Think of it as iCounseling. eCBT Trauma enables users with PTSD to categorize their thoughts and feelings, graph them over time, and e-mail the information to a caregiver. This app is built around cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), an approach that involves systematically documenting thought patterns and emotions as a way of targeting ailments such as depression, eating disorders, and posttraumatic stress disorder. The $1.99 app for iPhone and iPod, released by Pittsburgh, PA-based MindApps in February, also features a linked directory of therapists, PTSD support groups, and information on the condition.
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Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.
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