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Building Resilience
Helping support young people
Jamie Prangnell – Managing Director
“Appadoodle have been extremely accommodating of our
ideas, helping to refine and tailor them according to our
patients’ needs.”
– BSMHFT Early Intervention Services for Psychosis
{Skills Show - Birmingham}
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What is Building Resilience?
Being Mindful
Helping build mental health resilience
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Helping build mental health resilience
Raising Awareness of Mental Health
Attributes of resilient young people:
1. Social competence: empathy, caring, flexibility, communication skills, and a sense of
humour
2. Problem-solving skills: think abstractly, generate alternate solutions, planning, seek
help from others
3. Critical consciousness: insightful awareness of structures of cruelty (e.g. an alcoholic
parent) and strategies in overcoming them.
4. Autonomy: sense of own identity, act independently, able to exert some control over
the environment
5. Sense of purpose: having goals, educational aspirations, and a belief in a bright future
(Zolkoski and Bullock 2012)
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Building Mental Health Resilience
Software solutions need to be aligned to a strong requirement
1. Identify the trigger / problem
2. What would I like to happen?
3. What is the first step I need to take?
4. Who can help?
5. Where else can I look for support?
6. What makes me feel better?
7. Reflection and self discovery
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Resilience
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Building
Blocks
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App Features
Innovative features born out of partnership working
• Mood diary
• Diagnostic data
• Dynamic content
• Smart advice
• Scheduled alerts
• Push notifications
• Medication reminders
• Gamification
• Educational
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Innovation: Gamification
An innovative way to engage users and achieve results
Personal Engages Empowers
users
Rewards
• Reinforcement
• Social & supportive
• Fun and progressive
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“What patients and clinicians say..”
NHS Co-Design and Development
Video case study of how mobile apps can support mental health
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Lessons Learnt
The full process of design and developing software
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Initial
Meeting
User
Requirements
User
Involvement
User
journey
mapping
Workflow
diagram
Wireframes
User
interface
design
Artwork
Front-end
Design
Coding
Validation
Content
Population
Testing
Refinement
Launch
Maintenanc
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Initial Contact Planning Content Design Development Launch
Future
Proofing
Editor's Notes
Welcome everybody, my name is…
During the next 45mins I’ll be talking about:
What building resilience means
The technology behind the mental healthcare apps
How we co-designed and developed them with BSMHFT
And the knowledge we’ve gained as a result
Video case study of clinicians and patients talking about how apps can help
In the last 5 minutes of my presentation I’ll take questions.
First what does mental health mean?
We all know the importance of physical health, so equally the same applies to mental health
Unlike physical health, mental health seems to be a taboo subject even though at some stage we all suffer common mental health conditions such as stress, anxiety, or depression.
BR is about coping with different life pressures
It’s finding coping strategies to overcome these different challenges, which can stem across all areas of life:
Exam pressure
Changing school
Thinking of future careers
Bullying, or peer pressure
Relationship or family issues
Overcoming various
Ultimately resilience is the ability to bounce back from adversity and problem solve life's challenges
Over half of mental disorders first emerge in childhood and adolescence (Kessler et al., 2007)
- Possibilities for early identification and intervention…
Silver Linings is an app to help young people who have experienced an episode of Psychosis
The app is designed to improve understanding of experiences and help recovery as well as being helpful and fun. It offers the tools to imaprove mental health and help patients to stay positive.
An important feature of the app is to help you identify goals and work towards achieving these with rewards for challenges
The ADHD team were keen to explore ways in which they could support patients as many weren't able to reflect their mood, diet, sleep and whether they'd taken their medication on time – all vital to wellbeing and progress
Working with patients to help design the App – individuals can now record their activities and mental status – and easily find helpful advice encouraging co-responsibility for progress and engagement with clinical staff
We’ve been working with BSMHFT for nearly 2 years
It’s been an exciting and inspiring journey
We’ve learnt a lot, which we’re ready to share with other NHS trusts and healthcare bodies
