1/n Out today in @jamapsychiatry.com: Interpretation Issues With the Patient Health Questionnaire Instructions. We find troubling variability in whether people think they should respond based on the frequency of the Sx or the frequency of being bothered by the Sx. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Interpretation Issues With the Patient Health Questionnaire Instructions

This survey study assesses whether responses to the Patient Health Questionnaire reflect symptom frequency and severity.

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New paper w/ @daniadams.bsky.social & Rebecca Mirhashem examining how unionized public mental health workers are organizing to improve their working conditions & the challenges they face in doing so. We identified challenges common to labor organizing & challenges specific to the helping profession.

Sexual minority youth and young adults 🏳️‍🌈 still typically prefer counselor-led 👋 over self-guided 🤖 therapy, and often maintain a desire for in-person🪑services Many more findings in our new❗️paper 📰 -- check it out below! ⬇️ doi.org/10.1037/sgd0...

Check out our new publication, in collaboration with The PRIDE Study, on the associations between recent anti-transgender policies and mental health: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

State Policies and Mental Health Among Sexual and Gender Minority Adults

This cohort study uses a difference-in-differences analysis to estimate changes in mental health symptoms associated with enactment of anti–gender minority state policies among sexual and gender minor...

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📢 We’re wrapping up our APCS-funded D&I speaker series with one last exciting panel! Join us for a panel on Policy Dissemination and Implementation featuring @emmabethmcginty.bsky.social, @erikacrable.bsky.social, and Dr. Jonathan Purtle 🏛️🧠 Use the QR code to register and get the Zoom link!

📢 Join us for a special keynote presentation by APA CEO Dr. Arthur Evans 🎙️ Scan the QR code to sign up and get the link!

Mental Healthcare for All Lab@mhcare4all.bsky.social · last yr.

Registration is open for the next event in our APCS-funded D&I speaker series! 🎉 Join us for a special keynote presentation by Dr. Arthur Evans on “Transforming Mental Health Systems” 💡 Use the QR code to sign up and get the Zoom link!

📢 Join us for a special keynote presentation by APA CEO Dr. Arthur Evans 🎙️ Scan the QR code to sign up and get the link!

Mental Healthcare for All Lab@mhcare4all.bsky.social · last yr.

Registration is open for the next event in our APCS-funded D&I speaker series! 🎉 Join us for a special keynote presentation by Dr. Arthur Evans on “Transforming Mental Health Systems” 💡 Use the QR code to sign up and get the Zoom link!

Instagram's user-made AI Studio bots are obviously not licensed therapists. But if you ask for credentials, a bot will make up license numbers, practices, and education to try to convince you it's qualified to help with your mental health. www.404media.co/instagram-ai...

Instagram's AI Chatbots Lie About Being Licensed Therapists

When pushed for credentials, Instagram's user-made AI Studio bots will make up license numbers, practices, and education to try to convince you it's qualified to help with your mental health.

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Registration is open for the next event in our APCS-funded D&I speaker series! 🎉 Join us for a special keynote presentation by Dr. Arthur Evans on “Transforming Mental Health Systems” 💡 Use the QR code to sign up and get the Zoom link!

Check out a new paper on how states have addressed the maldistribution of behavioral health providers. This work is part of an important Milbank Quarterly special issue called "Mental Health and Substance Use Challenges Facing the United States: What Can State Policymakers Do?"

Join us for TWO upcoming panels! Use the QR codes to register for "Treatment Fidelity & Adaptation" and "Implementing Evidence-Based Practices in Public Settings" w/ Drs. Bryce McLeod, Michael Southam-Gerow, Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, Brad Nakamura, Iruma Bello, and Lisa Dixon

Registration for the next panel of our APCS-funded D&I speaker series is open! Use the QR code to sign up and get the Zoom link for a panel on "Moving Beyond the Clinic" 🏥➡️🌍 with our wonderful speakers Dr. Lisa Saldana, Dr. Courtney Benjamin Wolk, and Dr. Gwen Lawson 🎉

We are excited to share that registration is now open for the next panel in our free D&I speaker series! 🎉 Use the QR code to sign up and join us for a virtual panel on 'Measurement-based Care' 📈📊featuring @mandyjensendoss.bsky.social, @rubenmartinez.bsky.social, & Dr. Susan Douglas

SBU Psychology is hiring a PRODiG fellow -- someone who starts off in a mentored faculty role for two years and then transitions to the tenure-track. We are looking for people who study health equity. See ad here. Apply! apply.interfolio.com/158719

Registration for the next panel as part of our APCS-funded D&I speaker series is open! Use the QR code to sign up and get the Zoom link for "Implementing Contextually Sensitive and Culturally Humble Care" with our wonderful panelists Dr. Anna Lau, @anabaumann.bsky.social, and Dr. Maggi Price.

Mark your calendars! 🗓️ The winter & spring schedule for our D&I speaker series is here, featuring a fantastic lineup of speakers. Join us for free virtual panels! 🎉

Mark your calendars! 🗓️ The winter & spring schedule for our D&I speaker series is here, featuring a fantastic lineup of speakers. Join us for free virtual panels! 🎉

Grateful to @mhcare4all.bsky.social's leadership on this work proposing a conceptual framework for how psychological and policy research on resilience can be integrated to identify the mechanisms through which policies mitigate adversity and promote the human capacity to thrive.

There is still time to register for tomorrow's panel as part of our APCS-funded D&I science speaker series! Use the QR code to sign up and get the Zoom link for "Supporting Clinicians to Implement Evidence-Based Practices" with our wonderful panelists @rsbeidas.bsky.social and Dr. Shannon Dorsey.

Registration for the second panel as part of our APCS-funded dissemination and implementation science speaker is open! Sign up to get the Zoom link for "Innovative Implementation Research Designs" with our wonderful panelists @kguastaferrophd.bsky.social & Dr. Geoffrey Curran

Learn more about our free, virtual, year-long dissemination and implementation science speaker series funded by the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science for trainees of all levels! Use the QR code to sign up for our listserv to receive updates and Zoom links!

Learn more about our free, virtual, year-long dissemination and implementation science speaker series funded by the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science for trainees of all levels! Use the QR code to sign up for our listserv to receive updates and Zoom links!

We are so ecstatic to welcome Rafael Esteva Hache to the Mental Healthcare for All lab as a PhD student in clinical psychology! Rafael is already a seasoned implementation researcher and we are overjoyed he's coming to Stony Brook! Welcome Rafa!

We are so delighted to share that Laura Jans will be joining the Mental Healthcare for All Lab in Fall 2024 as a PhD student in clinical psychology at Stony Brook University! Laura is already a star. You can read some of her work here: www.researchgate.net/profile/Laur...

Thanks to the dream team that made this research possible!@erikacrable.bsky.social, Gabriela Kattan Khazanov, Laurel Scheinfeld, Beth McGinty, & Jonathan Purtle

Mental Healthcare for All Lab@mhcare4all.bsky.social · 2y ago

There is a severe shortage of behavioral health providers in the U.S. We conducted a scoping review of one key policy tool being used to address the shortage crisis: federal loan repayment programs. See below for details & read the study here!: doi.org/10.1176/appi...

There is a severe shortage of behavioral health providers in the U.S. We conducted a scoping review of one key policy tool being used to address the shortage crisis: federal loan repayment programs. See below for details & read the study here!: doi.org/10.1176/appi...

Check out our lab's new publication! We interviewed 18 public mental health therapists in NYC to understand their session-planning practices, needs, barriers, and recommendations to support their planning. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

Want to know more about the kind of research we do? Here's a recently completed study evaluating the 10-year implementation of TF-CBT in Philadelphia's public mental health system. The city trained providers across the city in TF-CBT and youth PTSD symptoms decreased. doi.org/10.1177/2633...

We are the Mental Healthcare for All Lab at Stony Brook University! Our work seeks to combat health inequities by strengthening, expanding, and integrating our public mental health and social service systems.