UWE: Self-help anxiety management (SAM) app providing life-changing support for students

Ewens, Matt; Topham, Phil

Abstract

This case study and embedded video gives an account of a project to build a self-help app for the management of mild to moderate anxiety. It outlines the project origins in providing support for students’ social anxiety in learning situations and the trialling of a prototype app. It describes the development of the full working version, including the app’s main functions and features, together with reports of its impact on users to date.

• Report Type: Project Report
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 6, 2019
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: technology, mobile, apps, anxiety, therapy, self-help, health
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/813651
• Publisher URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5c8KlRkM9U
• Related Public URLs: http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/5673/1/UWE_-_Self-help_anxiety_management_(SAM)_app_providing_life-changing_support_for_students.pdf
• Additional Information: Additional Information : Matt Ewens, Information Officer, Jisc South West & Midlands in conversation with Phil Topham, Chartered Psychologist and SAM-app Project Lead at UWE Bristol.