There’s a better way to evaluate teachers. Find out how in this episode of the American Psychological Associatin Division 15 podcast, with Drs. Alyson Lavigne and Thomas Good.
Latest papers: Francesco Rigoli in their open access paper explores the role of power in distributive justice considerations via examination of participant judgments in studies in the USA, Mexico, and South Africa. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2023.2290166@psychology
Agreed. Sometimes I think a car/driving analogy works well. We have roads, driving rules, licensing, etc. (i.e., driving structure) so that all of us can get where we are going faster and safer. No driving structure at all would make it really tough for us to get around, even in the best car (think Mad Max).
To be clear on my own suggestion, I think the baseline of structure has to do as much with motivation-initiative, regulating challenge, and assignment navigation as with behaviour and discipline.
Also, Csikszentmihalyi's ideas on "flow" have much to say on all this. He really gets a lot of things right, e.g., his views on the need for a challenge-skills match fit well with mainstream ideas re learners as self-regulators.
Latest papers: Joëlle Proust argues that the affordance construct that explains reactive potentiation of behaviour also applies to reactive potentiation of cognitive actions. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2023.2274489@psychology
Interesting abstract. Despite my Uni subscribing to the journal, T&Fs onerous access terms, including a 15 month embargo on new articles, makes it impossible to read, as much as I would love to.
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I obviously need to read further, but this stood out "Of all learning outcomes, academic performance had the weakest overall relationship with autonomy support."
Yup, because performance is distal. But I do think autonomy support still "matters" for performance, even if its effects are mediated. @rspfau@dsmith@edutooters@psychology
I'm always a bit skeptical of presentations from tech company CEOs on
how their product areas are necessary in the mental health field.
That said, this article has a few good points:
/"Umar Nizamani, CEO, International, at NiceDay, emphasised that AI will
inevitably become an essential tool in mental health care: 'I am very
confident AI will not replace therapists – but therapists using AI will
replace therapists not using AI.'"//
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I am beginning to think this also -- for better or worse. I took a VERY
fast 60 second look at NiceDay and it appears to be another
all-encompassing EHR, but with a strong emphasis on data. Lots of tools
and questionnaires and attractive graphs for therapists to monitor
symptoms. (I need to take a longer look later.) So data-driven could
be very good, if it does not crowd out the human touch.
/"Nizamani said there had been suicides caused by AI, citing the case of
a person in Belgium who died by suicide after downloading an anxiety
app. The individual was anxious about climate change. The app suggested
'if you did not exist' it would help the planet, said Nizamani."//
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YIKES... So, yes, his point that care in implementation is needed is
critical. I worry at the speed of the gold-rush.
/"He [//Nizamni] //called on the industry to come together to ensure
that mental health systems using AI and data are 'explainable’,
'transparent', and 'accountable'." //
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This has been my biggest focus so far, coming from an Internet security
background when I was younger.
/"Arden Tomison, CEO and founder of Thalamos"/ spoke on how his company
automates and streamlines complex bureaucracy and paperwork to both
speed patients getting help and extract the useful data from the forms
for clinicians to use. More at: https://www.thalamos.co.uk/
/"Dr Stefano Goria, co-founder and CTO at Thymia, gave an example of
'frontier AI': 'mental health biomarkers' which are 'driving towards
precision medicine' in mental health. Goria said thymia’s biomarkers
(e.g. how someone sounds, or how they appear in a video) could help
clinicians be aware of symptoms and diagnose conditions that are often
missed."//
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Now THIS is how I'd like to receive my AI augmentation. Give me
improved diagnostic tools rather than replacing me with chatbots or
over-crowding the therapy process with too much automated tool data
collection (some is good). I just want this to remain in the hands of
the solo practitioner rather than being a performance monitor on us by
insurance companies. I want to see empowered clinicians.
@admin@psychotherapist@psychology@socialpsych@infosec
We need cross-discipline digital literacy. AI advances that improve one discipline are often exploited in others. When you celebrate diagnosis mental health biomarkers (how someone sounds, or how they appear in a video), this information is coveted by data brokers who would love to sell it. MH video is unacceptable until security improves. Even then, it will be risky.
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You know, I thought that shampoo ad was going to demonstrate that "rinse and repeat" was just an effective marketing ploy. 😀
From the other side of the couch, so to speak, the results relating to procrastination are of some interest. With 25-ish years of experience, I can confidently say that the onset of wide-spread procrastination is a correlate (with the usual distinction from causation) to an onset of a depressive episode. Similarly qualified, a reduction in procrastination almost invariably heralds an abatement of such episodes.
Prof. Yair Bar Haim, professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and director, the National Center for Traumatic Stress and Resilience, discusses the current situation in Israel. Specifically, what work psychologists perform on the ground while we are at war with Hamas.
He also provides guidance for those in the diaspora about dealing with the associated trauma of what is occurring in Israel.
@TheConversationUS@psychology
Unpopular opinion: Instagram is successful among teens because it gives them exactly what they want and what they think they need to compete. So the fault doesn't lie solely with Meta, although they're making money of unhealty behaviour. But it's first and foremost a cultural problem.