Aislyn Gordon (she/her) is a Research Assistant at the SMART Center. She recently graduated from New York University with a B.A. in Psychology, where she completed an honors thesis examining how linguistic cues are related to children’s developing racial biases. During her tenure at NYU, she was also a research intern at Mount Sinai’s Depression and Anxiety Center, assisting with research related to the discovery and treatment of anxiety, mood, and trauma-related disorders. She is excited to now be assisting with the BASIS-T and USABILITY projects at the SMART Center, as she is passionate about making mental health care more accessible, especially to underserved and underrepresented youth. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, watching movies, painting, and spending time with her dog, Gnocchi.
We have developed – and are currently conducting a large-scale randomized trial of – at teacher-focused version of the Beliefs and Attitudes for Successful Implementation in Schools (BASIS) implementation strategy. BASIS-T is being tested in context of Positive Greetings at the Door (PGD) implementation. Details are available in a study protocol published in Implementation Science.
The aims of this project are to: (1) evaluate the usability of leading, evidence-based Tier 1 social-emotional and behavioral interventions (SEBI) and identify unique and common usability problems, (2) expl9ore the links between SEBI usability and implementation and student outcomes, and (3) refine the USABILITY theory of change, develop a matrix of usability problems and redesign solutions, and articulate guidance to the field for designing usable Tier 1 SEBIs.