CAAD - Children and Adolescent Anxiety and Depression Lab

27/07/2021

Summer is finally here and as we continue to recover as a nation from the COVID-19 pandemic, our clinical research team at NSU wants to hear from parents about their experiences with school and family life this past year. Your anonymous responses will help our team design support programs for families struggling with the effects of the pandemic. Please, click the link below to complete the survey or share this post to reach other parents. Thank you for your time!! Have a safe and fun summer!! https://novapsy.sjc1.qualtrics.com/.../SV_cHF4u39M86lVO9T

10/06/2021

Lauren Gispert and Alex Harris, two graduate students from our lab, present research on parental overprotection and its relationship to child anxiety in Latinx populations. Parental overprotection does not seem to be related to socio-economic factors as other research suggests; however, it still predicts anxiety in Latinx youth from various economic backgrounds in the community.

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28/05/2021

Highlighting research conducted by Karina Tuohy, one of the graduate students in our lab, presented at the conference for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies this year. Her findings suggest that various souces of stress experienced by Latinx youth are related to negative automatic thoughts about social and physical threat, as well as personal failure. These findings have implications for the manifestation of anxiety and depression in Latinx youth, as well as cognitive treatments that could diminish the impact of stressful experiences in this population.

04/05/2021

The results of Tori's dissertation were published in Child & Youth Care Forum. Check out DOI 10.1007/s10566-020-09575-0, "Exploring the Relationship of Acculturative Stress and Anxiety Symptoms in Latino Youth."

We found that high levels of mindfulness buffer the relationship between acculturative stress and anxiety through negative automatic thoughts in Latino youth. These findings suggest that dispositional mindfulness is useful for Latino youth, who are experiencing negative cognitive and emotional effects related to their acculturation experiences.

19/04/2021

Parenting is hard! And so is a pandemic! Feeling overwhelmed? Exhausted? You're not alone! Join the pandemic parenting event April 20-24, 2021. Register now for your survival tools: bit.ly/FreePandemicParenting

06/04/2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/01/well/family/depression-young-children.html?fbclid=IwAR0AKjMHtkJdTNK9Nj4qgsty4HuywXBfnSIBluvXWZngNRlS6lgzEN__YmU

We tend to think of childhood as a time of innocence and joy, but as many as 2 to 3 percent of children from ages 6 to 12 can have serious depression.

04/03/2021

On the anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, the CAAD team is launching an online research study to learn more about how families have been dealing with parenting, schooling, and everyday stressors during this unprecedented time. Feel free to SHARE the following link to have as many parents participate: https://novapsy.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cHF4u39M86lVO9T

24/02/2021

These two books are available for free to help kids cope with COVID-19 pandemic. Están disponibles en español.

Families, caregivers and therapists can support children in the management of emotions brought on by COVID-19 with books made to address their specific anxieties and questions.

23/02/2021

https://www.thechildrenstrust.org/content/5-things-we-re-learned-about-parenting-2020

Setting up a home work station next to one’s second grader after her Word document vanished. Biking down Old Cutler Trail with the kids after soccer practice went virtual. Playing remote family trivia with relatives in Maine after banishment of playdates. Parents have adapted to remote learning, w...