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Jessica L. Schleider, PhD: Harnessing Single-Session Interventions to Promote Mental Health at Scale
November 1, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Jessica L. Schleider, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University
“Understanding Psychological Traits Using Social Media Language”
Dr. Jessica L. Schleider (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program at Stony Brook University (SUNY). She also serves as a Faculty Affiliate at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and was an Academic Consultant to the World Bank’s Education Global Practice.
Dr. Schleider completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Harvard University in 2018, along with a Doctoral Internship in Clinical and Community Psychology at Yale School of Medicine. She graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from Swarthmore College in 2012. Her research on brief, scalable interventions for depression and anxiety in young people has been funded by the NIH, NSF, and HRSA and recognized via numerous awards, including the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award; the ABCT President’s New Researcher Award; the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology’s Susan Nolen-Hoeksema Early Career Research Award; and the Society of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology’s Abidin Early Career Award. Her work has been featured in the Atlantic, Vox, and U.S. News & World Report, among others. In 2020, she was chosen as one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Healthcare.
Dr. Schleider has published >80 scientific articles and book chapters. She has created or co-created five open-access, single-session mental health programs, which have served >10,000 teens and adults to date. Based on these programs, Dr. Schleider wrote a self-help workbook, The Growth Mindset Workbook for Teens (New Harbinger). She also co-edited the Oxford Guide to Brief and Low-Intensity Interventions for Children and Young People (Oxford University Press) and is writing a nonfiction book (Little, Brown Book Group) on how brief interventions and meaningful moments can transform mental health.