 10 Behavioral Health Apps for 2017 Another food app was rejected because it didn’t “offer anything that you couldn’t get online.” The Sleep Time Smart Alarm Clock app was rejected because it was “not easy to use and more frustrating than it’s worth.” The Suicide Safe app was not selected because it is made for clinical rather than public use. Since the “10 Best Apps” list is available to the public, counselors worried that the app would be body-shaming to its users. For example, the counselors liked the “7 Minute Workout” app, but found that the photographs of the exercise models showed bodies that were unrealistically perfect, thin, and muscular. Some apps didn’t make the cut for clinical reasons. They particularly focused on the efficacy of the apps, especially for severe stress, anxiety, and sleep deprivation.Ĭounselors were asked to comment on the particular apps they tested. For example, the apps were each tested by counselors and work-life specialists to confirm their reliability, simplicity, and efficiency, as well as their overall aesthetics. Various criteria were used to shorten the list to 35 apps that clients could use as an adjunct to counseling. KGA focused their selection process on free or low-cost apps by reviewing customer reviews, ratings, popularity, and history of updates. All of the 250 behavioral health apps evaluated and recommended are available on iOS and Android. Leadership also wanted to ensure that counselors were recommending high-quality downloads. KGA wanted to reach out to their covered lives through a proactive health promotion program to identify apps that could complement KGA’s high-touch EAP product. However, overall, trends are showing that the app market will continue to generate increasing revenue in the foreseeable future (Golmack, 2017). Paid apps are losing in popularity but still have value to EAPs, particularly when they are proven to be effective. Such rapid growth has made the selection of which apps to recommend confusing.
Clinical health apps are also increasing in numbers, although some app companies have folded due to the financial pressures of performing scientifically valid clinical trials.
A total of 259,000 mobile health apps were produced in 2016 (Sarasohn-Kahn, 2016). Overall app usage is rapidly expanding across the globe with an estimated mobile app market reaching $189 billion by 2020. Relevant EAP Apps: This Year’s Top 10 Listįor the past three years, KGA, a New England-based EAP provider has tested and released an annual list of “Top 10 Well-being Apps.” Although initially designed to put the right app in the hands of EA counselors, KGA’s app project has proven to be an effective way to build awareness of EAP services and improve engagement.
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