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May Yeh
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Dr. May Yeh is an Associate Professor of Psychology who received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is also an investigator with the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center (CASRC), located at Rady Children’s Hospital. She has research interests in cultural issues and cultural competence in mental health services, multiple party involvement in care, racial/ethnic disparities in mental health services, and both school-based and clinic-based mental health services for children and adolescents. |
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Ann
Garland
Ph.D.
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Bio:
Ann Garland received her Ph.D. in Clinical and Community Psychology in 1993 from Yale University. She also holds a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley and an M.A. in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University. She joined the CASRC group in 1993 and has been active in studies of children in foster care and in mental health services.
Current CASRC projects/grants:
Practice and Research: Advancing Collaboration (PRAC) / Integrating Evidence and Practice of Youth Psychotherapy, Measuring Outcomes of Youth Mental Health Care; Patterns of Care; Performance Outcomes Project
Research Interests:
Methodological issues regarding evaluating the effectiveness of youth; mental health services; Multiple stakeholders' (e.g., youth, parent, clinician) perceptions of the effectiveness of services; Characterizing community based psychotherapy services for youth; Psychiatric epidemiology of youth in public systems of care
Other Affiliations:
Professor in Department of Psychiatry at UCSD;
Supervising Psychologist in CHHC Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic
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Katina Lambros received her Ph.D. in School Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. She also completed a post doctoral fellowship at the University of New Mexico, working on a grant funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the Association of Child, Youth and Families (ACYF), which utilized an early detection model to identify young children at-risk for emotional and behavioral disorders and a classroom-wide primary prevention approach to develop adaptive social behaviors for Head Start preschoolers.
Current CASRC projects/grants:
Dr. Lambros is currently involved in Cognitive Consensus in Cross-Cultural Competence [a.k.a. TeamWork in Services for Teens (TWIST)], a five year research study that has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health to better understand how to provide culturally competent mental health services to diverse youth.
In addition, she also oversees the Safe School Healthy Students (SSHS) initiative, which aims to build a comprehensive strategy for child and adolescent mental health in the San Diego Unified School District and is funded by the Departments of Education, Health & Human Services, and Justice.
Research Interests:
Her current research interests focus upon the provision of developmentally appropriate mental health prevention/intervention to young, at-risk children and their families. Dr. Lambros holds a special interest in inter-sector service coordination, with a focus on services in schools. In addition, she studies best practices in screening and assessment of high incidence disabilities (developmental delay (DD), learning disabilities (LD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) in young children as well as school-aged populations.
Other Affiliations:
Department of Counseling and School Psychology, San Diego State University; Rady Children's Hospital and Health Center; San Diego Unified School District
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Current CASRC projects/grants:
Developing Culturally Responsive Child Interventions
Research Interests:
Cultural factors that affect treatment access and outcomes for children; developing culturally responsive treatments for children; psychosocial risk and protective factors for child psychopathology.
Other Affiliations:
Assistant Professor at University of San Diego, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology
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Child & Adolescent Interdisciplinary Research Network (CAIRN); Safe Schools Healthy Students Evaluation; San Pasqual Academy Evaluation; Mixed-Methods Study of a Statewide EBP Implementation; Improving Therapist Fidelity During EBP Implementation; Dimensions of Early Stress and Child Welfare Involvement; Performance Outcomes for Data Management and Evaluation Systems; Cognitive Consensus in Cross-Cultural Competence, Improving Care for Children in Child Welfare (R24); Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN)
Research Interests:
Child maltreatment; children's mental health and mental health services; research on the implementation and maintenance of evidence based, parent mediated interventions in child welfare settings for the treatment of disruptive behavior disorders and externalizing behavior problems in children and adolescents.
Other Affiliations:
Professor Emeritus, San Diego State University School of Social Work, Senior Scholar at George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis
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Cynthia Fuller TWIST Project Specialist |
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Jan Price TWIST Project Coordinator |
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Bill Ganger TWIST Data Analyst |
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 Consultants:
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San Diego State University/CASRC
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Don Slymen, Ph.D. - Statistician
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University of California , Davis
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Stanley Sue, Ph.D. – Consultant
Nolan Zane, Ph.D. – Consultant |
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California State University , Los Angeles
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Jean Phinney, Ph.D. - Consultant |
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University of California , San Diego/CASRC
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Larry Palinkas, Ph.D. - Consultant
Gregory Aarons, Ph.D. – Consultant |
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Shirley Culver, MSW, LCSW – Consultant
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University of Washington
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David Takeuchi, Ph.D. – Consultant |
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