Stacy L. Frazier received her Ph.D. in Clinical Science in 2000 from the Indiana University Department of Psychology, and an A.M. in Public Policy in 1999 from The Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy Studies at The University of Chicago. Her research examines accessible, effective, and sustainable models of mental health service delivery for children and families living in urban poverty. She is Principal Investigator on an NIMH-funded R34 grant entitled “After School Programs and Children’s Mental Health.” Dr. Frazier will be collaborating with Chicago Park District after-school program staff to adapt and pilot test a manualized, efficacy-based intervention to meet the needs, capabilities, and constraints of their program and to enhance children’s academic, behavioral, and social functioning. Dr. Frazier is also co-investigator on an NIMH-funded R01 grant entitled “Mental Health Services and Predictors of Learning in Urban Schools.” This grant will examine a model for school-based mental health services for urban low-income children and families that is guided by empirical evidence for schooling as critical for children’s social and emotional adjustment, and by evidence for the direct and indirect benefits of academic achievement for children’s mental health. Dr. Frazier also participates on an NIMH-funded interdisciplinary network that has brought together experts in the fields of psychology, children’s mental health, economics, urban planning, and organizational theory to examine schools as a context for children’s mental health.

Representative Publications

Atkins, M. S., Frazier, S. L., Leathers, S. J., Graczyk, P. A., Talbott, E., Adil, J. A., Jakobsons, L., Marinez-Lora, A., Bell, C. C., Gibbons, R. B., Demitras, H. (in press). Teacher key opinion leaders and mental health consultation in urban low-income schools. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

Frazier, S. L., Formoso, D., & Birman, D., & Atkins, M. S. (2008). Closing the research to practice gap: Redefining feasibility. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 15, 125-129.

Frazier, S. L., Cappella, E., & Atkins, M. S. (2007). Linking mental health and after school systems for children in urban poverty. Preventing problems, promoting possibilities. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 34(4), 389-399.

Frazier, S. L., Adil, J. A., Atkins, M. S., Gathright, T., & Jackson, M. (2007). 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, 35(4), 435-446.

Atkins, M. S., Frazier, S. L., & Cappella, E. (2006). Hybrid research models: Natural opportunities for examining mental health in context. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 13, 105-108.

Atkins, M. S., Frazier, S. L., 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.