Talkspace-owned Lasting launches new 'Parenting Guide' app

Sri Vasagi K March 31, 2022 | 10:45 AMTechnology

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE) --Mar. 21, 2022-- Lasting from Talkspace, a leading provider of self-guided therapy apps, announced a new app that helps parents become more confident in their approach to parenting.

Figure. 1. Lasting, which is owned by mobile therapy company Talkspace, has launched a new app aimed at parents

The app, called the Lasting Parenting Guide, comes at a time when parents are under unprecedented amounts of stress. A recent study from the American Psychological Association found that more than 70 percent of parents are concerned for their children’s social, academic and emotional development.

With the Lasting Parenting Guide, parents and caregivers can access a host of resources that can support their journey to raising healthy, resilient children.[1]

The app contains greater than 100 self-guided classes and stay therapist-led lessons each week on subjects comparable to safe attachment, self-awareness, self-discipline, anxiousness in youngsters, whining and complaining, getting youngsters to pay attention, strong-willed youngsters, and sibling relationships.

It additionally affords greater than 30 psychological wellbeing prompts designed to assist mother and father observe self-care and emotional regulation.

As well as the app features a part that enables mother and father to document their ideas and reply to prompts about sure subjects.

It additionally contains options for parenting companions, comparable to a collaborative Q&A bit that prompts conversations round parenting approaches.[2]

Lasting says the parenting program was completed by more than 4,000 families in beta testing and that 79% of them said the app helped them parent more effectively.

“Today’s parents have an incredibly hard job to do,” said Steven Dziedzic, the founder and senior vice president of Lasting from Talkspace in a statement.

“Raising kids used to be done by an entire community, and now many parents are doing everything by themselves. By listening to our customers, we learned that the families in America needed the most help with parenting issues such as anxiety, sibling conflict and emotion-coaching, so we built an app that applies tried-and-true psychological approaches to help them.”

The free version of the app includes four sessions. The app’s full content library is available for a monthly subscription that starts at $29.99. Lasting Parenting Guide is available to download on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.[3]

References:

  1. https://investors.talkspace.com/news-releases/news-release-details/lasting-talkspace-announces-lasting-parenting-guide-new-app
  2. https://www.universalpersonality.com/talkspace-owned-lasting-launches-new-parenting-guide-app-its-latest-self-guided-advice-service/
  3. https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/21/talkspace-lasting-parenting-guide-app/

Cite this article:

Sri Vasagi K (2022), Talkspace-owned Lasting launches new 'Parenting Guide' app, Anatechmaz. pp.60

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