Publications

2024

López Jr., R., & Asarnow, J. R. (2024). Firearms and suicide risk: Implications for preventing mortality and morbidity among California’s youth [Policy brief]. UCLA  Center for Health Policy Research. https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/our- work/publications/youth-firearms-and-suicide-risk-2024

López Jr., R., & Esposito-Smythers, C. (2024). Problem orientation as a moderator of the relation between discrimination and passive suicidal ideation. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 17, 100792. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2024.100792

López Jr., R., Esposito-Smythers, C., Defayette, A. B., Harris, K. D., Seibel, L., & Whitmyre, E. D. (2024). Relations between discrimination, rejection sensitivity, negative affect, and decrements in problem-solving ability following social rejection: An experimental investigation. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 54(2), 233-249. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.13036

López Jr., R., Esposito-Smythers, C., Lee, P., Leichtweis, R. N., & Miller, I. W. (2024). Psychometric properties of the Modified Scale for Suicidal Ideation Self-Report Revised with high-risk adolescents. Behavior Therapy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2024.07.004

López Jr., R., Harris, K. M., Seibel, L., Thomas, S. C., Leichtweis, R. N., & Esposito-Smythers, C. (2023). Trajectories of adolescent suicidal ideation and depressive symptom severity during a partial hospital program: Clinical and demographic characteristics as predictors of change. Psychological Services, 21(3), 444-453. https://doi.org/10.1037/ser0000796

López Jr., R., Turnamian, M. R., & Liu, R. T. (2024). Prospective relations between life stress, emotional clarity, and suicidal ideation in an adolescent clinical sample.  Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. Advance online publication.  https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2024.2344735

Seibel, L. F., Harris, K. M., López Jr., R., Wolff, J., Spirito, A., & Esposito-Smythers, C. (2024). Perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness as mediators of the relation between anxiety and suicidal ideation among adolescents. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.13094

Whitmyre, E. D., Esposito-Smythers, C., López Jr., R., Goldberg, D. G., Liu, F., & Defayette, A. B. (2024). Implementation of measurement-based care in mental health service settings for youth: A systematic review. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10567-024-00498-z 

Whitmyre, E. D., Esposito-Smythers, C., Goldberg, D. G., Defayette, A. B., & López Jr., R. (2023). Impact of a virtual suicide safety planning training on clinician knowledge, self-efficacy, and use of a safety plans in community mental health clinics. Archives of Suicide Research, 28(1), 922-939. https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2023.2183163

2023

Defayette, A. B., Esposito-Smythers, C., Cero, I., Kleiman, E. M., López Jr., R., Harris, K. M., & Whitmyre, E. D. (2023). Examination of proinflammatory activity as a moderator of the relation between momentary interpersonal stress and suicidal ideation. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 53(6), 922-939. http://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12993

Defayette, A. B., Esposito-Smythers, C., Cero, I., Whitmyre, E. D., Harris, K. M., & López Jr., R. (2023). Interpersonal stress and proinflammatory activity in emerging adults with a history of suicide risk: A pilot study. Journal of Mood & Anxiety Disorders, 2, 100016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xjmad.2023.100016

López Jr., R., Esposito-Smythers, C., Defayette, A. B., Harris, K. M., Seibel, L. F., & Whitmyre, E. D. (2023). Facets of social problem-solving as moderators of the real-time relation between social rejection and negative affect in an at-risk sample. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 169, 104398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2023.104398

López Jr., R., Maultsby, K., Seibel, L. F., & Esposito-Smythers, C. (2023). Fluidity of sexual orientation and factors that influence suicide among youth and young adults: A narrative review of longitudinal studies. the Behavior Therapist, 46(1), 16-23. http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.20913.66405/1

Maultsby, K., López Jr., R., Wolff, J., Spirito, A., & Esposito-Smythers, C. (2023). Longitudinal relations between parenting practices and adolescent suicidal ideation in a high-risk clinical sample: A moderated mediation model. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 51, 613–623. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-022-01018-9

*Poon, J., *López Jr., R., Marie-Shae, L., & Liu, R. T. (2023). Longitudinal relations between childhood maltreatment, emotion regulation difficulties, and suicidal ideation and non-suicidal self-injury: An 18-month investigation of high-risk adolescents. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 51, 1315-1326. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-023-01067-8

Whitmyre, E. D., Esposito-Smythers, C., Goldberg, D. G., Scalzo, G., Defayette, A. B., & López Jr., R. (2023). Implementation of an electronic safety plan within a measurement feedback system. Evidence-Based Practice in Child & Adolescent Mental Health, 8(4), 541-548. https://doi.org/10.1080/23794925.2022.2081946

2022

López Jr., R., Defayette, A. B., Whitmyre, E. D., Williams, C. A., & Esposito-Smythers, C. (2022). Posttraumatic stress disorder symptom clusters, suicidal ideation, and social support in a clinical adolescent sample. Death Studies, 46(8), 1814-1822. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2020.1852629

*López Jr., R., *Gonçalves, S. F., Poon, J. A., Ansell, E. B., Esposito-Smythers, C., & Chaplin, T. M. (2022). Sexual identity and its association with trajectories of depressive symptoms and emotion regulation difficulties from early to middle adolescence. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 53, 1062-1074. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-021-01188-5

López Jr., R., Maultsby, K., Defayette, A. B., Whitmyre, E. D., Wolff, J., Spirito, A., & Esposito-Smythers, C. (2022). A prospective investigation of the relation between dysfunctional family communication and suicidal ideation severity in a clinical adolescent sample: A serial mediation model. Journal of Affective Disorders, 310, 241-248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.05.021

2021

Defayette, A. B., Whitmyre, E. D., López Jr., R., Brown, B., Wolff, J. C., Spirito, A., & Esposito-Smythers, C. (2021). Adolescent depressed mood and difficulties with emotion regulation: Concurrent trajectories of change. Journal of Adolescence, 91, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2021.07.001

Gonçalves, S. F., Chaplin, T. M., López Jr., R., Regalario, I. M., McKnight, P. E., Stults- Kolehmainen, M., Sinha, R., & Ansel, E. B. (2021). High frequency heart rate variability and emotion-driven impulse control difficulties during adolescence: Examining experienced and expressed negative emotion as moderators. Journal of Early Adolescence, 41(8), 1151-1176. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431620983453

López Jr., R., Follet, L., Defayette, A. B., Whitmyre, E.D., Wolff, J., Spirito, A., & Esposito-Smythers, C. (2021). Depression-related emotional problems mediate the relation between hopelessness and suicidal ideation severity. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 77(12), 2978-2993. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23236

2020

López Jr., R., Brick, L. A., Defayette, A. B., Whitmyre, E.D., Wolff, J., Frazier, E., Spirito, A., & Esposito-Smythers, C. (2020). Depressive symptom severity mediates the association between avoidant problem-solving style and suicidal ideation. Journal of Affective Disorders, 274, 662-670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.05.120