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“PlayChirp” is an app that leverages Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for effective emotional management and resilience-building in young individuals. Our flagship app, Chirp is your friendly guide, as you practice skills and level up. It makes DBT accessible and fun, transforming skill learning into a game-like journey. With modules for core mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness, Chirp addresses a wide range of mental and behavioral health concerns. By encouraging daily practice with interactive challenges and rewarding progress, Chirp turns emotional strength-building into an enjoyable and consistent part of users’ everyday lives.
The Starfish application is a prosocial inclusion app, meaning it encourages real-world behavior exhibiting empathy for others. In the app, each tribe of different colored starfish asks the user to hear their story, learn their needs, and eventually return them back to their home in the sea. Built and developed by Sherry Huai-Hsuan Shih, Justin Pass, and RJ Canonigo, the colorful environment and fun twists engage the user with a touching story that has you helping these adorable creatures out of their tough situation and back to their place of belonging. Using psychological themes of altruism and dispelling biases, this app encourages the hopeful spirit in all of us that knows inherently that every being counts equally. Exhibiting prosocial behavior in virtual reality scenarios has been shown to encourage prosocial behavior after removing the headset in real life.
Anxiety reduction for medical procedures has been proven to quell anxiety and reduce hospital and recovery time. The Prostate Procedure Guide is a collaboration between healthcare institutions and NewPath to offer an immersive guided educational experience to inform patients about how to best cope with a recent diagnosis and upcoming procedure involving prostate cancer. The app guides patients using a holistic process to address both the physical and mental aspects of encountering multiple prostate procedures issues, informing decisions, using anxiety reduction exercises, and positive visualization.
NewPath is an organization that develops and advocates for virtual technologies to treat mental and behavioral health.
“PlayChirp” is an app that leverages Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for effective emotional management and resilience-building in young individuals. Our flagship app, Chirp is your friendly guide, as you practice skills and level up. It makes DBT accessible and fun, transforming skill learning into a game-like journey. With modules for core mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness, Chirp addresses a wide range of mental and behavioral health concerns. By encouraging daily practice with interactive challenges and rewarding progress, Chirp turns emotional strength-building into an enjoyable and consistent part of users’ everyday lives.
NewPath offers a dynamic, virtual group experience, accessible from any device, whether desktop, laptop, tablet, computer, or VR headset. In our 12-week program, attendees collaboratively learn and practice DBT’s Core Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Distress Tolerance modules. It’s a shared space where users can grow together, benefiting from each other’s insights and social support. The journey is not solitary; it’s a community effort in building emotional resilience. Visit our events page to learn more and sign up. Start the enriching journey towards better mental and behavioral health with the supportive NewPath community today.
Virtual Reality (VR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can transform how mental health assessments are done. These assessments are currently a tedious, extensive process of filling out questionnaires by hand, which can lead to inaccurate results due to a variety of factors. For example, filling out the questionnaire form is usually done in a doctor’s office or waiting room previous to the appointment. Stress about others in the waiting room or the upcoming appointment itself can influence the results. The AI CogAssessment application presents a virtual human that uses AI to perform a more accurate assessment. People are more honest with virtual agents due to reduced anxiety about being judged by another person. The AI framework provides an interactive evaluation that can uncover more information for the assessment based on asking additional questions in response to certain answers.
This embodiment and behavioral chain analysis VR platform was initially designed for inner-child work and to aid in resolving interpersonal relationship issues. There are many other uses we are developing this for. Presently, users select scenarios of characters in a house setting: male-female, child-parents, teenager-mother, etc., and dialog with the characters by embodying a character through roleplay to uncover issues or resolve past feelings. RolePlayVR is an embodiment platform applicable for a wide variety of role-playing scenarios. By placing the subject in a fully immersive virtual environment with other characters, objects, and surroundings, the roleplaying scenarios are powerful. This app is based on Dialectical Behavior Therapy and “behavioral chain analysis” that aids in breaking down unwanted situations and communication. A companion mobile app is coming soon.
