RAND Expert Biography
Lisa H. Jaycox
Senior Behavioral Scientist/Clinical Psychologist
Expertise
Child and adolescent mental health, depression, dissemination of effective interventions into community setting, mental health consequences of trauma exposure, school-based interventions
Recent Work
Intimate partner violence prevention program for Latino youth; adaptation of the school trauma program for use by non-clinicians; national evaluation of Safe Start programs that seek to ameliorate the impact of violence on young children
Education
Ph.D. in clinical psychology, M.A. in psychology, University of Pennsylvania; B.A. in biology/psychobiology, Brown University
Publications of Interest
How Schools Can Help Students Recover from Traumatic Experiences: A Tool-Kit for Supporting Long-Term Recovery, Lisa H. Jaycox et al., RAND Corporation, 2006
"Impact of a School-Based Dating Violence Prevention Program Among Latino Teens: Randomized Controlled Effectiveness Trial," Lisa H. Jaycox et al., Journal of Adolescent Health [Epub July 10, 2006], Vol. 39, No. 5, Nov 2006
"Effectiveness of a Quality Improvement Intervention for Adolescent Depression in Primary Care Clinics: A Randomized Controlled Trial," J. R. Asarnow et al., Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 293, No. 3, Jan 2005
CBITS: Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools, Sopris West, 2003
"A Mental Health Intervention for Schoolchildren Exposed to Violence: A Random-ized Controlled Trial," B. D. Stein et al., Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 290, No. 5, 2003
Recent Media Appearances
Interviews: The Times-Picayune, New Orleans
To arrange an interview:
Contact the RAND Office of Media Relations, (703) 413-1100, x5117 or (310) 451-6913, or send an email to media@rand.org.
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