2025-06-09 00:00:00 Using an app to make difficult conversations go smoother may sound contradictory. Nevertheless, it appears that the conversation tool that HOGENT researchers have developed for application in youth care has great added value. FAITH, which stands for 'Facilitating IT in individual counseling conversations in youth Help', is a practice-oriented scientific study that examines how technology can contribute to motivating children to enter into conversation and to make difficult conversations in youth care go more smoothly. Because the app stores data, it can also contribute to the continuity of the assistance. If a child goes to another institution or is assigned a different care provider, the information flow is not always optimal. The app also offers an answer to that. Based on this problem, HOGENT colleagues from Applied Informatics, in collaboration with colleagues from Orthopedagogy and with communication agency Characters, developed a conversation tool in the form of an app for tablet (although other applications may also be possible at a later stage). The app helps children aged 6 to 12 to express their concerns and how they feel. After all, this is sometimes difficult in a direct conversation with the care provider.