King 5 News | November 10, 2020
ALACRITY’s Patrick Raue, PhD, talks about the Stay Connected program that helps isolated seniors during COVID.
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Showing a vet you care can make all the difference
UW Medicine Newsroom | November 10, 2020
A new VA program is sending caring letters to any veteran who contacts the Veterans Crisis Line. Both Kate Comtois, PhD, and Mark Reger, PhD, have contributed to the research and rollout of this intervention.
Stay Connected program helps isolated seniors
UW Medicine Newsroom | November 6, 2020
The Stay Connected program is using phone calls to more effectively reach out to isolated seniors. Patrick Raue, PhD, is leading the program’s rollout to senior centers and public housing facilities in Washington.
Tips for helping seniors stay connected
UW Medicine Newsroom | November 6, 2020
Patrick Raue, PhD, offers ten ways to help seniors reduce feelings of isolation during the pandemic.
Where you get depression care matters, study finds
UW Medicine newsroom | November 2, 2020
Researchers looked at data from 11,003 patients in 135 primary-care clinics in nine states using the collaborative-care model. "It makes a big difference where you get your depression care” says Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH, MA.
Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions funds 11 ideas
UW Medicine newsroom | November 2, 2020
The winning awards touch on all three of the institute’s initial areas of focus: cognitive aging, trauma, and addictions.
Should juvenile offenders spend their lives behind bars?
The Crime Report | November 2, 2020
Juveniles who commit crimes should be afforded meaningful opportunities for reform and release from prison within their lifetime, says Jennifer Piel, MD, JD
Daylight saving time ends this weekend: don’t let ‘fall back’ worsen your 2020 depression
The Seattle Times | October 30, 2020
David Avery, MD, offers some tips to stave off lethargy this winter including the most important thing — go outside.
Faculty committed to suicide prevention create new Center for Suicide Prevention and Recovery
Department news | October 30, 2020
While deaths in the United States due to heart disease, diabetes, and cancer have all substantially declined, the suicide rate has increased 28% since 1999. In the U.S., suicide is the 10th leading cause of death with an average of 129 suicides per day – the same rate as opiate overdoses and greater than both […]
CoLab addresses gap between science and decision making
Department news | October 30, 2020
Our communities are currently experiencing the catastrophic effects of poor behavioral health research-to-practice translation. Typical pathways to sharing evidence from academic science are useful but haphazard. The most common methods rely on the motivation of clinician scientists to license and market mental and behavioral health innovations or to tolerate the complexity and chaos of policymaking. […]
