Medizinische Fakul­tät OWL

For adolescents as "digital natives," the smartphone represents an essential and important daily companion. However, this has barely been used in psychotherapy with adolescents so far, although digital programs could take over a bridging function between psychotherapeutic sessions and the adolescents' everyday life and thus improve the success of the therapy.

To fill this gap, we developed the transdiagnostic therapy‐accompanying app RADIUS FLEX. After its implementation in inpatient psychotherapy, we would now like to further develop the program for use in the outpatient setting. Through intelligent analysis and feedback systems, therapists will be supported in assessing symptom progression and risks of suicidality.

In a feasibility study, we plan to evaluate the use of the supporting digital program in outpatient psychotherapy with regard to use, acceptance, and satisfaction, and to investigate the perceived benefits with regard to patient‐therapist relationship, everyday functionality, self‐efficacy, and symptom reduction. In 40 therapies, therapists will use RADUIS FLEX in outpatient psychotherapy with adolescents after extensive training. Therapists and patients are interviewed at the beginning of the therapy, at the end and 3 months afterwards in order to examine how the transfer into everyday psychotherapeutic work is successful. In addition, it allows a participatory development approach for possible further developments of the app.