Reference no: EM133402437

Question: The app, Bluelce, has been co-produced with young people who have self-harmed and is designed as an adjunct to therapy. It includes a mood monitoring diary and a personalised self-help menu of mood-lifting activities, including music and photo libraries, physical activities, audio-taped relaxation and mindfulness exercises, identification and challenging of negative thoughts, and distress tolerance activities. BlueIce records mood and mood lifting usage/helpfulness. After use, young people are asked to re-rate their mood and are routed to emergency numbers if they are still feeling an urge to self-harm.BlueIce will be offered to 50 young people who are regularly self-harming and attending child and adolescent mental health service outpatient clinics located across Bath and North East Somerset, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Swindon and Wiltshire. The project will involve assessing the acceptability, safety, use and effect of Bluelce. To ensure that this project is effectively implemented, a need has arisen for a project manager to set up a project management team including smartphone app specialists who will execute the project as required. You have been appointed as the lead project manager and a budget of £200.000 has been allocated for the whole project which includes the cost of development and installation of the smartphone app and training of staff in assessing the acceptability, safety, use and effect of Bluelce. A total of 20 staff members have been selected from various departments to take part in the training for a period of 4 months

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