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Research paper thumbnail of Leveraging Data Science to Advance Implementation Science: The Case of School Mental Health

Journal of School Health, Aug 14, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Features of Reactive Aggression and Use of Mindful Coping Power

Research paper thumbnail of Harmonizing Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Constructs in Prevention Science: Digging into the Weeds of Aligning Disparate Measures

Research paper thumbnail of Disaster Exposure and Temperament as Predictors of Adolescent Substance Use

Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

Research paper thumbnail of Future Directions

The Wiley Handbook of Disruptive and Impulse-Control Disorders

Research paper thumbnail of Predictors of problematic adult alcohol, cannabis, and other substance use: A longitudinal study of two samples

Development and Psychopathology

This study examined whether a key set of adolescent and early adulthood risk factors predicts pro... more This study examined whether a key set of adolescent and early adulthood risk factors predicts problematic alcohol, cannabis, and other substance use in established adulthood. Two independent samples from the Child Development Project (CDP; n = 585; 48% girls; 81% White, 17% Black, 2% other race/ethnicity) and Fast Track (FT; n = 463; 45% girls; 52% White, 43% Black, 5% other race/ethnicity) were recruited in childhood and followed through age 34 (CDP) or 32 (FT). Predictors of substance use were assessed in adolescence based on adolescent and parent reports and in early adulthood based on adult self-reports. Adults reported their own problematic substance use in established adulthood. In both samples, more risk factors from adolescence and early adulthood predicted problematic alcohol use in established adulthood (compared to problematic cannabis use and other substance use). Externalizing behaviors and prior substance use in early adulthood were consistent predictors of problematic...

Research paper thumbnail of Development of individuals’ own and perceptions of peers’ substance use from early adolescence to adulthood

Addictive Behaviors

This study evaluated how individuals' own substance use and their perception of peers' su... more This study evaluated how individuals' own substance use and their perception of peers' substance use predict each other across development from early adolescence to middle adulthood. Participants were from two longitudinal studies: Fast Track (FT; N = 463) and Child Development Project (CDP; N = 585). Participants reported on their own and peers' substance use during early and middle adolescence and early adulthood, and their own substance use in middle adulthood. From adolescence to early adulthood, individuals' reports of their own substance use in a given developmental period predicted reports of their peers' substance use in the next developmental period more than peers' substance use in a given developmental period predicted individuals' own substance use in the next. In the higher-risk FT sample, individuals' own substance use in early adulthood predicted alcohol, cannabis, and other substance use in middle adulthood, and peers' substance use in early adulthood predicted cannabis use in middle adulthood. In the lower-risk CDP sample, participants' own substance use in early adulthood predicted only their own cannabis use in middle adulthood, whereas peers' substance use in early adulthood predicted participants' alcohol, cannabis, opioid, and other substance use in middle adulthood. The findings suggest that peer substance use in early adulthood may indicate a greater propensity for subsequent substance use in lower-risk groups, whereas those in higher-risk groups may remain more stable in substance use, with less variability explained by peer contexts.

Research paper thumbnail of Session 4: Managing Your Stress—Part II

Clinical Psychology

Chapter 4 further discusses stress management, and focuses on managing stressful events and daily... more Chapter 4 further discusses stress management, and focuses on managing stressful events and daily hassles, cognitive models of stress and mood management, and the use of worksheets to track thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that result in stress or negative emotions.

Research paper thumbnail of Facial Affect Sensitivity Training for Young Children with Emerging CU Traits: An Experimental Therapeutics Approach

Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

Research paper thumbnail of Relations Between Externalizing Behavior, Peer Victimization, and Verbal Assertion and Direct Action Moderation, Across Time

Research paper thumbnail of Using Crime Data to Assess Longitudinal Relationships Between Community Violent Crime and Aggressive Behavior Among At-Risk Youth

The Journal of Early Adolescence, 2021

The goal of this study was to assess longitudinal, predictive relationships between community vio... more The goal of this study was to assess longitudinal, predictive relationships between community violent crime and reactive and proactive aggression. Community violent crime data were gathered from local law enforcement agencies and combined with an existing dataset of at-risk youth. Aggression was assessed by parents using the Reactive and Proactive Aggression Questionnaire (RPQ). Data were examined over four time points. Autoregressive cross-lagged modeling was used to test two models: one for proactive aggression and one for reactive aggression. Results revealed a positive relationship between community violent crime and proactive aggression, whereas the model including reactive aggression had poor model fit. Therefore, results support reactive and proactive aggression as distinct constructs. Findings also demonstrate that publicly accessible violent crime data can be used to predict children’s behavior over time. Finally, results have important implications for preventive intervent...

Research paper thumbnail of Reducing Risk for Emotional and Behavioral Disorders in Late Elementary School: A Comparison of Two Targeted Interventions

Behavioral Disorders, 2018

Students with elevated levels of risk require targeted Tier 2 behavioral interventions that are e... more Students with elevated levels of risk require targeted Tier 2 behavioral interventions that are efficient and effective to prevent the need for more intensive, special education supports. Although Tier 2 is a critical component of multi-tiered systems of support, a paucity of research exists regarding how best to provide evidence-based Tier 2 interventions, particularly for students with comorbid deficit areas. The current trial involved 33 third- through fifth-grade participants who were assigned to one of three study groups: (a) control, (b) check-in/check-out, or (c) Coping Power. The Behavior Assessment of Children in Schools–2 (BASC-2) was used to measure changes in externalizing behavior, along with its three component subscales. The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) was used to examine change in broad emotional and behavioral risk profiles. Teachers rated participants on the SDQ and BASC-2 at preintervention, postintervention, and follow-up. Results indicate that...

Research paper thumbnail of Correcting for norm misperception of anti-bullying attitudes

International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019

Research has documented the presence of norm misperception in the context of school bullying, as ... more Research has documented the presence of norm misperception in the context of school bullying, as children and adolescents typically underestimate the degree to which their peers disapprove of bullying behavior. Despite commonly held attitudes in opposition to bullies and in support of helping victims, widespread misperception of the norm makes students vulnerable to acting in a manner that reinforces bullying, as they aim to align themselves with perceived peer beliefs. This study investigated whether personalized normative feedback, a social norms intervention that juxtaposes individuals’ own perceptions of peer norms against their peers’ true normative values, could operate as a mechanism by which to reduce norm misperception of peer attitudes toward bullying. Whereas this type of intervention has shown promising effects in a variety of contexts, no study to date has examined its utility in the specific context of bullying. Baseline participants included 188 seventh grade students...

Research paper thumbnail of Caregiver–adolescent co-reminiscing and adolescents’ individual recollections of a devastating tornado: Associations with enduring posttraumatic stress symptoms

Development and Psychopathology, 2019

Although disaster-related posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) typically decrease in intensity ov... more Although disaster-related posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) typically decrease in intensity over time, some youth continue to report elevated levels of PTSS many years after the disaster. The current study examines two processes that may help to explain the link between disaster exposure and enduring PTSS: caregiver emotion socialization and youth recollection qualities. One hundred and twenty-two youth (ages 12 to 17) and their female caregivers who experienced an EF-4 tornado co-reminisced about the event, and adolescents provided independent recollections between 3 and 4 years after the tornado. Adolescent individual transcripts were coded for coherence and negative personal impact, qualities that have been found to contribute to meaning making. Parent–adolescent conversations were coded for caregiver egocentrism, a construct derived from the emotion socialization literature to reflect the extent to which the caregiver centered the conversation on her own emotions and experien...

Research paper thumbnail of Treating the Child and Adolescent in the Family and Social Context

Oxford Handbooks Online, 2016

Conduct problems and depression are two commonly occurring mental health problems affecting youth... more Conduct problems and depression are two commonly occurring mental health problems affecting youth. For both conduct problems and depression, risk factors in the family, peer, and school contexts can contribute to the development and maintenance of these disorders in young people. Addressing contextual risk factors can lead to improvements in conduct problems and symptoms of depression. This chapter provides an overview of contextual risk factors for conduct problems and depression, and it reviews several effective interventions for treating each disorder. Outcome results are summarized for these interventions, as well as some of the major activities and objectives. The role of family, peer, and school contexts in the treatment of conduct problems and depression is highlighted.

Research paper thumbnail of Anger Management in Schools

Treatments for Anger in Specific Populations, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Week 22 Materials

Coping Power: Workbook, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Parent Group Logistics

Research paper thumbnail of Coping Power: Workbook

Research paper thumbnail of Child-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions Designed to Reduce Aggression

Oxford Handbooks Online, 2015

This chapter describes issues related to cognitive-behavioral group-based interventions for child... more This chapter describes issues related to cognitive-behavioral group-based interventions for children with aggressive behavior problems. It describes beneficial aspects of group formats and notes the longer-term effects of the Coping Power program. It discusses potential problems in group-based interventions with aggressive children, including the potential for deviant peer effects and deviancy training. It then describes a study of Coping Power that randomly assigned schools to either group or individual formats for aggressive children. Results indicated significant reduction in behavioral problems for children in both conditions. However, teacher ratings indicated significantly stronger effects apparent by a 1-year follow-up for children in the individual sessions compared to the group format. The chapter discusses why these differences may have emerged and how group therapist behavior may be important in protecting against longer term follow-up deviant peer effects.

Research paper thumbnail of Leveraging Data Science to Advance Implementation Science: The Case of School Mental Health

Journal of School Health, Aug 14, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Features of Reactive Aggression and Use of Mindful Coping Power

Research paper thumbnail of Harmonizing Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Constructs in Prevention Science: Digging into the Weeds of Aligning Disparate Measures

Research paper thumbnail of Disaster Exposure and Temperament as Predictors of Adolescent Substance Use

Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

Research paper thumbnail of Future Directions

The Wiley Handbook of Disruptive and Impulse-Control Disorders

Research paper thumbnail of Predictors of problematic adult alcohol, cannabis, and other substance use: A longitudinal study of two samples

Development and Psychopathology

This study examined whether a key set of adolescent and early adulthood risk factors predicts pro... more This study examined whether a key set of adolescent and early adulthood risk factors predicts problematic alcohol, cannabis, and other substance use in established adulthood. Two independent samples from the Child Development Project (CDP; n = 585; 48% girls; 81% White, 17% Black, 2% other race/ethnicity) and Fast Track (FT; n = 463; 45% girls; 52% White, 43% Black, 5% other race/ethnicity) were recruited in childhood and followed through age 34 (CDP) or 32 (FT). Predictors of substance use were assessed in adolescence based on adolescent and parent reports and in early adulthood based on adult self-reports. Adults reported their own problematic substance use in established adulthood. In both samples, more risk factors from adolescence and early adulthood predicted problematic alcohol use in established adulthood (compared to problematic cannabis use and other substance use). Externalizing behaviors and prior substance use in early adulthood were consistent predictors of problematic...

Research paper thumbnail of Development of individuals’ own and perceptions of peers’ substance use from early adolescence to adulthood

Addictive Behaviors

This study evaluated how individuals' own substance use and their perception of peers' su... more This study evaluated how individuals' own substance use and their perception of peers' substance use predict each other across development from early adolescence to middle adulthood. Participants were from two longitudinal studies: Fast Track (FT; N = 463) and Child Development Project (CDP; N = 585). Participants reported on their own and peers' substance use during early and middle adolescence and early adulthood, and their own substance use in middle adulthood. From adolescence to early adulthood, individuals' reports of their own substance use in a given developmental period predicted reports of their peers' substance use in the next developmental period more than peers' substance use in a given developmental period predicted individuals' own substance use in the next. In the higher-risk FT sample, individuals' own substance use in early adulthood predicted alcohol, cannabis, and other substance use in middle adulthood, and peers' substance use in early adulthood predicted cannabis use in middle adulthood. In the lower-risk CDP sample, participants' own substance use in early adulthood predicted only their own cannabis use in middle adulthood, whereas peers' substance use in early adulthood predicted participants' alcohol, cannabis, opioid, and other substance use in middle adulthood. The findings suggest that peer substance use in early adulthood may indicate a greater propensity for subsequent substance use in lower-risk groups, whereas those in higher-risk groups may remain more stable in substance use, with less variability explained by peer contexts.

Research paper thumbnail of Session 4: Managing Your Stress—Part II

Clinical Psychology

Chapter 4 further discusses stress management, and focuses on managing stressful events and daily... more Chapter 4 further discusses stress management, and focuses on managing stressful events and daily hassles, cognitive models of stress and mood management, and the use of worksheets to track thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that result in stress or negative emotions.

Research paper thumbnail of Facial Affect Sensitivity Training for Young Children with Emerging CU Traits: An Experimental Therapeutics Approach

Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

Research paper thumbnail of Relations Between Externalizing Behavior, Peer Victimization, and Verbal Assertion and Direct Action Moderation, Across Time

Research paper thumbnail of Using Crime Data to Assess Longitudinal Relationships Between Community Violent Crime and Aggressive Behavior Among At-Risk Youth

The Journal of Early Adolescence, 2021

The goal of this study was to assess longitudinal, predictive relationships between community vio... more The goal of this study was to assess longitudinal, predictive relationships between community violent crime and reactive and proactive aggression. Community violent crime data were gathered from local law enforcement agencies and combined with an existing dataset of at-risk youth. Aggression was assessed by parents using the Reactive and Proactive Aggression Questionnaire (RPQ). Data were examined over four time points. Autoregressive cross-lagged modeling was used to test two models: one for proactive aggression and one for reactive aggression. Results revealed a positive relationship between community violent crime and proactive aggression, whereas the model including reactive aggression had poor model fit. Therefore, results support reactive and proactive aggression as distinct constructs. Findings also demonstrate that publicly accessible violent crime data can be used to predict children’s behavior over time. Finally, results have important implications for preventive intervent...

Research paper thumbnail of Reducing Risk for Emotional and Behavioral Disorders in Late Elementary School: A Comparison of Two Targeted Interventions

Behavioral Disorders, 2018

Students with elevated levels of risk require targeted Tier 2 behavioral interventions that are e... more Students with elevated levels of risk require targeted Tier 2 behavioral interventions that are efficient and effective to prevent the need for more intensive, special education supports. Although Tier 2 is a critical component of multi-tiered systems of support, a paucity of research exists regarding how best to provide evidence-based Tier 2 interventions, particularly for students with comorbid deficit areas. The current trial involved 33 third- through fifth-grade participants who were assigned to one of three study groups: (a) control, (b) check-in/check-out, or (c) Coping Power. The Behavior Assessment of Children in Schools–2 (BASC-2) was used to measure changes in externalizing behavior, along with its three component subscales. The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) was used to examine change in broad emotional and behavioral risk profiles. Teachers rated participants on the SDQ and BASC-2 at preintervention, postintervention, and follow-up. Results indicate that...

Research paper thumbnail of Correcting for norm misperception of anti-bullying attitudes

International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019

Research has documented the presence of norm misperception in the context of school bullying, as ... more Research has documented the presence of norm misperception in the context of school bullying, as children and adolescents typically underestimate the degree to which their peers disapprove of bullying behavior. Despite commonly held attitudes in opposition to bullies and in support of helping victims, widespread misperception of the norm makes students vulnerable to acting in a manner that reinforces bullying, as they aim to align themselves with perceived peer beliefs. This study investigated whether personalized normative feedback, a social norms intervention that juxtaposes individuals’ own perceptions of peer norms against their peers’ true normative values, could operate as a mechanism by which to reduce norm misperception of peer attitudes toward bullying. Whereas this type of intervention has shown promising effects in a variety of contexts, no study to date has examined its utility in the specific context of bullying. Baseline participants included 188 seventh grade students...

Research paper thumbnail of Caregiver–adolescent co-reminiscing and adolescents’ individual recollections of a devastating tornado: Associations with enduring posttraumatic stress symptoms

Development and Psychopathology, 2019

Although disaster-related posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) typically decrease in intensity ov... more Although disaster-related posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) typically decrease in intensity over time, some youth continue to report elevated levels of PTSS many years after the disaster. The current study examines two processes that may help to explain the link between disaster exposure and enduring PTSS: caregiver emotion socialization and youth recollection qualities. One hundred and twenty-two youth (ages 12 to 17) and their female caregivers who experienced an EF-4 tornado co-reminisced about the event, and adolescents provided independent recollections between 3 and 4 years after the tornado. Adolescent individual transcripts were coded for coherence and negative personal impact, qualities that have been found to contribute to meaning making. Parent–adolescent conversations were coded for caregiver egocentrism, a construct derived from the emotion socialization literature to reflect the extent to which the caregiver centered the conversation on her own emotions and experien...

Research paper thumbnail of Treating the Child and Adolescent in the Family and Social Context

Oxford Handbooks Online, 2016

Conduct problems and depression are two commonly occurring mental health problems affecting youth... more Conduct problems and depression are two commonly occurring mental health problems affecting youth. For both conduct problems and depression, risk factors in the family, peer, and school contexts can contribute to the development and maintenance of these disorders in young people. Addressing contextual risk factors can lead to improvements in conduct problems and symptoms of depression. This chapter provides an overview of contextual risk factors for conduct problems and depression, and it reviews several effective interventions for treating each disorder. Outcome results are summarized for these interventions, as well as some of the major activities and objectives. The role of family, peer, and school contexts in the treatment of conduct problems and depression is highlighted.

Research paper thumbnail of Anger Management in Schools

Treatments for Anger in Specific Populations, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Week 22 Materials

Coping Power: Workbook, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Parent Group Logistics

Research paper thumbnail of Coping Power: Workbook

Research paper thumbnail of Child-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions Designed to Reduce Aggression

Oxford Handbooks Online, 2015

This chapter describes issues related to cognitive-behavioral group-based interventions for child... more This chapter describes issues related to cognitive-behavioral group-based interventions for children with aggressive behavior problems. It describes beneficial aspects of group formats and notes the longer-term effects of the Coping Power program. It discusses potential problems in group-based interventions with aggressive children, including the potential for deviant peer effects and deviancy training. It then describes a study of Coping Power that randomly assigned schools to either group or individual formats for aggressive children. Results indicated significant reduction in behavioral problems for children in both conditions. However, teacher ratings indicated significantly stronger effects apparent by a 1-year follow-up for children in the individual sessions compared to the group format. The chapter discusses why these differences may have emerged and how group therapist behavior may be important in protecting against longer term follow-up deviant peer effects.