Learn about exciting recent and upcoming activities and resources from the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH) from Dr. Lisa Marsch, CTBH Director.
Happy New Year! We are pleased to share with you this January 2014 newsletter from the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH). CTBH is designed to be a “go-to resource” for cutting edge information about emerging technologies, innovative methodologies and novel implementation strategies related to technology-delivered behavioral health (e.g., via web, mobile devices). This newsletter is intended to highlight exciting recent and upcoming activities and resources from our Center.
In this newsletter, we are especially pleased to highlight a just-published Special Issue of the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment on the application of technology to addiction treatment and recovery management.
We are also excited to announce CTBH’s collaboration on a just-funded, $1.5 million, 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation on creating computational jewelry, in a form like a bracelet or pendant, as a model of secure wearable mobile health devices.
We invite you to explore resources on our website, including our ever-expanding online “program review” of technology-based therapeutic tools, our ‘eye on innovation’ blog, and our ‘cutting-edge literature’ review.
We are honored to have almost 35 actively funded research projects, at all stages of development, evaluation, and dissemination of technology-based therapeutic tools. Among our new initiatives is a project focused on developing and testing a new paradigm which uses smartphone-embedded sensors for illness monitoring and relapse prevention in schizophrenia. Also just funded is a study to evaluate the effectiveness of a web-based motivational intervention to promote smoking cessation among smokers with mental illness.
We are also pleased to share with you some of the exciting work being conducted via 13 CTBH-sponsored pilot projects designed facilitate the rapid execution of technology-based research and offer considerable promise to have a large impact on the field.
Please keep an eye out for information about a conference CTBH plans to co-host in the Spring of 2014 on the application of technology to the prevention, treatment, and recovery support of addiction and mental health disorders. Details to follow!
As the Director of CTBH, I honored to share this newsletter with you on behalf of the entire CTBH team. We hope this information is helpful to you.
We are excited about launching a new year of using science to harness technologies to deliver engaging and effective self-monitoring and self-management interventions to promote behavioral health and, through these collective efforts, inform transformations in the delivery of science-based health care.
Please feel free to contact us. We welcome your comments and feedback.
Lisa Marsch, PhD
Center Director