Michael Lindsey
New York University, NY·Psychology
Many young people in crisis never receive the mental health care they need, and children exposed to repeated abuse or neglect face lasting harm. Two clinical trials ask whether better-designed services can change that for two high-risk groups: Black adolescents at risk for suicide, and mothers in the child welfare system who have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
- Fields
Psychology
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
- Topics
youth suicide prevention
suicide risk screening
Black adolescents
- Grants
- 2 known grants, through Jun 2027
What they work on
- Test whether WeCare, which pairs suicide risk screening with linkage to mental health services, reduces suicidal ideation and behavior in a randomized trial of 2,200 Black youth aged 12–17 from two New York City emergency departments.
- Assess perspectives of youth, parents, clinicians, support staff and administrators using implementation science frameworks to determine WeCare's barriers, acceptability and adaptations, and build a manual, training protocol and fidelity assessment.
- Examine whether WeCare's effects vary by sex, sexual minority status, age and baseline suicidality, and conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis to inform implementation.
- Compare P-STAIR, a parenting-focused PTSD treatment, with supportive counseling for reducing PTSD and depression symptoms among child welfare–involved mothers.
- Test whether P-STAIR improves observed parenting behaviors and reduces confirmed repeat child maltreatment relative to supportive counseling.
More about the research
Both test interventions in real New York City service settings and measure outcomes families care about.
Why it matters
WeCare could help emergency departments identify Black youth at risk for suicide and connect them to care, potentially reducing suicidal thoughts and behavior, and would leave behind a clinician training package. If effective, P-STAIR could give child welfare agencies a treatment for mothers with PTSD that lowers repeat maltreatment, improving outcomes for children and families and reducing stigma for mothers.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Corianna Sichel
Columbia University, NY·Psychology·Early-career
Conduct formative research with justice-involved youth who have posttraumatic stress, their caregivers, probation staff and community trauma providers, to identify barriers to trauma treatment.
Tatiana Davidson
Medical University of South Carolina, SC·Psychology
Test whether the Trauma Resilience and Recovery Program, a stepped-care model with text-message symptom tracking, improves quality of life and emotional recovery in 300 injured adolescents aged 12–17.
Leslie Adams
Stanford University, CA·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Modify an existing smartphone digital phenotyping protocol, combining ecological momentary assessment surveys with passive GPS and accelerometer data, so it is appropriate for Black youth.
The school
New York University: 72 labs on PI Pages, $1.5B a year on research, 540 research doctorates a year.
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