If you visit your app store today and search for the word ‘mental support’, several apps will pop up. Before you subscribe to any, it’s important that you get proof of its effectiveness. Many mental health support apps claim to monitor mood and provide hypnosis treatment advice. So, how do you tell if such apps are as good as they claim? Unfortunately, there are no accreditation frameworks for the mental support managers. Therefore, you have to develop your own strategies for determining the efficiency of these applications. There are things that you can do to confirm their effectiveness, and here are some of them:

1. Check for Evidence-based Approaches

In recent memories, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has shown consistent and accurate results when it comes to managing anxiety and other mental health problems. It’s important that the app you want to subscribe possesses CBT-endorsement. The endorsement means that the clinical results provided by the app are effective.

2. Get Recommendations from the App

The easiest way to confirm this is by reading the reviews about the app. A good app does not just ask you to feed your feelings and give a diagnosis. No, it will go a step further to give you non-technology or home-based recommendations for managing your mental condition.

3. Look for More Symptoms Addressed

Mental illness is described by several symptoms, and if the app does not address more signs, it’s not worth the effort. Since the difference between different mental issues is small, you need an app that can give you an accurate diagnosis. The broader the descriptions, the more effective the app is.

4. Check for Real-time Application

Can you use the app whenever you are experiencing distress? Good mental health support apps should be flexible to be used any time you feel mentally disturbed. They should provide you with real-time assessments. In simple terms, ask for a demo and see how it works. If there is none, then read the reviews and confirm if the results given are in real-time.

Bottom-line

By and large, many mental conditions are manageable with the modern apps. You just need to confirm the effectiveness of the applications before subscribing. This will help you achieve satisfactory results and find effective therapy practices for managing the mental distress. To be on the safe side, strive to avoid certain apps such as those that make bold claims like curing anxiety, depression,or a particular mental illness,those that mention hypnosis (as there are very limited evidence), and purely testing apps that just offer screening tools for clinical disorders.