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Lisa Jaycox is a senior behavioral scientist at RAND. She has combined clinical and research expertise in the areas of child and adolescent mental health problems, including depression and reactions to violence exposure such as posttraumatic stress disorder as well as efforts to improve social and emotional learning.
Jaycox has focused her research on psychological responses to stress and trauma, including depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicide prevention. Her work includes a broad array of studies: prevention of depression, psychosocial treatment and prevention of PTSD among adult female assault survivors, treatment of adolescent depression and adult PTSD and depression in primary care settings, mental health consequences of community violence and violent injury, evaluation of adolescent substance-abuse treatment programs, the use of trauma-focused therapy to improve school-based mental health services for children, the impact of terrorism and natural disasters on children, evaluation of an intimate partner violence prevention program for Latino youth, the mental health impact of deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan and the systems available to support recovery, sexual assault and suicide prevention in the military, evaluation of the Safe Start initiative programs designed to improve outcomes foand internationall, school-based interventions and supports related to trauma, social and emotional learning programs, secondary traumatic stress, and neurodiversity in the national security workforce.
Jaycox received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.
Ph.D. in clinical psychology, M.A. in psychology, University of Pennsylvania; B.A. in biology/psychobiology, Brown University
