Behavioral and Mental Health Research

Current Projects

Behavioral Health Care Services for Youth and their Families: A Qualitative Investigation (PI: Chiquanna Anderson; Faculty Advisor: Amy West Co-Investigators: Xzania Lee, Caitlin Sayegh)

Evaluating the Differential Impact of ADHD, Complex ADHD, and Anxiety on Children and Adolescents in Relation to Academic Performance: A secondary analysis of the Health Brain Network study (PI: Zvart Abaryan, Faculty Advisor: Alexis Deavenport-Saman, Co- Investigators: Christopher Ching, Katherine Lawrence, Beth Smith, Douglas Vanderbilt, Larry Yin)

The Coexistence of Adverse Childhood Experiences, Positive Childhood Experiences, and Parent-reported ADHD Severity: National Survey of Children’s Health (PI: Hong Suk-Joon, Faculty Advisor: Douglas Vanderbilt, Co-Investigator: Alexis Deavenport-Saman)

Both sides of the clipboard: Using lived experience to inform clinical training for non-
suicidal self-injury (PI: Emma Preston, Faculty Advisor: Amy West, Co-Investigators:
Bridgid Conn, Diana Woodward, Data Analyst/Statistician: Suhaib Abdurahman, Emma
Anderson)

Development of a Novel Prediction Model for Pediatric Behavioral Health Emergency
Department Revisits For Suicidality Using Natural Language Processing (PI: Anna Cushing, Co-Investigators: Pradip Chaudhari, Shrikanth Narayanan, Amy West, Ramon Durazo- Arvizu, Gabriel Flores Ibarra, Simon Park, Kleanthis Avramidis, Tirantian Feng, Emily Zhou)

How are the Children?” Impact of a Suicide Prevention Self- Learning Module on Resident Knowledge and Clinical Skill (PI; Jolene Collins, Co-Investigators: Alexis Deavenport- Saman, Christine Mirzaian, Stephanie Gughi)gers for Infant Mental Health in the NICU. (PI: Marian Williams, Co-Investigators: Melissa Carson, Patricia Lakatos).

Publications

(Selected)

1. 1. 1. Vo, T.T., Lei, B., & Williams, M. E. (2025). Mental health diagnoses of young children with and without medical conditions. Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology, on-line first. https://doi.org/10.1177/21694826251334140
         
         
      2. Adise, S., West, A. E., Rezvan, P. H., Marshall, A. T., Betts, S., Kan, E., & Sowell, E. R. (2024). Economic Disadvantage and Youth Behavioral Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown. JAMA network open, 7(7), e2420466.
         https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.20466
         
         
      3. Felix, G., Deavenport-Saman, A., Stavros, S., Farboodi, N., Durazo-Arvizu, R., Garcia, J., Yin, L., & Gera, M. P. (2024). Standardizing and Improving Primary Care-Based Electronic Developmental Screening for Young Children in Federally Qualified Health Center Clinics. Maternal and child health journal, 28(10), 1716–1725. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-024-03970-y
         
         
      4. Mirzaian, C. B., Deavenport-Saman, A., Hudson, S. M., & Betz, C. L. (2024). Barriers to Behavioral Health Care Transition for Youth and Young Adults with IDD and Co- occurring Behavioral Health Conditions: Stakeholders' Perspectives. Behavioral health journal, 60(6), 1104–1116. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-024-01262-x
         
         
      5. Sayegh, C. S., Chavannes, M., Moss, I. K., Featherstone, R. E., & Urquiza, I. (2024). The impact of integrating behavioral health services into pediatric subspecialty care: A systematic review. Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition, 78(1), 8–16. https://doi.org/10.1002/jpn3.12060
         
         

      6. Sayegh, C. S., Iverson, E., MacDonell, K. K., Wu, S., & Belzer, M. (2024). Youth perspectives on mobile health adherence interventions: A qualitative study guided by the supportive accountability model. Patient education and counseling, 119, 108079. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2023.108079

• • • Blum, N. J., Shults, J., Barbaresi, W., Bax, A., Cacia, J., Deavenport-Saman, A., Friedman, S., Loe, I. M., Mittal, S., Vanderbilt, D., LaRosa, A., & Harstad, E. (2023). Do Externalizing and Internalizing Symptoms Moderate Medication Response in Preschool Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder? A DBPNet Study. Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP, 44(7), e447–e454. https://doi.org/10.1097/DBP.0000000000001209

1. 1. 1. Demanarig, D. L. L., Sabado-Liwag, M., Divino, L. A., Nagtalon-Ramos, J., Heyrana, K., & Javier, J. R. (2023). An interdisciplinary critical lens on the herstorical contributions and health outcomes among Filipinx American women. Asian American Journal of Psychology.Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000327
         
         
      2. Harlow, J., Cruz, N. C., Celada-Dalton, T., & Cederbaum, J. A. (2023). La Linterna: Clinical model for trauma-exposed, migrant children. Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy, 10.1037/tra0001415. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001415
         
         
      3. Javier, J. R., Aguiling, W., Cunanan, P., Sepulveda, A., Coffey, D. M., Castro, J., Palinkas, L. A., Kipke, M. D., & Mack, W. J. (2023). Short-term outcomes from a pilot randomized controlled trial evaluating a virtual culturally adapted parenting intervention among Filipino parents of school-age children. Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology, 10.1037/cdp0000616. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000616
         
         
      4. Sayegh, C. S., Brammer, W. A., Wright, S. M., Wee, C. P., & Sherer, S. (2023). Pilot Study of Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depression Among Young People With Chronic Illness. American journal of psychotherapy, 76(3), 93–99. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20210042