CMHPSR Accomplishments

March/April 2012

 

Rinad Beidas

• Dr. Rinad Beidas was selected to be a 2012 NIMH funded Implementation Research Institute Fellow at Washington University.
  
  
• Ethnicity and neighborhood context appear to have an additive influence on internalizing symptoms in clinically-referred anxious youth.
  Beidas, R.S., Suarez, L., Simpson, D., Read, K., Wei, C., Connolly, S. & Kendall, P. (2012). Contextual factors and anxiety in minority and European American youth presenting for treatment across two urban university clinics. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 26, 544-554. doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2012.02.008
  
  
• School-based mental health professionals can improve their adherence and knowledge of an EST for child anxiety following training and consultation.
  Beidas, R.S., Mychailyszyn, M., Edmunds, J., Khanna, M., Downey, M., & Kendall, P. (2012). Training school mental health providers to deliver cognitive-behavioral therapy. School Mental Health. doi: 10.1007/s12310-012-9074-0
  
  
• Randomized trial comparing three training modalities for CBT to treat anxiety among youths finds that the key to success was to follow up with three months of “virtual consultation.”
  Beidas, R.S., Edmunds, J., Marcus, S., & Kendall, P. (2012). Training and consultation to promote implementation of an empirically supported treatment: A randomized trial. Psychiatric Services. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.201100401

 

Steve Berkowitz

• The New York Times cited a 2010 study by Dr. Steven Berkowitz that reviewed a therapy program, called the Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention, which was used to treat traumatized children.
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Michael Blank

• Dr. Michael Blank’s PATH intervention was discussed in Psychiatry Weekly.
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• Dr. Michael Blank published a piece on a reasoned action approach to HIV prevention for persons with serious mental illness.
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Jill Locke

• Dr. Locke served as expert for Autism Science Foundation online chat forum.
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• Dr. Locke will report on social skills interventions at IMFAR
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Trevor Hadley

• Dr. Trevor Hadley steps down as Director of the Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research effective July 1, 2012.
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David Mandell

• Dr. David Mandell to lead Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research as new director effective July 1, 2012.
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• Dr. David Mandell keynote speaker first International Economics of Autism Summit, in Hong Kong (March 31, 2012).
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• Dr. Zuleyha Cidav, Dr. Steven Marcus, and Dr. David Mandell investigate effect of autism on parental earnings:
  Cidav Z, Marcus SC, Mandell DS (2012). Implications of childhood autism for parental employment earnings. Pediatrics. 129(4):617-623
  
  
• Population-based examination of homelessness and children’s use of mental health services:
  Park JM, Metraux S, Culhane D, Mandell DS (2012). Homelessness and children’s use of mental health services: A population-based study. Children and Youth Services Review. 34(1):261-265.
  
  
• New autism diagnosis and state funding: Dr. David Mandell interviewed on American Public Media’s Marketplace:
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• Rising cost of autism: Dr. David Mandell interviewed on WHYY’s Newsworks:
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Erica Reisinger

• Teacher and parent agreement on autistic children’s social skills progress: poster accepted at the NIMH D&I Conference