Interactive Skills & Exercises
Clinically evaluated exercises for acute emotion regulation based on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).
How does it work?
Users have access to a repertoire of DBT skills (e.g., breathing exercises, cognitive reframing) that are integrated into the app as interactive 'games'. For example, users can visually design their individual 'Safe Place' and enhance it with soothing background sounds, allowing them to instantly retreat there during stressful situations.
„On the way to work, inner restlessness rises. The user opens a skill in the app and brings their arousal level to a tolerable state.“
Scientific Background
Addresses the 'skills deficit model' in clinical psychology: maladaptive behaviors stem from a lack of coping mechanisms. App-guided skills provide evidence-based tools during high distress.
Therapeutic Benefit
Research confirms that acquiring and using skills is the primary mechanism of change in DBT. Even stand-alone skills training effectively reduces symptoms of depression, anxiety, and impulsivity.
Scientific Research
Effects of DBT Skills Training on Depression and Anxiety Disorders: A Pilot Randomized Trial.Wucherpfennig & Eggert, 2024 (Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol)
This pilot randomized trial demonstrates the transdiagnostic efficacy of DBT skills training for depression and anxiety disorders. The skills group was superior to controls on all endpoints, with effect sizes comparable to those in experimental research.
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