Event Summaries about Prevention of Mental Disorders

In recognition of National Suicide Prevention Month in September, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) hosted a livestream event on suicide prevention in health care settings.

This workshop brings together experts in peer support suicide prevention to discuss relevant conceptual frameworks, recent advances, service settings, and service-user characteristics that inform intervention strategies across the crisis services continuum, digital and telehealth applications, and considerations for youth equity.

In recognition of National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month in September, NIMH hosted a Facebook Live event on youth suicide prevention.

The primary goal of the workshop was to examine focused ultrasound neuromodulation for mental health applications and share the latest findings and best practices.

In recognition of National Suicide Prevention Month in September, NIMH and the National Institute on Drug Abuse are co-hosting a Facebook Live event on the intersection of suicide and substance use.

Foluso Agboola, MBBS, MPH provided a brief background on the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) and describe the Value Assessment Framework using their review of esketamine for treatment-resistant depression as an example.

Experts from the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Aging, and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration conducted a Q&A on mental health, well-being, and aging. Experts discussed common concerns among older adults and tips to improve overall mental health.

In recognition of American Heart Month, clinical psychologists Laurie Friedman Donze, Ph.D., from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Krystal M. Lewis, Ph.D., from the National Institute of Mental Health discussed stress and heart health by demonstrating ways to reduce stress and bring on your body’s relaxation response.

Dr. Otis Brawley provided an overview of cancer incidence and mortality trends in populations defined by race, socioeconomic status, area of residence.

NIMH convened a two-day workshop to assess the state of the science related to suicide prevention training in clinical care with the ultimate goal of preventing suicidal behavior through improved training of providers.

This webinar showcased the NIMH’s commitment to community-based youth suicide prevention research with the White Mountain Apache Tribe and described the NIMH-funded regional research hub (U19), which blends a Western culturally adapted, evidence-based risk reduction approach with a culturally grounded protective factor-based intervention to reduce the burden of youth suicide.

The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), in collaboration NIMH and other NIH Institutes and Centers, cosponsored a roundtable discussion about research on emotional well-being.

On February 20, 2018, the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health held a Twitter chat on seasonal affective disorder (SAD).

On September 19, 2017, NIMH hosted a workshop on challenges and opportunities for exploring rare genetic syndromes as models to delineate the genetic risk architecture of mental illnesses and to facilitate translation into meaningful prevention and treatments.

The NIMH Division of AIDS Research sponsored a meeting to advance the science of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) implementation.