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Department
Psychology and Human Development
Office Location
303 Peabody Administration Building
Mailing Address
Center for Evaluation and Program Improvement
Peabody # 151
230 Appleton Place
Nashville, TN 37203-5721
Direct Phone
615-322-8694
Fax Number
615-322-7049
Email Address
Leonard Bickman
Betts Chair; Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and Public Policy; Director, Center for Evaluation and Program Improvement (CEPI)
Ph.D., City University of New York, 1969
Research Area
Quantitative
Short Biography
Leonard Bickman, Ph.D., holds a Betts Chair and is professor of psychology, psychiatry, and public policy. He is director of the Center for Evaluation and Program Improvement at Peabody College. He earned his Ph.D. in psychology (social) from the City University of New York, his master's degree in experimental psychopathology from Columbia University, and his bachelor's from the City College of New York.
Professor Bickman is a nationally recognized leader in program evaluation and mental health services research on children and adolescents. He has published more than 15 books and monographs and 180 articles and chapters and has been principal investigator on over 25 major grants from several agencies. He is co-editor of the Applied Research Methods Series published by Sage Publications since 1980. He is also co-editor of the SAGE Handbook of Applied Social Research Methods now in its second edition and collaborated on the new SAGE Handbook of Social Research Methods. He is the co-author of the popular book Applied Research Design: A Practical Guide.
He has completed the evaluation of the largest mental health services demonstration project ever conducted on children and adolescents. This evaluation has won several awards, including one from the American Evaluation Association for Outstanding Evaluation. He also collaborated with state and local officials in Ohio on a multi-year randomized experiment that focused on an innovative mental health system for children and adolescents in the public sector. The award of the first training grant in child and adolescent mental health services research acknowledged his expertise in services research training. He was also awarded the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology. Professor Bickman co-edited the first monograph on methodological issues in the evaluation of child and adolescent mental health services.
His standing in this field has been recognized by the Secretary's Award for Distinguished Service to the Department of Health and Human Services, by the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy, and Vanderbilt University's Earl Sutherland Prize for Achievement in Research. He is past president of the American Evaluation Association and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Professor Bickman is editor of the journal Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Health Services Research. He is currently conducting research for the Department of Education on using systematic feedback to improve principal leadership; for the NIMH on how to improve mental health services through feedback to clinicians; and for the Department of Defense examining the post-deployment related continuum of care for returning soldiers. His other major interests include the development of a web-based measurement system for outcomes, and research on therapeutic alliance.
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Media Mentions
Helping teens heal: Peabody researchers develop a new tool to improve teen mental health services
Mental health professionals praise new set of comprehensive and scientifically developed measures
New tool to improve teen mental health services
A new tool called the Peabody Treatment Progress Battery, or PTPB, will help deliver ongoing feedback to doctors and clinicians treating teens with mental health concerns, with a goal of enabling mid-course treatment corrections.