Lauren Haack

Lauren Marie Haack, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist whose work focuses on cultural influences to mental health conceptualization, assessment, and treatment, and accessible and culturally appropriate evidence-based services for vulnerable youth and families. In addition to teaching courses at USF since 2013, She serves as Assistant Professor and Attending Psychologist in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Weill Institute for Neurosciences. She is a member of the International Society for Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (ISRCAP), the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), the American Psychological Association (APA), and Psi Chi Honors Society.

After completing her doctoral training in at Marquette University and predoctoral internship at UCSF, specializing in evidence-based psychosocial services for youth with Attention-Deficit, Hyperactivity/Impulsivity (ADHD), she received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) for Individual Postdoctoral Fellows with a project entitled “Culturally Sensitive School-Home Behavioral Program for Latino Children with ADHD” funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). This mixed-method investigation of the Collaborative Life Skills (CLS) program inspired her most recent research endeavor: a National Institute of Health (NIH) Fogarty Global Health fellowship to pilot-test an adapted version CLS (CLS-FUERTE) in Culiacan, Mexico. This project represented the first known effort to implement and evaluate a behavioral school-based program for attention and impulse control in Latin America. Professor Haack and her colleague, Prof. Eva Araujo from the Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa (UAS), have received funding to continue implementation and evaluation of Spanish-language CLS services in ten additional schools across Culiacan, Mexico and San Francisco, California between 2017-2020.

Prof. Haack has received numerous awards, including the R.E. Harris Award for Excellence in Clinical and Research Activities from the UCSF Clinical Psychology Training Program (CPTP), the Reverend John P. Raynor, S.J. Fellowship and Leslie G. & Cecile C. Matthews Scholarship from Marquette University, the Margaret Bernauer Research Award from the Wisconsin Psychological Association (WPA), and the Excellence in Campus Leadership Award from the American Psychological Association for Graduate Students (APAGS). Most recently, her work adapting, implementing, and evaluating school-home behavioral services for Latino youth of Spanish-speaking families were recognized with an ISRCAP Scholarship and a World ADHD Congress Young Scientist Award in 2017.

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• PhD, Clinical Psychology, Marquette University
• MS, Clinical Psychology, Marquette University
• BA, Psychology, Clemson University

• 6th World Congress on ADHD Young Scientist Award, World Federation of ADHD (2017)

• International Society for Research on Child and Adolescent Psychology (ISRCAP) Scholarship (2017)

• R.E. Harris Award for Excellence in Clinical And Research Activities, UCSF Clinical Psychology Training Program (CPTP) (2014)

• Reverend John P. Raynor, S.J. Fellowship, Marquette University (2011)

• Leslie G. and Cecile C. Matthews Scholarship, Marquette University (2011)

• Margaret Bernauer Research Award, Wisconsin Psychological Association (WPA) (2009, 2012)

• Graduate School Travel Award, Marquette University (2011)

• Helen Klingler College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Travel Fund (2011)

• Excellence in Campus Leadership Award, American Psychological Association for Graduate Students (APAGS) (2009)

• Faculty Scholarship Award, Clemson University (2007)

• Philip Prince Alumni Presidential Scholarship, Clemson University Trustee Scholarship, Clemson University (2004-07)

• Haack, L. M., & Araujo, E. J. (2017). Culturally appropriate evaluation of functioning related to ADHD in diverse children: Development of the FX-II Scale and initial validation with Mexican parents and teachers. Journal of Attention Disorders.

• Araujo, E. A., Haack, L. M., & Pffifner, L. J. (2017). Emotional, social and cultural experiences of Latino children with ADHD symptoms and their families. Journal of Child and Family Studies.

• Haack, L. M., Jiang, Y., Delucchi, K., Kaiser, N., McBurnett, K., Hinshaw, S., & Pfiffner, L. J. (2017). Parental cognitive errors mediate parental psychopathology and ratings of child inattention. Family Process.

• Haack, L. M., Gonring, K., Harris, M., Gerdes, A. C., & Pfiffner, L. J. (2017). Assessing impairment in childhood ADHD: Validation of the parent and teacher ADHD-FX rating scale in a dual-site clinical sample. Journal of Attention Disorders.

• Haack, L. M., & Gerdes, A. C. (2017). Culturally appropriate assessment of functional impairment in diverse children: Validation of the ADHD-FX Scale with an at-risk, community sample. Journal of Attention Disorders, 21(11), 913-920. 

• Haack, L., Villodas, M., McBurnett, K., Hinshaw, S., & Pfiffner, L.J. (2017). Parenting as a mechanism of change in psychosocial treatment for youth with ADHD, Predominantly Inattentive Presentation. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 45(5), 841-855. 

• Haack, L. M., Villodas, M., McBurnett, K., Hinshaw, S., & Pfiffner, L. J. (2016). Parenting mediates symptoms and impairment in children with ADHD-Inattentive Type. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 45(2), 155-166.

• Haack, L. M., Kapke, T., & Gerdes, A. C. (2016). Rates, associations, and predictors of psychopathology in Latino youth: Identifying areas for mental health outreach. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25(7), 2315-2326. 

• Pfiffner, L. P., Rooney, R., Haack, L. M., Delucchi, K., Villodas, M. & McBurnett, K. (2016). A Randomized controlled trial of a school-implemented school-home intervention for ADHD. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 55(9).

• Haack, L. M., Gerdes, A. C., Lawton, K. E., & Schneider, B. W. (2016). Understanding and measuring functional impairment in diverse children with ADHD: Development of the ADHD-FX Scale with an at-risk, community sample. Journal of Attention Disorders, 20(6), 487–500. 

• Pfiffner, L. J & Haack, L. M. (2014). Behavior management for school aged children with ADHD. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America: ADHD: Non- Pharmacologic Interventions, 731-746.

• Haack, L. M., Gerdes, A. C., & Lawton, K. E. (2014). Conducting research with Latino families: Examination of strategies to improve recruitment, retention, and satisfaction with an at-risk and underserved population. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 23(2), 410-421. 

• Lawton, K. E., Gerdes, A. C., Haack, L. M., & Schneider, B. W. (2014). Acculturation, cultural values, and Latino parental beliefs about the etiology of ADHD. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 41(2), 189-204. 

• Gerdes, A. C., Lawton, K. E., Haack, L. M., & Hurtado, G. D. (2013). Assessing ADHD in Latino families: Evidence for moving beyond symptomatology. Journal of Attention Disorders, 17(2), 128-140. 

• Gerdes, A. C., Lawton, K. E., Haack, L. M., & Schneider, B. W. (2013). Latino parental help seeking for childhood ADHD. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 1-11. 

• Schneider, B. W., Gerdes, A. C., Haack, L. M., & Lawton, K. E. (2013). Predicting treatment dropout in parent training interventions for families of school-aged children with ADHD. Child & Family Behavior Therapy, 35(2), 144-169. 

• Haack, L. M., Gerdes, A. C., Cruz, B., & Schneider, B. W. (2012). Culturally-modified recruitment strategies for Latino families in clinical child research: A critical first step. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 21(2), 177-183.

• Gerdes, A. C., Haack, L. M., & Schneider, B. W. (2012). Parental functioning in families of children with ADHD: Evidence for behavioral parent training and importance of clinical meaningfulness. Journal of Attention Disorders, 16 (2), 147-152. 

• Haack, L. M., & Gerdes, A. C. (2011). Functional impairment in Latino children with ADHD: Implications for culturally-appropriate conceptualization and measurement. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 14(3), 318-328.

• Haack, L. M., Gerdes, A. C., Schneider, B. W., & Hurtado, G. D. (2010). Advancing our knowledge of ADHD in Latino children: Psychometric and cultural properties of Spanish- versions of parental/family functioning measures. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 39(1), 33-43.

• Sisco, J. L., Haack, L. M., Britt, T. W., & Muth, E. R. (2010). The effect of parental divorce on discomfort and cardiac activity in response to public displays of affection in college females. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, 51, 221-237.