Dr. Miya Barnett is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara where she runs the Promoting Access through Dissemination/implementation Research on Evidence-based Services (PADRES) Lab and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) Clinic.
Dr. Barnett’s research is focused on how implementation science can address mental health service disparities for ethnic minority children and families. She is specifically focused on how Lay Health Workers (LHWs) can be mobilized to increase access to evidence-based practices for underserved communities. She received a Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award from NIMH (K01MH110608; 2017-2021), which investigated how LHWs can increase engagement in PCIT for Latinx, immigrant families.
Dr. Barnett completed her doctoral training in Clinical Psychology at Central Michigan University, her predoctoral internship at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, and her postdoctoral training on the NIMH- funded 4KEEPS project at UCLA. Dr. Barnett was a NIHM-funded fellow for the Child Intervention, Prevention, and Services (CHIPS) and the Implementation Research Institute (IRI). Dr. Barnett has served as the Membership Chair for the Dissemination and Implementation Science Special Interest Group (DIS SIG) for the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (2016-2018) and is currently the leader of this group (2018-2020). She also serves as the Chair of the Advocacy and Policy Taskforce for PCIT International, which focuses on how to address barriers to implementation in community settings.
Dissemination and implementation; Mental health service disparities for ethnic minority children and families; Parent-child interaction therapy
ABCT Dissemination and Implementation Science Special Interest Group Early Career Award, 2021
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
ABCT Dissemination & Implementation Special Interest Group
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association, Division 53
Society for Implementation Research Collaboration
Future Directions in Research on Lay Health Workers, 2022
Fostering Mental Health Care Engagement of Low-Income, Racial/ethnic Minoritized and LGBTQ+ Youth, 2022
Partnering with community health workers to increase caregiver engagement in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, 2021
What is implementation science and how can it promote health equity, 2021
Stepping out on Your Own and into the Community: Launching a Community-engaged Research Program, 2021
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy Plus Natural Helper Model: Implementation, Preliminary Outcomes, and Lessons Learned; Increasing the Linguistic and Cultural Fit of PCIT for Diverse Families, 2021
Increasing the Linguistic and Cultural Fit of PCIT for Diverse Families, 2021
Father Engagement: Understanding and overcoming barriers in multiple treatment settings, 2021
Train-to-sustain: Predictors of sustainment in a large- scale implementation of parent's child interaction therapy, 2020
Mutual capacity building in psychology research: Working to close the global mental health gap, 2020
Addressing Disparities through Implementation Research, 2020
Delivering Services in collaboration with non-specialist providers and lay health workers, 2020
Increasing resiliency with parent-child interaction therapy, 2019
Understanding lay health work from an implementation science lens: The case of community health workers and patient navigators, 2019
PCIT Across the County, 2019
Ensuring cultural humility across clinical research designs, 2019
Lay health workers as a scalable workforce to reduce child mental health disparities in service access, 2019
Training community-health workers to increase access to evidence-based treatments for ethnic minority communities, 2018
Promotoras use of engagement strategies to enhance access to evidence-based parenting programs for Latino immigrant families, 2018
The role of implementation science in disparity reduction: How to increase the access to and acceptability of evidence-based practices in children's mental health services, 2018
The Role of Implementation Science in Disparity Reduction, 2018
Coaching for success: Introduction to the Therapist-Parent Interaction Coding System, 2017
How can non-professionals improve engagement in PCIT?, 2017
Reasons for community therapist adaptations to multiple evidence-based practices within a mental health system reform, 2017
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: An evidence-based treatment for child conduct problems and maltreatment, 2017
Intervention and implementation practice characteristics relate to community therapist attitudes towards evidence-based practices, 2016
Luis Sanchez, B. E., Klein, C. C., Corcoran, F., & Barnett, M. L. "A mixed-methods study of clinician adaptations to parent-child interaction therapy-What about culture?". Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 1-17.. 2022. [Refereed Journal Article]
Green Rosas, Y., McCabe, K. M., Zerr, A., Yeh, M., Gese, K., & Barnett, M. L. "Examining English-and Spanish-speaking therapist behaviors in ParentâChild Interaction Therapy". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19 (8), 4474. 2022. [Refereed Journal Article]
ML Barnett, BE Luis Sanchez, Y Green Rosas, & S Broder-Fingert. "Future directions in lay health worker involvement in childrenâs mental health services in the US". Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology 50 (6), 966-978. 2021. [Refereed Journal Article]
Barnett, M. L., Sheldrick, R. C., Liu, S. R., Kia-Keating, M., & Negriff, S. "Implications of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) screening on behavioral health services: A scoping review and systems modeling analysis.". American Psychologist, 76(2), 364â378.. 2021. [Refereed Journal Article]
Barnett, M. L., Brookman-Frazee, L., Yu, S. H., Lind , T., Lui, J., Timmer, S., Boys, D. , Urquiza, A., Innes-Gomberg, D., Quick-Abdullah, D., & Lau, A. S. "Train-to-sustain: Predictors of sustainment in a large- scale implementation of parentâchild interaction therapy". Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 6(2), 262-276.. 2021. [Refereed Journal Article]
Barnett, M. L., Lau, A. S., Lind, T., Wright, B., Stadnick, N., Innes-Gomberg, D., Pesanti, K., & Brookman-Frazee. "Caregiver attendance as a quality indicator in the implementation of multiple evidence-based practices for children". Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 49(6), 868-882. 2019. [Refereed Journal Article]
Barnett, M. L., Brookman-Frazee, L., Gonzalez, J. C., Zhan, C., Rodriguez, A., Stadnick, N. A, Lau, A. S. "Qualitative reports of how and when therapists adapt childrenâs evidence-based practice during community implementation". Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2018.1485107. 2018. [Refereed Journal Article]
Barnett, M. L., Lau, A. S., & Miranda, J. "Lay health worker involvement in evidence-based treatment delivery: A conceptual model to address disparities in care". Annual Review of Clinical Psychology 14: 185-208. 2018. [Refereed Journal Article]
Barnett, M. L., Gonzalez, A., Miranda, J., Chavira, D. A., & Lau, A. S. "Mobilizing community health workers to address mental health disparities for underserved populations: A systematic review". Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 45(2), 195-211. 2018. [Refereed Journal Article]
Barnett, M., Brookman-Frazee, L., Regan, J., Saifan, D., Stadnick, N., & Lau, A. S. "How intervention and implementation characteristics relate to community therapists’ attitudes towards evidence-based practices: A mixed methods study". Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 44(6): 824–837. 2017. [Refereed Journal Article]