Elizabeth McCauley, PHD, ABPP, developmental and clinical psychologist, is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington (UW) and Associate Director of Child Psychiatry at UW/Seattle Children’s Hospital. Her clinical and research work focuses on the depression and suicidality in youth and school based mental health service delivery. She has developed and/or tested prevention and intervention strategies in clinical, school, and primary care settings. 

Dr. McCauley has been the Principal Investigator on a series of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of interventions to reduce depression and suicidality in youth. These projects include a study of Behavioral Activation as an alternative treatment for depression in adolescence, a multisite study evaluating the efficacy of Dialectical Behavior Therapy versus Supportive Therapy in reducing suicide and suicidal behaviors and ideation in high-risk teens, and projects to test a brief intervention for use in school based mental health work and a school based preventive intervention randomized trial directed at decreasing risk for escalation of depression and school failure as youth transition from middle to high school. She is currently a Co-Investigator on two studies designed to evaluate interventions to reduce suicide ideation and behaviors.