adapt a previously developed Natural Language Processing model Evaluating & Improving the Effectiveness of Youth Mental Health Care

Authors:

Lauren Mei, John Weisz, Josh Steinberg, Sean Toh, Kate Adams

Date Created:

2025-01-01

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Although significant progress has been made in youth mental a codebook of empirically supported principles of change (ESPCs) health care and intervention testing, rates of psychiatric disorderin digital interventions. The codebook identifies and classifies among children and youths remain high. This highlights the active treatment components in digital therapies, preferably those cruciality of evaluating effective intervention strategies, includithat were evaluated through RCTs. Finally, researchers joined digital approaches with the potential for scalable, accessible, andProject SMILE to help build the database for a meta-analysis of timely treatment delivery. This research addresses the need to psychotherapyoutcomeswithinschoolsettings. Researchersfound assess the efficacy surrounding digital mental health interventionsthatAI-driveninterventionsshowpromisewiththecaveatthatthey for youth via four interrelated projects focused on evidence-based should remain grounded in established therapeutic mechanisms treatment. First, the researchers in our group co-authored a driven by therapist guidance. Results from the meta-analysis literature review for an AI-powered chatbot designed to deliver at-project helped identify patterns of effectiveness across youth home exposure therapy for youth with OCD. This project involves treatments, while the ESPC codebook provides a novel framework synthesizing the emerging literature from randomized controlled forevaluatingcomponentsdrivingdigitaltherapies. Theseprojects trials (RCTs) of digital interventions related to anxiety disordersmay contribute to closing persistent gaps in youth mental health to determine the potential and limitations of AI integration in knowledge, enhancing intervention accessibility, and guiding the youth psychotherapy. Additionally, the researchers collaborated integration of digital innovation into psychotherapeutic practices. on a large-scale meta-analysis of youth mental health interventionsAs the fields of psychology and technology overlap and evolve, which involved coding and managing a longitudinal database of such research will likely be at the forefront of youth treatment RCTs targeting depression, anxiety, ADHD, and conduct disorders development. in youth to assess treatment efficacy. Third, researchers developed Community Mapping and Data Analysis for the Center for Race, Inequality and Social Equity Studies (CRISES) Nora Mitchell, Meenakshi Verma-Agrawal Harvard College | Winthrop House | Sociology | 2027 BIPOC communities are often defined by their perceived based approaches fostered further coalition-building among racial “deficits,”emphasizingdisparitiesoverstrengths. Prevalentdeficit justice organizations in Boston. Preliminary findings indicate framing reduces depictions of BIPOC peoples, de-emphasizing that “asset-framing” aided community organizations in leveraging our communities’ agency, collaboration, and overall efficacy their collective financial, social, and political resources. This (Kretzmann&McKnight, 1993). Whilesomescholarshaveturned project also addressed a critical gap in the literature by focusing to asset-based approaches, like community asset mapping (CAM), on how to make community asset maps meaningfully useful. socialscienceapplicationsofCAMaresparse,withfewlarge-scale Our findings emphasize the importance of inclusive definitions applications towards racial justice. Furthermore, in the few social of “assets”/“resources,” prioritization of grassroots (rather than science projects that do exist, often communities have little agency mainstream) institutions, and collaborative methodology, as vital in identifying meaningful resources (Yosso, 2005). conditions for responsive, long-lasting intervention. These results To address this gap, we employed community asset mapping expand potential applications of community-asset mapping, and highlight its utility as a tool for racial justice. (CAM), focus groups, and questionnaires to investigate how asset- Too Good to be Wrong? Science Returns to Metaphysics – a History of Science Exhibit Charlotte Nakhla, Joshua Gorman, Hannah Marcus Harvard College | Lowell House | History and Science | 2028 Why did the Scientific Revolution work? The years 1600 to 1850 get to real physical facts from abstract principles? Aristotle began saw reliable patterns (of motion, heat, light, sound, and electricity with metaphysical principles of Nature (e.g. Nature is orderly and ascertainedinanunprecedentedlyshortperiod,withunprecedented eternal) from which he deduced physical laws (e.g. The orbits precision. What changed? of the planets are necessarily circular). Newtonians consciously shifted to seeing these principles as helpful guides with no bearing My project traces 1) a shift in logic in this period compared to Aristotelian Natural Philosophy and 2) another shift, starting in the on Reality. In the post-Einstein era, entire theories (string theory, 20th century, back in the opposite direction. supersymmetry) were founded on the principle that Nature must be symmetrical. My work is merely descriptive and comparative. I do not infer this shift; both times it was deliberate and conscious. It is found in To put the exhibit together, I consulted with CHSI staff and original writings of the time (e.g. Aristotle, Newton, Dirac). It is Museum curators across Boston, drafted the layout, and produced object labels. My research mainly consisted of primary sources. alsoseeninthescientificinstrumentsofeachperiod,fromepicyclic orbital models, to mechanics demonstrations, to cloud chambers, The larger point: we ascertained the most reliable patterns in whichIaimtoshowthroughainstrumentexhibit,tobedisplayedin Nature when we left the realm of ideas to physically look at it. As Fall 2025 on the 3rd floor of Department of the History of Science. there are increasing concerns that fundamental science is stalling; it may be time, in the words of Bacon, to regain an acquaintance The shift — put simply — is the answer to this question: can one with things themselves. 18 Build Learning through Inquiry in the Social Sciences Unionization of the ‘Best and Brightest’: The Drivers and Effects of the Burst

Abstract:

Although significant progress has been made in youth mental a codebook of empirically supported principles of change (ESPCs) health care and intervention testing, rates of psychiatric disorderin digital interventions. The codebook identifies and classifies among children and youths remain high. This highlights the active treatment components in digital therapies, preferably those cruciality of evaluating effective intervention strategies, includithat were evaluated through RCTs. Finally, researchers joined digital approaches with the potential for scalable, accessible, andProject SMILE to help build the database for a meta-analysis of timely treatment delivery. This research addresses the need to psychotherapyoutcomeswithinschoolsettings. Researchersfound assess the efficacy surrounding digital mental health interventionsthatAI-driveninterventionsshowpromisewiththecaveatthatthey for youth via four interrelated projects focused on evidence-based should remain grounded in established therapeutic mechanisms treatment. First, the researchers in our group co-authored a driven by therapist guidance. Results from the meta-analysis literature review for an AI-powered chatbot designed to deliver at-project helped identify patterns of effectiveness across youth home exposure therapy for youth with OCD. This project involves treatments, while the ESPC codebook provides a novel framework synthesizing the emerging literature from randomized controlled forevaluatingcomponentsdrivingdigitaltherapies. Theseprojects trials (RCTs) of digital interventions related to anxiety disordersmay contribute to closing persistent gaps in youth mental health to determine the potential and limitations of AI integration in knowledge, enhancing intervention accessibility, and guiding the youth psychotherapy. Additionally, the researchers collaborated integration of digital innovation into psychotherapeutic practices. on a large-scale meta-analysis of youth mental health interventionsAs the fields of psychology and technology overlap and evolve, which involved coding and managing a longitudinal database of such research will likely be at the forefront of youth treatment RCTs targeting depression, anxiety, ADHD, and conduct disorders development. in youth to assess treatment efficacy. Third, researchers developed Community Mapping and Data Analysis for the Center for Race, Inequality and Social Equity Studies (CRISES) Nora Mitchell, Meenakshi Verma-Agrawal Harvard College | Winthrop House | Sociology | 2027 BIPOC communities are often defined by their perceived based approaches fostered further coalition-building among racial “deficits,”emphasizingdisparitiesoverstrengths. Prevalentdeficit justice organizations in Boston. Preliminary findings indicate framing reduces depictions of BIPOC peoples, de-emphasizing that “asset-framing” aided community organizations in leveraging our communities’ agency, collaboration, and overall efficacy their collective financial, social, and political resources. This (Kretzmann&McKnight, 1993). Whilesomescholarshaveturned project also addressed a critical gap in the literature by focusing to asset-based approaches, like community asset mapping (CAM), on how to make community asset maps meaningfully useful. socialscienceapplicationsofCAMaresparse,withfewlarge-scale Our findings emphasize the importance of inclusive definitions applications towards racial justice. Furthermore, in the few social of “assets”/“resources,” prioritization of grassroots (rather than science projects that do exist, often communities have little agency mainstream) institutions, and collaborative methodology, as vital in identifying meaningful resources (Yosso, 2005). conditions for responsive, long-lasting intervention. These results To address this gap, we employed community asset mapping expand potential applications of community-asset mapping, and highlight its utility as a tool for racial justice. (CAM), focus groups, and questionnaires to investigate how asset- Too Good to be Wrong? Science Returns to Metaphysics – a History of Science Exhibit Charlotte Nakhla, Joshua Gorman, Hannah Marcus Harvard College | Lowell House | History and Science | 2028 Why did the Scientific Revolution work? The years 1600 to 1850 get to real physical facts from abstract principles? Aristotle began saw reliable patterns (of motion, heat, light, sound, and electricity with metaphysical principles of Nature (e.g. Nature is orderly and ascertainedinanunprecedentedlyshortperiod,withunprecedented eternal) from which he deduced physical laws (e.g. The orbits precision. What changed? of the planets are necessarily circular). Newtonians consciously shifted to seeing these principles as helpful guides with no bearing My project traces 1) a shift in logic in this period compared to Aristotelian Natural Philosophy and 2) another shift, starting in the on Reality. In the post-Einstein era, entire theories (string theory, 20th century, back in the opposite direction. supersymmetry) were founded on the principle that Nature must be symmetrical. My work is merely descriptive and comparative. I do not infer this shift; both times it was deliberate and conscious. It is found in To put the exhibit together, I consulted with CHSI staff and original writings of the time (e.g. Aristotle, Newton, Dirac). It is Museum curators across Boston, drafted the layout, and produced object labels. My research mainly consisted of primary sources. alsoseeninthescientificinstrumentsofeachperiod,fromepicyclic orbital models, to mechanics demonstrations, to cloud chambers, The larger point: we ascertained the most reliable patterns in whichIaimtoshowthroughainstrumentexhibit,tobedisplayedin Nature when we left the realm of ideas to physically look at it. As Fall 2025 on the 3rd floor of Department of the History of Science. there are increasing concerns that fundamental science is stalling; it may be time, in the words of Bacon, to regain an acquaintance The shift — put simply — is the answer to this question: can one with things themselves. 18 Build Learning through Inquiry in the Social Sciences Unionization of the ‘Best and Brightest’: The Drivers and Effects of the Burst

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Harvard / Harvard College | Dunster House | Social Studies | 2028 / 2025

Topics:

youth, community, asset, science, intervention, digital, treatment, mental, health, principle, social, researcher

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@laurenmei140 , @johnweisz136 , @joshsteinberg135 , @seantoh141 , @kateadams142