Technology Applications in Mental Health Treatment and Improving Outcome

Mobile technology applications, such as smartphones and smartwatches, are increasingly being adopted in mental health interventions to increase treatment and improve mental health outcomes. In this webinar, Marie Aline Sillice, Ph.D will address ways technology applications, such as artificial intelligence, can be harnessed to collect data to refine real-time assessment and increase the dissemination of mental health treatment approaches. I will also explain the ease of these applications in collecting Big Data to inform or refine standard intervention approaches, review current limitations of these approaches, and identify strategies for improvement for future research.

Marie Aline Sillice is a clinician and a researcher. She is an Assistant Research Professor at the City University of New York School of Public Health & Health Policy. Marie completed her postdoctoral training in cardiovascular behavioral medicine, psychosocial research, and addiction at Brown University. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Rhode Island. Her research is focused on improving intervention and prevention programs that address the reciprocal relationship between individual, social, and environmental factors in health disparity among minority populations, particularly African American/Black women.