Manaaki

Manaaki is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy app for gambling.

Have you been thinking of how you might stop gambling altogether or cut back on your gambling activities? A team at the National Institute for Health Innovation of the University of Auckland, Deakin University of Australia, and working with Hāpai te Hauora have created a free app called Manaaki.

Manaaki is based on current therapy used at health services called Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT and builds on an e-learning programme called GAMBLINGLESS. Manaaki has embedded a range of strategies that are known to help people experiencing gambling problems or harms. Key features within Manaaki are:

- Personalising Manaaki to your needs
- Six modules that are about different stages of help from understanding your gambling to - -- preventing lapses and being gamble harm free.
- Self-help tools and videos to help you practise
- A journal for you to note how you are going
- A forum where you can share your strategies and support others like you
- A webchat to a counsellor.

Using a mobile app to help people wanting to change their gambling is very new and the team do not know if it will be effective or not. As such, Manaaki is currently being tested using a research design called a randomised trial. Participant recruitment to test the Manaaki app has now finished. For more information about the Manaaki app, please contact us at manaaki@auckland.ac.nz