mental health

March 17, 2025

A woman in a brown corduroy jacket smiles on the steps of Suzzallo Library

Nurturing the whole child

Researchers at the UW Center for Child & Family Well-Being create practical tools to improve mental health for parents, caregivers and young people.


September 12, 2024

Care for all

UW Medicine opens a new center for behavioral health care and for training the next generation of mental health professionals.


September 2, 2023

Getting real on mental health

The research-based program helps members of the UW community maintain their mental health.


February 25, 2023

Helping youth in crisis

Schools are on the front lines of the mental health crisis. They need trained social workers and the resources to help kids who are suffering.


March 5, 2022

Mental-health advice

The pandemic has taken a toll on the mental health of young people. A UW and Harvard University study found that adequate sleep, a daily routine and limited screen time could help.


December 4, 2021

Illustration of a person's head with the top removed, exposing a metal foundation like that of a large building.

All in alignment

The impact of the University of Washington was never more clearly on display than when the Legislature turned to it to tackle the state’s mental health crisis.


September 4, 2021

Crisis state

Washington has a shortage of mental-health workers and high demand for treatment. The UW is at the center of efforts to turn the tide.


December 3, 2019

Happy hints

Recommendations from social psychologist Tabitha Kirkland, whose research explores strategies that nurture our happiness.


November 30, 2018

Tech for mental health

UW Medicine researchers are exploring how a smartphone might help someone manage a severe mental illness such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.


June 1, 2015

Mindfulness

Whether it’s coping with college or taming an addiction, mindfulness has real medical and practical benefits, and it’s something UW researchers have been exploring for decades.


March 1, 2014

Hope after heartache

Jennifer Stuber lost her husband to suicide. Now she's working to remove the stigma of mental illness.


June 1, 2013

Fighting suicide

The multidisciplinary training Michael Phillips received at the UW made him an ideal person to pioneer research on the nature of suicide in China.


September 1, 2011

Hidden cost of war

Gen. Peter Chiarelli, a Seattle native and Evans School alum, was in town as part of a national effort “to begin a conversation about veterans and what we can do to connect communities to veterans.”


December 1, 2010

Stigma of mental illness

To Jennifer Stuber, the stigma associated with mental illness is black and white: that is, it’s right there in the newspaper.


June 1, 2008

Schizophrenia puzzle

People with schizophrenia have high rates of rare genetic deletions and duplications that likely disrupt the developing brain, according to new research from the UW and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories.


March 1, 2007

Immigrant mental health

Immigrants from Asia have lower rates of psychiatric disorders than American-born Asians and other native-born Americans, according to the first national epidemiological survey of Asian Americans in the United States.


September 1, 2006

Fighting the blues

Taking a page from Alcoholics Anonymous and similar groups, UW researchers successfully tested a brief, low-cost “intervention” to deal with depression.