Alysha Danielle Thompson, PHD
Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Unit
On staff since February 2019
Children's Title: Clinical Director, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Unit
Academic Title: Assistant Professor
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Alysha Thompson, PhD is the Clinical Director and attending psychologist on the Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Unit at Seattle Children’s Hospital and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at University of Washington. Prior to joining the staff and faculty at Seattle Children’s/UW, she was a staff psychologist on the Adolescent Inpatient Unit at Bradley Hospital and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University. She is an active participant in training future psychiatrists and psychologists and currently serves as Chair-Elect of the Acute, Intensive, and Residential Services Special Interest Group of Division 53 of the American Psychological Association, a national group of psychologists. Dr. Thompson has authored multiple publications regarding inpatient psychiatric treatment for youth and has forged collaborations with psychiatrists and psychologists working in inpatient psychiatry and acute care around the country. In addition, she is actively engaged in advocacy efforts regarding improvement the mental health care system for youth. She is passionate about providing quality services to youth experiencing severe mental health crises and has specific areas of expertise in working with youth with trauma histories and suicidality.
Dr. Thompson completed her graduate education at Suffolk University in Boston in clinical psychology with an emphasis in child and adolescent clinical psychology. She completed residency in pediatric psychology at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and went on to complete a fellowship in clinical psychology with an emphasis in trauma in children and adolescents at the Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute.
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Award Name Award Description Awarded By Award Date SCCAP Practice Award 2022 SCCAP Award for Promoting Evidence-Based Mental Health Services for Children and Adolescents Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 2022 - 2022 -
Manuscripts in Refereed Journals
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Thompson AD, Berkman ER, Simmons SW, Porter KM, Kroon L, Goldman R, Ramasamy RSEthical Considerations in Balancing Use of Seclusion and Restraint With Risk of COVID-19 Exposure: Recommendations for Youth Inpatient Psychiatry Units.
35513190 Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2022 May 2 : PMCID:PMC9057649 -
Calhoun, C.D., Nick, E.A., Gurtovenko, K., Vaughn, A.J., Simmons, S.W., Taylor, R., Twohy, E., Flannery, J., & Thompson, A.D.Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Care: Contemporary Practices and Introduction of the 5S Model
Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health , 2022 - 2022
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23794925.2022.2034551 -
Leffler, J.M., Vaughn, A.J., & Thompson, A.D.Acute, Intensive, and Residential Services (AIRS) for Youth: Introduction to Special Issue
Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health , 2021 - 2021
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23794925.2021.1996301 -
Thompson, A.D., Ramasamy, R., Simmons, S., Gurtovenko, K., Caufield, S., Sasser, T., Beauchamp, B., O'Brien, M.What Do We Do When Things Fall Apart? Rapid Creation of a Pilot Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit in Response to Increased Acuity on a Psychiatric Inpatient Unit for Children and Adolescents
Evidence Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2021 -
Leffler JM, Esposito CL, Frazier EA, Patriquin MA, Reiman MK, Thompson AD, Waitz CCrisis Preparedness in Acute and Intensive Treatment Settings: Lessons Learned From a Year of COVID-19.
34224838 Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2021 Oct. : 60(10)1171-1175 PMCID:PMC8249041
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Thompson A, Simmons S, Wolff JNo Where to Go: Providing Quality Services for Children With Extended Hospitalizations on Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Units.
32976953 Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2020 Sept. 18
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Simmons S, Thompson AModels of Interdisciplinary Education in the Inpatient Psychiatry Setting.
32399834 Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry, 2020 May 12 -
Thompson E, Spirito A, Frazier E, Thompson A, Hunt J, Wolff JSuicidal thoughts and behavior (STB) and psychosis-risk symptoms among psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents.
31948902 Schizophrenia research, 2020 April : 218240-246 PMCID:PMC7299764 -
Wolff, J., Frazier, E., Thompson, A.D., Weatherall, S., Mcnamana O'Brien, K., Hunt, J.Mind the Gap: Implementing Empirically Informed Psychosocial Treatment in Inpatient Psychiatric Settings
Evidence Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23794925.2019.1685418 -
Wolff JC, Frazier EA, Weatherall SL, Thompson AD, Liu RT, Hunt JIPiloting of COPES: An Empirically Informed Psychosocial Intervention on an Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Unit.
29648874 Journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology, 2018 July : 28(6)409-414 -
Coyne, L.W. & Thompson, A.D.Maternal depression, locus of control, and emotion regulatory strategy as predictors of child internalizing problems.
Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2011 April : 20873-883 -
LaBrie JW, Huchting KK, Lac A, Tawalbeh S, Thompson AD, Larimer MEPreventing risky drinking in first-year college women: further validation of a female-specific motivational-enhancement group intervention.
19538915 Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs. Supplement, 2009 July : (16)77-85 PMCID:PMC2701102 -
LaBrie JW, Pedersen ER, Thompson AD, Earleywine MA brief decisional balance intervention increases motivation and behavior regarding condom use in high-risk heterosexual college men.
17653840 Archives of sexual behavior, 2008 April : 37(2)330-9 PMCID:PMC4221275 -
LaBrie JW, Huchting K, Tawalbeh S, Pedersen ER, Thompson AD, Shelesky K, Larimer M, Neighbors CA randomized motivational enhancement prevention group reduces drinking and alcohol consequences in first-year college women.
18298242 Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors, 2008 March : 22(1)149-55 PMCID:PMC4221274 -
LaBrie JW, Thompson AD, Ferraiolo P, Garcia JA, Huchting K, Shelesky KThe differential impact of relational health on alcohol consumption and consequences in first year college women.
17913379 Addictive behaviors, 2008 Feb. : 33(2)266-78 PMCID:PMC2248555 -
LaBrie, J. W., Pedersen, E. R., Huchting, K., Thompson, A. D., & Hummer, J. F.Correcting misperceptions and reducing risky drinking through a student-designed posters
Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 2007 Nov. : 517-16 -
LaBrie, J. W., Thompson, A. D., Huchting, K., Lac, A., & Buckley, K.A group Motivational Interviewing intervention reduces drinking and alcohol-related consequences in adjudicated college women.
Addictive Behaviors, 2007 Jan. : 322549-2562
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Presentations Title Event Location Date The COPES Program: Preliminary patient and staff Outcomes of a CBT intervention for psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Conference San Diego, CA Nov. 2017 Evaluation of the COPES Program: An Empirically-Informed Psychosocial Intervention on an Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Unit. International Summit on Suicide Research Las Vegas, NV Nov. 2017 Evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of the track system: An empirically informed intervention for adolescent psychiatric inpatients. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry New York, NY Oct. 2016 The role of social support and psychological flexibility in the transmission of depression from mother to child. Meeting of the Association of Contextual Behavioral Science Minneapolis, MN June 2014 A proposed model for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for parents of children with ASD Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Conference National Harbor, MD Nov. 2012 Emotion regulation and socialization in racial-ethnic minority families The meeting of the Association of Contextual Behavioral Science Washington, DC July 2012 The role of maternal experiential avoidance in child internalizing behaviors and parent-child dysfunction in a preschool sample: Implications for family-based exposure treatments. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Conference Toronto, Canada Nov. 2011 Implications of Experiential Avoidance in Parenting: Child internalizing problems and maternal emotion regulatory strategy predict maternal stress. The meeting of the Association of Contextual Behavioral Science Parma, Italy July 2011
Overview
- Medical/Professional School
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Suffolk University, Boston, MA
- Clinical Interests
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Treatment of severe psychiatric disorders in acute care settings, the impact of trauma and childhood adversity on mental health in children and adolescents, suicide and non-suicidal self-injury, brief interventions for mental health, cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy.
