Byte-Sized Brain: Further Resources

Fact Sheets


Learn more through these websites:

Sleep

Language Development

Behavior

  • IoWA-PCIT (Integration of Working Models of Attachment into Parent Child Interaction Therapy)
     
  • Pocket PCIT Online a web-based resource from the Mailman Center for Child Development at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
     
  • PDF | The Power of Positive Parenting: Five positive parenting techniques to help your child thrive by Rebecca Handman, MS with Illustrations by Gary Handman from UC Davis Children’s Hospital.

Diversity and Inclusion

Resources for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities


Phone Apps to Consider for your Kids

DreamyKid Meditation

Description: DreamyKid offers many categories and mindfulness programs to teach your kids how to regulate their own feelings.

Age Range: 3-17

Device Compatibility: iOS, web-based interface

Cost: Free for schools, hospitals, and those accredited to work with kids; Subscription-based for access to premium content

The Zones of Regulation

Description: Through this application kids learn how to use different tools to manage their feelings and behaviors in each zone. Given each child’s needs and preferences are unique, they can explore various calming techniques, cognitive strategies, and sensory supports, building a toolbox of methods to use to regulate and move between zones.

Age Range: 6+

Device Compatibility: Android (through Amazon App store for Android), iOS

Cost: $5.99

Smiling Mind

Description: Mindfulness based meditation application for kids and adults although younger kids may need guidance and engagement of parents to go through some exercises. Exercises include body scans, breathing meditation, and sensory exercises.

Age Range: 5+

Device Compatibility: Android, iOS

Cost: Free, non-profit

MoodKit

Description: This application draws on concepts from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help for depression. Moodkit can guide the user through challenging problematic thoughts and provides space for tracking symptoms.

Age Range: 12+

Device Compatibility: iOS

Cost: $4.99

Sanvello (previously known as Pacifica)

Description: It is a free smartphone app that was initially based on concepts of CBT and Mindfulness that has tools and activities to help with daily stress, anxiety and depression. With the change to Sanvello, they offer a wider selection of therapies grounded in empathy and meeting people where they are at.

Age Range: 17+

Device Compatibility: Android, iOS

Cost: Subscription-based for access to premium content

Calm

Description: Calm is a meditation, sleep and relaxation app. The app offers mindfulness and sleep stories for children of varying ages in addition to various guided meditations

Age Range: 7+

Device Compatibility: Android, iOS

Cost: Subscription-based for access to premium content

Headspace

Description: This is an app that offers guided meditations, animations, articles and videos based on Buddhist concepts.

Age Range: 5+

Device Compatibility: Android, iOS

Cost: Subscription-based for access to premium content

IntelliCare through Northwestern Medicine

Description: IntelliCare is a suite of apps (The Hub, Daily Feats, Thought Challenger, My Mantra, Day to Day, and Worry Knot), developed by Northwestern University's Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies, that work together to help people deal with common causes of stress, depression, and anxiety.

Age Range: 18+

Device Compatibility: Android, iOS

Cost: Free

ACT Coach through USDVA

Description: This app was developed for Veterans and Service members based on concepts of Acceptance Commitment Therapy. It offers exercises, tools, information, and tracking logs so you can practice what you’re learning in your daily life.

Age Range: 12+

Device Compatibility

Cost: Free

Free Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia, CBTi

Description: Free and open access CBTi to help with insomnia. Information is provided in English, Korean, Spanish, Italian and Chinese.

Age/Grade Range: 18+

Device Compatibility: Web-based interface

Cost: Free