do you have any idea how furious you have to make career civil servants to get them to put their names to a letter

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🚨 It’s time to flood the zone.

NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn.

📜 Read the Bethesda Declaration
✍️ Sign the Public Letter of Support
👯‍♀️Follow NIHers doing the work: @nihvigils.bsky.social

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Want to develop effective single-session interventions for youth? Come join the workshop I'm running on Friday 6/27 with Atina Manvelian!

The 5th International Single Session Therapies Symposium is in ONE MONTH! Our lab is excited to host ~200 attendees from 17 countries. Register here! sites.northwestern.edu/sst5/register/

Bonus: I'll be 9 months pregnant during SST5. Will there be 201 attendees by the end?? Register to find out 😅

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BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Indirect Costs and Trump's Attack on Independent Voices.

My latest post:

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Agreed, the system is indeed broken. That's why improving access to *effective* treatment is what matters - not access to just anything!

Key takeaway - requiring parental consent may be a major barrier to tx access for many teens w/ depression. 1 solution=ensuring safe onramps to effective MH tx for teens whose parent(s) are unable/unwilling to consent. Another=increased MH literacy training for parents. Multi-pronged approach!

Want to join our multidisciplinary, impact-driven department (Northwestern Medical Social Sciences) as TT faculty? Now's your chance! Happy to chat with folks about my own experience transitioning to MSS (in my case from a traditional psyc dept)!

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The 'unlicensed' therapists would not be covered under these laws anyway - so I agree that protections against harms are essential, but I think it's a separate issue than state laws requiring consent for formal treatment with licensed therapists!

5/ To complement our paper, we've created an interactive dashboard on state policies and rates of treatment access among teens with past-year depression: www.schleiderlab.org/dashboard.html

4/ Even the most scalable interventions are powerless if adolescents are legally disempowered from using them. It is an ethical imperative to create safe, barrier-free pathways for teens to independently access potentially life-saving mental health supports.

3/ Specifically: In states that always prohibited independent adolescent consent, only 37.23% of adolescents with a past-year depressive episode received any treatment in 2021-2022, versus 46.69% in states allowing adolescents to consent with no or limited stipulations.

2/ One third of U.S. states have laws that prevent adolescents from consenting to mental health treatment independently. We found that treatment use among adolescents with a past-year major depressive episode was significantly lower in states mandating caregiver consent.

📢 Our lab's latest, out today in JAMA Pediatrics: "State Parental Consent Law and Treatment Use Among Adolescents With Depression" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

TL;DR Teens with depression living in states that require parent consent for mental health treatment may be less likely to access care 🧵

Thank you so much to the Jacobs Foundation for this unmatched opportunity to learn with+from science leaders across the globe. Funds will support our lab's ongoing efforts to sustainably deploy single-session mental health supports into schools across the US 🥰
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I struggle to think of any compelling evidence that longer therapies are consistently superior to briefer ones...we tried to summarize in this paper: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

"Talking to a friend" would be a neat control! Not much work there outside "peer support" which feels different.

About SST5: sites.northwestern.edu/sst5/

Full call for abstracts & submission link: sites.northwestern.edu/sst5/submit/

THREE DAYS until the priority abstract deadline (Nov 22) for the 5th International Single-Session Therapies Symposium (Jun 27-29 in Chicago)!

We're finalizing an all-star roster of invited speakers, TBA soon. We hope you'll join to learn, share, & make change in mental healthcare. Links/info below!

**Today (11/18) 1pm-2pm ET** - free to all who are interested!

I hope you'll join Tom Insel (formerly NIMH), Margaret Laws (Hopelab), Rob Morris (Koko), and me for this virtual roundtable, on a topic close to my heart and professional mission.

Register: us05web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This year's #ABCT2024 is truly special. I got to cheer for nearly-Dr Jenna Sung as she accepted her Student Dissertation Award--right after I received the Dissemination and Implementation SIG Early Career Award. So, so proud of Jenna, & grateful to our stellar lab, who make our D&I work possible 💜

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Here is the Starter pack!!! We have over 100 spots available (and if we hit the limit of 150, I'll make a part two). PLEASE share, ask to be added, and let me know if you'd like to see anyone added.

TIL that some international governments define "youth" as individuals up to 35 years of age. Delighted to announce I'll be channeling Steve Buscemi at all my ABCT presentations this year