coe-staff: Colloquium 12/7 - SPSY Mental Health Faculty Candidate

[Laura Lee McIntyre]

Please see the upcoming colloquium and try to attend!


Dr. Andy Garbacz will be presenting his Colloquium titled "Enhancing Children's Developmental Ecologies to Promote Mental Health" at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, December 7th in HEDCO 230T.

Dr. Garbacz's Bio:
Andy Garbacz is Assistant Professor of School Psychology in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on developing, testing, and disseminating ecological programs to promote children's mental health and reduce the risk of later mental health concerns. Andy's work emphasizes aligning and integrating family-school-community engagement in a three-tier prevention framework. His program of research embeds a focus on improving adoption, quality implementation, and sustainability of empirically-validated practices in real world community settings, such as homes and schools. Andy holds a PhD in Psychological Studies in Education (School Psychology) from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is a licensed psychologist and licensed/certified school psychologist. Andy has experience in schools, community mental health clinics, and medical settings.

Colloquium Abstract:
Children's unmet mental health needs persist across contexts. A promising approach to promote children's mental health is to align and integrate mental health systems within and across children's developmental ecologies, such as home, school, and community settings. This presentation will describe a program of research focused on aligning and integrating systems of support for children to enhance their developmental ecologies, promote mental health, and reduce the risk of later mental health concerns. The program of research emphasizes promoting adoption, quality implementation, and sustainability of empirically-validated practices by parents and educators in homes and schools. Results from prior studies and future research directions will be discussed.



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