Cook, colleagues awarded $3.6 million to study TF-CBT in schools

Professor Clayton Cook
Professor Clayton Cook

Professor Clayton Cook, John W. and Nancy E. Peyton Faculty Fellow in Child and Adolescent Wellbeing in the Department of Educational Psychology, and his colleagues from the University of Washington recently received a four year, $3.6 million grant by the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) to study the effects of trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy (TF-CBT) in schools.

The researchers will examine the effects of an implementation strategy designed to improve the adoption and delivery of a TF-CBT by school mental health professionals.

According to Cook, co-principal investigator on the project, “We aim to address the longstanding science-to-practice gap that prevents youth from accessing needed, high quality mental services.”