YoungSpotlight

SOLUTION Digital tool for young people with social anxiety . UngSpotlight is an internet-based self-help program to help young people who struggle with presentation anxiety. The program has been created with the aim of being able to prevent the development of generalized social anxiety and uses a cognitive behavioral therapy approach. ABOUT YOUNG SPOTLIGHT ALL TRAINING WILL TAKE PLACE AT HOME

UngSpotlight is for young people with a fear of speaking in front of the class, and all training will take place at home. Through the training programme, the young people get to know 3 avatars who tell about how they experience their presentation anxiety and how they learn to deal with it. Most likely, the young people will be able to relate to one of those examples.

PERFORMANCE ANXIETY

Being afraid of speaking in front of others is very common. It is actually one of the most common fears we humans have. Who hasn't dreaded a presentation? Or to give a speech? For young people, speaking or presenting in front of other young people is often what creates the most fear and discomfort. For some, this is a fear that passes quickly and does not hinder him/her in daily life. Any nervousness or fear of presenting in front of others is therefore not a problem. But for some, the fear of presenting is so great that it affects everyday life. Then we call it presentation anxiety. It can feel so unbearable that we avoid presenting in front of the class, avoid raising our hand or avoid reading aloud in class. In a class of 30 students, it is likely that between 5 and 10 of the students have presentation anxiety.

DEVELOPED BY INTROMAT - HEALTH BERGEN

PhD scholar and psychologist Smiti Kahlon has developed the intervention in collaboration with supervisor/project manager Tine Nordgreen and students/research assistants. Youwell AS has developed a self-help tool in the form of a web app based on the Youwell platform in close collaboration with health researchers. UngSpotlight was developed under the auspices of INTROMAT, an ICT lighthouse project at Health Bergen.

DISTRIBUTED BY THE DIRECTORATE OF HEALTH

UngSpotlight is made available by the Directorate of Health for all young people in Norway. The program is distributed through the DIGI-UNG project and can be found at ung.no.