The Center for Children and Families (CCF) is a multidisciplinary center committed to improving the lives of children, parents and families struggling with mental health concerns.

Our mission is to improve the lives of children and families struggling with mental health concerns by:
  • Advancing evidence-based knowledge of the causes, mechanisms, outcomes, and interventions for mental health and learning problems of youth
  • Promoting the development of effective treatments services to children and families in South Florida
  • Disseminating knowledge to students, consumers, and professionals in mental health, education and primary care

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Submissions from 2022

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Remote Data Collection During a Pandemic: A New Approach for Assessing and Coding Multisensory Attention Skills in Infants and Young Children, Bret Eschman, James Torrence Todd, Elizabeth V. Edgar, and Amin Sarafraz

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The Impact of COVID-19 Experiences on Adolescent Internalizing Problems and Substance Use Among a Predominantly Latinx Sample, Elisa M. Trucco, Nilofar Fallah-Sohy, Sarah A. Hartmann, and Julie V. Cristello

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Riesgo Y Resilienca: Exploring the Role of Parenting Stress and Self-efficacy on Young Latino Children's Well-being and Home Learning Experiences during COVID-19, Katherine A. Zambrana and Katie C. Hart

Submissions from 2021

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Rebooting Mental Health Care Delivery for the COVID-19 Pandemic (and Beyond): Guiding Cautions as Telehealth Enters the Clinical Mainstream, Jonathan Comer

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COVID-19 and the Acceleration of Behavioral Parent Training Telehealth: Current Status and Future Directions, Jonathan S. Comer, Juliana Acosta, Justin Parent, and Alexandra D. W. Sullivan

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Child maltreatment in the time of COVID-19: Changes in the Florida foster care system surrounding the COVID-19 safer-at-home order, Erica D. Musser, Cameron Riopelle, and Robert Latham

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A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic, Erica Musser, Amit Goldenberg, Charles A. Dorison, and Ke Wang

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Longitudinal transactional relationships between caregiver and child mental health during the COVID-19 global pandemic, Emily L. Robertson, Jennifer Piscitello, Ellyn Schmidt, and Carolina Mallar

Submissions from 2020

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Leveraging Parent–Child Interaction Therapy and Telehealth Capacities to Address the Unique Needs of Young Children During the COVID-19 Public Health Crisis, Robin H. Gurwitch, Hanan Salem, Melanie M. Nelson, and Johnathan S. Comer

Submissions from 2019

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Inhibitory Control and Information Processing in ADHD: Comparing the Dual Task and Performance Adjustment Hypotheses, Whitney D. Fosco, Michael J. Kofler, R. Matt Alderson, Stephanie J. Tarle, Joseph S. Raiker, and Dustin E. Sarver

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Mind the gap: A review and recommendations for statistically evaluating Dual Systems models of adolescent risk behavior, Samuel N. Meisel, Whitney D. Fosco, Larry W. Hawk, and Craig R. Colder

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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: An integrated developmental psychopathology and Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) approach, Erica Musser and Joseph S. Raiker

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Decision-Making as a Latent Construct and its Measurement Invariance in a Large Sample of Adolescent Cannabis Users, Ileana Pacheco-Colon, Samuel W. Hawes, Jacqueline C. Duperrouzel, Catalina Lopez-Quintero, and Raul Gonzalez

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The structure of cognition in 9 and 10 year-old children and associations with problem behaviors: Findings from the ABCD study’s baseline neurocognitive battery, Wesley K. Thompson, Deanna M. Barch, James M. Bjork, Raul Gonzalez, Bonnie J. Nagel, Sara Jo Nixon, and Monica Luciana

Submissions from 2014

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Dynamic treatment regimes: Technical challenges and applications, Eric B. Laber, Daniel J. Lizotte, Min Qian, William E. Pelham, and Susan A. Murphy

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Rejoinder of “Dynamic treatment regimes: Technical challenges and applications", Eric B. Laber, Daniel J. Lizotte, Min Qian, William Pelham, and Susan A. Murphy