New KU Leuven spin-off fosters therapeutic treatment in everyday life

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With the help of a science-based smartphone app, psychotherapists and psychologists can now enhance their patients’ treatment with interventions and assessments in everyday life. By bridging the gap between the treatment room and the patient’s real life, therapy becomes more efficient and effective. That is the mission of m-Path Software, a new spin-off of KU Leuven.

Just over one in five Flemish adults meet the criteria for a mental disorder. This was revealed just last year by the Public Mental Health Monitor ( research report in Dutch ), a large-scale interuniversity study in Flanders. Those who take the step to seek help in most cases have to wait about three months before a psychologist or psychotherapist can start a course of treatment. ...

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