Kurt Michael, Ph.D.

Kurt Michael, Ph.D.

New York, New York, United States
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I am a native Coloradan and received my bachelor’s from the University of Colorado at…

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Education

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    Duke University

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    Activities and Societies: Walter Borg Scholar; Seely Hinkley Scholar; Dale and Adele Young Scholar

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    Activities and Societies: Rural Training Grant Fellow

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    Activities and Societies: Rapine crisis intervention and suicide prevention; substance abuse peer education.

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  • Does cognitive behavioural therapy in the context of a rural school mental health programme have an impact on academic outcomes?

    Advances in School Mental Health Promotion

    Given the prevalence of mental health difficulties among children and adolescents, schools have become a suitable context for providing psychological services to those who may otherwise go untreated. The co-occurrence of mental health impairments and academic problems has been widely cited, and many school mental health (SMH) programmes have begun to assess academic variables in treatment outcome. The current study evaluated a rural SMH programme's success at treating symptoms of psychological…

    Given the prevalence of mental health difficulties among children and adolescents, schools have become a suitable context for providing psychological services to those who may otherwise go untreated. The co-occurrence of mental health impairments and academic problems has been widely cited, and many school mental health (SMH) programmes have begun to assess academic variables in treatment outcome. The current study evaluated a rural SMH programme's success at treating symptoms of psychological distress among high school participants and the potential association with participants' attendance, grade point averages (GPAs) and discipline referrals. Participants were 58 high school students between 14 and 18 years old. Results indicate that non-manualized cognitive behavioural therapy administered for an average of 14.88 sessions was successful at treating mental health concerns, as measured by a self-report questionnaire collected several times throughout treatment. In addition, a large proportion of students demonstrated improvements or stability in attendance and discipline when comparing baseline and post-treatment data, though no differences emerged between the time points for the sample as a whole. Although the findings regarding academic outcomes were not impressive overall, individual outcomes varied widely, with slightly over half of the students recording higher GPAs than at baseline. Furthermore, the fact that stability rates across the variables were reasonably high might suggest that we consider widening the definition of success to include protection from decline, reserving expectations for improvement only for those who present with difficulties in that particular academic outcome. The findings documented here illustrate the need for more nuanced approaches to understanding the relationship between intervention and academic performance.

  • A revision and extension of the Prevention of Escalating Adolescent Crisis Events (PEACE) protocol

    Children and Youth Services Review

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  • Comparative efficacy and tolerability of antidepressants for major depressive disorder in children and adolescents: a network meta-analysis

    The Lancet

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  • Preliminary outcomes of a multi-site, school-based modular intervention for adolescents experiencing mood difficulties

    Journal of Child and Family Studies

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Projects

  • Adolescent Suicide Predictors: What Do We Know and What Are We Missing?

    Presented at the 49th Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Convention. Investigation into the predictive power of proposed risk factors for suicide, including substance use, sexual assault history, bullying victimization, cyber bullying victimization, and fighting.

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  • Substance Use as a Risk Factor for Suicide Among American Indian Youth

    Presented at the 49th Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Convention. Investigation of the contribution of alcohol use, marijuana use, and combined alcohol and marijuana use to overall risk for future suicidal behaviors among American Indian adolescents.

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  • Youth risk behavior survey: Ashe County High School

    Project to create and publish a Youth Risk Behavior Survey for high school students in Watauga County of western North Carolina. Responsibilities included: organizing the data set for both schools in SPSS, running all analyses, and writing the official YRBS report.

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  • Youth risk behavior survey: Watauga High School

    Project to create and publish a Youth Risk Behavior Survey for high school students in Watauga County of western North Carolina. Responsibilities included: organizing the data set for both schools in SPSS, running all analyses, and writing the official YRBS report.

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  • Sleep, Adolescent Mental Health and Substance Use: Geographic and Developmental Correlates

    Exploring correlates between sleep amount and risky behavior between rural and urban adolescent populations.

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  • Carolina Network for School Mental Health

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