I have written before about the greater prevalence of suicide in rural youth (Runkle et al. 2023) and the value of telemedicine in working with rural clients (Kaur et al., 2022). Here, I speak to substance abuse and telepsychiatry. First, Kopak & Raggio (2023) published “Substance Use Disorder and Rural Detention Center Readmission: Results from a 3-year prospective cohort study” in Journal of Rural Mental Health. Here are the impact statement and abstract, edited with some information in bold:

Schleider (2023) published “The Fundamental Need for Lived Experience Perspectives in Developing and Evaluating Psychotherapies” in Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. I like this approach because it integrates criticism of research on therapies with new tools that can potentially help therapists work more efficiently and successfully. Here’s the abstract with some information in bold:

Sweet, Campion, Bixler, Sylvester & Ghanem (2022) published “Rural Tele-mental Health Use During the Pandemic for Adjustment Disorders, Anxiety, and Depression” in Journal of Rural Mental Health.

Venturo-Conerly, Fitzpatrick, Horn, Uguerto & Weisz (2022) published “Effectiveness of Youth Psychotherapy Delivered remotely: A meta-analysis” in American Psychologist.