Improving the mental health of children and adolescents
The Alliance & Suicide Prevention lab is headed by Dr. Marc Karver. His primary research interests include the evaluation and improvement of the quality of real world mental health services for children and adolescents. Dr. Karver focuses his research on the three areas that define quality mental health services: structure (the characteristics of mental health institutions and service delivery systems that lead to positive outcomes – e.g. school based counseling, school based prevention services), the measurement of treatment processes (what goes on inside of treatment that leads to positive outcomes) and outcomes (both positive and maladaptive). The goal of this work is to learn how to improve the work of experienced clinicians and to discover better ways to train novice clinicians.
A detailed description of the current research that is being conducted by the Alliance & Suicide Prevention Lab can be found under the Projects section of this website.
