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Transdiagnostic
Symposia

Symposium 30 - Lessons Learned from and Future Directions for Community-Engaged Youth Mental Health Research

Friday, November 15, 2024
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Location: Congress C, Fourth Floor, Loews Hotel
CE: 1.5

Keywords: Community-Based, Child, Implementation
Level of Familiarity: All
Recommended Readings: Marchette, L. K., & Weisz, J. R. (2017). Practitioner Review: Empirical evolution of youth psychotherapy toward transdiagnostic approaches. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 58(9), 970–984. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12747,  

Pachankis, J. E., Soulliard, Z. A., Morris, F., & Seager van Dyk, I. (2023). A Model for Adapting Evidence-Based Interventions to Be LGBQ-Affirmative: Putting Minority Stress Principles and Case Conceptualization Into Clinical Research and Practice. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 30(1), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpra.2021.11.005

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Meyer, A. E., Rodriguez-Quintana, N., Miner, K., Bilek, E. L., Vichich, J., Smith, S. N., & Koschmann, E. (2022). Developing a statewide network of coaches to support youth access to evidence-based practices. Implementation Research and Practice, 3. https://doi.org/10.1177/26334895221101215

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Bailin, A., Cho, E., Sternberg, A., Evans, S. C., Hollinsaid, N. L., Bearman, S. K., & Weisz, J. R. (2023). Principle-Guided Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents (FIRST): Study protocol for a randomized controlled effectiveness trial in outpatient clinics. Trials, 24(1), 682. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-023-07717-y

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Goger, P., Rozenman, M., Gonzalez, A., Brent, D. A., Porta, G., Lynch, F. L., Dickerson, J. F., & Weersing, V. R. (2023). Early indicators of response to transdiagnostic treatment of pediatric anxiety and depression. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64(12), 1689–1698. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13881

Many single domain CBT interventions have been developed for youth emotional disorders (e.g., anxiety, depression, trauma), but few have been successfully adopted into community settings where youth most commonly receive care (e.g., community mental health, school settings). Poor implementation and effectiveness of single domain interventions in community settings may be explained in part by high rates of problem complexity among youth in these settings, as well as by a range of clinician, organizational, and socio-contextual factors often overlooked in efficacy research. Transdiagnostic, modular, and principle-based interventions allow clinicians to target multiple symptom domains simultaneously and flexibly select intervention content for a given client without straying from the intervention, thereby addressing some limitations of single domain approaches. Still, more efforts are needed to broaden the reach of transdiagnostic and related interventions to community settings and ensure that these interventions meet the needs of the clients, caregivers, clinicians, and agencies involved in youth mental health care.
This symposium will feature five presentations of novel research on a variety of transdiagnostic CBT interventions for youth being conducted in community settings. The presentations will span across a range of stages of intervention development and testing, including pilot qualitative evaluation, ongoing implementation and sustainment efforts, and primary outcomes from randomized controlled effectiveness trials. The overarching focus will be lessons learned from community-engaged research and future directions to increase community involvement and improve youth outcomes.
Presenter 1 will describe a cultural adaptation of a transdiagnostic intervention for LGBTQ+ youth and present pilot qualitative data from focus groups with youth, caregivers, and community organizations, which are used to inform future intervention adaptations. Presenter 2 will describe an ongoing community partnership with U.S. public schools designed to increase youths’ access to CBT through training of school mental health providers. Presenter 3 will describe a principle-based intervention developed in collaboration with community providers and implemented in community mental health centers in an ongoing randomized effectiveness trial. Presenter 4 will present data from a recently completed randomized controlled trial examining processes of change within a transdiagnostic intervention for youth emotional disorders, highlighting the importance of engaging caregivers in youth mental health treatment to support youths’ treatment engagement and response. Presenter 5 will present primary outcomes of a recently completed randomized trial comparing the effectiveness of a transdiagnostic emotion-focused intervention and a measurement feedback system to treatment as usual for youth in community mental health centers, with a focus on future directions for tailoring interventions to the community mental health setting to improve uptake and sustainment. An expert discussant will summarize the talks and provide closing remarks about future directions for community-engaged youth mental health research.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this session, the learner will be able to:
  1. Discuss the theoretical rationale and practical benefits of transdiagnostic, modular, and principle-based treatment approaches.
  2. Describe the applicability of transdiagnostic, modular, and principle-based approaches to youth emotional disorders.
  3. Identify key factors influencing the adoption of transdiagnostic, modular, and principle-based interventions in community settings.
  4. Describe approaches to tailoring transdiagnostic, modular, and principle-based interventions to youths’ cultures and contexts.
  5. Discuss strategies to increase community-engaged intervention development, implementation, and outcome evaluation.

Presentations:

  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST
    (SYM 30) Affirmative CBT for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth: Feedback from Pilot Studies in the US and New Zealand

    Speaker: Ilana Seager van Dyk, PhD – Massey University

    Co-author: Eric K. Layland, Ph.D. (he/they) – University of Delaware

    Co-author: Zachary Soulliard, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – Miami University

    Co-author: John E. Pachankis, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – Yale School of Public Health

  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST
    (SYM 30) Transforming Research into Action: Preliminary Outcomes of TRAILS Implementation in a Large Urban School District

    Speaker: Mario Mercado Diaz, D. Phil. (they/them/theirs) – Trails to Wellness

    Co-author: Emily Bilek, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – TRAILS

    Co-author: Tyler Hein, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – TRAILS

    Co-author: Robin Jacob, PhD – University of Michigan

    Co-author: Natalie Rodriguez Quintana, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – TRAILS

  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST
    (SYM 30) Youth FIRST: Lessons from Community Co-design and a Hybrid Effectiveness-implementation Trial

    Speaker: Sarah Kate Bearman, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – University of Texas at Austin

    Co-author: Abby Bailin, Ph.D. – The University of Texas at Austin

    Co-author: Evelyn Cho, Ph.D. – Harvard University

    Co-author: Ariel Sternberg, Ph.D. – Harvard University

    Co-author: John R. Weisz, ABPP, Ph.D. – Harvard University

  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST
    (SYM 30) Process-outcome Relationships in Transdiagnostic Brief Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety and Depression in Youth

    Speaker: V. Robin Weersing, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – SDSU-UC San Diego JDP in Clinical Psychology

    Co-author: Pauline Goger, PhD (she/her/hers) – SDSU-UC San Diego JDP in Clinical Psychology

    Co-author: Melissa Escobar, MA (she/her/hers) – Montclair State University

    Co-author: Francesca E. Rodriguez, B.A. – San Diego State University

    Co-author: Michelle Rozenman, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – University of Denver

    Co-author: Araceli Gonzalez, Ph.D. – California State University Long Beach

  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST
    (SYM 30) Primary Outcomes from the Community Study of Outcome Monitoring for Emotional Disorders in Teens: A Randomized Trial of a Transdiagnostic Treatment and a Measurement Feedback System in Community Clinics

    Speaker: Lauren Milgram, B.A. (she/her/hers) – University of Miami

    Co-author: David Rosenfield, Ph.D. – Southern Methodist University

    Co-author: Golda Ginsburg, PhD – University of Connecticut School of medicine

    Co-author: Amanda Jensen-Doss, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – University of Miami

    Co-author: Jill Ehrenreich-May, Ph.D. – University of Miami