Davielle (Davi) Lakind
Research Interests
I conduct community-engaged research, collaborating with partners to develop or enhance service models to support youth and families impacted by adversity and oppression. I focus on everyday settings (e.g., schools, summer camp and afterschool programs, youth-serving nonprofit organizations), thinking about how to extend meaningful support to families as well as supporting youth directly. I focus not only on what practices or interventions might best fit the needs of the setting, but also on the training, support and supervision that will allow an expanded community-based workforce to implement these practices effectively and experience their roles positively. I also look to develop or coordinate supports for youth and families that span the continuum from promotion and prevention to intervention. My work is rooted in trauma-informed, culturally responsive, decolonial and abolitionist principles, which translates to an emphasis on compassion, care, dignity and autonomy for people both delivering and receiving services or support.
Frequently Taught Classes
- PSYC 315 Developmental Psychopathology
- PSYC 654 Practicum in Clinical Psychology
Selected Publications
- Chorpita, B. F., Becker, K. D., Park, A. L., Lakind, D., Guan, K., Boustani, M. M., Boyd, M. R., Chu, W., Wu, E. G. and Knudsen, K. S. (2025). Cultivating evidence-based clinical reasoning and action in youth mental health care: The Reaching Families multisite randomized trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 93(2), 65–82.
- Tocci, C., Stacy, S. T., Siegal, R., Rennick, J., LoCurto, J., Lakind, D., Gruber, J and Fisher, B. [authors reverse alphabetical] (2023). Statement on the effects of school-based law enforcement in school settings: A policy statement by the Society for Community Research and Action: Division 27 of the American Psychological Association. American Journal of Community Psychology, 73(3-4), 360-377.
- Lakind, D., Becker, K. D., Chu, W., Boyd, M. and Chorpita, B. F. (2023). Navigators and negotiators: An ecologically informed qualitative study of providers' perspectives on their roles in school-based mental health services. School Mental Health, 15, 967–984.
- Daviera, A. L., Bailey, C., Lakind, D., Kivell, N., Areguy, F. and Byrd, K. (2023). Awakening abolitionist possibilities in community psychology: A path toward transformation. American Journal of Community Psychology, 73(1-2), 44-56.
- Lakind, D., Bradley, W. J., Patel, A., Chorpita, B. F. and Becker, K. D. (2021). A multidimensional examination of the measurement of treatment engagement: Implications for children's mental health services and research. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 51(4),453-468.
- Lakind, D., Cua, G., Mehta, T. G., Rusch, D. and Atkins, M. S. (2019). Trajectories of parent participation in early intervention/prevention services: The case for flexible paraprofessional-led services. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 50(2), 243-257.
- Mehta, T. G., Lakind, D., Rusch, D., Walden, A. L., Cua, G. and Atkins, M. S. (2019). Collaboration with urban community stakeholders: Refining paraprofessional-led services to promote positive parenting. American Journal of Community Psychology, 63(3-4), 444-458.
- Lakind, D. and Atkins, M. S. (2018). Promoting positive parenting for families in poverty: New directions for reach and engagement. Children and Youth Services Review, 89, 34-42.
- Atkins, M. S., Rusch, D., Mehta, T. G. and Lakind, D. (2016). Future directions for dissemination and implementation science: Aligning ecological theory and public health to close the research to practice gap. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 45(2), 215-226.
- Lakind, D., Atkins, M. S. and Eddy, J. M. (2015). Youth mentoring in context: Mentor perceptions of youth, environment and the mentor role. Children and Youth Services Review, 53(1), 52-60.
- Shernoff, E. S., Lakind, D., Frazier, S. L. and Jakobsons, L. (2015). Coaching early career teachers in urban schools: A mixed method study. School Mental Health, 7(1), 6-20.
- Lakind, D., Eddy, J. M. and Zell, A. (2014). Mentoring youth at high risk: The perspectives of professional mentors. Child and Youth Care Forum, 43(6), 705-727.
