Stress Management
Stop, Breathe, & Think (Free)
The Stop, Breathe, & Think app is a free mindfulness, meditation, and compassion-building tool that is simple, fun, and easy to use. Check in on how you are currently thinking and feeling, and select recommended meditations for specific emotions. Available for apple and android phones. More information is available at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stop-breathe-think/id778848692?mt=8
Happify (Free)
Developed with leading scientists, Happify’s fun and inspiring games and activities will teach you to manage stress and master challenges. Happify includes information on conquering negative thoughts, coping better with stress, building self-confidence, fueling career success, achieving mindfulness through meditation, and much more. Available for apple and android phones. More information is available at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/happify/id730601963?mt=8
Calm (Free)
Calm can help you meditate, sleep, relax, focus and much more. Learn the basics of mindfulness meditation in our free introductory program, enjoy guided meditation sessions ranging from 2 to 30 minutes, choose from a variety of immersive nature scenes and music tracks to help you relax, and access 50 premium guided meditations designed to increase focus, creativity, energy, confidence, sleep and much more. Also see calm.com (http://www.calm.com/). Available for apple and android phones. More information is available at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/calm.com/id571800810?ls=1&mt=8
HealthyMinds (Free)
HealthyMinds is a problem-solving tool to help deal with emotions and cope with the stresses you encounter both on and off campus. The goal: keeping your mind healthy. This app includes a daily mood tracker and timeline to track progress, a journaling feature, a problem-solving guide for identifying and making a plan to address life challenges, and video breathing exercises to calm the mind. Available for apple and android phones. More information is available at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/healthyminds/id717009636?mt=8
· Anxiety Management
o Self-help for Anxiety Management (Free)
§ SAM is a friendly app that offers a range of self-help methods for people who are serious about learning to manage their anxiety. Developed by a university team of psychologists, computer scientists, and student users, SAM includes general information about anxiety, resources for physical and mental relaxation, and a closed social network of other users for support and guidance.
§ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/self-help-for-anxiety-management/id666767947?mt=8
o MindShift (Free): One of our favorites!
§ Struggling with anxiety? MindShift is an app designed to help teens and young adults cope with anxiety. MindShift will help you learn how to relax, develop more helpful ways of thinking, and identify active steps that will help you take charge of your anxiety. This app includes strategies to deal with everyday anxiety, as well as specific tools to tackle test anxiety, perfectionism, social anxiety, performance anxiety, worry, panic, and conflict.
§ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mindshift/id634684825?mt=8
· Depression Management
o Optimism (Free)
§ Optimism is a mood charting app that helps you develop strategies for managing depression, bipolar, or other mental health conditions. The app helps you to develop and track health strategies, learn the “triggers” of a decline in your mental health, and recognize the early warning signs of a decline in your mental health.
§ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/optimism/id352262677?mt=8
o T2 Mood Tracker (Free)
§ T2 Mood Tracker allows users to monitor their moods on six pre-loaded scales including anxiety, stress, depression, brain injury, post-traumatic stress, and general well-being. Notes can be recorded to document daily events, medication changes and treatments associated with mood changes, and other relevant information that may help health care providers make treatment decisions.
§ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/t2-mood-tracker/id428373825?mt=8
· Anger Management
o iCounselor: Anger (Free)
§ Learn skills to reduce your anger! Rate your anger (0-content to 10-enraged), develop coping skills by using self-calming activities, change the way you think about anger, and brainstorm potential solutions to difficult situations.
§ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/icounselor-anger/id333253099?mt=8
o 20-minute guided meditation to release anger
§ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk0Jeqcv5Q8
· Sleep Management
o Relax and Sleep Well by Glenn Harrold (Free)
§ Relax and Sleep Well is a high quality hypnosis and meditation app by best-selling self-help audio author Glenn Harrold. This app consists of two free hypnotherapy recordings and many in-app purchase options, which are designed to help you overcome insomnia, stress and anxiety and sleep well at night. The in-apps list now includes over 70 of Glenn's highly acclaimed healing hypnosis and guided meditation recordings, including two free hypnosis tracks designed to ease insomnia.
§ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/relax-sleep-well-by-glenn/id412690467?mt=8
o Pzizz (Free)
§ If you have problems sleeping, you're stressed or you suffer from a lack of energy – we’re sure that pzizz can help you, just as it has for so many others. No drugs, nothing to 'learn', no nonsense. Get to sleep quicker and de-stress faster using a brand new relaxing soundtrack each time you use it. Whether you’re using pzizz to sleep at night or power nap during the day, with pzizz you will wake up feeling fantastic.
§ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pzizz-solve-sleep-problems/id915664862?mt=8
o Five minute quick guided anxiety reduction
§ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR57rug8NsM