Corianna Sichel
Columbia University, NY·Psychology·Early-career
Young people in the juvenile justice system have experienced trauma at very high rates. When posttraumatic stress (PTS) goes untreated, it can lead to posttraumatic stress disorder, suicidal behavior, self-injury and deeper involvement with the justice system.
- Fields
Psychology
Public Health & Epidemiology
Social Science
- Topics
juvenile justice
youth on probation
posttraumatic stress
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Dec 2027
What they work on
- 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.
- Develop T-Connect, a brief family-based intervention built into probation procedures, using community-engaged methods to link youth to trauma care and boost youth and caregiver motivation for treatment.
- Evaluate T-Connect in a randomized trial comparing youth on probation who receive it with youth receiving services as usual.
More about the research
More of these youth now live at home on probation rather than in detention. Effective trauma treatments exist in the community, but youth on probation often never receive them. Barriers include poor coordination between justice and mental health systems, long waitlists, missed referrals, caregivers who downplay problems, and youth who distrust providers.
Why it matters
Youth on probation who have trauma symptoms face a high risk of PTSD, suicidal behavior and further justice involvement, yet often fail to reach treatment. T-Connect could give probation systems a practical way to link these youth and their families to trauma-focused care in the community.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Michael Lindsey
New York University, NY·Psychology
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.
Saltanat Childress
University of Texas at Arlington, TX·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Adapt three evidence-based programs, Multiple Family Groups, School Children and Their Families, and financial economic empowerment, to the culture and needs of families in Kyrgyzstan using a community-engaged approach with local partners.
Camille Quinn
University of Michigan, MI·Psychology
Identify barriers to and facilitators of taking part in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) among justice-involved adolescents and caregivers, using interviews and surveys with 10 adolescent–caregiver pairs, and adapt the program accordingly.
The school
Columbia University: 89 labs on PI Pages, $1.4B a year on research, 625 research doctorates a year.
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