We live in the information society. The technological advances of the last century have allowed the human being to establish contact with anyone and obtain information of any kind with a single click.

Although the constant use of information and communication technologies has some disadvantages, there are numerous applications for this type of technology that can make life easier for us, even at work.

Among the many advances and applications that have emerged, many of them can be very useful and have been designed to help psychologists and / or psychology students in the exercise of their profession, allowing access even from a smartphone. Therefore, throughout this article we will see a series of applications for psychologists that can be very useful for learning and practicing psychology professionally.

10 useful applications for psychology professionals and students

Below is a series of apps for psychologists and psychology students that can help you practice from the comfort of your smartphone.

1. Psonrisa

  • Price: On request
  • Available at: Android and iOs

Psonríe is a useful application that allows psychologists and patients to connect through short online psychological assistance sessions.

Users just have to download the app that gives access to this digital platform, fill in their profiles, and choose the professionals who are available to perform 20-minute sessions per call or by messaging. All this, without the need for an appointment, and with Psonríe taking care of bringing this traffic of potential clients to the psychologists.

In short, a very good option to balance work schedules, and receiving payments from the first session performed.

If you are interested in seeing more information about Psonrie, please visit this page.

2. Psicoreg

  • Price: Trial version and payment
  • Available at: Android and iOs

Psicoreg is one of the most useful tools for psychologists and therapists , as it facilitates management and interaction with patients, and has enormous benefits for both.

It is a very intuitive and easy to use app. As a psychologist you can register your patients and access multiple functionalities from the application itself or from the computer: history management, medication information, records, appointments, etc.

In addition, patients also benefit from this tool, as they can access the guidelines you have written at any time, they can view the psycho-educational content, communicate via chat and much more.

This tool is ideal because it facilitates the intervention and improves the patient’s adherence to the treatment, so it cannot be absent in the day-to-day clinical practice. You can visit their website and try this application through this link.

3. IRP (Akaro)

  • Price: Free
  • Available at: Android

Many psychologists and/or psychology students intend to pursue the clinical branch. To achieve this end, they can take a Master’s degree in General Health Psychology that will qualify them to practice in the private sector, or they can try to access the public health system through PIR training (Internal Resident Psychologist), which requires passing a complex test-type examination in order to compete for one of the few places available.

This free application developed by Akaro for Android is very useful when preparing and training for this exam, containing and allowing to answer the questions asked in the PIR calls from 2002 to 2015. It is one of the apps for psychologists and students that serves as a valuable review and study tool, since it allows you to exercise by answering the questions and indicating at the time the number of hits, errors, and points obtained in each exam.

In addition to each year’s exams, the application allows you to ask questions by subject area, answer questions at random or view statistics on the scores, successes and errors made at each attempt so far.

4. AirPersons (Airpersons)

  • Price: Free (registration required)
  • Available at: Android and iOs

This application acts as a method of communication between psychologists or other types of professionals and clients allowing consultation via video chat or video call. In a similar way to the use of Skype for the provision of remote services but with the advantage that it allows direct billing.

At the time of registration the psychologist establishes the conditions of his services such as time availability and remuneration, so that later he can be contacted by video call when he is online. Everything is done through the Internet, the client not being aware of the private telephone number of the professional.

5. NovoPsych Psychometrics (NovoPsych Pty Ltd)

  • Price: 49.99
  • Available at: iOs

An app for psychologists in which you can find different evaluation tests applicable to patients . The program includes automatic correction systems that allow the process to be speeded up, the results being only visible to the clinician who applies them.

6. iGrade for Psychologist (Zysco)

  • Price: 2,99 ?
  • Available at: iOs

Through this and other apps for similar psychologists, professionals in this discipline can have a useful tool that allows them** to organize their patients’ information**. Among others, it allows the administration and management of citations, profiles, reports, evaluations and notes.

It is possible to manage an unlimited number of clients and sessions, as well as to assess their progress. However, it must be taken into account that information about patients is private and highly confidential, so the use or non-use of this type of application must be assessed very carefully based on the degree of security of the application in question.

7. 3D Brain (DNA Learning Center)

  • Price: Free
  • Available at: Android and iOs

The study of the brain and the nervous system in general is the field of study of the neurosciences. However, it is not easy to understand in detail how the organs that make up the brain work, since it has so many parts and these are so close together that depending on the perspective from which we look, the same structure may appear very different. In short, getting an idea of the three-dimensionality of this set of organs is complicated.

Fortunately, today there are technological solutions that allow the creation of very faithful and detailed 3D images, such as 3D Brain.

This is one of the apps for psychologists and other disciplines linked to the study of the brain that allows us to observe and study the different regions and structures that are part of it. In addition to offering a 3D model of the brain, it provides information on the different functions and lesions associated with the different structures.

It also allows access to different studies carried out from the field of neuroscience. It should be noted that this application is in English.

8. DSM-5 Criteria (American Psychiatric Association)

  • Price: 53,66 ?
  • Available at: Android and iOs

One of the two main reference manuals within clinical psychology and currently considered the most widely accepted, the DSM, collects and classifies the different types of mental disorders while establishing the main diagnostic criteria for each of them.

This is one of the apps for psychologists specializing in clinical practice that allows access to different criteria so that we can visualize the different symptoms typical of each disorder and the classification of these, as well as different videos in which the main changes from previous versions of the DSM are indicated. However, this is a paid application (at the time of writing this article, its price was 53.66 ?).

9. Google Documents (Google Inc.)

  • Price: Free
  • Available at: Android and iOs

Google Documents is a widely known application by the general public, especially in the academic field. It is an application that allows you to open, create and modify text documents online (or even offline), with changes being automatically saved in the application.

It also allows for group work by being able to create shared folders or documents that different individuals will be able to create, change and modify, possibly even at the same time.

10. Cite this for me (Imagine Easy Solutions)

  • Price: Free
  • Available at: Android and iOs

When carrying out research into the different phenomena studied from the perspective of psychology, the search for literature on the subject and its subsequent referencing is a fundamental and very important element. This free application allows us to quickly and easily cite the different books and web pages on which we base ourselves when publishing and preparing our texts, and it can apply different regulations such as the APA or Harvard.

It also allows scanning the barcodes of books and publications through the smartphone’s camera, as well as exporting the bibliographies through email in order to be able to incorporate them into later works. Although it is not only an application for psychologists, it can be of great help to accelerate the process of elaboration of the bibliography.