Education

B.A. Psychology: May, 1981 - West Chester University, West Chester, PA.
M.A., Clinical Psychology: May, 1985 - West Virginia University, Morgantown.
M.S., Psychology: August, 1988 - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg.
Pre-doctoral Internship: July, 1990 to June, 1991 - Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Ph.D., Psychology (Clinical area, child specialization): June, 1991 - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Bio

Mark D. Weist received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from VirginiaTech and completed his predoctoral internship at Duke University Medical Center. He is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Carolina (USC). In 1995, with colleagues from the University of Maryland, he established the National Center for School Mental Health, now in its 29^th year of supporting this field (www.schoolmentalhealth.org). He is also a partner on the National Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (www.pbis.org). He has edited or developed 17 books and has published and presented widely in areas of mental health-education system partnerships, school behavioral health (SBH), trauma, violence and youth, evidence-based practice, cognitive behavioral therapy, and advancing policies that support children and youth at local, state, regional, national, and international levels of scale. With colleagues, he currently leads the Southeastern School Behavioral Health Community (www.schoolbehavioralhealth.org), and he co-directs the South Carolina School Behavioral Health Academy (www.scsbha.org), an innovative learning management and coaching system to promote knowledge and effective skills for diverse staff and community partners interested/involved in SBH. He is also leading or co-leading a number of federally funded studies on strategies to improve SBH effectiveness, impact and scaling up. Since 2013, Mark has co-chaired the School Mental Health International Leadership Exchange (www.smhile.org), and has helped to lead international meetings in London, UK (2014), Sweden (2018), Baltimore/Washington (2019), New Zealand (2022, virtual), and the Netherlands (2024).

Positions

Assistant Professor: July, 1991 to June, 1997, University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSM), Department of Psychiatry, Baltimore, MD
Director, School Mental Health Program: 1993 to 2010, UMSM, Department of Psychiatry
Director, Center for School Mental Health (CSMH): 1995-2010, UMSM, Department of Psychiatry
Associate Professor with tenure: July, 1997 to June, 2003, UMSM, Department of Psychiatry
Professor: July, 2003 to June, 2010 – UMSM, Department of Psychiatry
Professor with tenure: July, 2010 to present – University of South Carolina (USC), Department of Psychology
Director, Clinical-Community (CC) Psychology Doctoral Program: July, 2012 to June, 2016, USC, Department of Psychology
Interim Director, School Psychology Doctoral Program: January to June, 2017 – USC, Department of Psychology
Director, CC Psychology Doctoral Program,  2021-2023 - , USC Department of Psychology

Please see vita for information on professional memberships and leadership, service, grants/contracts, and publications.