The Laboratory for Leveraging Evidence and Advancing Practice for Youth Mental Health Services (LEAP Lab) focuses on helping underserved children and families through the dissemination and implementation of Evidence-Based Practices (EBPs) for mental health in low-resource settings. We focus on harnessing existing mental health treatments and finding ways to make them more available and helpful. Often this research involves re-thinking existing treatments to increase access or adoption, finding creative ways to work with systems that haven’t traditionally offered evidence-based mental health practices, and evaluating ways of training and supporting providers who work with children and families. The goals of the lab do not typically involve the study of mental health problems or developing new interventions, but rather in expanding the reach and impact of practices that have benefitted from decades of previous psychological research.
The LEAP Lab is a research laboratory within the Department of Special Education & Clinical Sciences at the University of Oregon, directed by Dr. Sarah Kate Bearman.
