A5018293580- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Mental Health via Writing
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Retinal and Optic Conditions
- Psychology of Development and Education
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
University of Washington
2019-2025
Behavioral Tech Research, Inc.
2019-2024
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
2022-2024
Seattle University
2020-2023
University of Washington Tacoma
2021
Health Services Research & Development
2019-2020
VA Puget Sound Health Care System
2018-2020
Dartmouth College
2019-2020
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2010-2019
Westat (United States)
2019
Background: In schizophrenia, social cognition is strongly linked to functional outcome and increasingly seen as a viable treatment target. The goal of the Social Cognition Psychometric Evaluation (SCOPE) study identify improve best existing measures so they can be suitably applied in large-scale studies. Initial phases this project sought (1) develop consensus on critical domains (2) for use Methods: Experts were invited nominate key those domains. Nominations reduced according set...
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a formidable challenge to care continuity for community mental health clients with serious illness and providers who have had quickly pivot the modes of delivering critical services. Despite these challenges, many changes implemented during can should be maintained. These include offering spectrum options remote in-person care, greater integration behavioral physical healthcare, prevention viral exposure, increased collaborative decision-making related...
With the expectation that many can recover from schizophrenia, implications for roles of practitioners to assist them are critical. Although much has been written about how empower a recovering person develop more positive identity, an important area which seems relatively underdeveloped in literature pertains challenges and suffering borne process recovery itself. The current paper will suggest there four related, though independent, associated with should be prepared address: (1)...
AbstractBackground: Social cognition is consistently impaired in people with schizophrenia, separable from general neurocognition, predictive of real-world functioning and amenable to psychosocial treatment. Few studies have empirically examined its underlying factor structure.Aims: This study (1) examines the structure social both a sample individuals schizophrenia-spectrum disorders non-clinical controls (2) explores relationships factors symptoms functioning.Method: A analysis was...
Deficits in the ability to think about thinking have been widely observed persons with schizophrenia and linked concurrent assessments of various forms function. Less is known though their links outcome over time. To address this issue, current study explores whether Mastery, a domain metacognition that reflects use knowledge one's own mental states those others respond psychological challenges, related frequency social contact persons' capacity for relatedness.Participants were 72 adults...
Previous research has suggested that complexity of speech, speech rate, use emotion words, and pronouns are all potential indicators important clinical components schizophrenia, but little examined the relationships these disturbances to cognitive variables impaired in including social cognition. The current study lexical differences better characterize substrates schizophrenia. Brief narratives individuals with schizophrenia (n = 42) non-clinical controls 48) were compared according their...
Objective The ongoing Social Cognition Psychometric Evaluation (SCOPE) study is in the process of forming a gold‐standard battery social cognition tests for use clinical trials. Previous SCOPE phases have not acknowledged key differences between skills and biases, psychometric validity analyses might provide important information if tailored to bias‐related outcomes. This aims validate these measures with such Methods Two cognitive bias – Ambiguous Intention Hostility Questionnaire (AIHQ;...
Background People with serious mental illness (SMI) have significant unmet health needs. Development and testing of digital interventions that can alleviate the suffering people SMI is a public priority. Objective The aim this study to conduct fully remote randomized waitlist-controlled trial CORE, smartphone intervention comprises daily exercises designed promote reassessment dysfunctional beliefs in multiple domains. Methods Individuals were recruited via web using Google Facebook...
In West Africa, the long-term consequences of poor early psychosis recovery include poverty, neglect, and community ostracization. To understand potential for digital health approaches to support care in Ghana, we conducted a survey study among patients their caregivers about mental needs, technology use access, interest health. Hospital staff at Accra Psychiatric reviewed hospital medical records from January 2023 - December identifying young adults (≥18 years old) who had experienced...
Background Depression is the most prevalent mental health problem. The need for effective treatments depression far outstrips availability of trained professionals. Smartphones and other widely available technologies are increasingly being leveraged to deliver depression. Whether there patient characteristics that affect potency smartphone interventions not well understood. Objective This study aimed evaluate whether including clinical diagnosis, severity, psychosis status, current use...
This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility and clinical utility of training intensive psychiatric community care team members serve as "mobile interventionists" who engage patients in recovery-oriented texting exchanges.A 3-month pilot randomized controlled trial was conducted compare mobile interventionist approach an add-on assertive treatment (ACT) versus ACT alone. Participants were 49 individuals with serious mental illness (62% schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder, 24% bipolar 14%...
Speech-based diaries from mobile phones can capture paralinguistic patterns that help detect mental illness symptoms such as suicidal ideation. However, previous studies have primarily evaluated machine learning models on a single dataset, making their performance unknown under distribution shifts. In this paper, we investigate the generalizability of speech-based ideation detection using through cross-dataset experiments four datasets with N=786 individuals experiencing major depressive...