Shannon Suldo

This project aims to develop the Stepped Care Approach for Addressing Youth-Motivated School Refusal Behaviors (STAY), an intervention to address school refusal behaviors for students with or at risk for disabilities in grades 3 through 8. Public schools report that chronic absenteeism (missing at least 15 days of a school year) has increased after the COVID-19 pandemic and is a particular concern for children with or at risk for disabilities. For example, previous research has found that st...

The purpose of this project is to develop and validate a multi-informant decisional assessment system (MIDAS) to integrate and use multiple sources of data for accurate and efficient identification of social-emotional and behavioral (SEB) concerns in middle school students. Universal screening for SEB concerns is promising to facilitate early identification and implementation of evidence-based interventions but schools are not able to integrate such information from different informants who ...

Adolescents with the best academic, social, and physical health outcomes have both low psychopathology andelevated subjective well-being (SWB). Psychological research and practice have focused on pathology. There are few interventions available to improve SWB. This project will evaluate the efficacy, fidelity, feasibility, acceptability of implementation and training, and cost-effectiveness of the Well-Being Promotion Program. This program is an innovative Tier-2 intervention for use by sc...