Pocket Skills: A Conversational Mobile Web App To Support Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
summary
Pocket Skills is a mobile web app that uses a scripted conversational agent and DBT modules (mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, addiction), videos, mood/behavior tracking and daily text prompts. A 4-week field study with 73 participants in active psychotherapy shows PHQ-9 and OASIS scores fall from moderate to mild/no anxiety, increased DBT skills use, and reductions in dysfunctional coping. Qualitative analysis attributes this to on-demand availability, step-by-step skill implementation and rising self-efficacy; no control group tested.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and mental health context
- 1:10DBT and clinical complexity
- 2:35Design of Pocket Skills app
- 6:26Field study methodology
- 7:53Quantitative results and improvements
- 9:40Qualitative findings and model
- 11:46Design implications for mental health tools
- 13:54Supporting therapists and group therapy
- 15:22Summary and future work
- 16:23Q&A session begins
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