Heather Ringeisen

Expertise

Child Mental Health Services and Care
Child Welfare Services and Policy
Evidence-Based Practices in Children's Mental Health

Biography

Heather Ringeisen, PhD, MS, BS, serves as a co-investigator on the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being II. She also serves as a senior research psychologist on NSCAW, the first national longitudinal study that examines child and family well-being and relates it to their experience with the child welfare system and community environment. Dr. Ringeisen is a children's mental health services researcher with a special interest in the non-specialty mental health service systems. Prior to her work at RTI, Dr. Ringeisen served as chief of the Child and Adolescent Services Research Program at NIMH, where she directed a research program that examined the quality, organization, and financing of services for children with mental disorders. Dr. Ringeisen has served on multiple federal committees established to coordinate activities related to children's mental health. She previously received the Society for Research in Child Development policy fellowship and is a licensed clinical child psychologist.

Education

PhD, Clinical Child Psychology (minor: Child and Family Studies), Auburn University; Clinical Internship, Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida; MS, Clinical Psychology, Auburn University; BS (magna cum laude), Psychology, Wake Forest University.

Selected Publications

Ringeisen, H., & Hoagwood, K. (2002). Clinical and research directions for the treatment and delivery of children's mental health services. In Marsh , D.T., & M.A. Fristad (Ed.), Handbook for Serious Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescents. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Ringeisen, H., Henderson, K., & Hoagwood, K. (2003). Context matters: Schools and the "research to practice gap" in children's mental health. School Psychology Review, 32 (2):153-168.

Hoagwood, K., Burns, B.J., Kiser, L., Ringeisen, H., & Schoenwald, S.K. (2001 Sep). Evidence-based practice in child and adolescent mental health services. Psychiatric Services, 52 (9):1179-1189.

Chambers, D.A., Ringeisen, H., & Hickman, E.E. (2005 April). Federal, state, and foundation initiatives around evidence-based practices for child and adolescent mental health. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 14 (2):307-327.

Hernandez, M., Hodges, S., Nesman, T.M., & Ringeisen, H.L. (2001). Findings from the Chinsegut outcomes retreat. In M. Hernandez, & S. Hodges (Ed.), Developing Outcome Strategies in Children's Mental Health. Baltimore, MD: Brookes Publishing Co., Inc.

Southam-Gerow, M.A., Ringeisen, H.L., & Sherrill, J.T. (Spring 2006). Integrating interventions and services research: Progress and prospects. Clinical Psychology-Science and Practice, 13 (1):1468-2850.

Ringeisen, H., Oliver, K.A., & Menvielle, E. (2002). Recognition and treatment of mental disorders in children: Considerations for pediatric health systems.. Paediatric Drugs, 4 (11):697-703.

Gonzales, J.J., Ringeisen, H.L., & Chambers, D.A. (June 2002). The tangled and thorny path of science to practice: Tensions in interpreting and applying "evidence". Clinical Psychology-Science and Practice, 9 (2):204-209.

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