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Dr. Atkins has had a long-standing interest in the development of effective mental health services for children and families living in low-income communities. He is an active researcher in the areas of childhood ADHD and aggression, and a leading researcher on the development of school-based mental health services in urban high-poverty communities. He is a consultant to the Chicago Public Schools and the Illinois Department of Mental Health, and is a member of the Professional Advisory Board for CHADD. He was a member of the NIMH Services Research Review Committee from 1999 to 2001, and chair of the committee from 2001 to 2003.
Representative Publications
Atkins, M. (in press). The meaning of mental health (and other lessons learned). In S. Hinshaw (Ed.). Living with Mental Illness: Voices from the Field of Mental Health. New York: Oxford.
Atkins, M., Neal, J. W., Letendre, J., & Gamm, S. (in press). Development of the Chicago Public School’s ADHD policy manual: From community to university and back. In S. Evans, Z. Serpell, & M. Weist (Eds.), Advances in School-Based Mental Health, Volume 2. Kingston, NJ: Civic Research Institute, Inc.
Frazier, S., Formoso, D., Birman, D., & Atkins, M. (in press). Building collaborations to bridge research and practice: Redefining feasibility. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice.
Frazier, S., Abdul-Adil, J., Atkins, M., Gathright, T., & Jackson, M. (in press). Can’t have one without the other: Mental health providers and community parents reducing barriers to services for families in urban poverty. Journal of Community Psychology.
Frazier, S., Cappella, E., & Atkins, M. (2007). After school programs for children in urban poverty: Preventing problems and promoting opportunities. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research (online).
Atkins, M., Frazier, S., & Cappella, E. (2006). Hybrid research models: Natural opportunities to examine mental health in context. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 13, 105-108.
Atkins, M., Frazier, S., Birman, D., Adil, J. A., Jackson, M., Graczyk, P., Talbott, E., Farmer, D., Bell, C., & McKay, M. (2006). School-based mental health services for children living in high poverty urban communities. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 33, 146-159.
Graczyk, P., Atkins, M., Jackson, M., Letendre, J., , Kim-Cohen, J., Baumann, B., & McCoy, J. (2005). Urban educators’ attitudes about mental health services for students with ADHD. Behavior Disorders, 30, 95-104.
Atkins, M., Graczyk, P., Frazier, S., & Adil, J. A. (2003). Toward a new model for school-based mental health: Accessible, effective, and sustainable services in urban communities. School Psychology Review, 12, 503-514.
McKay, M. M., Atkins, M. S., Hawkins, T., Brown, C., & Lynn, C. (2003). Inner-city African American parental involvement in children's schooling: Racial socialization and social support from the parent community. American Journal of Community Psychology, 32, 107-114.
Atkins, M., McKay, M., Frazier, S., Jakobsons, L., Arvanitis, P., Cunningham, T, Brown, C., & Lambrecht, L. (2002). Suspensions and detentions in an inner-city school: Punishment or reward? Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 30, 361-372.
Atkins, M., Frazier, S., Adil, J. A., & Talbott, E. (2002). School mental health in urban communities. In M. Weist, S. Evans, & N. Tashman (Eds.), School Mental Health Handbook (pp. 165-178). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
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