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Stressbusters

This was our biggest e-learning projects to date. Obviously as you can see from the animation section that we used some cool 3D animations but when you're trying to communicate to teenagers they need to be impressed. The project itself was to create a CD ROM for King's College University of psychiatry. Two out of 10 teenagers suffer from depression in life that can be caused from a whole variety of symptoms. Generally a key worker will take the students through the program to recovery without the aid of a computer but Kings College wanted to utilise the new e-learning techniques to make this healing process more successful.

Over 8 weekly sessions of around 45 minutes each users get to follow the program whilst watching the experiences of 3 other teenagers. Firstly the user gets to grips with the program through narrated animation, and videos, and as the user progresses over the weeks they learn different techniques. Users get to combat their problems using techniques such as SOLVIT and get to understand and deal with problems in their lives.

The program is extremely confidential and all data is stored and retrieved for users after different sections to allow them to reflect on what they have learned and how they have applied this in their lives. The users get a weekly action plan and print outs after every section that are personalised to the user.

There are a number of games and learning activities that seamlessly fit in the program. Every learning objective therefore involves learning, testing ones understanding, applying in ones life and reflecting the following week. It is quite difficult at times not to patronise people especially where they are suffering a set back in their lives so the whole program was designed to enforce understanding and solving for users.

The psychologists at the Institute of Psychiatry between them had years of experience helping teenagers recover, so they were instrumental in program. They knew exactly how to communicate a successful program and we bought this to life on a computer for them. The program is still undergoing user testing, as you can imagine, it takes 8 weeks for a user to fully complete the program, and the feedback so far has been extremely positive. The program was also short listed at the medical futures awards.