The Impact of AI and Mental Health
Presenter: Dr. Marina Badillo-Diaz
Date: Monday, March 30, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (EST)
Format: Live Interactive Webinar via Zoom
Cost: $49 (Includes 3.0 Contact Hours of Continuing Education Credits - NY Social Workers, LMHCs, LCATs, LMFTs, NBCC, OASAS)
Register Now! ***ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM***
Artificial intelligence (AI) is shaping how people seek support, cope with distress, and make decisions about their mental health. Youth and adults are increasingly using AI chatbots and “companion” tools for emotional support, self‑diagnosis, and crisis‑related conversations, often without understanding the limitations, privacy risks, or potential harm. At the same time, agencies, schools, and clinicians are adopting AI for screening, documentation, triage, and care coordination, which raises new questions about bias, consent, surveillance, and role integrity.
Webinar participants will examine how AI can amplify concerns such as anxiety, depression, isolation, suicidality, body image distress, and misinformation.
Participants will also learn how to intervene at micro, mezzo, and macro levels through clinical conversations, family guidance, safety planning, group work, and organizational policy.
Learning Objectives
1. Identify key ways AI tools influence mental health (risk and protective factors), including emotional reliance, misinformation, identity/body image impacts, and crisis-related risks across youth and adult populations.
2. Apply an ethical, trauma-informed, culturally responsive framework to assess client AI use and integrate interventions that uphold privacy, confidentiality, informed consent, and role clarity.
3. Implement practical strategies for clinical practice, school settings, and agencies, including screening questions, documentation guidance, safety planning considerations, family coaching, and referral pathways.
Presenter: Dr. Marina Badillo-Diaz
Date: Monday, March 30, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (EST)
Format: Live Interactive Webinar via Zoom
Cost: $49 (Includes 3.0 Contact Hours of Continuing Education Credits - NY Social Workers, LMHCs, LCATs, LMFTs, NBCC, OASAS)
Register Now! ***ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM***
Artificial intelligence (AI) is shaping how people seek support, cope with distress, and make decisions about their mental health. Youth and adults are increasingly using AI chatbots and “companion” tools for emotional support, self‑diagnosis, and crisis‑related conversations, often without understanding the limitations, privacy risks, or potential harm. At the same time, agencies, schools, and clinicians are adopting AI for screening, documentation, triage, and care coordination, which raises new questions about bias, consent, surveillance, and role integrity.
Webinar participants will examine how AI can amplify concerns such as anxiety, depression, isolation, suicidality, body image distress, and misinformation.
Participants will also learn how to intervene at micro, mezzo, and macro levels through clinical conversations, family guidance, safety planning, group work, and organizational policy.
Learning Objectives
1. Identify key ways AI tools influence mental health (risk and protective factors), including emotional reliance, misinformation, identity/body image impacts, and crisis-related risks across youth and adult populations.
2. Apply an ethical, trauma-informed, culturally responsive framework to assess client AI use and integrate interventions that uphold privacy, confidentiality, informed consent, and role clarity.
3. Implement practical strategies for clinical practice, school settings, and agencies, including screening questions, documentation guidance, safety planning considerations, family coaching, and referral pathways.
Dr. Marina Badillo-Diaz is an experienced administrator with a demonstrated history of working in community mental health and in K-12 education as a social worker. Currently, Dr. Badillo-Diaz is a consultant focusing on the training of educators and social workers with MABD Consulting. She is also a former board member of the National School Social Work Association of America and an adjunct professor at Columbia University and New York University.
Dr. Badillo-Diaz is the creator of "The AI Social Worker," a pivotal resource offering guidance on 21st-century skills and AI applications for social workers. To date, she has trained over 5,000 social workers and clinicians across the US and Canada on integrating AI into practice ethically and responsibly while presenting at international, national, state, and local conferences, including the NASW, NASW NY, NASW-NC, CASW, OASW, SSWAA, SSWAG, and SSWADE.
Her professional interests are diverse and include 21st-century skills, social-emotional learning programming, school social work practice, education, youth mental health, clinical supervision, AI applications, data management, and career development. Her work consistently strives to bridge the gap between technology and human-centric social work practices, preparing professionals to meet the challenges of the modern 21st-century world.
Dr. Badillo-Diaz is the creator of "The AI Social Worker," a pivotal resource offering guidance on 21st-century skills and AI applications for social workers. To date, she has trained over 5,000 social workers and clinicians across the US and Canada on integrating AI into practice ethically and responsibly while presenting at international, national, state, and local conferences, including the NASW, NASW NY, NASW-NC, CASW, OASW, SSWAA, SSWAG, and SSWADE.
Her professional interests are diverse and include 21st-century skills, social-emotional learning programming, school social work practice, education, youth mental health, clinical supervision, AI applications, data management, and career development. Her work consistently strives to bridge the gap between technology and human-centric social work practices, preparing professionals to meet the challenges of the modern 21st-century world.
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