Miya Barnett of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School is taking part in three events at the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies 51st annual convention (ABCT 17) in San Diego, California.
She is a panelist on the “Hooray!!! I Got into Graduate School…Now What?!?!” event that will discuss and share experiences about the transition from undergraduate to graduate student and give tips about navigating key components of graduate training (e.g., course work, clinical work, and research). She is the discussant for the symposium “What Influences Therapist Delivery of Child Evidence-Based Interventions in Community Mental Health Settings?” And she is the chair of the symposium “Indications for Adaptations to Evidence-Based Practices in Community Mental Health;” at that event she will also deliver the paper “Reasons for Community Therapist Adaptations to Multiple Evidence-Based Practices Within a Mental Health System Reform.”
The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies is a multidisciplinary organization committed to the enhancement of health and well-being by advancing the scientific understanding, assessment, prevention, and treatment of human problems through behavioral, cognitive, and biological evidence-based principles.
Miya Barnett is an assistant professor in the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology and a licensed psychologist. She received her B.A. in Psychology and Hispanic Studies from Lewis & Clark College and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Central Michigan University. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at University of Miami, Mailman Center for Child Development. As a postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA, Dr. Barnett was involved in the NIMH-funded 4KEEPS Study, which investigated the implementation of evidence-based practices (EBP) within a large-scale reform of children’s mental health services. Dr. Barnett was an NIMH Child Intervention, Prevention, and Services (CHIPS) fellow.
Dr. Barnett specializes in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), and she has provided PCIT training and consultation for community clinicians nationally and internationally. Her research interests include dissemination and implementation, strategies to decrease mental health service disparities for ethnic minority children and families, and the impact of therapist behaviors on treatment outcomes.