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Exploring the Feasibility of a College Mobile Mental Health Crisis Unit

This study evaluates the feasibility of implementing a Mobile Mental Health Crisis Unit (MMHCU) on a college campus by consulting experts, revealing that while such units offer significant benefits in crisis response and resource allocation, their successful and sustainable implementation depends on overcoming critical challenges related to funding, stakeholder partnerships, and staffing.

Chelsey Simmons, Nicole Arcuri-Sanders2026-08-24
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Comfortable Helplessness: Proxy Control and the Making of Dormant Psychological Needs in AI-Delegated Work

This paper introduces the concept of "comfortable helplessness," demonstrating that while reliable automated control in the workplace diminishes psychological need satisfaction (autonomy, competence, and relatedness), it fails to trigger the negative affective signals typically associated with such losses, unlike human control which impacts both needs and affect equally.

Shay Tsaban2026-08-24
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From “Lived Body” to “Instrumental Body”: An Embodied Phenomenological Study of Physician Burnout and Its Resolution

This paper employs Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology to reframe physician burnout as a bodily alienation from the "lived body" to the "instrumental body" caused by disciplinary power, proposing that reclaiming the lived body through a triadic "field" model and specific embodied practices is the ethical foundation for restoring clinical presence and enabling systemic change.

Qingfang Su, Chuang Wu2026-08-24
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Stress-sensitive cognitive disorganization in help-seeking youth: a transdiagnostic developmental formulation perspective

This perspective proposes a transdiagnostic, safety-gated clinical framework for help-seeking youth that utilizes the descriptive shorthand of "sorting capacity" to track stress-sensitive cognitive disorganization separately from developmental baselines and environmental threats, while prioritizing safeguarding assessments before applying four complementary formulation questions.

Eik Niederlohmann2026-08-22