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New Study Flags Concerns With Mental Health Treatment Mandate

New York State recently made public a first-of-its mixed methods evaluation of involuntary outpatient commitment across the State co-led by Pitt School of Social Work faculty Nev Jones and Bevin Croft of the Human Services Research Institute. The evaluation sought to center the experiences and perspectives of individuals directly impacted (i.e.

Moon receives NIH LRP award

Associate Professor Deborah Moon, Ph.D., Director of the Flourish Research Lab, has received a renewal of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Loan Repayment Program (LRP) award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The renewed award will support her research agenda, From Prevention to Promotion: Advancing Family Flourishing and Well-Being-Oriented Systems. Through multiple interconnected studies, Dr.