University of California, Los Angeles

Bruce Chorpita

Awarded Grants

Grant

Microecological Influences of Supervision on URE in Children’s Mental Health: Secondary Analysis of the Child STEPs in California Randomized Effectiveness Trial

How do clinical supervisory decisions improve the use of research evidence in mental health treatment activities and youth mental health outcomes?
Bruce Chorpita
University Of California, Los Angeles
2024 – 2026
$379,984
Grant

Consistently Crucial but Invariably Ignored: Testing the Role of Coordination in The Use of Research Evidence

Can the Coordinated Knowledge System for improving the use of research evidence in mental health be made less intensive yet still impactful?
Kimberly Becker
University Of South Carolina
2020 – 2025
$638,475
Grant

Coordinated Knowledge Systems: Connecting Evidence to Action to Engage Students in School-Based Mental Health

Does the Coordinated Knowledge System intervention increase clinical supervisors’ use of research evidence in working with therapists and in therapists’ work with students?
Bruce Chorpita
University Of California, Los Angeles
2017 – 2023
$1,209,897

Articles & More

Blog Post

“Evidence is a continually accumulating resource”: An interview with grantee Bruce Chorpita

The question of how to improve the use of research (URE) in policy and practice can be approached from diverse disciplinary and methodological angles. For many who study research use, ...
Foundation Staff
“Evidence is a continually accumulating resource”: An interview with grantee Bruce Chorpita
News
  •  May 1, 2020

Six New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas — Spring 2020

We are proud to announce six new research grants, including five to support studies on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and one to support a study on improving the use ...
Foundation Staff
Six New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence in our Focus Areas — Spring 2020
Blog Post

Can a Coordinated Knowledge System Improve the Use of Research Evidence in School-Based Mental Health Settings?

By refining and integrating multiple theories, Chorpita has designed a model that focuses on supervisor and supervisee interactions, to help them more readily access, understand, and apply research evidence in ...
Foundation Staff
Can a Coordinated Knowledge System Improve the Use of Research Evidence in School-Based Mental Health Settings?
Blog Post

Knowledge Neighborhoods: Building the Infrastructure for Evidence-Based Practice in Mental Health

Instead of thinking of research and practice as a point A and point B journey, we might instead think of traveling around a neighborhood. The best neighborhoods have the infrastructure ...
Bruce Chorpita
Knowledge Neighborhoods: Building the Infrastructure for Evidence-Based Practice in Mental Health

Bruce Chorpita is a PI on 1 grant to University of California, Los Angeles and a co-PI on 1 grant to University of South Carolina; an author on 1 blog post; and is mentioned in 2 blog posts and 1 news article.

Bio
Bruce Chorpita is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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