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Jessica Schleider is a clinical psychologist, researcher, and founding director of the lab for scalable mental health.

She's a leader in single-session interventions for youth mental health, an evidence-based

approach that aims to provide help that's accessible, doable, and affordable for populations

around the world and is already available via open access programs.

On her own and with colleagues, she's published a wide array of articles and book chapters

and co-wrote a self-help book, The Growth Mindset Workbook for Teens. Most recently,

she's the author of Little Treatments, Big Effects, How to Build

Meaningful Moments That Can Transform Your Mental Health. Currently, an associate professor of medical

sciences at Northwestern University, Schleider earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Harvard,

and completed her doctoral internship in clinical and

community psychology at Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Schleider, thank you for joining us today.

My pleasure. Thanks for having me. So to hop right into it, what is a single session intervention?

I realize there's a variety of them, but could you describe

it generally right off the bat for our listeners? Absolutely. And it's a term that even most

clinical psychologists aren't familiar with, so more than happy to share a definition.

A single session intervention is an intervention that's intentionally designed and

intentionally is key there to be completed or have some kind of detectable impact within a

single visit, session, or encounter. And single session interventions can be self-guided or human facilitated, so they can be digital

supports or facilitated by either a professional or a peer.

And they can exist either within or outside of traditional health care systems.

So they can be offered online on social media, in schools, by school counselors, within routine

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