NIH P50/Center grant officially (internally) submitted. 725 pages. WHEW.

What an awesome, brilliant group of humans I get to work with. No matter what happens I'm so proud of what we dreamed up together. Also, as a fun bonus, individual R01s feel much less overwhelming now. 😂

Outcomes of mental health care have not improved over time, despite the availability of more effective treatments. Read our new open access paper in the Journal of Affective Disorders. With Mathias Harrer @[email protected] Marketa Ciharova Eirini Karyotaki Clara Miguel
doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.…

Thank you so much, Rock Health—and congrats all the amazing honorees! Very grateful for this recognition of the work our lab is doing to try to make evidence-based mental health support accessible to youth everywhere, when and where they need it most.

top50indigitalhealth.com/2023-honoree-j…

Thrilled to see our recent study on self-labeling featured in today's New York Times!

Ellen Barry's excellent article breaks down the prevalence infaltion hypothesis (@drlucyfoulkes & Jack Andrews). A brief 🧵 on the evidence, as I see it:

nytimes.com/2024/05/06/hea…

The last grant I transferred from my prior institution finally got executed at my new institution today...14 months later

Beyond content expertise, leadership, or management skills, the most crucial skill I've had to build as a lab director—by FAR—is radical acceptance 😭🫠

📢Due to an influx of interest, we are extending our deadline for the Uplift The Web challenge to **May 5th** by (11:59pm CT)!

We're excited to review your ideas for brief, online tools to support people experiencing depression!

Learn more+submit here: sites.northwestern.edu/10minutechalle…

Penny turned 8 years old last month, but nobody told her 🐶😍 [photo cred David Payne, MD]

The last few years, I've tried hard to fuel dialogue about the stigma faced by psychologists with lived experience of MH difficulties.

So it feels surreal to see our work featured in the American Psychological Association Monitor.

Huge appreciation for all the allies in this fight
apa.org/monitor/2024/0…

Suicide is a major public health problem in youth, and we'd LOVE to reduce barriers to studying this critical topic.

Toward this goal, we're offering an extra 10% off for trainees through the moths of May!

In response to Florida's social media ban for young people & Haidt's new book, Margarita Panayiotou and I wrote a blog summarizing the scientific evidence of social media bans. We also discuss initiatives that would actually tackle youth mental health issues.

eiko-fried.com/social-media-b…

Quietly laughing that my auto-reply is essentially 'sorry for the delay, I am busy doing my job,' but here we are. 😂 Off to my grant-writing cave until further notice...

'Kids and mental health is a very complex issue, and Haidt’s solution appears to be, in the words of H.L. Mencken: clear, simple, and wrong.'

thedailybeast.com/the-coddling-o…

'Might I suggest identifying a back-up research program?'

...which was a great motivator to do the exact opposite, with enthusiasm!

Hello! I’m THRILLED to announce that this fall, I will be joining Northwestern as a graduate student in Northwestern Medicine’s Clinical Psychology PhD program! Even more exciting, I’ll continue working under the mentorship of Jessica Schleider, PhD in the Lab for Scalable Mental Health !!!

Our team is working on an umbrella review on single-session interventions (SSIs) for mental health problems

Our search has identified *twenty eight* systematic reviews of SSIs (I'm only an author on 1!)

No results yet...I'm just happy that this is not a niche topic anymore 🥹