Christopher D. Houck

Changing Adolescent Beliefs about the Malleability of Emotions to Reduce Risk Behaviors and Improve Mental Health

Christopher D. Houck

Background: Early adolescence is a key developmental period, in both the expansion of the Perception Box and engagement in health behaviors that can have lasting effects. Emotion regulation (ER) has a strong impact on these behaviors, including risk taking decisions (e.g., Wills …

Evaluation of an emotion regulation and healthy lifestyle program (HealthTRAC) for adolescents with obesity: a randomized controlled trial protocol

Wendy S. Hadley, David Barker, Christopher D. Houck, Alex Foster et autres

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Cluster analysis of caregiver and adolescent emotion regulation and its relation to sexual health and dating communication

Caroline Cummings, Katherine Shircliff, Alyssa J. Gatto, Christie J. Rizzo et autres

OBJECTIVE: Adolescent emotion regulation (ER) has been positively linked to caregiver-adolescent sexual communication. With ER becoming increasingly conceptualized as an interpersonal process, it is likely that both adolescent and caregiver ER impact communication patterns to some extent; thus, each must be accounted …

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Date SMART’s Impact on Aggression in System Involved Girls: Does Victimization Moderate Effects?

Elizabeth C. Tampke, David Barker, Miguel Nuñez, Crosby A. Modrowski et autres

Aggression and victimization increase negative outcomes for legal system involved girls. While aggression is often enacted against multiple targets (e.g. peers, dating partners), most interventions only target one violence type (e.g. teen dating violence [TDV]). However, TDV shares risk factors with other …

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Parent attitudes, comfort, and perceptions about dating violence: The moderating effect on son report of parent openness to communicate.

Anna Cecilia McWhirter, D. Franz, Jaclyn Bogner, Christopher D. Houck et autres

The Moderating Role of Poverty on Parenting, Family Climate, and Early Adolescent Emotion Regulation

Wendy S. Hadley, Anna Cecilia McWhirter, Daschel J. Franz, Jaclyn Bogner et autres

Among infants and children, family climate (e.g., warmth, cohesion, support) and parent emotion regulation (ER) modeling are found to shape ER development. Few studies have attended to this process during early adolescence, and most have neglected to examine the role of poverty, …

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Introduction to the Special Issue on Prevention: Trends in Prevention in Pediatric Psychology

Tiffany M. Rybak, Katie A. Devine, Christopher D. Houck

Prevention science is defined by minimizing or circumventing the emergence of illnesses and health risks associated with lifestyle choices (Institute of Medicine, 2002). Prevention work spans many aspects and can be categorized as primary (i.e., stopping the onset of illness/injury), secondary (i.e., …

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Resident-Driven Quality Improvement Project to Improve Treatment of Status Epilepticus (S4.007)

Christopher D. Houck, Joseph P. Alario, Micaela R. Owens, Joseph Seemiller

Objective: To establish interventions that address barriers to improve the treatment of status epilepticus (SE) at Geisinger Medical Center. Background: The American Epilepsy Society Guidelines recommend benzodiazepines (BZ) as first line treatment for seizures lasting greater than 5 minutes and loading antiseizure …

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Dating Violence Prevention for Juvenile-Justice Involved Females: A Hybrid Trial

Christie J. Rizzo, Charlene Collibee, David Barker, Christopher D. Houck et autres

OBJECTIVE: The primary objective of this hybrid I clinical trial of Date SMART (Date Skills to Manage Aggression in Relationships for Teens) was to reduce adolescent dating violence (ADV) among juvenile-justice involved females over 1 year. Secondary objectives were to determine if …

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Intervention impact on the perceived emotion regulation repertoire of adolescents at-risk for risky sexual behaviors.

Caroline Cummings, Amy Hughes Lansing, Wendy S. Hadley, Christopher D. Houck

= 420) participated in a 6-week emotion regulation and sexual health promotion randomized control trial. Adolescent-report measures of emotion regulation and problems with emotional awareness were collected. On average, adolescents used one additional strategy after completing the intervention; they endorsed using four …

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Sexting as a Predictor of First-Time Sexual Behavior Among At-Risk Early Adolescents

Jaclyn Bogner, Wendy S. Hadley, Daschel J. Franz, David Barker et autres

“Sexting” (electronic transmission of sexual pictures/messages) among early adolescents is associated with early sexual activity, a marker of increased sexual risk. The current study is a secondary analysis that examined the longitudinal relationship between sexting and first-time sex among a sample of …

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Perceived Strengths and Difficulties in Emotional Awareness and Accessing Emotion Regulation Strategies in Early Adolescents

Caroline Cummings, Amy Hughes Lansing, Christopher D. Houck

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