Tim Cavell, PhD is a practicing clinical child/adolescent psychologist and Professor in the Department of Psychological Science at the University of Arkansas. He studies how parents, teachers, and mentors can help children who are highly and aggressive or chronically bullied at school. Tim has authored over 100 journal articles and chapters and has published 4 books, including Good Enough Parenting and Working with Parents of Aggressive Children. His research has been funded by the Department of Education, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the Department of Defense. Tim is currently on APA’s Board of Educational Affairs (BEA) and previously served on APA’s Board of Professional Affairs (BPA). Tim also chaired the Council of University Directors of Clinical Psychology Programs (CUDCP) and is on the Research Advisory Council for Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America and the National Mentoring Resource Center. He and his wife have 3 children, including a daughter who is a practicing child/adolescent psychologist!

Dr. Erica Rozmid (she/her) is the Founder and Executive Director of Clarity CBT & DBT Center, where she leads a team specializing in evidence-based therapies for children, adolescents, and young adults. She is a Board-Certified Clinical Psychologist with expertise in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), focusing on helping emotionally dysregulated youth achieve stability and resilience.

Dr. Rozmid is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at UCLA, where she supervises and trains psychology trainees in evidence-based practices. She has co-authored a book on CBT for youth, designed to help therapists make therapy engaging and accessible for children and adolescents.

With a deep commitment to advancing the field, Dr. Rozmid combines clinical expertise, academic leadership, and innovative approaches to empower therapists and improve outcomes for young people. She is passionate about equipping fellow clinicians with tools for effective case conceptualization and intervention with emotionally dysregulated youth.

Dr. Sarah Kate Bearman is a professor at the Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health and within the Department of Special Education and Clinical Services at the University of Oregon. She is the director of the LEAP (Leveraging Evidence and Advancing Practice) Lab and serves as the Director of Clinical Training at the Ballmer Institute. Dr. Bearman’s research focuses on the effectiveness and implementation of scientifically supported mental health practices for youths and families in resource-limited settings. She works in partnership with community stakeholders to adapt, develop, and support interventions that are effective, user-friendly, accessible, and sustainable in places where children and families receive services. She is the co-author of the treatment manual, Principle-Guided Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents: The FIRST Program for Behavioral and Emotional Problems (Weisz & Bearman, 2020) and has led a number of studies testing mental health interventions for youth in schools (Bearman, Bailin, Rodriguez & Bellevue, 2020), clinics (Weisz, Bearman, Santucci & Jensen-Doss, 2017), pediatric primary care (Bailin & Bearman, 2022), and with peer-support services (Bearman, Jamison, Lopez, Baker & Sanchez, 2022; Jamison et al., 2023). She also studies how clinical training and consultation can best support therapist competency (Bearman, Schneiderman & Zoloth, 2017), and how this might be leveraged in routine care settings (Bailin & Bearman, 2021). Her research has been supported by federal agencies and foundations including the National Institute of Mental Health, the Department of Education, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and the National Alliance for Mental Illness. She provides training and clinical consultation in the transdiagnostic treatment of anxiety, OCD, depression, disruptive conduct, and traumatic stress to diverse front-line providers across settings.

Regine Galanti, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist who specializes in treating anxiety, OCD, and behavior problems in children, teens, and adults. She is an expert in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). Dr Galanti is the founder of Long Island Behavioral Psychology, a therapy practice in Nassau County, Long Island. She is the author of Parenting Anxious Kids, Anxiety Relief for Teens, and When Harley Has Anxiety

Dr. Galanti works together with parents, schools, and teachers to optimize treatment for a child. She provides concrete, research-proven strategies to help individuals with generalized anxiety, panic disorder, OCD, social anxiety, school refusal, selective mutism, disruptive behaviors, and ADHD. She is a sought after speaker who has been quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Self Magazine, and Buzzfeed, among others.

Dr. Galanti is an Educational Consultant in the Psychiatry Department of Mount Sinai Hospital. She is active in multiple professional organizations: including the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), Society for the Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP), and the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (SCCAP), where she is currently the president elect.

Jarrod Leffler, Ph.D., is a board certified child and adolescent psychologist. Dr. Leffler received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Saint Louis University. He completed his internship at Harvard Medical School and the Children’s Hospital, Boston, and his fellowship in child and adolescent mood disorders at Ohio State University. Dr. Leffler is the Chair of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychology and Associate Professor.

Dr. Leffler serves on the editorial board of Evidence-based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy

2022 American Psychological Association Division 53 Fellow
2021 Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy Fellow

Dr. Leffler is a member of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy (ABCT) Dissemination and Implementation Science Special Interest Group; Bipolar Disorder Special Interest Group; and Child and Adolescent Depression Special Interest Group

Dr. Kelly Banneyer (she/her) is a psychologist within the Obsessive-Compulsive and Anxiety Disorders Program at Texas Children's Hospital and has an academic appointmnet through Baylor College of Medicine. She is an English/Spanish dual language psychologist, and she is a member of the Executive Board of the Div. 53 Bilingual Psychologist SIG. Her areas of specialty include working with preschoolers, children, and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, social anxiety, selective mutism, separation anxiety, specific phobias and generalized anxiety. She also specializes in working with young children whose anxiety presents as disruptive behavior. Dr. Banneyer uses evidence-based intervention, primarily exposure-based cognitive behavior therapy (ERP+CBT) and parent management training (PMT) in her work with children and their families.

Dr. Arturo Corrales is a bilingual licensed pediatric psychologist that has predominantly worked with marginalized communities for over 15 years. Specializing in neurodevelopmental disabilities/delays, autism, and early childhood development; Dr. Corrales is presently licensed in the states of New York, Texas, and Colorado. Dr. Corrales graduated from Wright State University in Dayton, OH in 2010. He is presently the Director of Diagnostic Services at Behavioral Innovations, where he leads a team of psychologists and provides psychological testing/assessment for children on the autism spectrum and their families. Up until one year ago, Dr. Corrales has always worked in the public sector, including children’s hospitals, academic medical centers, and special education preschool centers. Additionally, Dr. Corrales has always been involved with accredited training programs, which included training and supervision of students and trainees, as well as consultation and supervision of licensed professional staff. Dr. Corrales presently resides in the DFW area and takes pride in being deeply rooted and guided by his lived and shared experiences related to his marginalized intersectionality. Additionally, Arturo is a proud father to his 3-year-old daughter that keeps him busy using all the parenting techniques he provides to others as psychoeducation. He is also a newly self-proclaimed DIYer and enjoys the theater and playing volleyball in his spare time.

Dr. Madalyn Dalley is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and a Nationally Certified School Psychologist with a specialized focus on neurodevelopmental assessments. She earned both her master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Colorado Denver’s School Psychology program, where she received extensive training in supporting multilingual families. Dr. Dalley practices bilingually in English and Spanish, providing diagnostic services for neurodevelopmental conditions in a private practice setting. She is passionate about bridging cultural and linguistic gaps to offer comprehensive, culturally responsive care. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Dalley provides consultation, supervision, and training for doctoral students at the University of Colorado Denver, where she emphasizes best practices in bilingual psychoeducational assessments.

Dr. Erika Garcia-Rocha is a bilingual and bicultural clinical pediatric psychologist at Children’s Hospital of Colorado and assistant professor at the Department of Psychiatry at the CU Anschutz School of Medicine. As an early career psychologist, Erika leads COLEGAS, a Spanish supervision group for bilingual psychology trainees and is the chair of the American Psychological Association’s division 53 Bilingual Psychologist special interest group. Her research and clinical interests include the treatment of Latinx adolescent depression in primary care.

Yoscaira Gomez is a third-year doctoral student in the Clinical and School Psychology PsyD Program at Roberts Wesleyan University. Born and raised in New York City, Yoscaira is a proud first-generation Afro-Dominican graduate student from la Captial y el Cibao. Yoscaira earned her M.S. Ed in Teaching Urban Adolescents with Disabilities and worked as a Bilingual Special Education teacher in the NYC Department of Education. She witnessed a disproportionate number of youth with learning disabilities and mental health issues, which led her to create Urban Lotus, a company dedicated to developing holistic workshops and events focused on self-discovery, mental well-being, and life skills for youth and families in English and Spanish. Yoscaira is a student representative for the SCCAP Bilingual SIG, a mentorship liaison for the National Latinx Psychological Association (NLPA), and a subcommittee member of the APAGS CARED committee.

Dr. Aileen Terrazas holds a doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Texas A&M University and a Master’s in Counseling Psychology from Texas A&M International University. As the daughter of immigrants, she is deeply committed to enhancing mental health services for minority populations, particularly immigrant youth and families. Her research and advocacy interests include the training and supervising of bilingual trainees in the field. Dr. Terrazas is passionate about creating culturally and linguistically appropriate interventions and increasing access to care. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at University of San Francisco in the Child and Adolescent Services Multicultural Clinical Training Program, specializing in immigrant mental health. There, she provided services to newcomer children and adolescents and assisted with asylum evaluations through the UCSF Human Rights Collaborative. Currently, she continues her work with minority populations and research on improving barriers to mental health care through the Texas A&M Telehealth Institute.

Mary A. Fristad, Ph.D., ABPP, is Director of Academic Affairs and Research Development at Nationwide Children's Hospital. She is an Emerita Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Psychology, and Nutrition at The Ohio State University. Her research has focused on mood disorders in youth with a particular emphasis on nutritional, family, and psychotherapeutic interventions. She has over 200 publications, including a treatment manual for clinicians and a book for parents. Dr. Fristad is past president of SCCAP and the American Board of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of SCCAP’s practice journal, Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

Dr. Cashel specializes in assessment and interventions for youth and adolescents, with a focus on youth violence prevention, trauma and delinquency. She recently concluded a project funded by the National Institute of Justice designed to prevent bullying and enhance school climate in schools throughout much of the Southern Illinois region. She has conducted studies on risk assessment, trauma and PTSD among male and female delinquents.

Dr. Cashel directs the SIU Youth Violence Prevention Lab.

Dr. Cashel teaches graduate courses in child and adolescent therapy, advanced assessment, supervision of psychotherapy, and she serves as a practicum supervisor. She is a licensed Clinical Psychologist.

Dr. Cashel also is the Lead Chair of our SCCAP Conference Committee.

Andres De Los Reyes, Ph.D. is the current editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (JCCAP). He is a professor of psychology at the University of Maryland at College Park, where he serves as director of the Comprehensive Assessment and Intervention Program (CAIP). He also founded and serves as Program Chair for JCCAP’s Future Directions Forum. Dr. De Los Reyes has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, and his work has been funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. He is a Fellow of both the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Association for Psychological Science. Dr. De Los Reyes has received a number of awards for his work, including the APA’s Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology and the Society for Research in Child Development’s Early Career Research Contributions Award.

Olivia Moorehead-Slaughter, PhD is a child clinical licensed Psychologist with over 35 years of experience working with children, adolescents, families and adults across a range of settings including community health centers, schools, child care centers, juvenile and probate courts, private practice, and social service agencies. For 26 years, Dr. Moorehead-Slaughter was the Psychologist at The Park School (a pre-kindergarten through grade eight independent school) in Brookline, Massachusetts where she was known as “Dr. O.” Since 2004, she has been a faculty member of the Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology (CMTP), an APA accredited predoctoral internship program at Boston Medical Center and Boston University Chobanian and Avedesian School of Medicine where she holds an appointment as Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Moorehead-Slaughter is the former Chair of the Massachusetts Board of Licensure for Psychologists and the American Psychological Association (APA) Ethics Committee. Currently, she is a member of the Ethics Committee of the Massachusetts Psychological Association (MPA). She is the former Chair of the APA Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest (BAPPI) and a former member of the APA Board of Educational Affairs (BEA). She is Past President of APA’s Division 35 (The Society for the Psychology of Women) and in 2014, received the Division 35 Bonnie R. Strickland and Jessica Henderson Daniel Distinguished Mentoring Award. In 2019, she was the recipient of APA’s Division 35 Foremothers Mentorship Career Excellence Award. She was given a National Multicultural Conference and Summit (NMCS) Distinguished Elder Award in 2024. She was elected to serve on APA’s Council of Representatives (COR) representing Division 35 from 2021-2024, and served as Chair of COR’s Women’s Caucus (2023). Dr. Moorehead-Slaughter was recently elected as Recording Secretary of the APA Board of Directors (2025-2027). Dr. Moorehead-Slaughter has a private consulting practice which includes working with faculty and administrators in independent schools throughout the country on issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion; professional mentorship; and clinical consultation, presentations, workshops, and retreats. She was a board member of the Association of Independent Schools in New England (AISNE) and is currently a board member of Domestic Violence Ended (DoVE). Dr. Moorehead-Slaughter identifies as a cisgendered, African-American/Black female, feminist, heterosexual, cisgender, married, mother of 2 adult sons. Her pronouns are she/her/hers.

Through the ACCTION Lab at Loyola University Chicago I focus on community-based assessment and intervention development for Black and/or Latiné youth. We do focus on working with youth who are neurodiverse, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS, formerly known as sluggish cognitive tempo or SCT), but a lot of our work focuses on anti-racism, trauma, and internalizing diagnoses experienced by Black and/or Latiné youth with ADHD. Current students research interests include:

Black youth and coping with trauma
Trauma and developmental trauma disorder
Activism
Anti-racist practice
Culturally responsive mental health services

Our lab focuses on understanding externalizing psychopathology in childhood and adolescence, including physical and relational aggression, delinquency, personality disorder, and addiction. We adopt a multiple levels of analysis approach, incorporating genetic and hormonal biomarkers of externalizing problems and also examining the impact of environmental factors such as parenting, friendships, life stress, and SES on externalizing problems and potential gender and racial/ethnic disparities. Another major research program in the lab focuses on measurement and development of child and adolescent personality, broadly conceived, but with special attention to the development of social dominance and self-control.

John Weisz is the Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He is also a Professor in Harvard Medical School. He leads the Harvard Lab for Youth Mental Health, developing and testing psychotherapy programs for child and adolescent mental health problems. He and his lab also conduct meta-analyses to describe and improve the science of youth mental health care. He served for eight years as President and CEO of the Judge Baker Children’s Center, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School. He has more than 450 publications, including ten books about child and adolescent mental health; his work has generated more than 65,000 citations, and his Google Scholar h-index is 126. He is frequently included on lists of “highly cited” researchers, and he has received multiple scientific awards, including the Klaus-Grawe Award for the Advancement of Innovative Research in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, from the Klaus-Grawe Foundation; the Sarah Gund Prize for Research and Mentorship in Child Mental Health, from the Scientific Research Council, Child Mind Institute; and the James McKeen Cattell Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Psychological Science—APS’s highest honor—for work that “has had a profound impact on the field of psychological science over the past quarter century.”

Rebecca Ford-Paz is a clinical child psychologist and co-director of the Forensic Assessment for Immigration Relief (FAIR) and New Arrival Wellness Clinics at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago which provide psychological and medical evaluations to minors seeking asylum or other forms of humanitarian relief. She also is a mental health consultant with Lurie Children’s Center for Childhood Resilience (CCR) and an Associate Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Ford-Paz has over 20 years of experience in community and school settings. Her work focuses on promoting health equity by increasing access to evidence-based and culturally attuned prevention and treatment interventions, building the capacity of community-based providers, and conducting community-engaged research. Dr. Ford-Paz has a longstanding interest in Latinx mental health, and engages in clinical work, research, and advocacy with Latinx and immigrant/refugee populations. Her expertise at the community level focuses on advocacy initiatives and building the capacity of non-mental health professionals to “task-shift” and take on the role of creating welcoming environments and promoting the emotional wellness of refugee/immigrant children and families. Currently, in partnership with University of Chicago Crown School and the Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health, Dr. Ford-Paz is the co-leader of the Reimagining Mental Health Supports for Migrants training initiative, funded by the IL Department of Human Services, that builds the capacity of front-line non-clinical providers to promote mental health and prevent mental health crises for recent migrant arrivals. In her clinical work, Dr. Ford-Paz specializes in culturally attuned cognitive behavioral therapy and is a national trainer for Supporting Transition Resilience of Newcomer Groups (STRONG), a tier 2 school-based intervention for refugee/immigrant students and is a certified therapist and trainer for the Unified Protocols for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents.

Dr. Ford-Paz has received multiple philanthropic grants and published her work on community partnerships that engaged in participatory curriculum development work, staff training, and formative program evaluation. She is also the Chair of the Mental Health and Wellness Subcommittee of the Chicago is With You Task Force in the Mayor’s Office of New Americans, tasked with operationalizing the Welcoming City ordinance in the City of Chicago. Dr. Ford-Paz works a consultant for Sesame Street Workshop on the topic of welcoming newcomer children and families to communities. Dr. Ford-Paz is on the Steering Committee of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health and the Midwest Human Rights Consortium.

Sarah Burgamy, Psy.D. is the founder of a private practice in Denver, Colorado, PhoenixRISE, with specialty offerings in identity development, sexual minority competency as well as transgender and gender diverse identities in adults, adolescents and children. Dr. Burgamy received her doctorate degree from the University of Denver, Graduate School of Professional Psychology, in Clinical Psychology, with an emphasis on child and adolescent development.
Dr. Burgamy has provided presentations and trainings in diverse professional settings, both on a local and national level, in educational settings from preschools to colleges and universities, in healthcare settings such as the Colorado Children’s Hospital, the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver Health, and the Department of Veterans Affairs in New Haven, CT, as well as in the public and private community and professional sectors for organizations such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), Parents Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), and Google. Dr. Burgamy has been interviewed or featured in media coverage in The Denver Post series, “Transgender in Colorado,” and on the Denver based daytime program, “The Everyday Show” addressing the phenomenon of gender identity and expression in children.
Dr. Burgamy currently serves as a representative of the Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity (Division 44) to the American Psychological Association (APA) Council of Representatives (2022-2024) and previously served as a member, and 2019 chair, of the APA Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity (2017-2019). She is a Past-President of Colorado Psychological Association (CPA) and has previously served as the diversity division chair of CPA - Society for the Advancement of Multiculturalism and Diversity (SAMD). Dr. Burgamy helped co-found the multidisciplinary gender diversity center at Children’s Hospital Colorado, the TRUE Center. Dr. Burgamy currently serves on the Advisory Committee for the Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology (LIWP) at APA and serves as chair of LIWP in 2024-2025.