CEPICA is our acronym for "Community-based Evaluation of Psychosocial Interventions with Children and Adolescents" (the acronym saves us quite a bit of time and breath).
Our work is focused on evaluating mental health treatment outcomes of children and adolescents served in traditional clinical practice settings. More specifically, our research has three long-term objectives:
Improve treatment outcomes of children and adolescents served in community-based mental health settings.
Provide mental health practitioners with tools to enhance clinical decision-making.
Help bridge the gap between lab-based mental health research and "real-world" clinical practice.
Congratulations to Nate Ridge, Kristy Ludwig, and Jenny Cannon, whose dissertations have been published in the past year!:
Ridge, N. W., Warren, J. S., Burlingame, G. M., Wells, M. G., & Tumblin, K. M. (2009). Reliability and validity of the Youth Outcome Questionnaire Self-Report. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 65, 1115-1126.
Ludwig, K. A., & Warren, J. S. (2009). Community violence, school-related protective factors, and psychosocial outcomes in urban youth. Psychology in the Schools, 46, 1061-1073.
Cannon, J. A. N., Warren, J. S., Nelson, P. L., & Burlingame, G. M. (2010). Change trajectories for the Youth Outcome Questionnaire Self-Report: Identifying youth at risk for treatment failure. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 39, 289-301.
Also, congratulations to team members who have accepted graduate school offers for fall 2010:
Terrance Coombs - University of South Dakota Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program
Ryan Hunsaker - University of South Dakota Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program
Mark Jackson - Utah State University Marriage and Family Therapy MS Program
Rob Rieske - Louisiana State University Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program
