Principle-Guided Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents: The FIRST Program for Behavioral and Emotional Problems

About John R. WeiszSarah Kate Bearman

John R. Weisz PhD ABPP is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University and at Harvard Medical School. He is a past president of the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. Dr. Weisz is a recipient of the James McKeen Cattell Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Psychological Science the Klaus Grawe Award for the Advancement of Innovative Research in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy from the Klaus Grawe Foundation in Switzerland and the Sarah Gund Prize for Research and Mentorship in Child Mental Health from the Child Mind Institutes Scientific Research Council. He served for 8 years as President and CEO of the Judge Baker Childrens Center an affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Dr. Weiszs research involves development and testing of psychotherapy programs for children and adolescents particularly transdiagnostic approaches designed for implementation in clinical service settings plus meta-analyses to characterize and inform psychotherapy research. His website is https://weiszlab.fas.harvard.edu.? Sarah Kate Bearman PhD is Assistant Professor in the School Psychology Program of the Department of Educational Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UT Austins Dell Medical School. A clinical child psychologist she conducts research on factors that support the adoption implementation and sustainability of effective mental health services for children and families in complex low-resource service settings. Dr. Bearman is especially interested in incorporating patient and provider perspectives in the development of interventions to increase goodness of fit understanding the impact of training and supervision/consultation on psychotherapy and increasing access to mental health services in nontraditional settings such as schools child care and primary care. Her website is https://sites.edb.utexas.edu/leap.