The following Apps can be used as useful tools for young people to learn more about mental health and emotional wellbeing and develop skills that support health habits and build resilience to support staying well:

• Worry Tree – The WorryTree app aims to help you take control of worry wherever you are. You can use the app to record whatever you feel worried about. It uses cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques to help you notice and challenge your worries. It can also help you create an action plan for managing worry.

• Think Ninja – a mental health app designed for 10 to 18 year olds. Using a variety of content and tools, it allows young people to learn about mental health and emotional wellbeing, and develop skills they can use to build resilience and stay well. Available at app stores.

• Kooth is a free mental health provider who offers anonymous and personalised mental health support for Children and Young People online and through an app.

• Calm Heart – an app for sleep, meditation and relaxation.

• Clear Fear  – an app developed for teenage mental health charity stem4 by Dr Nihara Krause, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, that uses the evidence-based treatment CBT to focus on learning to reduce the physical responses to threat by learning to breathe, relax and be mindful as well as changing thoughts and behaviours and releasing emotions. The Clear Fear app is recommended for the ages of 11-19 years.

• DistrACT – app gives you easy, quick and discreet access to information and advice about self-harm and suicidal thoughts. For Anyone over the age of 17 who’s concerned about self-harming.

• Me Too – app provides a safe and secure forum for teenagers wanting to discuss any issue affecting their lives. You can anonymously get advice from experts or other teenagers going through similar experiences in areas such as mental health, self-harming, relationships and friendships.

• Molehill Mountain – an app to help autistic people understand and self-manage anxiety.

• My Possible Self – Mental health support created by world-leading healthcare professionals. Teaming up with their friends at Priory Healthcare, world leaders in mental health, they have created interactive tools and techniques, using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), customised for digital use.

• Pzizz – app to help you quickly quiet your mind, fall asleep fast, stay asleep, and wake up refreshed. They create beautiful “dreamscapes” — a mix of music, voiceover and sound effects designed using the latest clinical research — to help you sleep better at night or take power naps during the day.

• Student Health App  – provides easy access to more than 900 pages of reliable health information all in one place. The content has been created for university students by NHS doctors and is regularly updated.

• Feeling Good Teens – offers Positive Mental Training audio programmes for 10 to 15-year-olds to develop self-esteem, resilience and goal-focused motivation. Feeling Good’s research in the NHS shows that this can help with letting go of worries, cope better with stress, and sleep better.