Rose Alvarado, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Education,
University of Utah
Dr. Alvarado is currently a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Utah Department of Health Promotion and Education. She directs a Training and Technical Assistance Project funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention which focuses on the nationwide dissemination of model family-based juvenile delinquency prevention programs. In addition, she recently finalized a major research project funded by the Center for Substance Prevention which explores the effects of a universal, school-based and family-skills program. Publications include Effective Family Strengthening Interventions published by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and a book chapter titled Strengthening Families to Prevent Drug Use in Multi-Ethnic Youth.

Carol A. Barber, MSW
Crisis Response Team, Seattle Children's Home
Carol Barber is a licensed Child Mental Health Specialist in the State of Washington and a certified trainer in suicide assessment and intervention. She earned an M.S.W. from the University of Washington in 1989, and has 15 years of experience working with at-risk children, youth and families. Currently, Ms. Barber manages a community based crisis response team in King County, Washington. The program has maintained a reputation in King County of providing the highest standard of crisis services, and its funder, King County Mental Health, has challenged other crisis providers in the county to match the standards of Ms. Barber's team. Ms. Barber is also an instructor at the University of Washington, where she will be teaching classes on working with children, adolescents and families.

Leona L. Eggert, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor Emeritus, Reconnecting Youth Prevention Research Program,
Psychosocial & Community Health, University of Washington
Dr. Eggert is recognized for development and research on indicated school-based preventive interventions; targeting drug abuse and suicide risk prevention. She is the Principal Investigator of the Reconnecting Youth Prevention Research Program. She has received extensive funding from NIDA, NIMH, NINR, and the U.S. Department of Education for testing the school-based Reconnecting Youth prevention model. Lee is the author of Anger Management for Youth: Stemming Aggression and Violence; the primary author of both Reconnecting Youth: A Peer Group Approach to Building Life Skills and The Youth Suicide Prevention Plan for Washington State; and the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters related to working with high-risk youth in their social contexts. She holds a Ph.D. in Speech Communication, with a focus on interpersonal, small group, and organizational communication. Dr. Eggert has worked extensively for more than twenty years with adolescents, their parents, and teachers in schools, community mental health centers, churches, and camping programs. She is a child/adolescent psychosocial nurse specialist and a certificated health educator and school nurse, and she consults regularly on the implementation and evaluation of Reconnecting Youth. She has presented nationally and internationally on these topics as well.

Diane Elliot, MD
Professor, Division of Health Promotion and Sports Medicine,
Oregon Health Sciences University
Diane Elliot, M.D., is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Health Promotion and Sports Medicine at OHSU. She is the principal investigator of ATHENA, principal investigator of PHLAME, co-investigator of SATURN, and co-investigator of ATLAS. Elliot is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and American College of Sports Medicine. She is a crew chief for Drug Surveillance for the United States Olympic Committee. Elliot is the co-author and editor of Exercise for Prevention and Treatment of Illness, F.A. Davis, 1994. She is also the co-author of The History and Physical Examination Casebook, Lippincott-Raven, 1997 and The Healing Power of Exercise, John Wiley & Sons, 2000.

Kristen Reed Gabrielsen
Associate Director, CSAP's Western Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies
Kristen Reed Gabrielsen is the Associate Director for CSAP's Western Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies. She is responsible for the infusion of scientifically defensible practices into state and community level substance abuse prevention programs through: the design and development of a web-site; creation of numerous publications; and management of CAPT prevention application coordinators and other Western CAPT staff. Kris determines the direction of product development, oversees technology-related projects, and reviews programs for inclusion as a science-based best practice. She is also responsible for on-going communication with federal and state officials. Prior to her work with CSAP's Western CAPT, Kris was a prevention program manager and trainer with Washington State's Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse for five years. She conducted risk/protective factor trainings and provided technical assistance for community groups, county staff, tribal communities, and community groups. Kris also managed several statewide prevention programs.

Linn Goldberg, MD
Professor, Division of Health Promotion and Sports Medicine,
Oregon Health Sciences University
Dr. Linn Goldberg is a Professor of Medicine, and Head of the Division of Health Promotion & Sports Medicine at the Oregon Health & Science University. He has served as an expert panelist for the United States Department of Education's Safe, Disciplined and Drug Free Schools, and delegate to the World Health Organization regarding strategies to prevent drug use. Dr. Goldberg has received 23 research grants, written over 150 scientific publications, and co-authored three books. He is the co-developer of the national award winning drug prevention curriculum, ATLAS. Along with Dr. Diane Elliot, his research includes studying the effects of the ATHENA drug prevention for adolescent female athletes.

Marsha Linehan, PhD, ABPP
Professor, Psychology, University of Washington
Marsha Linehan is a Professor of Psychology, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington and Director of the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics, a consortium of research projects developing new treatments and evaluating their efficacy for severely disordered and multi-diagnostic populations. Her primary research is in the application of behavioral models to suicidal behaviors, drug abuse, and borderline personality disorder. She is also working to develop effective models for transferring efficacious treatments from the research academy to the clinical community.

She has received several awards recognizing her clinical and research contributions, including the Louis I. Dublin Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Field of Suicide and the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology, American Psychological Association, as well as awards for Distinguished Research in Suicide (American Foundation of Suicide Prevention), Distinguished Contributions to the Practice of Psychology (American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology), Distinguished Contributions for Clinical Activities, (Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy), and Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Clinical Psychology (Society of Clinical Psychology, American Psychological Association).

James J. Mazza, PhD
Associate Professor, Educational Psychology, University of Washington
Dr. Mazza researches child and adolescent mental health issues including depression, suicide, and post-traumatic stress syndrome. He also studies violence in schools and social support of children and how these two factors affect the mental health of children and adolescents. His current research focuses on the area of adolescent mental health and the identification of youth who are at-risk for depression or suicidal behavior - in particular the area of adolescent psychopathology including suicidal behavior, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and exposure to community violence. Results from his research are used to better understand adolescent mental health problems and to examine the complex relationship between mental health problems and precipitating factors, such as violence exposure.

Elizabeth McCauley, PhD
Professor & Director of Child In-Patient Psychiatry,
Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
University of Washington
Dr. McCauley is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington and the Clinical Director of the Inpatient Psychiatry Unit at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center. Her clinical and research work has focused on adolescents and adolescent development with particular attention to adolescent depression. Over the past twelve years, Dr. McCauley has been engaged in a research program designed to characterize clinical depression in young people. In addition to this ongoing work on understanding the origins and course of adolescent depression, Dr. McCauley is involved in an active collaboration with the University of Washington Reconnecting Youth Research Program led by Dr. Leona Eggert. As part of this collaboration, Dr. McCauley in involved in school based preventive intervention work with at-risk high school students. NIMH, NIDA funded.

Terry Michael McClanahan, PsyD
Department of Psychiatry at Kaiser Permanente, Santa Rosa, California
He received his doctoral degree from the University of San Francisco and his predoctoral internship at the Ioannis Lougaris VA Medical Center. He has been employed at University of California, San Francisco as well as the San Francisco VA Medical Center. He is currently with the Department of Psychiatry at Kaiser Permanente, Santa Rosa, California. He also recently joined the faculty at University of California, Berkeley. He has authored or collaborated on several books and book chapters and numerous peer reviewed journal articles. He has also had numerous professional presentations at national and international venues. He is currently working with Drs. Lewinsohn, Antonuccio, and Zeiss, in revising the Coping with Depression course for adults.

Brooke P. Randell, DNSc, RN, CS
Research Associate Professor, Reconnecting Youth Prevention Research Program, Psychosocial & Community Health, University of Washington
Dr. Randell is a Principal Investigator and Director of Prevention Programs for the Reconnecting Youth Prevention Research Program. She is Principal Investigator for two federally funded research grants: 1) "Promoting CARE: Counselors and Parents Prevent Youth Suicide Risk" (NINR), and 2) "Promoting CARE with Hispanic Youth at Suicide Risk" (CDC). As Director of Prevention Programs for RY, Dr. Randell currently oversees three federally funded projects: 1) Promoting Competence and Support to Prevent Suicide Risk; 2) Measuring Adolescent Potential for Suicide (two NINR funded projects); and 3) Reconnecting Youth. In addition she is a Co-Principal Investigator on Parents and Youth with Schools. In addition she has developed and pilot-tested Parents as Partners, a home and school-based parent intervention to accompany Reconnecting Youth. She is the primary author of the Parents as Partners Leaders' Manual and has designed the process evaluation instruments and methods used to assure implementation fidelity for this 15-session intervention. Most recently, Dr. Randell has designed and pilot-tested the Counselors- & Parents-CARE Leaders' Manuals and the accompanying process evaluation instruments and methods. She is also a co-author of the Youth Suicide Prevention Plan for Washington State and the Washington Youth Suicide Prevention Program: Report of Activities. Dr. Randell has received funding from NINR for testing both a brief, school-based intervention for youth at risk of suicide, and also a complementary parent component.

William Reynolds, PhD
Professor, Psychology Department, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California
Dr. Reynolds received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley (B.A. 1973) and graduate degrees from the University of Oregon (M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1976). He is currently Professor of Psychology at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. Prior to this, he taught at the University of British Columbia where he headed the graduate program in School Psychology and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Educational Psychology.

Dr. Reynold's research interests focus on the nature, assessment, and treatment of depression and suicidal behavior in children and adolescents, assessment of competence in mentally retarded persons, the effects of exposure to violence on adolescents' mental health, and the assessment of self-concept. He has authored or co-authored over 120 journal articles, book chapters, and psychological tests, and made over 175 professional presentations at national and international meetings. He is co-editor of the Handbook of Depression in Children and Adolescents (1992).

His research on child and adolescent depression includes the development of procedures for the assessment and identification of depressed youngsters, and the development and evaluation of therapeutic techniques for the amelioration of this disorder in children and adolescents. He continues to study internalizing problems in children and adolescents. His research also includes studies of depression, anxiety and suicidal behavior in adults, including research with college students, non-referred community, and psychiatric samples. Dr. Reynolds has consulted with school districts and mental health agencies and presented workshops nationally and internationally on the identification of psychological distress and suicidal behavior in adolescents. He has also served as a consultant on adolescent suicidal behavior and psychosocial treatments for psychopathology for the National Institute of Mental Health.

Paul Rohde, PhD
Research Scientist, Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, Oregon
Dr. Rohde is a Senior Scientist at Oregon Research Institute (ORI), an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the University of Oregon Department of Psychology, and a licensed psychologist. He has worked at ORI since 1988, where his federally-funded research focuses on the epidemiology and treatment of adolescent depression and suicide behavior.

Elaine A. Thompson, PhD, RN
Professor, Reconnecting Youth Prevention Research Program,
Psychosocial & Community Health, University of Washington
Dr. Thompson is a Principal Investigator for the Reconnecting Youth Prevention Research Program. She obtained her Doctorate in Sociology from the University of Washington. She has also received funding from The National Institute of Nursing Research and The National Institute of Mental Health for suicide prevention and school dropout prevention research. Her research specializations are 1) intervention and evaluation research; 2) advanced multivariate analytic techniques; 3) measurement and instrument development; and 4) testing intervention theory. Her clinical specializations are 1) family, child, and adolescent psychosocial nursing; 2) suicide risk assessment; and 3) stress and self-management.

 

 

 

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