With teenage children subject to numerous pressures – academic, peer, social media, body image, etc – ensuring their mental and emotional well-being has emerged as a big ticket issue for 21st century parents. We recommend two apps to help teens cope with anxiety and promote mental well-being. Also recommended is app to ease children into learning foreign languages, writes Johanna Preeti Shama M.

MindShift CBT — Anxiety Relief

This app is designed to assist teens to cope with anxiety. It functions as a digital coach counseling them through difficult situations. The software, designed in conjunction with Anxiety Canada, teaches users to relax and assists them in identifying practical ways to control anxiety. It explains anxiety symptoms, suggests relaxation exercises, assesses user anxiety levels in specific situations, and recommends coping skills. Specific tools also assist teens to address problems of sleep quality, pursuit of perfectionism, and conflict resolution.

Memrise

 

In the globalised world of the 21st century, fluency in multiple languages is an invaluable asset. Memrise is a popular app offering foreign language learning programmes. Co-founded by Ed Cooke, a Grand Master of Memory and Greg Detre, a Princeton neuroscientist, the app has a scientific yet practical approach to language learning. It has helped over 60 million users learn foreign languages.

Memrise offers more than 20 foreign languages learning programmes. It provides practical, useful phrases and sentences to enable people to conduct everyday conversations. It also includes videos featuring native speakers to help learners get pronunciation right. The app’s user interface is easy to navigate. Learners can set and track simple goals such as learning ten words per day or ten sentences per week.

Together AI

This mental health and wellness app for families promises to help to “raise your children in a secure, healthy, and happy environment”. It employs machine learning to assist parents and children in identifying and comprehending child emotions to enable the family to work together to ideate solutions. Designed by a team of healthcare experts and specialists, TogetherAI takes a strengths-based approach to mental health and wellness. It assists parents to teach children how to interact purposefully with the world to develop healthy relationships, positive emotions, communication, and coping skills.