Jake Mahon

Licensure

• Clinical Psychologist

• Board Certified Behavior Analyst - Doctoral (BCBA-D)

• Nationally Certified School Psychologist (NCSP)

Educational Background

Jake earned a Bachelors Degree in Psychology, graduating from the University of Oregon with departmental honors. He earned a Master of Science in Special Education from the University or Oregon. He earned a Doctorate (PhD) in School Psychology from the University of Oregon. He completed his training in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) from the University of Oregon with Drs. Wendy Machalicek and Tiffany Kodak. He completed a Predoctoral internship in Behavioral Pediatrics in Integrated Care from the Munroe-Meyer Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, where he finalized his national certification in school psychology. He completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship within the Department of Pediatric Psychology at the Child Development and Rehabilitation Center (CDRC) at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).

Post-Graduate Experience

After receiving his PhD, Jake completed a 12-month postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation at OHSU where he provided behavioral health services to children and their families in the Harold Schnitzer Diabetes Health Center. Jake also responded to inpatient behavioral health consultation requests in all Doernbecher Children’s Hospital (DCH) pediatric specialty clinics, the pediatric intensive care unit, and pediatric emergency department. Jake also worked with children and families across a number of CDRC and DCH clinics, including the multidisciplinary autism diagnostic clinic, behavioral health screening clinic for neuro-oncology, and the LEND fellowship program multidisciplinary diagnostic clinic.

Areas of Specialization and Interest

Jake is especially interested in working with children and families who are at disproportionate risk for poor developmental outcomes; especially families who are economically disadvantaged and in rural communities of Oregon. Jake is highly motivated to serve children and families with complex psychosocial profiles and limited access to care. As a result, Jake is motivated and able to deliver services across the state of Oregon through telehealth (using Zoom -- like Skype or FaceTime). Jake is also highly interested in applied clinical research, with experience using both single case and group designs. His research experience spans a number of focal areas, including ADHD diagnostics, college student marijuana use, parent training program effectiveness, efficiency and effectiveness in treatments for autism, consultation models for training parents and paraprofessionals, and program evaluation for mentoring and other programs. Jake is interested in advancing the field of psychology in the areas of applied behavior analysis, early intervention, assessment and intervention efficiency, fidelity of implementation, behavioral parent training, family functioning, school consultation, chronic health condition management, mentoring at-risk youth, substance abuse prevention in youth, and resiliency.

Pediatric Services

• Comprehensive psychological evaluation (up to college-age).

  • Including, but not limited to, concerns for Autism, ADHD, learning disorders, mood disorders, anxiety-related disorders, stress-related disorders, suicidal ideation, developmental delay, intellectual functioning, adaptive functioning, and antisocial behavior.

• Comprehensive academic evaluation (up to high school age).

• Outpatient psychotherapy (e.g., CBT, ERP, ACT).

• Outpatient Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services include, but are not limited to, behavioral parent training, functional communication training (FCT), social skills training, and individualized treatments to address common concerns such as noncompliance, toileting, feeding, disruptive behavior, aggression, self-injury, and pica.

• Behavioral management of chronic health conditions (e.g., type 1 diabetes, CF, chronic pain, etc).

• Family therapy (e.g., Family Check Up) services include, but are not limited to, addressing communication, abuse history in the family, child non-compliance/deviancy/risk behavior, substance use/abuse in the family, and setting and maintaining expectations and rules.

Adult Services

• Behavioral parent training

• Family therapy (e.g. Family Check Up)

Personal Interests

Jake and his wife, Elise, were born and raised in the Rogue Valley and consider the Rogue River their home base. When not working or volunteering, you can find Jake guiding fishing trips for steelhead, archery hunting, backpacking into remote areas of Oregon, or training his dog to sniff out shed deer and elk antlers.