Today's guest is Heidi from Heidi Lou Design to chat all things Social Media & Small Business. 

You can check Heidi's work out at the links below: 
Website: www.heidiloudesign.com 
Instagram: www.instagram.com/heidiloudesign

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Music: Moody Swing by Oshova (CC BY 3.0)(check it out here: https://soundcloud.com/osh-va/moody-swing) 

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You can find out more about me using the below social links! 

Blog: https://alexhudsoncreative.wordpress.com/
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The Creative Social Podcast | Social Media & Small Business

On today's episode, we talk all things gamification and mental health and wellbeing. I discuss what gamification is, its interaction with mental health and why we need it, as well as a short review of the app SuperBetter.

You can check out more about the app here: https://www.superbetter.com/ 

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References:

Fleming, TM, Bavin, L, Stasiak, K, Hermansson-Webb, E, Merry, SN, Cheek, C, Lucassen, M, Lau, HM, Pollmuller, B & Hetrick, S 2017, “Serious Games and Gamification for Mental Health: Current Status and Promising Directions,” Frontiers in Psychiatry, vol. 7, retrieved January 7, 2021, from https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00215/full

Larsen, ME, Huckvale, K, Nicholas, J, Torous, J, Birrell, L, Li, E & Reda, B 2019, “Using science to sell apps: Evaluation of mental health app store quality claims,” npj Digital Medicine, vol. 2, no. 1, retrieved January 19, 2021, from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-019-0093-1#Sec2

Litvin, S, Saunders, R, Maier, MA & Lüttke, S 2020, “Gamification as an approach to improve resilience and reduce attrition in mobile mental health interventions: A randomized controlled trial” YJ Matsuoka (ed), PLOS ONE, vol. 15, no. 9, p. e0237220, retrieved January 19, 2021, from https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0237220

Meisenzahl, M 2019, “The next great mental health app will look like Pokemon Go, according to a Silicon Valley psychologist,” Business Insider Australia, retrieved January 19, 2021, from https://www.businessinsider.com.au/mental-health-apps-superbetter-happify-gamification-techniques-2019-10?r=US&IR=T

Parliament of Australia 2015, “Chapter 2 Overview of the Australian video game industry,” Aph.gov.au, retrieved January 19, 2021, from https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Environment_and_Communications/Video_game_industry/Report/c02#:~:text=68%20per%20cent%20of%20Australians,age%20was%2033%20years%2C%20and

SuperBetter LLC 2021, “Science Based Mental Health App | SuperBetter,” Superbetter.com, retrieved January 19, 2021, from https://www.superbetter.com/science
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Media used:

Music: Upbeat Party by Scott Holmes is licensed under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC 4.0) (check it out here: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/media-music-mix/upbeat-party) 

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You can find out more about me using the below social links!

Blog: alexhudsoncreative.wordpress.com/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/alexhudsoncreative

Travel blog: www.mattandalextravel.com
Travel Instagram: www.instagram.com/mattandalextravel

Thanks for listening!

The Creative Social Podcast | Gamification & Mental Health

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