John A. Landsverk, Ph.D., CASRC Director
Professor Emeritus, San Diego State University School of Social Work, Senior Scholar at George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis

Current CASRC projects/grants: Child & Adolescent Interdisciplinary Research Network (CAIRN); Safe Schools Healthy Students Evaluation;San Pasqual Academy Evaluation; Mixed-Methods Study of a Statewide EBP Implementation; Improving Therapist Fidelity During EBP Implementation; Dimensions of Early Stress and Child Welfare Involvement; Performance Outcomes for Data Management and Evaluation Systems; Cognitive Consensus in Cross-Cultural Competence, Improving Care for Children in Child Welfare (R24); Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN)

Research Interests: Child maltreatment; children's mental health and mental health services; research on the implementation and maintenance of evidence based, parent mediated interventions in child welfare settings for the treatment of disruptive behavior disorders and externalizing behavior problems in children and adolescents.


Ann F. Garland, Ph.D., CASRC Deputy Director
Professor, University of California, San Diego, Department of Psychiatry; Supervising Psychologist at Rady Children's Hospital and Health Center Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic

Current CASRC projects/grants: Practice and Research: Advancing Collaboration (PRAC) / Integrating Evidence and Practice of Youth Psychotherapy, Measuring Outcomes of Youth Mental Health Care; Patterns of Care; Performance Outcomes Project

Research Interests: Methodological issues regarding evaluating the effectiveness of youth; mental health services; Multiple stakeholders' (e.g., youth, parent, clinician) perceptions of the effectiveness of services; Characterizing community based psychotherapy services for youth; Psychiatric epidemiology of youth in public systems of care

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