Apps for psychologists: 11 must-have tools for your smartphone

Smartphone apps that allow you to use useful tools for psychology.

We live in the information society. The technological advances of the last century have made it possible for human beings to establish contact with anyone and obtain information of any kind with a single click.

Although the constant use of information and communication technologies has some disadvantages, there are numerous applications for this type of technology, there are numerous applications for this type of technology that can make our lives easier, even at work.

Among the many advances and applications that have emerged, many of them can be very useful and have been designed to help psychologists and / or psychology students in the exercise of their profession, allowing access even from a smartphone. Therefore, throughout this article we will see a series of applications for psychologists that can be very useful for the learning and professional practice of psychology. for the learning and professional practice of psychology.

11 useful apps for psychology professionals and students

The following are a series of apps for psychologists and psychology students that can help the practice of the profession from the comfort of your smartphone.

1. Gurumind

• Price: Free (registration required)
• Available on: Android and iOs

Gurumind is an app that offers more than a hundred resources for meditation and relaxation exercises. In addition, its contents are adapted to various common problems that bring people to psychotherapy consultations: anxiety, low mood, insomnia, etc.

To use Gurumind, you only have to open an account on the platform and use the app for free; in a few seconds you can be doing a Mindfulness exercise, a practice to fall asleep, etc.

• Access this page to see their contact details and the link to the app.

2. Pure Mind

• Price: 2.99 USD
• Available on: Android and iPhone

The new app Pura Mente specializes in meditation and emotional well-being, and is currently one of the highest rated in the Spanish-speaking community.

This app contains more than 250 different meditations, organized in courses and sessions to improve specific problems such as stress, anxiety or sleep difficulties.

With the realization of these meditations, each user will increase their levels of daily well-being, as well as learn to know their emotions and mind better.

One of the main novelties offered by Pura Mente are its weekly Mindful Webinars, live spaces where various professional guides and coaches share their knowledge about meditation, wellness and personal growth.

• You can download it on this page for Android and here for iOS.

3. PIR (Akaro)

• Price: Free
• Available on: Android

Many psychologists and/or psychology students intend to dedicate themselves to the clinical branch. To achieve this goal, they can take a Master's Degree in General Health Psychology that will enable them to practice in the private sector, or they can try to access the public health system through PIR (Psychologist in Residence) training, which requires to pass a complex test-type exam in order to in order to compete for one of the few available positions.

This free application developed by Akaro for Android is very useful when preparing and training for the exam, containing and allowing you to answer the questions asked in the PIR exams from 2002 to 2015. It is one of the apps for psychologists and students that serves as a valuable review and study tool, as it allows you to exercise by by answering the questions and indicating at the moment the number of successes, errors and points obtained in each exam.

In addition to the exams of each year, the application allows you to answer questions by subject area, answer questions randomly or view statistics on the scores, successes and errors made in each attempt so far.

4. AirPersons (Airpersons)

• Price: Free (registration required)
• Available on: Android and iOs.

This application acts as method of communication between psychologists or other types of professionals and customers allowing consultation via videochat or video call. It is similar to the use of Skype for the provision of remote services but with the advantage of allowing direct payment.

At the time of registration, the psychologist establishes the conditions of their services such as time availability and remuneration, and can then be contacted via video call when they are online. Everything is done through the Internet, and the client does not know the private telephone number of the professional.

5. NovoPsych Psychometrics (NovoPsych Pty Ltd)

• Price: 49,99
• Available in: iOs

An app for psychologists in which you can find different assessment tests different assessment tests applicable to patients. The program includes automatic correction systems that speed up the process, the results being visible only to the clinician who applies them.

6. iGrade for psychologist (Zysco)

• Price: 2,99€.
• Available in: iOs

Through this and other similar apps for psychologists, professionals in this discipline can have a useful tool that allows them to** organize their patients' information**. Among others, it allows the administration and management of appointments, profiles, reports, evaluations and notes.

It is possible to manage an unlimited number of clients and sessions, as well as to evaluate their progress. However, it should be borne in mind that patient information is private and highly confidential, so that the use or non-use of this type of application should be assessed with extreme care based on the degree of security of the application in question.

7. 3D Brain (DNA Learning Center)

• Price: Free
• Available on: Android and iOs

The study of the brain and the nervous system in general is the field of study of neuroscience. However, it is not easy to understand in detail how the organs that make up the brain work, since it has so many parts and these are so close together that depending on the perspective from which we look, the same structure may seem very different. In short, getting an idea of the three-dimensionality of this set of organs is complicated.

Fortunately, today there are technological solutions that allow us to create very faithful and detailed 3D images, such as 3D Brain.

This is one of the apps for psychologists and other disciplines linked to the study of the brain. linked to the study of the brain that allows to observe and study the different regions and structures that are part of it. In addition to offering a 3D model of the brain, it provides information on the different functions and lesions associated with the different structures.

It also provides access to different studies carried out in the field of neurosciences. It should be noted that this application is in English.

8. DSM-5 Criteria (American Psychiatric Association)

• Price: 53,66€.
• Available in: Android and iOs

One of the two main reference manuals in clinical psychology and currently considered the most widely accepted, the DSM, collects and classifies the different types of mental disorders, while it while establishing the main diagnostic criteria for each of them.

This is one of the apps for psychologists specialized in clinical psychology that allows access to the different criteria so that we can visualize the different typical symptoms of each disorder and their classification, as well as different videos in which the main changes with respect to previous versions of the DSM are indicated. Of course, this is a paid application (at the time of writing this article its price was 53.66€).

9. Google Documents (Google Inc.)

• Price: Free
• Available on: Android and iOs.

Google Documents is an application widely known by the general public, especially in academia. It is an application that allows you to open, create and modify online (or even offline) text documents, saving the changes automatically in the application.

It also allows group work creating shared folders or documents that different individuals can create, change and modify that different individuals will be able to create, change and modify, even at the same time.

10. Cite this for me (Imagine Easy Solutions)

• Price: Free
• Available on: Android and iOs

When conducting research on the different phenomena studied from psychology, the search for bibliography on the subject and its subsequent referencing is a fundamental and very important is a fundamental and very important element. This free application allows a quick and easy way to cite the different books and web pages on which we base when publishing and developing our texts, and can apply different standards such as APA or Harvard.

It also allows scanning the barcodes of books and publications through the smartphone camera, as well as exporting bibliographies via email in order to incorporate them into subsequent works. Although it is not only an application for psychologists, it can be of great help in speeding up the bibliography preparation process.

11. APA Monitor+

• Price: Free
• Available on: Android and iOs. This is the official app of the American Psychological Associationand includes articles, podcasts, and many other contents related to psychology and neuroscience. In English, of course.