The ALACRITY Center is taking on a new project in response to COVID-19, “Stay Connected: developing an intervention to promote mental health among isolated senior housing residents”. Leading the project are Patrick Raue, PhD, Patricia Areán, PhD, and Brenna Renn, PhD. We will work with senior housing residents experiencing social distancing challenges to design a remote program
Amritha Bhat, MBBS, MD, MPH, a psychiatrist trained in both India and the United States, is currently an assistant professor in the University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She earned her Master of Public Health through the UW School of Public Health. She established the perinatal psychiatry clinic at the University of Washington Medical Center and has
Stephanie is a postdoctoral research fellow in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Her focus is in developing school-based interventions. Her unique approach to developing interventions is to target barriers related to ease of implementation, contextual relevance, and cultural responsiveness. Currently Dr. Brewer is working to explore how Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) can be adapted to fit in a school setting. She and her team are conducting interviews with
We ended 2019 with 2 newly funded pilots making a total of 12 incubator research pilots representing 12 disciplines. The newly approved projects will add professional expertise in communication, health services, and gastroenterology.
Daniel Stillman of The Conversation Factory led UW ALACRITY Center members and the larger Seattle #DesignThinking community in a workshop created to challenge your assumptions of how workshops should be run and hone skills to improve the quality of conversations. Participants ran through several exercises to practice Daniel’s approach to facilitation and had a lot
Principal Investigators: Carmen Gonzalez & Maggie Ramirez. This project studied the challenges in using virtual mental health platforms to treat PPD among Latinas and designed a prototype to support virtual delivery of PPD treatment in ways that are acceptable, feasible, usable, and equitable.
Principal investigators: Kendra Kamp & Rona Levy. This project aims to redesign a proven IBS mental health intervention to improve clinical adoption by addressing usability barriers.
Gary and Amy, recipients of an R03, have been leading research around depression care in rural and urban cancer centers- applying a human-centered design process to discover contextual constraints and gather requirements for the design and development of a digital platform to support the delivery of Collaborative Care Management (CoCM) for depression. Their work will be part of a
Principal investigators: Dror Ben-Zeev & Jaime Snyder. This project aims to co-develop mHealer, a mobile system to train West African traditional healers in evidence-based psychosocial interventions and human rights practices for serious mental illness.
Principal Investigators: Elena Agapie & Pat Arean. This project focused on understanding barriers and facilitators to completing homework in Problem Solving Therapy, identifying opportunities for design to support effective completion of between-session activities.