Article Excerpt: The Dartmouth Center for Technology and Behavioral Health is a new center. We just launched it. It’s housed here within the Psychiatric Research Center, which is part of the Department of Psychiatry. It’s funded by an NIH grant.
The center allows us to build up an infrastructure behind research we’ve been doing for a number of years—research that has been focused on developing, evaluating, and now disseminating technology-based interventions targeting behavioral health, particularly substance-use disorders but also mental-health issues. There are a number of effective behavioral treatments for addiction and mental-health issues, and there are a lot of challenges to delivering these types of interventions in any kind of widespread way. What we know works doesn’t always get into the hands of people who could benefit from it.
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Article Source: Dartmouth Medicine