This position is responsible for screening and recruiting eligible participants, obtaining informed consent, delivering the study¿s tablet-based intervention and comparison content, and collecting longitudinal study data through direct interaction with surrogate decision-maker participants in the adult ICUs at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, following pre-established study protocols and specific research instructions. Working under moderate supervision, the Research Assistant 1 supports a NIH-funded randomized controlled trial testing a tablet-based emotion-regulation intervention to improve psychological outcomes among surrogate decision-makers for critically ill adults in the intensive care unit.