University of California, Los Angeles

Post-Doc, Psychology

Co-Director, LA County Child STEPs Project

Thesis Title: Measuring Therapist Adherence to a Manual-Based Treatment Tested in a Community Setting: The PASCET Manual Adherence Scale

About

Alyssa M. Ward, Ph.D., graduated from the VCU Clinical Psychology program in 2007 after completing her thesis and dissertation projects with Dr. Michael A. Southam-Gerow. While at VCU, she was the recipient of the Deborah Braffman Schroeder Award for Research in 2005, as well as both the Outstanding Student in Clinical Psychology and the Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Awards in 2006. In 2007, she completed her pre-doctoral internship in clinical child and pediatric psychology at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and was awarded the Martin S. Wallach Award for Clinical Psychology Intern of the Year. Dr. Ward is currently a post-doctoral fellow working with Dr. Bruce Chorpita in the Department of Psychology at UCLA. She is a project co-director and clinical supervisor in Los Angeles for a MacArthur Foundation-funded research network designed to study the dissemination of evidence-based child therapies in public health settings. Dr. Ward is the Training Director, a Lead trainer and on the coding/data management team for PracticeWise, LLC. To date, she has trained over 1000 therapists nation-wide in the Managing and Adapting Practice system, and serves as a consultant during the implementation of this evidence-based approach in community agencies. Her research interests include treatment integrity and clinician training as they apply to the evidence-based practice dissemination process.

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