How Conversational Media Can Spread Knowledge of Verbal Bibliotherapy
Verbal has teamed up with the Open University and In The Room to create an interactive conversational media experience surrounding our online platform Verbal Wellbeing.
Verbal Wellbeing provides a platform of specially-created stories paired with psychologically-informed discussion guides that encourage children to learn and talk about topics such as mental wellbeing, resilience, building healthy relationships and more.
Prospective Verbal Wellbeing users can have a range of valid questions, whether it’s wanting to know about the psychology behind our programmes or practical questions like how to run a session. To support our ability to answer these important questions, we created a conversational media experience that allows users to feel like they’re ‘in the room’ with a subject matter expert. You will be able to ask Verbal’s Psychology Research Associate Dr Natalie Divin your questions that will be answered in real-life.
We have received our first academic publication from this partnership, titled “Conversational Media for Inclusive Access to Mental Health Interventions for Schoolchildren”. This publication details our work in developing the conversational media experience and ensuring that user insight and feedback was at the heart of this development process.
This academic publication is free for all readers to access and can be accessed here.