Game overview
Features: • Helps 13-19 year olds with depression • Teaches CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) techniques • Targeted at 13-19 year olds• Learn and practice real life skills in a fantasy game environment!
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• Proven to work as well as standard care
What it is:
SPARX is an app that helps 13-19 year olds with mild to moderate depression. It can also help if you’re feeling anxious or stressed.
It was developed with the help of 13-19 year olds and is based on a type of ‘talking therapy’ called Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT for short. You can do CBT with a counsellor or a psychologist but you can also learn CBT skills from SPARX.
CBT teaches skills about how to cope with negative thoughts and feelings by helping people to think in a more balanced and helpful way and getting them to do things they enjoy or that give them a sense of achievement. There is lots of research to show that CBT helps.
SPARX can help you learn how to have Smart, Positive, Active, Realistic, X-factor thoughts!
If you are:
13-19 years old and based in New Zealand you can download this app.
Funded by Ministry of Health.
For more information visit www.sparx.org.nz email support@sparx.org.nz
• Proven to work as well as standard care
What it is:
SPARX is an app that helps 13-19 year olds with mild to moderate depression. It can also help if you’re feeling anxious or stressed.
It was developed with the help of 13-19 year olds and is based on a type of ‘talking therapy’ called Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT for short. You can do CBT with a counsellor or a psychologist but you can also learn CBT skills from SPARX.
CBT teaches skills about how to cope with negative thoughts and feelings by helping people to think in a more balanced and helpful way and getting them to do things they enjoy or that give them a sense of achievement. There is lots of research to show that CBT helps.
SPARX can help you learn how to have Smart, Positive, Active, Realistic, X-factor thoughts!
If you are:
13-19 years old and based in New Zealand you can download this app.
Funded by Ministry of Health.
For more information visit www.sparx.org.nz email support@sparx.org.nz
Update date
Aug 27, 2023Release date
Sep 25, 2021Price
FreeDeveloper
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