Aaron Lyon, PhD

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

Recent Publications

Preventing Mental Health Problems in Children After High Conflict Parental Separation/Divorce Study: An Optimization Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol.
(2023 Dec)
Ment Health Prev 32():
O'Hara KL, Wolchik SA, Sandler IN, West SG, Reis HT, Collins LM, Lyon AR, Cummings EM

Fidelity-consistency and deliberateness of modifications in parenting programs.
(2024 Feb 13)
Implement Sci Commun 5(1): 13
Pettersson K, Liedgren P, Lyon AR, Hasson H, von Thiele Schwarz U

A case study of pragmatic measure development of the Treatment Integrity for Elementary Settings self-report measure for teachers.
(2024 Jan-Dec)
Implement Res Pract 5(): 26334895231220262
Dear ER, McLeod BD, Peterson NM, Sutherland KS, Broda MD, Dopp AR, Lyon AR

Inter-Organizational Alignment and Implementation Outcomes in Integrated Mental Healthcare for Children and Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study.
(2024 Jan 2)
Res Sq
Zhang Y, Larson M, Ehrhart MG, King K, Lyon AR, Locke J, Cook C

Protocol for a hybrid type 3 effectiveness-implementation trial of a pragmatic individual-level implementation strategy for supporting school-based prevention programming.
(2024 Jan 2)
Implement Sci 19(1): 2
Lyon AR, Cook CR, Larson M, Hugh ML, Dopp A, Hamlin C, Reinke P, Bose M, Law A, Goosey R, Goerdt A, Morrell N, Wackerle-Hollman A, Pullmann MD

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