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Access the report on implementing Lumi Nova for children and young people's mental health.
DownloadTesting Enablers to Support the Implementation of Lumi Nova
A digital therapeutic game that helps children aged 7-12 years self -manage worries and build resilience.
In Partnership with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, HIN South London has worked with Educational Mental Health Practitioners from Greenwich and Bexley Mental Health Support Teams to explore how to embed Lumi Nova into practitioners’ everyday use with families of children and young people experiencing low level anxiety. Outputs of stakeholder engagement and qualitative data capture methods, built upon recent evidence for how to enable the implementation of mental health digital therapies and Lumi Nova; and have generated recommendations for practitioners and leadership teams.
‘It's a great report and highly valuable to us.’ Lauren Cane Associate Director – CAMHS Oxleas NHS FT Trust
'The Lumi Nova team at BFB Labs welcomes the opportunity to have contributed to this project and its findings. Through our valued and continued partnership with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and collaborative working with its Mental Health Support Teams in Bexley and Greenwich, we're delighted to be able to provide easily accessible, non-stigmatising support for everyday worries and anxiety, helping young minds build lifelong resilience. Some of the Lumi Nova specific learnings from this report have already led to iterations and improvements on the access and service model, and we look forward to doing whatever we can to support Oxleas, and the NHS more widely, to implement the recommendations from this report.'Kelly Tham, Head of Business Development & Delivery, BFB Labs
Lumi Nova: Tales of Courage is a digital therapeutic intervention that delivers Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) – (the gold-standard treatment for anxiety) and psychoeducation – via an evidence-based anxiety treatment for 7-12-year-olds; providing graded exposure therapy via an immersive, app-based mobile game
Guided self-help digital cognitive behavioural therapy for children and young people with mild to moderate symptoms of anxiety or low mood enable early access, which in itself offers a host of potential benefits such as:
- enabling access to mental health support (including for those on waiting lists)
- reducing the demand on other resources such as face to face CBT treatment options
- promoting equality due to the ability to engage with digital remotely, which some children and young people prefer as well as benefiting some neurodivergent children and young people.
- clinical benefits – evidence suggests that digital CBT technologies may improve symptoms of anxiety for children and young people with mild to moderate symptoms of anxiety or low mood.
Lumi Nova (BfB labs) is one of four guided self-help digital CBT technologies recommended in Early Value Assessment by NICE as an initial treatment option for children and young people (aged 5 to 18) with mild to moderate symptoms of anxiety or low mood, while evidence is being generated.
