Sarah Danzo, PhD
My research broadly aims to better understand the etiology of depression and risk behaviors such as suicide and substance use across development, and translate findings to inform prevention and intervention strategies for youth and families. My work focuses on partnering with communities and primary care clinics to improve access to and use of effective mental health services within widely accessed settings.
My current projects include studies focused on adapting and evaluating suicide prevention intervention and implementation strategies for use with adolescents and their families in primary care, including developing and adapting brief, just-in-time, and digital interventions to expand access to services.
In addition to research, I am also a clinical psychologist in the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program and the Crisis Care Clinic at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Education
Doctorate, Clinical Psychology: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Fellowship: Primary Care Behavioral Health, Psychiatry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Department Affiliations
Centers/Programs
Training Programs
Psychology Internship Program
Other Affiliations
Mood and Anxiety Program – Seattle Children’s Hospital
Crisis Care Clinic – Seattle Children’s Hospital
Scholarly Expertise
Clinical Expertise
- Adolescent/young adult
- Caregivers
- Child and adolescent psychiatry/psychology
- Depression
- Suicidality and self destructive behaviors
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Behavioral Activation (BA)
- Brief interventions (specifics)
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
- Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS)
- Collaborative Care / Integrated Care
- Crisis intervention
- Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
- Safety Assessments
- Safety Plan Intervention (SPI)
- Suicide prevention
- Enhancing Suicide Care Monitoring and Intervention in Primary Care
- Adapting a brief suicide intervention for pediatric primary care: Enhancing uptake and impact
- Adaptation and co-design of a digital intervention for suicide prevention in primary care
- Evaluation and dissemination of the TRANSforming Families: Embracing Change with Teens Therapy Group
- Addressing suicide risk in primary care to reduce youth suicide
