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Child Mind Institute Chief Science Officer Dr. Michael Milham Named to 2024 List of Highly Cited Researchers™ for 11th Consecutive Year

Child Mind Intitute

Milham , MD, PhD, the Chief Science Officer and the founding director of the Center for the Developing Brain at the Child Mind Institute, has been named to the 2024 list of Highly Cited Researchers . New York, NY Michael P.

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Dramatic Rise in Police Interventions on 988 Callers

Mad in America

In its April 2024 Report to Congress , SAMHSA admits “no research” validates 988Lifeline’s emergency intervention policy—while some research suggests psychiatric hospitalization may well heighten suicidality. By night, with no lock on her room’s door, Elle didn’t sleep. “I Congress instead ordered a stakeholder consultation.

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The Core Error of Psychiatrists and Psychologists: Certainty about “Consensus Reality”

Mad in America

They recognized that uncovering the root of our dehumanizing society meant going beyond conventional left or right political critiques to more profound cultural reasons, which include a societal embrace of unlimited economic growth, the worship of technology and speed, a departure from human scale, and the increasing institutionalization of society.

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Ethics & Equity: Studying Social Media’s Impact Through Youth-Centered Participatory Research

Child Mind Intitute

This conversation is part of our webinar series on Technology and Youth Mental Health , which asks how tech can improve mental health outcomes for all young people. Click here for more on Getting Help Online, the 2024 survey from Hopelab and Common Sense Media mentioned in the interview.

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CBHL Member Roundtable Recap | Supporting the Uptake of Behavioral Health Apps 

College for Behavioral Health Leadership (CBHL)

1 CBHL has hosted two recent discussions addressing the potentially transformative power of behavioral health apps and technology involving experts from industry and academia. The conversation explored the potential of behavioral health apps as a transformative technology supporting both mental and physical wellbeing.

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Why Are Girls Less Likely to Become Scientists?

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Despite years of programs to get girls to code and to pair female scientists with mentors, men outnumber women two-to-one in STEMscience, technology, engineering and mathjobs. The gender gaps are especially wide in some of the fastest-growing and best-paying fields, such as computer science and engineering.

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Working to Transmute the Pain: Why I Do the Work I Do

Mad in America

When I first encountered television and movies, I was fascinated by technology, though I didn’t know the term then. As I edit this paper now in 2024, which I wrote two years ago, I’ve learned about casteism. Why was I so compliant? I grew up without television in Jamaica.