Kayla Herbell
Dr. Kayla Herbell is an associate professor in the Martha S. Pitzer Center for Women, Children, and Youth at The Ohio State University College of Nursing. Dr. Herbell’s program of research is devoted to optimizing treatment gains for adolescents who access residential treatment by way of providing their caregivers with tailored education and support. Dr. Herbell’s research is inspired by her time working as a staff nurse at a residential treatment center, during which she noticed that adolescents and their families faced a lot of challenges and little support in their transition back to the community. This experience taught her that in order to enact change, population-specific interventions would need to be developed with family input, and health policy enacted for these families' trajectories to change. She now conducts research with parents as partners in the research process, advocates for residential treatment reform through family-focused scholarship and presents her findings to stakeholders in the community to develop evidence-informed policies to improve care. Read her white paper on Family Engagement in Residential Programs and visit her Families in Transition FIT Study website.
News
Faculty member recognized for impact and influence in the healthcare field
The Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) named faculty member Jessica Fritter, DHSc, MACPR, ACRP-CP, FACRP, as part of its 2026 class of Fellows.
New research shows that overall, the prevalence of adverse and positive childhood experiences reported by parents of teenagers hasn’t changed substantially in the United States in recent years.
The findings suggest that interventions designed to boost positive family experiences and shield children from negative experiences may not be hitting the mark on a national scale, the study’s authors say.
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