This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When you launch Woebot in Facebook Messenger, the chatbot’s cerulean blue eyes peer out from the screen. He looks concerned, a little quizzical. He invites you to chat. Within a few…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Neuroscience isn’t on many elementary school lesson plans. But this spring, a second grade class at Fairmont Neighborhood School in the South Bronx is plunging in. “Your brain can get…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Before he arrived at Wichita State University, Steve Paniagua had never seen a therapist. He’d struggled with depression and suicidal tendencies for years, but his family could never afford treatment.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last week I facilitated a workshop on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Linking Nonprofit High Performance to Wellbeing in Santa Cruz hosted by the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County. Part of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. These are actually two closely-related group therapy interventions, evaluated in separate studies, for youth who are at elevated risk of serious depression (e.g., exhibit moderate but not severe depressive symptoms).…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Substance use disorders (SUDs) affect over 20 million Americans from all walks of life. An SUD, also known as substance abuse or addiction, is defined as continued use of drugs or alcohol…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Aaron Green (as I shall call him) is a forty-six-year-old psychoanalyst who practices in Manhattan, in the East Nineties. He has seven patients in analysis, who come four or five…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It can sometimes seem strange how so much of the country got hooked on opioids within just a few years. Deaths from prescription drugs like oxycodone, hydrocodone, and methadone have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Early childhood is a unique time of life, when children’s bodies – especially their brains – are developing rapidly. The most acute stages of human neurological development begin in the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The lack of adequate support services for individuals with mental health needs is at a crisis level in our society. This is something that confronts so many of us each…