SMS
SMS [Sucesso, Mente e Saúde] project, a web-based psychological intervention was developed to promote mental health and prevent depression in adolescence
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The users can learn about mental health and access the SMS programs: SMSyouths (for adolescents) and SMScaregivers (to caregivers of adolescents who are attending the SMSyouths program).
This platform provides mental health-related content based on CBT and third-generation approaches.
The SMS participants can access exclusive psychoeducational resources such as videos, audio recordings of mindfulness and compassion meditations, games, quizzes, comics, self-monitoring records, forums, infographics, and short message service chains with inspiring quotes/sentences.
The community has access to information about support lines and psychological care services, information about mental health, a forum, and two brief questionnaires where users can test their mental health and mental toughness and receive feedback about their results.