Sonja K. Schoenwald

Sonja K. Schoenwald, PhD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the FSRC at the Medical University of South Carolina. She is among the leading clinical services researchers in the country on issues relating to the transportability, implementation, and dissemination of effective community-based treatments for youth with serious clinical problems and their families. Dr. Schoenwald pioneered the development, refinement, and empirical testing of the quality assurance protocols used to adapt multisystemic therapy (MST) for juvenile offenders and their families to diverse communities. She has published numerous peer-reviewed papers and book chapters and has coauthored three books and several treatment manuals and monographs on the implementation of effective treatments in communities nationally and internationally.