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

Training Programs

Research Institute for Implementation Science in Education (RIISE)

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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