Do you need help in learning how to use a smartphone? We have some training materials in this section that you can download and print to help you get going! ​

Get Smartphone skills:

The tools in this section are made available thanks to the Division of Digitial Psychiatry, a collaborative research group at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard Medical School affiliate in Boston, MA. The team is comprised of mental health professionals with backgrounds in medicine, engineering, and clinical care. They work with hospitals, academic institutions, healthcare companies, federal organizations, and software developers to advance partnerships in technology and psychiatry. Their goal is to improve the quality and accessibility of treatment for mental health issues through education, research, and innovation in digital psychiatry.

This is an 8 part, 10 hour training program to help anyone get the basic core knowledge, skills and competencies to use a smartphone. 

Session 1 is about Establishing Core Smartphone Skills, and the skill of the week is connecting to WiFi (Download the session in PDF)

Session 2 is about Building Wellness Habits, and the Skill of the week is Setting a Step Count Goal and Tracking Progress (Download the session in PDF)

Session 3 is about Managing Responsibilities and the Skill of the Week is Using the Calendar to Make an Appointment or Set a Reminder (Download the session in PDF)

Session 4 is about Staying Connected and the Skill of the Week is Creating and Updating your LinkedIn profile (Download the session in PDF)

Session 5 is about Keeping Informed and the Skill of the Week is Allowing Notifications on the News App to learn something new (Download the session in PDF)

Session 6 is about Expanding Your Knowledge and the Skill of the Week is watching a YouTube video to learn a new skill (Download the session in PDF)

Session 7 is about Navigating Safely and the Skill of the Week is Search for an Download a Mental Health App that Protects Your Privacy (Download the session in PDF)

Session 8 is about Enjoying Downtime and the Skill of the Week is Creating an Account on a Music Listening Platform (Download the session in PDF)

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Check this out - the role of digital navigators in promoting clinical care and technology integration into practice!

As the role of technology expands in behavioral and mental healthcare, so does the need to support its implementation and integration into the clinic. The concept of a new team member, the digital navigator, able to assume this role is introduced as a solution. With a digital navigator, any clinic today can take advantage of mobile health and smartphone tools to augment and expand existing telehealth and face to face care. The role of a digital navigator is suitable as an entry level healthcare role, additional training for an experienced clinician, and well suited to peer specialists. To facilitate training digital navigators, we draw upon our experiences creating the role and across health education to introduce a ten-hour curriculum designed to train digital navigators across five domains: 1) core smartphone skills; 2) basic technology troubleshooting; 3) app evaluation; 4) clinical terminology and data; and 5) engagement techniques. This paper outlines the curricular content, skills, and modules for this training and features a rich appendix with step by step instructions and resources.

Download Digital Navigator Training Paper in PDF

Download Appendix for Digital Navigator Training in PDF