ArticleJournal of abnormal child psychology2017
Clinical Decision-Making Following Disasters: Efficient Identification of PTSD Risk in Adolescents.
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- Mental Health Impacts of Tornadoes: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- The influence of social support on posttraumatic stress symptoms among children and adolescents: a scoping review and meta-analysis.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2022Pooled it
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- Children's Coping in Disasters: Developments, Challenges, and Future Directions.Current psychiatry reports · 2025Review
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- Community trauma exposure and post-traumatic stress disorder in Chinese children and adolescents.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Parental Support during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Friend or Foe? A Moderation Analysis of the Association between Maternal Anxiety and Children's Stress in Italian Dyads.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Role of Social Support in Coping with Psychological Trauma: An Integrated Biopsychosocial Model for Posttraumatic Stress Recovery.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2022Review
- Effects of extreme weather events on child mood and behavior.Developmental medicine and child neurology · 2021Review
- Psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Wuhan's high school students.Children and youth services review · 2020Article
- Hospital costs associated with post-traumatic stress disorder in somatic patients: a retrospective study.Health economics review · 2020Article
- The relationship between social support and posttraumatic stress symptoms among youth exposed to a natural disaster.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2018Article
- Translating Cognitive Vulnerability Theory Into Improved Adolescent Depression Screening: A Receiver Operating Characteristic Approach.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Article
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The present study aimed to utilize a Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) approach in order to improve clinical decision-making for adolescents at risk for the development of psychopathology in the aftermath of a natural disaster. Specifically we assessed theoretically-driven individual, interpersonal, and event-related vulnerability factors to determine which indices were most accurate in forecasting PTSD. Furthermore, we aimed to translate these etiological findings by identifying clinical cut-off recommendations for relevant vulnerability factors. Our study consisted of structured phone-based clinical interviews with 2000 adolescent-parent dyads living within a 5-mile radius of tornados that devastated Joplin, MO, and northern Alabama in Spring 2011. Demographics, tornado incident characteristics, prior trauma, mental health, and family support and conflict were assessed. A subset of youth completed two behavioral assessment tasks online to assess distress tolerance and risk-taking behavior. ROC analyses indicated four variables that significantly improved PTSD diagnostic efficiency: Lifetime depression (AUC = .90), trauma history (AUC = .76), social support (AUC = .70), and family conflict (AUC = .72). Youth were 2-3 times more likely to have PTSD if they had elevated scores on any of these variables. Of note, event-related characteristics (e.g., property damage) were not related to PTSD diagnostic status. The present study adds to the literature by making specific recommendations for empirically-based, efficient disaster-related PTSD assessment for adolescents following a natural disaster. Implications for practice and future trauma-related developmental psychopathology research are discussed.
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