The State of New Mexico Human Services Department announces that the NMConnect app is now featuring integrated self-help digital wellness tools.
The NMConnect app has released an upgraded version that engages New Mexicans in a full suite of free digital self-help wellness tools. These tools offer support for your emotional, mental, behavioral, and substance use concerns.
The latest version of the NMConnect not only allows you to access the New Mexico Crisis and Access Line support services and community resources, but now it also offers a full suite of integrated digital self-guided, clinically supported, CBT-based tools which can support you in assessing, understanding, and working on your own behavioral health and wellness.
Download the app via Apple iOS Store or Google Play Store and engage in pathways to wellness through these new tools:
(1) Wellness assessments: Offers you support in understanding and tracking levels of stress, anxiety, and depression over time. Every two weeks the assessment will deliver a progress report and guide you to the right support to maintain your mental wellness.
(2) Self-help courses: Based in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, these self-help courses support you in addressing the most common mental health concerns people experience. The courses are delivered in short informational bites, designed with an emphasis on actionable steps and creating healthy habits.
(3) Wellness tools: The interactive tools help you connect and integrate the material into your daily practices. From simple listening to high engagement there is something for everyone.
- Zen Room: Practice changing your physical and emotional state through a customized relaxation room.
- Mood Check: Encourages you to self report on your mood and understand how the things you do throughout the day affect the way you feel.
- Activity Scheduler: Allows you to intentionally schedule pleasurable, social and achievement activities to help keep you accountable for change.
- Fun and Achievement Tracker: Offers you an understanding of how certain activities can boost or decrease your feelings of happiness, fun, and achievement by tracking your mood before and after an activity.
- Calendar: Gives you a view into the scheduled wellness activities to support you in planning your week.
- Thought Distortions Quiz: Inspires you to go deeper into understanding thought distortions.
- Thought Diary: Offers you an understanding on how real-life situations may be using unhelpful thinking styles, and empowers you to build better thoughts in these types of situations.
(4) Progress tracker: The tracking tools within the app help you analyze your moods, gives feedback related to how you spending your time, and allows you to understand how levels of stress, anxiety and depression change over time.
- Mood Heatmap: Allows you to see the Mood Check data displayed on a graph for easy self analysis.
- Mood Indicator: Gives feedback related to how you spend your time and how it makes you feel.
- Wellness Assessment: Allows you to understand how your levels of stress, anxiety and depression change as you use the NMConnect self-help tools, by completing the Wellness Assessment every 2 weeks.
Begin your self-guided journey by downloading (or updating) the NMConnect app on your smartphone via Apple iOS Store or Google Play Store.
