Research Projects
Current Research Projects
Raising the Standard of Care for Youth
With Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms with a School-Based Intervention
Our specific aim is to increase academic success and improve emotional and cognitive development in children who witness violence and develop posttraumatic stress symptoms. We are currently recruiting children who qualify from participating schools for a total of 50 children. Children will be between the ages of 10 and 13 years. The Stanford Cue-Centered Treatment Protocol is a short-term psychosocial treatment approach for children and adolescents who have been exposed to trauma. The manual is founded upon the principle that trauma exposure can cause cognitive, emotional, physiological, and behavioral symptoms, all of which interact with one another. Re-exposure to traumatic reminders (cues) can cause exacerbation of these symptoms.
Cue-centered therapy (CCT) is designed to address the four core domains impacted by trauma (cognition, behavior, emotions, and physiology) through a combination of empirically supported treatment components drawn from different therapeutic modalities. The manual integrates cognitive and behavioral interventions with other relaxation, supportive, insight-oriented, self-efficacy, psycho-education, and parental coaching methods.See Research Participation.
Past Research Projects
Brain Function in PTSD Study
The Brain Function in PTSD Study (Carrion, P.I.) examined the neurobehavioral characteristics of children and adolescents at-risk for PTSD using fMRI, physiological and behavioral measures of functioning
Intergenerational Transmission of Anxiety Study
The Intergenerational Transmission of Anxiety Study (Moore, P.I.) studied studied how mothers and kids get along together, and how anxiety can affect the relationship. Our study included mothers and children from both anxiety-affected families and families that do not have any anxiety. We measure behavior and physiology as mothers and children complete tasks and have conversations together. We hope to use the knowledge we gather from this study to help improve family-based treatments for childhood anxiety disorders. Contact Phoebe Moore, Ph.D. for more information.
The Transition to Parenting Project
The Transition to Parenting Project (P.I.s Ablow, Feldman, Huffman) was a longitudinal study designed to examine the predictive nature of first-time mothers’ prenatal psychological states and physiological reactivity to an infant cry and to their postnatal ratings of infant temperament. First-time mothers were invited in their third trimester of pregnancy to participate in a variety of tasks (watching a video, responding to questions about infant behavior, and participating in an interview about their childhood experiences) – Phase I. When their infants were 9 months old, data were collected on both mothers’ and infants’ physiological responses to a modified Separation-Reunion Episode and to reading a book together – Phase II.
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