Aaron Lyon, PhD

Faculty Appointment(s)

Professor

Leadership Role(s)

Director, SMART Center

Co-Director, UW ALACRITY Center

Director, RIISE

lyona@uw.edu

Personal Statement

My research focuses on increasing the accessibility, efficiency, and effectiveness of community- and school-based interventions for children, adolescents, and families. I am particularly interested in (1) the identification and implementation of low-cost, high-yield practices – such as the use of measurement-based care – to reduce the gap between typical and optimal practice in schools; (2) development of individual- and organization-level implementation strategies to promote adoption and sustainment of evidence-based psychosocial interventions within a multi-tier systems of support (MTSS) framework; and (3) human-centered design (and redesign) of psychosocial and digital technologies to improve their implementability, accessibility, and effectiveness. I am the founder and Director of the School Mental Health Assessment, Research, and Training (SMART) Center, dually housed in UW’s School of Medicine and College of Education.

Education

PhD: Clinical Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago
Residency: Clinical Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle
Fellowship: Mental Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle

Department Affiliations

Centers/Programs
Training Programs

Research Institute for Implementation Science in Education (RIISE)

Recent Publications

Gender-Affirming Psychotherapy (GAP): Core Principles and Skills to Reduce the Mental Health Care "GAP" for Transgender Youths.
(2024 Nov 1)
Psychiatr Serv 75(11): 1075-1083
Price MA, Rakhilin M, Johansen K, Collins L, Pachankis JE, Lyon AR, Allen M
Changing hearts and minds: theorizing how, when, and under what conditions three social influence implementation strategies work.
(2024)
Front Health Serv 4(): 1443955
Weiner BJ, Meza RD, Klasnja P, Lengnick-Hall R, Buchanan GJ, Lyon AR, Mettert KD, Boynton MH, Powell BJ, Lewis CC
A research agenda to advance the study of implementation mechanisms.
(2024 Sep 16)
Implement Sci Commun 5(1): 98
Lewis CC, Frank HE, Cruden G, Kim B, Stahmer AC, Lyon AR, Albers B, Aarons GA, Beidas RS, Mittman BS, Weiner BJ, Williams NJ, Powell BJ, MNoE Group
Testing an Organizational Implementation Process Model Related to Teachers' Implementation-Related Attitudes and Behaviors: a Multilevel Mediation Analysis.
(2024 Oct)
Prev Sci 25(7): 1053-1064
Corbin CM, Zhang Y, Ehrhart MG, Locke J, Lyon AR
Conducting Research at the Intersection of HCI and Health: Building and Supporting Teams with Diverse Expertise to Increase Public Health Impact.
(2024 May)
Ext Abstr Hum Factors Computing Syst 2024():
Agapie E, Karkar R, Aung T, Burgess E, Chinguwa MJ, Graham A, Klasnja P, Lyon A, McCall T, Munson S, Nunes F, Osterhage K
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