After Suicide, Mom Discovers Daughter’s ChatGPT Log. AI and Mental Health – Ep. 6
After her daughter died by suicide, journalist Laura Reiley discovered her ChatGPT chats. What responsibility do AI chatbot companies have to the people who use them?
What Do AI Chatbots Have to Say for Themselves? AI and Mental Health – Ep. 5
How do AI chatbots respond to explicit and implicit mental health language indicating someone might be in crisis? To test this out, Stephanie Hepburn speaks with four models — ChatGPT, Claude, Character.AI and Gemini. Transcript ChatGPT Voice: I'm really sorry to hear that you're feeling this way. Please know that you're not
3 People Used ChatGPT for Personal Reasons. How Did It Go? AI and Mental Health – Ep. 2
Before we understand the guardrails and protections that need to be in place for generative AI chatbots, we must first understand how people are using them. A conversation with three guests on how they’ve used ChatGPT to work through mental health and relationship challenges.
Have We Entered the Era of AI Chatbot Therapists? AI and Mental Health – Ep. 1
Despite increased broad usage, generative AI chatbots remain mostly unregulated, resulting in limited and unstandardized internal guardrails. So what happens when people start using AI chatbots for mental health support? A conversation with psychiatrist and researcher John Torous.
Peer Recovery Coach Says “Stigma of MAT Persists in the Recovery Community”
Veronica is an award-winning peer recovery coach, helping people navigate the challenges she faced. When asked what or who she credits for her recovery, Veronica doesn’t hesitate to say ongoing MAT and caring recovery coaches, but, she lowers her voice, her colleagues don’t know.
Kristine FireThunder on How Native Youth Can Change the Reservation Mental Health Landscape
Kristine FireThunder has developed youth leadership programs where guest speakers who’ve grown up on a reservation share their stories, expressing how they overcame challenges faced by today’s youth. She says what’s essential is that children and teens hear from people who experienced the same history and forms of trauma and
Arizona Crisis System the Equivalent of Everest Base Camp… the Final Climb Still Ahead
Michael F. Hogan and David W. Covington, co-founders of Crisis Now, discuss the lack of adequate behavioral health emergency services for life-threatening mental health, addiction, and suicidal crises. They discuss Arizona as the base camp for psychiatric emergency care but highlight there is much to be done to reach the
The Teen Brain in Crisis and Partnering with Law Enforcement
The excuse for not sufficiently investing in kids is that they’re more resilient. Dr. Jeff Bostic says their brain plasticity makes the early years the ideal time to help.
Embedding Crisis Response in Harris County’s 911 Dispatch Center
Harris County launched the first crisis call diversion program in the United States. Five years later, Jennifer Battle tells us how they did it and what’s next.
Kathy Kliebert on How Disasters Can Be a Catalyst For Change
The Bridge Center for Hope opened its doors in February 2021, and it's already making an impact. Kathy Kliebert, former secretary of health and former assistant secretary of behavioral health for Louisiana, says that the journey to develop the Bridge Center for Hope started in 2005 with the devastation of
