The Virtual Hope Box (VHB) is a smartphone application designed for use by patients and their mental health providers as an accessory to treatment. The VHB contains simple tools to help patients with coping, relaxation, distraction, and positive thinking. Patients and providers can work together to personalize the VHB content on the patient's own smartphone according to the patient's specific needs. The patient can then use the VHB away from clinic, continuing to add or change content as needed.
Patients can use the VHB to store a variety of rich multimedia content that they find personally supportive in times of need. For example, a patient can include family photos, videos and recorded messages from loved ones, inspirational quotes, music they find especially soothing, reminders of previous successes, positive life experiences and future aspirations, and affirmations of their worth in their VHB. A patient can also collaborate with their provider to create coping cards to use in response to personal problem areas they experience. Finally, the VHB provides the patient with positive activity planning, distraction tools, and interactive relaxation exercises including guided imagery, controlled breathing and muscle relaxation.
I still have the old app and it’s helped me a lot but this current apps games do not work. It says they are “coming soon”, I think something broke on it
Immediately Deleted
EW Cole
I gave this 1 star because that’s the lowest possible. I had the previous version, I wanted to clear my data and start over. I wasn’t sure about the new one, I downloaded it to see if it’s the same thing. I picked “Distract Me” and of the 4 previous options, only 1 was available. Who gets rid of an app without a first fully developed replacement? I did tap on the available option and it was such a MESS. I immediately deleted it. I’d rather not have any app than use the “replacement.” Sadly, somehow this crashed the original. The App Store now told me my previous version wasn’t available in my area. It took me 1 1/2 using ChatGPT to figure out how to reinstall it.
Okay... 😓
chocostrawbiecake
this box is filled with activities I can do to cope/distract stress. And also when I added videos for some reason the app keeps crashing so I needed to uninstall the app but then I lost my progress can u fix the bugs and also add the sign in and log in page so progress can be saved? 😢
I love it!
hisnation
I used the old app before and it was so good. I had done though a lot of stress and the counselor at the time introduced this app and it was soo good. Yes please add the distract me word puzzle and picture puzzles; looking forward to it.
Addressed the following issues:
- Fixed added photos and videos not being visible after an update of the app
- Fixed not being able to set user added music as music for the Controlled Breathing exercise
- Fixed users Recordings looping to playing music when done playing the recording.
- Fixed music player opening to full size when looping to the next song.
- Fixed red check mark for completed sudoku puzzle disappearing when user click New Game
Version 2.1.5
The developer, Defense Health Agency, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
Seller
Defense Health Agency
Size
66.7 MB
Category
Health & Fitness
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
