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Mental Health Lab
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The lab builds systems that support mental health through both prevention and nursing.
AboutAbout the lab
Supporting mental health with a broad perspective and an international outlook
The lab studies how to protect and support mental health.
The lab consists of two teams, Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing. Although their perspectives differ, they share many of the same issues and methodologies.
The Mental Health team applies a public health approach to preventing mental illness and promoting mental health in communities and workplaces.
The Psychiatric Nursing team conducts research from a nursing perspective, so that people who need support can live in a way that is true to themselves.
Key terms
- Public health
- Organized efforts by society to maintain and improve people's health and quality of life, together with the knowledge and techniques behind them
- Trauma-informed care
- An approach to care that assumes anyone may have been affected by painful experiences, and that is mindful of psychological injury
- Nationwide survey
- A survey that asks people selected from across the country using the same method, in order to grasp the state of Japan as a whole and how it changes
NewsLab news
Assistant Professor Asaoka won the Best Presentation Award at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
Associate Professor Sasaki won the Outstanding Presentation Award at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Industrial Stress
Associate Professor Sasaki won the Best Presentation Award at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Public Health
Graduate students won the Best Presentation Award and an Outstanding Presentation Award at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
ResearchResearch themes
Through its two teams, Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing, the lab carries out education and research on mental health. Its work covers both prevention and support, from nationwide surveys to developing practical guidelines and scales for use in the field.
*Illustrative imageTrauma-Informed Care
The lab investigates how mental health, medical, and welfare facilities respond to trauma, and is developing guidelines based on its findings. It also works to spread the idea of trauma-informed care, which starts from the assumption that anyone may have been affected by painful experiences.
*Illustrative imageNationwide Survey on Stress and Health
Following the previous two rounds, the lab is conducting a nationwide survey on the mental health and stress of people in Japan. It aims to clarify how the proportion of people with mental health problems and their status of seeking medical care have changed over the past 10 years, and to use the results to inform national policy.
*Illustrative imageOnline Follow-up Survey of Workers
Together with the Department of Digital Mental Health, the lab has been conducting an online follow-up survey of workers across Japan since 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began. It examines how countermeasures have spread in workplaces and what factors change workers' mental health.
*Illustrative imageMental Health of Disaster Dispatch Teams
In collaboration with the DMAT (Disaster Medical Assistance Team) Secretariat and the DPAT (Disaster Psychiatric Assistance Team) Secretariat, the lab surveys team members. It examines the factors that affect mental health problems, and aims to return the results to each individual so that they lead to stress care.
MembersFaculty
The lab's members consist of faculty, faculty with concurrent appointments, project researchers, staff, graduate students, undergraduate thesis students, and special research students.As of 2026
- ProfessorDaisuke NishiPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorYuki MiyamotoPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorNatsu SasakiPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorHiroki AsaokaPublications ↗
- Project Associate ProfessorKotaro Imamura
- Project LecturerAsuka Sakuratani
- Project Assistant ProfessorIzumi Ayase
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Bench in park” Nirmal Bhagwani / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Trauma-Informed Care: “Red Cross Society Central Hospital corridor 2014 Museum Meiji Mura” Morio / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Nationwide Survey on Stress and Health: “Satellite View of Japan 1999” SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE / Public domain (cropped)
- Online Follow-up Survey of Workers: “Step in Japan office” EU-Japan Centre / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Mental Health of Disaster Dispatch Teams: “Kumamoto City Fire Department Chuo 2” KUPS39M / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Social and Preventive Epidemiology Lab): “Teishoku - traditional Japanese set meal at New Chitose Airport (97)” Savannah Rivka / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Developmental Medical Sciences Lab): “Aedes Mosquito and Dengue Virus Particles” NIAID / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Health and Social Behavior Lab): “Street views in Tokyo 2” Syced / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Human Ecology Lab): “Village in Eastern Highlands Province Papua New Guinea” Toksave / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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