The Time to Change for Mental Health and Wellbeing via Virtual Professional Coaching: Longitudinal Observational Study.

Background: Optimal mental health yields many benefits and reduced costs to employees and organizations; however, the workplace introduces challenges to building and maintaining mental health that affects wellbeing. While many organizations have introduced programming to aid employee mental health and wellbeing, the uptake and effectiveness of these efforts vary. One barrier to developing more effective interventions is a lack of understanding about how to improve wellbeing over time.

Outcasts and saboteurs: Intervention strategies to reduce the negative effects of social exclusion on team outcomes.

The experience of social exclusion in the workplace adversely impacts employees' well-being, job satisfaction, and productivity, and no one quite knows what to do about it. In this report, we describe the development and testing of three ostracism interventions, designed to help people cope with the negative effects of being excluded by one's team. Across five studies, participants were assigned to a virtual ball toss game where they were either included or excluded by their teammates.

Association between availability of health service prices and payments for these services.

Importance: Recent governmental and private initiatives have sought to reduce health care costs by making health care prices more transparent.

Objective: To determine whether the use of an employer-sponsored private price transparency platform was associated with lower claims payments for 3 common medical services.

Design: Payments for clinical services provided were compared between patients who searched a pricing website before using the service with patients who had not researched prior to receiving this service.

Auditory abnormalities in autism: toward functional distinctions among findings.

Recently, findings on a wide range of auditory abnormalities among individuals with autism have been reported. To date, functional distinctions among these varied findings are poorly established. Such distinctions should be of interest to clinicians and researchers alike given their potential therapeutic and experimental applications.