Respond to at least two colleagues who identified a different digital or web-based intervention than you and explain whether you would use the intervention in your practice. Why or why not?
Use the Learning Resources to support your posts. Make sure to provide APA citations and a reference list.

REPLY FROM SHAYLA APPLET

Post a description of a digital or web-based intervention used with adolescents to address the concern you identified.
Clarity is a mobile app designed to help adolescents manage depression, anxiety, and stress using cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) principles. The app serves as a digital journal, allowing users to track their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. Clarity provides personalized prompts, mood-tracking features, and CBT-based exercises to help adolescents identify and challenge negative thought patterns.

Describe the intervention and the underlying theory.

Clarity is grounded in cognitive-behavioral theory, which suggests that negative thoughts, feelings, and behaviors contribute to the development and maintenance of depression and anxiety. The app aims to help adolescents become more aware of their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, and learn to challenge and modify negative patterns.

Identify the target behaviors that this intervention is used to address.
Clarity targets the following behaviors and symptoms:
– Negative thinking patterns
– Emotional dysregulation
– Social withdrawal
– Avoidance behaviors
– Sleep disturbances
Overall, what are the advantages and disadvantages of digital and web-based interventions in light of the adolescent population? Be sure to consider ethical implications.

Digital and web-based interventions offer several advantages for adolescents, such as being accessible anytime and anywhere, making them ideal for those with limited access to traditional counseling resources as well as lower costs compared to in-person interventions, enhancing sustainability.

Digital health technologies offer promise for addressing mental health in adolescents and young people. This review synthesized evidence on digital health interventions for adolescents (10-24 years) with mental health conditions. The Key findings were: that computerized cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is effective for anxiety and depression.

– Interventions with in-person elements (professional, peer, or parent) are more effective than fully automated or self-administered interventions.
– Most digital interventions lack evidence-based support.
– Cost-effectiveness and effectiveness in low- and middle-income countries are understudied (Lehtimaki et al., 2021).
However, there are also concerns- digital interventions pose challenges in ensuring secure encryption, potentially compromising sensitive information (Brandell, 2021). Adolescents may not fully understand the implications of using digital tools, raising concerns about their ability to provide informed consent.
Ethical Implications:
When creating and using digital mental health tools like Clarity, it’s essential to consider a few important things. First, we need to keep users’ personal information private and secure. We also need to make sure users and their parents understand what the tool does and how it works before they start using it. Additionally, we need to have a plan in place to help users who are in crisis, such as those who are thinking about harming themselves. Finally, we need to protect users’ data and follow all relevant laws and rules.

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