ArticleJournal of consulting and clinical psychology2021
The prospective impact of adverse childhood experiences on justice-involved youth's psychiatric symptoms and substance use.
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- Mental Health, Substance Use, Trauma Exposure, and Experiences of Discrimination Among Caregivers of Youth With Juvenile Legal System Involvement.Journal of marital and family therapy · 2025Article
- Tailoring opioid use prevention content for juvenile diversion programs with adolescents and their caregivers.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2024Article
- Comparing Rates Mental Health Diagnosis in Adolescents Evaluated at a Community Clinic versus Detention-based Clinic: Is Traumatic Stress Still Most Salient?Psychological injury and law · 2024Article
- Adaptation of a trauma-informed intervention to prevent opioid use among youth in the legal system.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2024Article
- The Association Between Expanded ACEs and Behavioral Health Outcomes Among Youth at First Time Legal System Contact.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- Prevention of Opioid Use and Disorder Among Youth Involved in the Legal System: Innovation and Implementation of Four Studies Funded by the NIDA HEAL Initiative.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Article
- Early alcohol onset: clinical and demographic characteristics of service-seeking youth.Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent · 2023Article
- Leveraging Technology to Increase Behavioral Health Services Access for Youth in the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems: a Cross-systems Collaboration Model.The journal of behavioral health services & research · 2022Article
- US trends in the association of suicide ideation/behaviors with marijuana use among adolescents ages 12-17 and differences by gender and race/ethnicity.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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objectiveJustice-involved youth report high rates of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs; abuse, neglect, household dysfunction) and are at high risk for elevated behavioral health needs (i.e., substance use, psychiatric symptoms). Research with broad samples of adolescents shows ACEs predict behavioral health outcomes, yet most research on the impact of ACEs among justice-involved youth focuses on recidivism. The present study addresses this gap by examining the prospective association between ACEs and psychiatric symptoms, substance use, and substance-related problems (i.e., consequences of use) among first-time justice-involved youth.
methodFirst-time justice-involved youth (n = 271; 54.3% male; M age = 14.5 years; 43.5% Latinx; non-Latinx: 34.2% White, 8.6% Black, 7.1% Other, 6.7% Multiracial) and their caregivers were assessed at youth's first court contact and 4- and 12-month follow-ups. Youth and caregivers reported youth's exposure to ACEs through a series of instruments at baseline and 4-months (e.g., Childhood Trauma Questionnaire Short-Form; Traumatic Life Events Inventory). Primary outcomes included youth alcohol and cannabis use (Adolescent Risk Behavior Assessment), consequences of use (Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire; Brief Marijuana Consequences Scale), and psychiatric symptoms (Behavior Assessment System for Children; National Stressful Events Survey PTSD Short Scale).
resultsYouth were exposed to three ACEs, on average, prior to first justice contact (M = 3). Exposure to more ACEs, particularly abuse, predicted substance use and psychiatric outcomes. Gender differences emerged for cannabis use and internalizing symptoms.
conclusionsImplications for trauma-responsive juvenile justice reform are discussed, including screening for ACEs and their sequelae at first court contact and considering the role of masculine norms. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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