Lab for Scalable Mental Health

08/03/2020

Lab Director Dr. Jessica Schleider spoke with the The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) about single-session interventions—what they are, why they matter, and how they may strengthen youth mental health.

An episode by Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

07/28/2020

Project BRAVE is still recruiting! Click below to learn more and participate.

07/12/2020

Help test a brief, online parenting program. IRB-approved by Stony Brook University.

07/06/2020

You are invited to take part in a new research study on a brief, online parenting program offered by Stony Brook University.

11/20/2019

Now recruiting for ongoing studies in our research lab at Stony Brook University!

Teen and pre-teen participants can try VIRTUAL REALITY and ONLINE programs designed to boost coping skills and reduce anxiety and depression.

B uilding E vidence-Based S upports for T eens via Tech nology WHO: Teens ages 12 - 16. Parent participation is required. WHAT: Test out new VIRTUAL REALITY or ONLINE programs designed to boost...

11/03/2019

SBU’s Schleider scores $2 mln for teen depression intervention Arts & EntertainmentColumnsPower of 3Science & TechnologyVillage Times Herald by Daniel Dunaief - October 25, 2019 0 595 Jessica Schleider. Photo from SBU By Daniel Dunaief Many teenagers who are struggling with depression need help. A...

10/13/2019

Congratulations to lab director Dr. Jessica Schleider for receiving a 2019 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's Early Independence Award!

Our team is so excited for this amazing opportunity to study ways to *personalize* brief, scalable treatments for depression in teens!

Five-Year, $2 million NIH Award Enables Treatment Study at Stony Brook University STONY BROOK, NY, October 1, 2019 – Depression is on the rise among adolescents in the United States; in fact, according to the NIH, an estimated 3.2 million U.S. teenagers experience major depression each year. Yet u...

10/13/2019

Now seeking teens to take part in our research testing FREE, brief supports for mood and stress.

Contact us today!

​Logo design & illustrative content by Kendall Farris

09/17/2019

Thank you Vox for featuring our lab's work - including our new project where kids and teens can try out AND help us evaluate free, brief, online mental health supports!! (Take part at: www.schleiderlab.org/yes)

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/9/17/20827011/teen-depression-anxiety-treatment-single-session

Psychotherapy is often too long, expensive, and hard to find. These scientists are hopeful there’s a better way.

09/13/2019

Thanks to recent coverage at The Atlantic of our research testing scalable mental health interventions, we got lots of requests from families hoping to access some of our brief, online supports.

So we built Project Y.E.S. (Youth Empowerment & Support): an anonymous, FREE platform for teens to learn coping skills & help others do the same!

http://schleiderlab.org/yes

Teens can try 3 different online, 30-40 minute activities. We are collecting anonymous pre- and post-program data as a way of seeing whether the activities target what we think—and to make them better, based on teens' feedback.

As part of Project Y.E.S., teens are invited to provide their *anonymous* advice for others who are struggling with depression, anxiety, or stress. This advice will be posted on our site, with their permission, for others to learn from.

Project Y.E.S. was deemed exempt from review by the IRB at Stony Brook University. All materials and programs are free for all kids and teens to access, in any order they want.

We want to learn from people, we want to make these activities as useful as they can be for youth mental health, and we don't want to wait anymore to do so.

Please share widely!!

04/16/2019

Exactly why we do what we do! Brief, scalable supports are critical to combatting ever-longer waitlists.

Many providers don't take insurance because they say reimbursements are too low, forcing families to pay out of pocket.