Impact of a Firearm Safety Device Distribution Intervention on Storage Practices After an Emergent Mental Health Visit.

Objective: To determine if providing firearm storage devices with training during clinical care improves safe storage practices in household members of children who present to a pediatric hospital with an emergent mental health complaint.

Methods: Prospective, pre-post study. Enrollment occurred in the emergency department or the inpatient psychiatric unit.

Health Care Reform, Length of Stay, and Readmissions for Child Mental Health Hospitalizations.

Background: Health care reform may impact inpatient mental health services by increasing access and changing insurer incentives. We examined whether implementation of the 2014 Affordable Care Act (ACA) was associated with changes in psychiatric length of stay (LOS) and 30-day readmissions for pediatric patients.

Methods: We conducted an interrupted time-series analysis to evaluate LOS and 30-day readmissions during the 30 months before and 24 months after ACA implementation, with a 6-month wash-out period, on patients aged 4 to 17 years who were discharged from the psychiatry unit of a children's hospital.

Prospective Relations between Parents' Depressive Symptoms and Children's Attributional Style.

Children of parents with depression are at increased risk for developing psychopathology. The purpose of the current longitudinal study was to examine the dynamic relations between parents' depressive symptoms and children's cognitions, specifically their attributions for the causes of life events. Participants were 227 parent-child dyads with one parent ( = 42.

The Adolescent Behavioral Activation Program: Adapting Behavioral Activation as a Treatment for Depression in Adolescence.

This study aimed to examine implementation feasibility and initial treatment outcomes of a behavioral activation (BA) based treatment for adolescent depression, the Adolescent Behavioral Activation Program (A-BAP). A randomized, controlled trial was conducted with 60 clinically referred adolescents with a depressive disorder who were randomized to receive either 14 sessions of A-BAP or uncontrolled evidenced-based practice for depression. The urban sample was 64% female, predominantly Non-Hispanic White (67%), and had an average age of 14.

Longitudinal relations between stress and depressive symptoms in youth: coping as a mediator.

The present prospective study examined the relations among stressful life events, coping, and depressive symptoms in children at varied risk for depression. Participants were 227 children between 7 and 17 years old (mean age = 12.13 years, SD = 2.

Remission of depression in parents: links to healthy functioning in their children.

This study examined whether improvement in parents' depression was linked with changes in their children's depressive symptoms and functioning. Participants were 223 parents and children ranging in age from 7 to 17 years old (M = 12.13, SD =2.