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Lisa H. Jaycox

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Senior Behavioral Scientist/Clinical Psychologist

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Ph.D. in clinical psychology, M.A. in psychology, University of Pennsylvania; B.A. in biology/psychobiology, Brown University

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Lisa Jaycox, Ph.D. is a Behavioral Scientist at RAND (Arlington, VA) and a Clinical Psychologist (University of Pennsylvania, 1993). Dr. Jaycox has combined clinical and research expertise in the areas of child and adolescent mental health problems, especially related to depression and reactions to violence exposure such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Jaycox developed and evaluated of a school-based prevention of depression program that proved to be effective in preventing the onset of severe depressive symptoms among 5th and 6th graders. She also evaluated psychosocial treatment and prevention of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among adult female assault survivors. Dr. Jaycox joined RAND in 1997, and has worked on projects related to the treatment of adolescent depression in primary care settings, mental health consequences of community violence and violent injury, evaluation of adolescent substance-abuse treatment programs, use of trauma-focused therapy to improve school-based mental health services for children, impact of terrorism and natural disaster on children, and evaluation of an intimate partner violence prevention program for Latino youth. Her recent work has included a focus on the mental health impact of deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan and the systems available to support recovery, as well as evaluation of the Safe Start initiative, programs designed to improve outcomes for children exposed to violence.

Research Focus

Child and adolescent mental health; depression; dissemination of effective interventions into community setting; mental health consequences of trauma exposure; school-based interventions

RAND Research Areas

Child Policy; Health and Health Care

Recent Projects

National evaluation of Safe Start programs that seek to ameliorate the impact of violence on young children
Intimate partner violence prevention program for Latino youth
Mental health related to deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan
Adaptation of the school trauma program for use by non-clinicians

Selected Publications

Terri Tanielian and Lisa H. Jaycox (Eds.), Invisible Wounds of War, RAND Corporation, 2008

Lisa H. Jaycox et al., How Schools Can Help Students Recover from Traumatic Experiences: A Tool-Kit for Supporting Long-Term Recovery, RAND Corporation, 2006

Lisa H. Jaycox et al., "Impact of a School-Based Dating Violence Prevention Program Among Latino Teens: Randomized Controlled Effectiveness Trial", Journal of Adolescent Health, 2006

J. R. Asarnow et al., "Effectiveness of a Quality Improvement Intervention for Adolescent Depression in Primary Care Clinics: A Randomized Controlled Trial", Journal of the American Medical Association, 293(3), 2005

B. D. Stein et al., "A Mental Health Intervention for Schoolchildren Exposed to Violence: A Random-ized Controlled Trial", Journal of the American Medical Association, 290(5), 2003

Lisa H. Jaycox, CBITS: Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools, Sopris West, 2003

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Research Focus

Child and adolescent mental health, depression, dissemination of effective interventions into community setting, mental health consequences of trauma exposure, school-based interventions

Recent Projects

Intimate partner violence prevention program for Latino youth
Adaptation of the school trauma program for use by non-clinicians
National evaluation of Safe Start programs that seek to ameliorate the impact of violence on young children

Selected Publications

How Schools Can Help Students Recover from Traumatic Experiences: A Tool-Kit for Supporting Long-Term Recovery, Lisa H. Jaycox et al., RAND Corporation, 2006

"Impact of a School-Based Dating Violence Prevention Program Among Latino Teens: Randomized Controlled Effectiveness Trial," Lisa H. Jaycox et al., Journal of Adolescent Health [Epub July 10, 2006], Vol. 39, No. 5, Nov 2006

"Effectiveness of a Quality Improvement Intervention for Adolescent Depression in Primary Care Clinics: A Randomized Controlled Trial," J. R. Asarnow et al., Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 293, No. 3, Jan 2005

CBITS: Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools, Sopris West, 2003

"A Mental Health Intervention for Schoolchildren Exposed to Violence: A Random-ized Controlled Trial," B. D. Stein et al., Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 290, No. 5, 2003