100
Participants
Start Date
August 1, 2026
Primary Completion Date
June 30, 2028
Study Completion Date
December 31, 2028
blinded-care counselling
"The intervention is a implementation of a weekly psychological counseling for psychiatric problems via videoconference combined with an additionally digital support using a well-established mobile treatment system STEPS®. The intervention will include: 2) weekly counselling over 6 weeks via videoconference for adolescents and their parents.~The counselling will be provided by experienced psychologists as employers of the Clinic of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, RWTH Aachen University, the counselling will be supervised by the leading psychologist of the clinic. The counselling will include psychoeducative elements about psychological and psychosocial problems, behavioral interventions from cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychological techniques for better coping with stress, different therapeutic tasks such as fear exposure, activation exercises e.c. The students will be instructed to use the mobile treatment system STEPS in order to continue therapy at home."
App STEPS
"The intervention is a implementation of a weekly psychological counseling for psychiatric problems via videoconference combined with an additionally digital support using a well-established mobile treatment system STEPS®. The intervention will include: 3) blinded-care use of the mobile treatment system STEPS®.~This is transdiagnostic digital treatment system which consists of a students front-end as an App and a therapist front-end as an online platform. The App and the platform are connected to each other. In such a way, an effective data transter (for example, symptom evaluation by the student and tasks and requests by the therapist), direct communication between a student and a therapist, as well as registration of emergency situation, are possible."
digital and mental literacy training
"The intervention is a implementation of a weekly psychological counseling for psychiatric problems via videoconference combined with an additionally digital support using a well-established mobile treatment system STEPS®.~The intervention will include: 1) digital and mental literacy training for children, parents and teachers in the school.~This training program (4 weeks, 8 session a 2 lesson units, 2 sessions a week) includes information about rules and functions by using mobile applications, safety aspects of personal data, risks associated with data sharing, sexing and cybergrooming, managing social media, handling with fake news, influence of social media on mental health, forms of digital violence and strategies to cope with them."
Clinic of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen
RWTH Aachen University
OTHER