As National Suicide Prevention Month concludes, we want to highlight Dr. Jonah Meyerhoff who has led multiple research trials on suicide prevention. 💜 He established a 4-week intervention, PlanSafe, to create personalized safety plans. Read more here: formative.jmir.org/2025/1/e69602/

🚨New paper alert from Team CBITs: “Designing Digital Mental Health Interventions to Meet the Needs of Older Adolescents: Qualitative Interview and Group Discussion Study” in JMIR Formative Research! 📖 Check it out: formative.jmir.org/2025/1/e68950

Huge thank you to Dr. Nick Jacobson for his insightful presentation, “Therabot: Over 6 Years Developing and Evaluating the First Generative AI Psychotherapy Chatbot.” 🎉 You can watch the full recording now on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/7FoyGVnGoQA%...

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📅 Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 9 🕛 12:00–1:00 PM CT 📍 Zoom CBITs will kicking off our “The Future of” Webinar Series with Nick Jacobson, PhD, who will discuss The Future of AI in Digital Mental Health! If you haven't yet, register now: lnkd.in/gvVaU7Fh

Congratulations to Leah Parsons who will be leaving CBITs to pursue a Masters of Sport and Exercise Psychology at Loughborough University! 🎉 We’re all so incredibly proud of you, Leah! Wishing you all the best as you take this exciting next step 💜

Be sure to check out CBIT's @rachelkornfield.bsky.social virtual talk on AI-Enhanced Text Messaging for behavioral health on September 30th at 12pm CT! 🤩

🚨 We are officially less than one week away from kicking off our “The Future of” Webinar Series with Nick Jacobson, PhD. 🚨 📅 Tuesday, September 9 🕛 12:00–1:00 PM CT 📍 Zoom – Free registration required 🔗 Join us! | Register now 👇 lnkd.in/gvVaU7Fh

Congratulations to Bella who will be moving on to Northwestern University’s Department of Preventive Medicine to assist with their communications team! 🎉 We’re all so proud of you, Bella! Wishing you all the best as you take this exciting next step 💜

Upcoming webinar for EDEB sig members on Single Session Interventions for body image and disordered eating! Speakers are @bburnettephd.bsky.social, @hoff-phd.bsky.social, and @ariellesmith.bsky.social. Register here: abctedebsig.wixsite.com/abct-edeb-si...

We’re excited to kick off “The Future of” Webinar Series with Nick Jacobson, PhD! 📅 Tuesday, September 9 🕛 12:00–1:00 PM CT 📍 Zoom – Free registration required 🔗 Join us! | Register now 👇 northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🚀 “The Future of” Webinar Series is finally here! We’re excited to launch our reimagined digital mental health webinar series in collaboration with @sdmh.bsky.social. 📅 The quarterly series kicks off: Tues, Sept 9 | 12–1 PM CT Don’t miss it! Register for the year now: tinyurl.com/3tnpyc7f

🎉 Congrats to CBITs faculty members Kaylee Kruzan, PhD, and Maia Jacobs, PhD, along with collaborators Connie Chau and Colleen Norton, for receiving a Best Paper Honorable Mention at CHI 2025. This honor is awarded to the top 5% of submissions! Read it here: tinyurl.com/y82suv3j

Congrats to Research Study Coordinator Shannon Smith for receiving a Spotlight Award, selected by department leadership in recognition of her outstanding contributions! 🌟 We’re proud to celebrate her accomplishments and the impact she continues to make. 👏

That’s a wrap on ISRII 2025! 🎉 Highlights from #ISRII13: Rachel Kornfield, PhD, receiving the Rising Star Award 🌟 alongside Emily Lattie, PhD, presenting her research, and Sarah Popowski sharing her work. CBITs looks forward to participating again next year!

🎉 Big shoutout to CBITs Co-Director Andrea Graham, PhD, former Postdoctoral Fellow Adrian Ortega, PhD, and Amy Egbert, PhD (@amyegbert.bsky.social), on their new commentary in @jama.com Network Open! 📖 Read the main article: tinyurl.com/5n8r2ayz 💬 Check out their commentary: tinyurl.com/2txnjkka

Congratulations to Basia Silverberg, who will be pursuing her Master of Social Work at the University of Illinois Chicago this fall! 🎉 We’re so proud of you, Basia! Wishing you all the best as you take this exciting next step 💜

🎉 So exciting to see Jessica Schleider, PhD (@jschleiderphd.bsky.social) and the Lab for Scalable Mental Health featured by the American Psychological Association for their amazing work with single-session interventions! Check it out here: www.apa.org/topics/popul...

Wishing a heartfelt farewell to Emily Tack as she begins her PhD journey in School Psychology at Indiana University! We’re so proud of you, Emily! Good luck in your next chapter 💜

🎉 Congratulations to Rachel Kornfield, PhD, on receiving the 2025 Rising Star Award from the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions! @isrii.bsky.social 💬 Click below to see what else our CBITs team is up to at ISRII 2025: cbits.northwestern.edu/about/_news-...

🎉 CBITs faculty member Stew Shankman recently had a paper featured on @cnn.com Health! This study is the first to track how teens use dating apps through their keyboard activity rather than using self-reports 📲 🥇 Check out CNN’s feature: tinyurl.com/57y5v9f4 📄 Full paper: tinyurl.com/wrv2tke5

🌟 We’re proud to spotlight Andrew Berry, PhD, CBITs core faculty and Assistant Professor in Medical Social Sciences, for his leadership in the Disability and Health Services Research Working Group! Read the full story below to learn more and get involved👇 tinyurl.com/3bw8efej

Jeremy Eberle, PhD, is on a roll! 🔥 Another paper accepted! He steps outside his usual research area to explore a new way to measure negative interpretation biases in movement disorders. A great example of the interdisciplinary work at CBITs. Congrats Jeremy! 🎉 📄 Preprint: tinyurl.com/yv8bfyjn

🎉 Congratulations to CBITs postdoctoral fellow Jeremy Eberle, PhD, (@jeremyeberle.bsky.social) on the acceptance of a new paper exploring a person-centered approach to digital mental health research! 📄 Check out the preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

We’re lucky to have had such an impressive group of T32 postdoctoral fellows this year! ✨ 📖 Read the news story below to get to know our fellows and discover how they plan to build on their inspiring work in the next phase of their professional journeys cbits.northwestern.edu/about/_news-...

🎉 New Paper 🎉 As digital tools become more prominent in mental health care, clinicians play a key role in ensuring they're used effectively, equitably, and safely. Clinicians aren’t just adapting to digital care, they’re shaping it 📲 💡 📖 Read the full article: tinyurl.com/2xbdtjrx

What makes our digital health tools different? 🤔 At CBITs, we deliver research people can count on because every patient deserves solutions backed by truth. For more information about our research trials, visit: tinyurl.com/yzayka9m #ResearchMatters #DigitalHealth

Why do we keep scrolling, even if the news makes us feel worse? 🤔 CBITs faculty member, Dr. Stew Shankman, spoke with NPR (WBEZ Chicago) last week about news fatigue, "doom scrolling," and what we can do about it. 🎙️ Check out the interview here: www.wbez.org/reset-with-s...

Due to scheduling conflicts, the speaker for the upcoming webinar will now be David Silk. 🔗 Remember to register! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

New from APA: Ethical guidance on the use of AI in health service psychology 🤖🧠 Developed with the Mental Health Technology Advisory Committee, this resource supports psychologists & #mentalhealth providers navigating the AI landscape. Read more below! tinyurl.com/5n6wxdw5

🚨New Paper Alert!🚨 Congrats to Arielle Smith & the team on their recent paper in Behaviour Research and Therapy! Their study tested a digital, single-session body image intervention for LGBTQ+ youth. Read it now👇https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0005796725001317?via%3Dihub

Don’t miss SDMH’s webinar next Tuesday! CBITs Director, David Mohr, PhD, and Caroline Pearson, Exec Director of PHTI, will discuss how digital tools can be used to treat depression and anxiety and what that means for cost and access to care 🧠🤔💸 Register for FREE: tinyurl.com/y2u9jc23

🚨 BIG NEWS: Our new department video is LIVE on our new site! Huge thanks to Kim Le Mezo & Cory Cooper (Feinberg Ed Tech) and our awesome CBITs team for bringing this vision to life! 💜✨ Get a special look inside the CBITs community now👇 🎬: tinyurl.com/4vts67x6

So proud to see CBITs well represented at this year’s Implementation Research Institute (IRI)! Special shoutout to our Co-Director Dr. Andrea Graham, who is pictured among other NU leaders advancing the field of implementation science. You're all AMAZING👏🥳

We'd like to thank Dr. Susan Murphy for sharing her work on online reinforcement learning in digital health at DPM's (@nu-dpm.bsky.social) Grand Rounds last week! She’s teaching interventions to learn from users’ behavior—which is VERY cool. 📸 Dr. Murphy with our Center Director, Dr. David Mohr.

Where are we with generative A.I./chatbots to support mental health? John Torous MD and I provide a concise summary of progress and what's needed @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Virtual solutions for depression and anxiety can improve outcomes and access to care, but some tools come with high costs, finds Peterson Health Technology Institute. Insights will guide payers and providers in adopting high-impact, low-cost solutions to meet patient needs. tinyurl.com/pwfk637t

At CBITs, we’re leading the way in applying human-centered design to digital mental health tools by designing and testing technologies with users, for users. Want to learn how we do it? 📚 Check out the resources from our Design for Digital Health Reading Course! tinyurl.com/4btx6hpn

Just a couple of weeks until the 5th International Single Session Therapies Symposium (SST5), hosted by the amazing Jessica Schleider, PhD (@jschleiderphd.bsky.social) Director of Digital Services at CBITs! 🎉 There's still time to register! Join us virtually or in person: tinyurl.com/ms9fxhbs

Isabel Rooper will be leaving CBITs after two years as a Research Study Coordinator. This fall, she’ll be returning to Feinberg to begin the Clinical Psychology PhD program, where she’ll continue working with CBITs Co-Director and mentor Dr. Andrea Graham. Good luck, Isabel! ✨💜

CBITs is proud to have a strong presence at the upcoming 2025 Society for Digital Mental Health Virtual Conference! 💻🌎 Our Director, Dr. David Mohr, serves as the President of SDMH and several CBITs faculty and staff will be participating throughout the event! 🔗 Register now: tinyurl.com/3mzhdjbd

CBITs would like to thank Nathalie Moise, MD, MS for her insightful presentation at our webinar yesterday! ▶️ Watch it now on our Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1__-... Our webinar series is taking a break for the summer, but we’ll be back in September! 🌟

🔍 Find out why CBITs is excited to host the incredible Susan Murphy, PhD, Mallinckrodt Professor of Statistics and Computer Science at Harvard University (@harvard.edu) as the featured speaker at the Department of Preventive Medicine's (@nu-dpm.bsky.social) June Grand Rounds: tinyurl.com/ypcptxmu

🚨Reminder🚨 Join us tomorrow at 12PM CT for our Digital Mental Health Webinar! This month’s guest speaker: Nathalie Moise, MD, MS from @columbiamed.bsky.social. Don’t miss the last session before our summer break! ☀️ Register now: tinyurl.com/ynhfvfa9

🎉 Congrats to Jessica Schleider, PhD, CBITs Director of Digital Services, for her feature on the Breakthroughs podcast from Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine!👏 🎧 In this episode, she shares how single-session interventions are helping close the mental health access gap: tinyurl.com/4zwtkshm

At CBITs, we're dedicated to closing gaps in mental health care through innovative apps designed to bridge barriers to in-person treatment. 💡📱 Learn how our research is making a difference and explore the solutions we're creating. 🤳 Visit: cbits.northwestern.edu/our-research...

Hear Dr. Moise's talk on implementation strategies for digital behavioral health at our Digital Mental Health Webinar! Join us Tuesday, June 3 at 12PM CT 💻🌟 🔗 Register now: tinyurl.com/ynhfvfa9

Here at CBITs, our research is shaping the future of mental health by delivering evidence-based interventions through everyday digital tools. 📲💻 We’re bridging science and technology to improve access, equity, and outcomes in mental healthcare. 🤝 🌐 Learn more about our work: tinyurl.com/4vts67x6