Clinical Trainee Perspectives on the Implementation of Trauma-Focused Training.

Objective: Despite the high prevalence of trauma exposure in the United States and calls for the implementation of trauma-focused psychotherapy training, scant opportunities exist for such training in graduate clinical psychology programs. This study aimed to guide the implementation of trauma-focused psychotherapy training in graduate curricula by examining clinical trainees' perspectives on their current training and desired features for trauma-specific learning environments. The absence of research that centers trainee voices is notable; therefore, this study specifically focuses on trainee perspectives on implementation.

Validation of Parenting Your Baby and Parenting Your Toddler and Associations with Engagement in Parenting Intervention.

Infants and toddlers are dependent on supportive and nurturing parenting to promote optimal child development. Assessments of parenting can identify need for parenting intervention, however measures are needed that can predict whether parents reporting challenges will engage in intervention. We validated the Parenting Your Baby (PYB) and Parenting Your Toddler (PYT) parenting measures and examined associations with engagement in parenting intervention.

Compensatory effects of maternal and paternal supportive parenting in early childhood on children's school-age adjustment.

Both maternal and paternal supportive parenting (i.e., sensitivity, warmth, stimulation, and engagement) across early childhood have been found to be associated with multiple domains of children's positive socioemotional functioning.

Temperament and Symptom Pathways to the Development of Adolescent Depression.

This study examined the associations between internalizing and externalizing symptoms during early adolescence and the subsequent development of Major Depressive Disorder. The role that temperament plays in predisposing individuals to these particular pathways was also examined. Temperament at approximately age 12 was used to produce a risk-enriched subsample of 243 (124 female) participants.

Self-implemented HIV testing: perspectives on improving dissemination among urban African American youths.

We examined the potential for increasing the reach of HIV testing to African American youths through the dissemination of oral-HIV testing. From 2012 through 2013 we examined the perceptions of alternatives to pharmacy dissemination of SITs in African American youths (5 focus groups) and service providers (4 focus groups), and conducted an ethnographic study of pharmacies (n = 10). Participants perceived significant advantages to delivering SITs through community health and services for adolescents (e.