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Michelle Munson is a Professor at NYU Silver. She has professional interests in mental health services research and intervention development and testing, and her work centers on adolescents and young adults. Dr. Munson’s research seeks to understand how society’s structural conditions and social relationships, through both verbal and non-verbal communication, shape young adults’ decisions to seek (or not seek) professional mental health services. Her research and scholarship also focuses on building understanding of ‘mental health identity’ and the role it plays in advancing health and wellbeing among adolescents and young adults with serious mental health conditions. Dr. Munson’s research centers the perspectives of youth, their families of choice, and their providers in order to develop services and intervention strategies that match the views of those who use them. Read more about these projects and others at the Youth and Young Adult Mental Health Group. Dr. Munson serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Adolescent Health, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal and Emerging Adulthood. Dr. Munson’s research has been supported through funding mechanisms at the federal, state, and local levels. She is an award winning educator and licensed social worker, actively engaged in clinical practice. Dr. Munson earned her PhD at Washington University in St. Louis, her MSW at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and her BA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.