Dr. Allen has authored peer-reviewed research, book chapters, and a co-edited book on cognitive and behavioral interventions in schools, and has presented at national and regional conferences on topics including autism assessment, ADHD, childhood anxiety, and school-based crisis response. This body of work reflects a career-long focus on translating clinical and research knowledge into guidance that families, educators, and clinicians can actually use.
This page brings together the various forms that public-facing work has taken over the course of Dr. Allen’s career, from formal peer-reviewed research to invited talks for individual school districts and community organizations. Taken together, they reflect a consistent thread: taking findings that are often confined to academic journals or clinical training rooms and making them accessible to the people actually implementing them day to day, whether that is a classroom teacher managing behavior, a pediatrician fielding a parent’s question about ADHD, or a parent trying to understand a new diagnosis.
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy in the Schools: Expanding the Practitioner’s Toolkit (Springer, 2014), co-edited book on evidence-based school-based intervention
- Peer-reviewed research on Parent-Child Interaction Therapy for children with autism spectrum disorder
- Peer-reviewed research on the Virginia Student Threat Assessment Guidelines
- Conference presentations at the American Psychological Association, National Association of School Psychologists, and Biennial Parent Child Interaction Therapy Convention
- Training curricula on emergency response and crisis management developed for school personnel
- Treatment of Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Donald D. Lewis Pediatric Conference, Williamsburg, VA
- Treating Behavior Problems among Children with Autism, St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY
- Developing Stronger Parent and Child Interactions, Arlington Catholic Schools, Annandale, VA
- The Impact of Character Education among Pre-Kindergarten to Eighth Grade Students, invited presentation, Sports Hall of Fame, Portsmouth, VA
Across academic publications and community presentations alike, the throughline in Dr. Allen’s work has been translation: taking findings from controlled research settings and making them usable by the teachers, parents, and clinicians who are working with real children in real classrooms and homes. That same commitment shapes how findings from an individual evaluation are written up and how a therapy session is structured. Technical accuracy is only useful when it is also understandable.
See About > Publications for a fuller list of selected citations, and About > Research for more detail on funded projects and research interests. A complete curriculum vitae, including additional publications and presentations, is available on request.
