​This project aims to characterize parent-youth supportive communication in the daily lives of youth with high and low depression risk and examine its short-term impacts on daily youth emotions, using novel intensive longitudinal methods that capture conversations in real-time and in real-world settings. Findings from this innovative study will help to pinpoint strategies for improving supportive communication in daily life and inform family-focused interventions that can prevent adolescent depression.

Collaborator: Tim Brick, Ph.D. 

Study Enrollment for this study has closed.

This project tests a novel Shared Familial Acculturative Stress Model of Suicide risk among Latiné preteens, a group that has experienced the greatest increase in suicide deaths in the past 20 years, yet remains underrepresented in suicide research. Study findings will help elucidate risk pathways for suicidal ideation in Latiné preteens, identify specific developmentally informed and culturally responsive targets for future suicide interventions, and contribute to reducing ethnic disparities in suicide.  ​

Collaborator: Jocelyn Meza, Ph.D.

Study will enroll families in Los Angeles, CA