A recent paper on Connectd for Schools received the award for Best Paper at the 7th International Workshop on “Mental Health and Well-being: Sensing and Intervention”, an adjunct workshop to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) international joint conference on pervasive and ubiquitous computing (UbiComp) 2022. The paper titled “Sensing school community needs: a co-designed, personalized mental health app for high school students, parents, and staff” highlighted the urgent need to scale proven approaches towards the mental health care of students in under-resourced, urban public school districts. Connectd for Schools uses an interactive platform to provide personalized resources to students and parents that can be customized by each school and district to meet their communities unique needs.
Read the full paper at https://ubicomp-mental-health.github.io/papers/2022/Barish-school.pdf
New study released on Homeless-Experienced Veteran Families from Division Faculty Member, Dr. Roya Ijadi-Maghsoodi
A research brief for the qualitative study: A Sector Wheel Approach to Understanding the Needs and Barriers to Services among Homeless-Experienced Veteran Families is available at https://www.va.gov/HOMELESS/nchav/docs/RB-Ijadi-2022-A_Sector_Wheel_Approach_to_Understanding.pdf
Behavioral Psychedelics: Integrating Mind and Behavior to Improve Health and Resilience
In a recent article, Dr. George Slavich from DPBH and Dr. Edmund Neuhaus define and discuss behavioral psychedelics, or the study of psychedelics to foster intentional changes in habits and behaviors to improve health and resilience. They outline a behavioral psychedelics model for integrating psychedelics into psychotherapy, and how to assess effectiveness. Read the full article from the UCLA Laboratory for Stress Assessment and Research.