Media and Mental Health

Media and Mental Health

This study's goal is to find if using the ThinkHumanTV program during 6 weekly sessions of watching Netflix or Disney series or movies for 90 minutes, together with 4 - 8 members of the Whole Health Center and EpiCenter and a discussion leader, improves the wellbeing of the group participants.

This study's goal is to find out whether 6 weekly sessions of watching certain TV series or movies in a group setting, augmented through education from ThinkHuman TV about emotions and coping with emotions embedded in the process of watching (with a discussion leader), will improve the resilience of mental health patients enrolled in a long-term community mental health center. This will be tested by comparing ThinkHuman TV augmented movies with watching moving in a group without ThinkHuman TV educational activities to see if there is better improvement in resilience and well-being of the group participants who have THinkHuman included as compared to those who do not.

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Age ≥ 18years old
2. Recipient of treatment at WHC for at least 6 months.
3. English speaking

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Actively manic
2. Actively suicidal
3. Has not been dependent on drugs or alcohol for at least 30 days
4. Deemed to be at significant risk of being dangerous to self or others by the patients' WHC physician
5. Deemed inappropriate based on judgment of WHC physician informed by WHC staff