Sofia Redondo (she/her) is a Research Study Assistant at the SMART Center. She is a recent graduate from the University of Washington, where she earned a B.S. in Psychology with Departmental Honors and minors in Education, Learning and Societies and Spanish. As an undergraduate, Sofia conducted her honors thesis exploring how different nature interaction patterns impact Presence, a new construct in the Nature and Health Field, and various positive emotions. In addition, she volunteered with the First-Approach Training Skills team at Seattle Children’s where she explored how brief evidence-based behavioral therapy can be provided in the pediatric care setting. These research experiences in combination with her work as a reading tutor and summer camp counselor sparked her interests in improving accessible mental health interventions and individuals’ well-being focusing specifically on youth. She now assists in both the BASIS-T & USABILITY projects. During her free time, Sofia likes attending sporting events, exploring new Seattle restaurants, cooking and spending time with her friends and family.
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.