Kara McGoey, PhD is currently a professor of school psychology at Duquesne University. She is a Pennsylvania and Nationally Certified School Psychologist.  She teaches courses on behavioral assessment and intervention, child and adolescent psychopathology and early childhood assessment and intervention. She is active in the early childhood education mental health consultant community by providing supervision and support to early childhood centers throughout the Pittsburgh region. Her research interests include translating scientifically sound interventions into the school setting to improve the social-emotional functioning of young children, implementation science, reducing the barriers to intervention fidelity, and preschool mental health. Dr. McGoey is the author of over 40 published peer reviewed, scientific, journal articles and over 50 scholarly presentations given at international, national, regional, or local conferences.