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Caroline Easton and her team work to address Rochester's need for mental health and addiction counselors.

Funding from the Patrick P. Lee Foundation will support a new postdoctoral fellowship at the RIT Priority Behavioral Health and Clinical Psychology program. 

The Rochester Business Journal talks to Caroline Easton, professor in the biomedical sciences program, about telehealth programs for addiction treatment and mental health treatment.

David Borkholder, Linwei Wang, Caroline Easton, and Adam Smith, all professors at RIT, lead the project team that will use a smart toilet seat to provide in-home monitoring of critical health data for the aging population. 

RIT’s Behavioral Health program is expanding in new directions with a clinic on campus and federal funding to deliver addiction treatment in rural communities in upstate New York and rural New Hampshire.

Caroline Easton, professor in RIT’s School of Behavioral Health talks with Jacob Wadsworth, a doctoral intern in the university’s priority psychology internship program, about a project that uses telemedicine, the process of using telecommunications to evaluate, diagnosis and treat patients, to help homeless people access mental health and drug addiction counseling.

Caroline Easton Is Leading Federally Funded Research At The Rochester Institute Of Technology.
Easton, A Professor In RIT’s Behavioral Health Division, Said She’s Looking To Connect People Who Are Homeless With Psychologists And Psychiatrists. WXXI Radio Interview

Caroline Easton believes that letting homeless individuals know they are valued is an essential ingredient to integrating them into our community. She is leading an endeavor to help make that happen.

Funded by a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Rochester Institute of Technology is making addiction treatment and mental health services more accessible to some of the most vulnerable populations in upstate New York.

The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HRSA) awarded Dr. Caroline Easton close to $1.4 Million Dollars. HRSA designated her as an awardee for the Graduate Psychology Education (GPE) Program designed to Advance the Field of Addiction Treatments within the Profession of Clinical Psychology.

An avatar named “RITa®” could give doctors a digital tool for helping patients take steps to end abusive relationships. Researchers and domestic violence advocates at Rochester Institute of Technology and Resolve of Greater Rochester (RESOLVE) created RITa to provide “on demand” domestic violence expertise in primary care settings. Input from victims and physicians in Rochester, N.Y., contributed to the design.

Researchers and domestic violence advocates at Rochester Institute of Technology and Resolve of Greater Rochester (RESOLVE) created RITa to provide “on demand” domestic violence expertise in primary care settings. Input from victims and physicians in Rochester, N.Y., contributed to the design.

The purpose of this paper is to review the research on the use of technology in mental health and addiction treatment, focusing on the use of technology-assisted treatment.

RIT is advancing interactive medical technologies to help people dealing with addiction, anger management and violent behavior directed at their family and intimate partners. These digital tools can teach coping skills and keep clients focused on recovery.

A leader in the field of family violence prevention is challenging the standard practice for treating offenders in the United States with an alternative that is grounded in science and connects the dots between substance abuse and aggression.

A professor at Rochester Institute of Technology is working to reduce the high rates of domestic violence by influencing policies and procedures locally, nationally and internationally.