The evolution and technological advances of recent years have facilitated the emergence of smartphone applications, tools that are a step forward in the immediacy and accessibility of various content, previously only available offline in specialized publications, there are applications of all kinds and for all ages: games, leisure and information. Among them, we gather the applications of psychology that every amateur of this discipline should know.
These applications were born to aid in learning and professional practice, also fulfilling the function of satisfying the curiosity of the non-specialized public, so they aim to provide usefulness and knowledge to newly graduated students and psychologists and genuine researchers around the world can find an application that suits their tastes, interests or motivations.
- Available since 2014.
- This app aims to go beyond a simple mobile app.
- In fact.
- It is designed as a treatment for phobias.
- Although it can also be used for other types of disorders.
- Such as obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Based on systematic desensitization therapy through progressive virtual exposure.
It is available for Android and iOS and can be used with 3D glasses to make this fluoric experience more real. Of course, we recommend that the nervous people use it to replace sessions with the psychologist, as it is designed to complement these sessions.
The study of the nervous system is one of the main areas of psychology. However, it is difficult to know in detail which structure is involved in a function, define its activation, or how connections between neurons are interconnected. Therein lies the usefulness of 3D Brain, because in addition to offering this information, it allows to locate and observe in three dimensions all the structures and areas of the brain.
Thus, in detail and reliable, it allows the user to rotate and enlarge the different parts of the brain and interact with them, discover how these parts work, identify which lobes the brain is formed from, know what happens when certain areas of the brain are damaged and how these lesions affect different mental changes. Better yet, this app is free!
If you like to be aware of the latest developments in psychology, this can be your application, in fact, it has become one of the sources of reference information for this discipline, which functions as an excellent summary of the headlines of the main news and daily news. . You can create lists of favorite items to save and retrieve or read later.
If you are a psychologist and looking for a place in the clinical field, this can be one of the best applications of mobile psychology related to the field of health, PIR means Resident Internal Psychologist, the public health training offered to these professionals. title, you have to overcome some difficulties. The test to pass is a very complex test, with competitors looking for a place among the few available.
This application allows to know the questions that were in the exams of previous years, as well as their answers, in this way seems very useful for those who plan to take the test in the future, this allows people to test their knowledge review it and find out how they are prepared to take the PIR exam. The tool allows you to know the number of hits and mistakes made at that time, as well as the total score obtained in the exam.
Developed by the APA (American Psychiatric Association), it is a paid application highly appreciated by professionals in the sector. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is one of the classifications and compilations of the main diagnostic criteria taken as a reference by doctors and psychologists. It offers its users content since its fifth edition, even when they are not connected to the Internet. It allows you to search by criteria, videos, comment or find support resources on various symptoms.
Another of these reference manuals is the International Classification of Diseases (CIE), developed by the World Health Organization, which, like the previous one, its tenth version available in the CIE10 application offers a classification and coding of mental illnesses.
It is one of the paid psychology apps for mobile phones and is currently only available for iOS. Its main asset is to provide adequate organization and good data management. With it, psychologists can properly manage quotes, reports, results and notes for their patients.
It allows you to efficiently import, manage and control all this data with advanced filters, however, precautions must be taken when using such tools, as personal information is private and confidential, so any security breach can be very harmful to the patient and the professional.
The main advantage of using psychology applications is the collection of information quickly and easily. The convenience of getting data on your device is definitely a big plus. Do you know any other choices we didn’t mention?