Worth Warrior: help body image

Name: Worth Warrior: help body image
Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Author: Stem4

For self-worth & eating issues

Free

3 Ratings
Ages

13+
Years
Category

Health & Fitness
Developer

Stem4
Language

EN
English
Size

39.5
MB

‘To hit a target of worth takes practice and courage. Believe you can do it, keep trying and you will get there.’ Worth Warrior is a free app created for young people to manage negative body image, low self-worth, and related early-stage eating difficulties or disorders. Created for teenage mental health charity stem4 by Dr Krause, a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, in collaboration with young people, the app uses principles from the evidence-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for eating disorders (CBT-E). Like all stem4's award winning apps, it is free, private, anonymous, and safe. The app provides a range of helpful activities and information, based on the notion that through learning to challenge and change thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and body image issues underlying low self-worth, eating and body related issues can be helped. By identifying these underlying factors, and monitoring them over time, you can also start to identify what your triggers and maintaining factors are and work towards making positive change. The ‘Change the Story’ section of the app helps identify negative self thought and learn how to substitute positive self-thoughts. ‘Change the Action’ focuses on identifying negative behaviours and altering them. In ‘Change the Emotion’ users are provided with alternative, self soothing behaviours to manipulate their eating and in ‘Change the way I view my Body’ users are taught how to separate fact from assumption. There is also a range of information within the app for users to learn more about eating disorders, such as the importance of regular eating and hunger, the health consequences of eating-related behaviours, and issues that maintain eating disorders. The app also allows users to build a ‘safety net’ of helpful thoughts, behaviours and people to contact, and signposts to help. Finally, users can monitor and keep track of which app activities help, record thoughts and feelings in a journal, and view daily motivators. We understand the importance of privacy and so no identifiable data is collected in the app and no WIFI access or data is required. It is built to NHS standards. Please note that the Worth Warrior app is an aid in treatment but does not replace it. Worth Warrior is the latest app in stem4’s digital portfolio of apps that use evidence-based principles to help young people manage the symptoms of mental health difficulties and disorders. As of June 2022, stem4’s existing apps (Calm Harm, Clear Fear, Combined Minds and Move Mood) have been downloaded over 3.25 million times, and have received various awards including: The Digital Leaders 100 Awards ‘Tech for Good Initiative of the Year’ in 2020, for stem4’s full app portfolio The Health Tech Awards Winner ‘Best Healthcare App of the Year’ in 2021, for Calm Harm The CogX Awards Winner in ‘Good Health and Well-Being’ in 2020, for Clear Fear

Ratings & Reviews

4.0

out of 5

3 Ratings

Assessment
Feb 4

Michellegoldshmidt
Rating: 3 out of 5 starsThe Worth Warrior app is a unique app that aims to provide daily help for adolescents ages 12 and up with disordered eating behaviors and body image issues. The app is very aesthetically pleasing and I enjoyed the selection for avatars. However it was disappointing to see that if I chose to have daily motivators on the apps main screen it removes the avatar I chose. The app is designed by Clinical Psychologist Dr. Nihara Krause and utilizes the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Eating Disorders (CBT-E). I found this app to be aesthetically pleasing and customizable, the option to choose your own avatar and color scheme offers a personalized experience for the user and can provide a sense of comfort and familiarity to adolescents using it. This app is incredibly relevant to the lives of adolescents, although not every adolescent will develop an eating disorder, many experience distorted relationships with their bodies and food. (Laser & Nicotera, 2021) While this is extremely prevalent for young girls it is also an issue for young boys, nonbinary and gender non-conforming teens.I find that what is extremely effective about this app is its emphasis on psychoeducation. Psychoeducation as a therapeutic tool is extremely beneficial for all ranges. This is especially true for adolescents struggling with eating disorders as it helps them to better understand their eating disorder behaviors, improve feelings of self efficacy and fosters motivation for change. (Liquori, et. al., 2022) The change in the emotion section in the app is extremely expansive as it offers many self care activities to utilize in difficult moments. This section particularly reminded me of DBT’s opposite action intervention technique due to its emphasis on changing negative and distressing emotions. (Rathus, et. al., 2014). Opposite action can be a very helpful tool for adolescents struggling with disordered eating behaviors as it can help them build new coping skills as well as assist with building distress tolerance. (Pono, 2022) My main concern with this app is particularly to do with its limited ability to monitor and correct what is being said in its “Change the way I view my Body” section. In this section you select different parts of your body that you are feeling particularly insecure or obsessive about. The prompt is to write a statement about this particular part of your body and identify whether it is a fact or a feeling. The issue comes when you write a statement, it can be anything, and the app will agree that you correctly identified a fact. For example, I chose that I was feeling insecure about my neck, I wrote, “My neck is fat” and selected that this statement was a fact. After selecting “fact” I was rewarded with a “well done!” and the option to save this though as a golden thought (the app’s category of positive thoughts). This issue does not occur when you state a thought is a feeling, it will redirect you and ask for you to look at your body in a factual way. I believe this section has so much potential but it currently isn’t effective in what it is trying to achieve. I can see most users feeling discouraged by this and drop the app entirely. The Worth Warrior app shows promising potential for an app that can be beneficial for adolescents to use in conjunction with therapy. The utilization of evidenced based practices and psychoeducation is impressive. It is aesthetically pleasing and can be comforting for users with the use of an avatar and motivating words. However, it has several functionality flaws that need to be addressed in order for this app to be truly helpful to users.

Developer Response
Hi there, thank you so much for taking the time to leave such a thoughtful and helpful review! Your suggestions for improvements are very useful for us to know, and we have logged these ideas for future review with our development team. Thank you again.
Assessment
Feb 4

Michellegoldshmidt

Rating: 3 out of 5 starsThe Worth Warrior app is a unique app that aims to provide daily help for adolescents ages 12 and up with disordered eating behaviors and body image issues. The app is very aesthetically pleasing and I enjoyed the selection for avatars. However it was disappointing to see that if I chose to have daily motivators on the apps main screen it removes the avatar I chose. The app is designed by Clinical Psychologist Dr. Nihara Krause and utilizes the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Eating Disorders (CBT-E). I found this app to be aesthetically pleasing and customizable, the option to choose your own avatar and color scheme offers a personalized experience for the user and can provide a sense of comfort and familiarity to adolescents using it. This app is incredibly relevant to the lives of adolescents, although not every adolescent will develop an eating disorder, many experience distorted relationships with their bodies and food. (Laser & Nicotera, 2021) While this is extremely prevalent for young girls it is also an issue for young boys, nonbinary and gender non-conforming teens.I find that what is extremely effective about this app is its emphasis on psychoeducation. Psychoeducation as a therapeutic tool is extremely beneficial for all ranges. This is especially true for adolescents struggling with eating disorders as it helps them to better understand their eating disorder behaviors, improve feelings of self efficacy and fosters motivation for change. (Liquori, et. al., 2022) The change in the emotion section in the app is extremely expansive as it offers many self care activities to utilize in difficult moments. This section particularly reminded me of DBT’s opposite action intervention technique due to its emphasis on changing negative and distressing emotions. (Rathus, et. al., 2014). Opposite action can be a very helpful tool for adolescents struggling with disordered eating behaviors as it can help them build new coping skills as well as assist with building distress tolerance. (Pono, 2022) My main concern with this app is particularly to do with its limited ability to monitor and correct what is being said in its “Change the way I view my Body” section. In this section you select different parts of your body that you are feeling particularly insecure or obsessive about. The prompt is to write a statement about this particular part of your body and identify whether it is a fact or a feeling. The issue comes when you write a statement, it can be anything, and the app will agree that you correctly identified a fact. For example, I chose that I was feeling insecure about my neck, I wrote, “My neck is fat” and selected that this statement was a fact. After selecting “fact” I was rewarded with a “well done!” and the option to save this though as a golden thought (the app’s category of positive thoughts). This issue does not occur when you state a thought is a feeling, it will redirect you and ask for you to look at your body in a factual way. I believe this section has so much potential but it currently isn’t effective in what it is trying to achieve. I can see most users feeling discouraged by this and drop the app entirely. The Worth Warrior app shows promising potential for an app that can be beneficial for adolescents to use in conjunction with therapy. The utilization of evidenced based practices and psychoeducation is impressive. It is aesthetically pleasing and can be comforting for users with the use of an avatar and motivating words. However, it has several functionality flaws that need to be addressed in order for this app to be truly helpful to users.
Developer Response Feb 12
Hi there, thank you so much for taking the time to leave such a thoughtful and helpful review! Your suggestions for improvements are very useful for us to know, and we have logged these ideas for future review with our development team. Thank you again.

Bug fixes

Version 2.0.4

10/25/2025

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