What is it about?
This paper describes the therapeutic principles and the design strategy adopted to develop a mobile application devoted to patients suffering from panic attacks with agoraphobia.
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Why is it important?
Self- help applications for the treatment of chronic conditions are growing more and more important. This is even more true speaking of mental diseases such as generalized anxiety or panic disturb, which are constantly spreading, especially during difficul times such as these. Many of such apps exist, but only a few of them are designed according to solid therapeutic principles.
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I hope this paper will be useful for researchers and mental-health specialists interested mobile health applications.
Maria Teresa Paratore
Istituto di Informatica e Telematica - Italian National Council
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This page is a summary of: Designing a Self-help Mobile App to Cope with Avoidance Behavior in Panic Disorder, September 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3399715.3399816.
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