The Virtual Hope Box (VHB) is a smartphone application designed for use by patients and their behavioral well being providers as an adjunct to remedy. The VHB contains easy instruments to assist sufferers with coping, leisure, distraction, and positive thinking. Patients and suppliers can work collectively to personalize the VHB content on the affected person's personal smartphone in accordance with the affected person's particular wants. The patient can then use the VHB away from clinic, persevering with to add or change content as wanted.

Patients can use the VHB to store a wide selection of wealthy multimedia content that they discover personally supportive in instances of need. For instance, a affected person can embody family pictures, movies and recorded messages from family members, inspirational quotes, music they find especially soothing, reminders of earlier successes, constructive life experiences and future aspirations, and affirmations of their value in their VHB. A patient can also collaborate with their supplier to create coping cards to make use of in response to personal drawback areas they expertise. Finally, the VHB offers the patient with optimistic exercise planning, distraction tools, and interactive leisure workout routines together with guided imagery, controlled respiratory and muscle rest.