[Prevscilist] “Leveraging the Science and Practice of Mental Health Services to Improve Care for Youths and Families in Routine Care Settings” | Ballmer Colloquium by Dr. Sarah Kate Bearman

[Atika Khurana]

The Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health and College of 
Education invite you to attend the colloquium by open-rank tenure track 
faculty candidate, Dr. Sarah Kate Bearman

Date & time: *Thurs. 12/14 @ 10am-11:30am (PST)*

Zoom link: 
https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/94617877113?pwd=RFJ6MXp2QjR5dlV6dUpNTEpoOVJ5Zz09

*Colloquium Title*: Leveraging the Science and Practice of Mental Health 
Services to Improve Care for Youths and Families in Routine Care Settings

*Colloquium Abstract*: Despite decades of promising mental health 
intervention development and testing, scientifically supported 
interventions (“evidence-based interventions” or EBIs) have largely 
failed to permeate routine care for children and adolescents (hereafter, 
youths)^1-,3 . Most youths in need of services will never receive them; 
among those who do, more than half fail to improve or worsen during an 
episode of care^4,5 .Fundamental mismatches between mental health 
intervention science and routine practice underlie many of the 
challenges to effective mental health care services for youths and 
families. My program of research explores the content, processes, and 
contexts of youth mental health services to identify levers for 
improvement. In this talk, I will describe community-engaged approaches 
to intervention development and testing, observational coding to 
identify patterns and processes of mental health practice and 
consideration of the supportive scaffolding that may enhance treatment 
effectiveness and sustainability with a diverse workforce. Current work, 
future directions, and approaches to mentoring and collaboration will 
also be described.

*Candidate Bio:*Dr. Sarah Kate Bearman is an associate professor in the 
Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at 
Austin and the director of the LEAP (Leveraging Evidence and Advancing 
Practice) Lab. She is the director of the combined School/Clinical Child 
Psychology program and holds an appointment in the Department of 
Psychiatry at Dell Medical School. Dr. Bearman’s research focuses on the 
effectiveness and implementation of empirically supported mental health 
practices for youths and families in resource-limited settings. She 
works in partnership with community stakeholders to adapt, develop, and 
support interventions that are effective, user-friendly, accessible, and 
sustainable in places where children and families receive services. She 
is the co-author of the treatment manual,/ Principle-Guided 
Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents: The FIRST Program for 
Behavioral and Emotional Problems/ (Weisz & Bearman, 2020) and has led a 
number of studies testing mental health interventions for youth in 
schools (Bearman, Bailin, Rodriguez & Bellevue, 2020), clinics (Weisz, 
Bearman, Santucci & Jensen-Doss, 2017), pediatric primary care (Bailin & 
Bearman, 2022), and with peer-support services (Bearman, Jamison, Lopez, 
Baker & Sanchez, 2022; Jamison et al., 2023). She also studies how 
clinical training and consultation can best support therapist competency 
(Bearman, Schneiderman & Zoloth, 2017), and how this might be leveraged 
in routine care settings (Bailin & Bearman, 2021). Her research has been 
supported by federal agencies and foundations including the National 
Institute of Mental Health, the Department of Education, the Annie E. 
Casey Foundation, and the National Alliance for Mental Illness. She 
provides training and clinical consultation in the treatment of anxiety, 
OCD, depression, disruptive conduct, and traumatic stress to diverse 
front-line providers across settings.
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