Maggi PriceBoston College | BC · School of Social Work
Maggi Price
PhD
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Objective: Transgender adolescents experience adversity accessing mental healthcare, which is exacerbated by transgender-specific mental health provider shortages in the United States. Factors associated with variability in transgender-specific mental health provider availability across states – especially at the macro-social level – have yet to be...
Stigma refers to societally-deemed inferiority associated with a circumstance, behavior, status, or identity. It manifests internally, interpersonally, and structurally. Decades of research indicate that all forms of stigma are associated with heightened risk for mental health problems (e.g., depression, PTSD, suicidality) in stigmatized youth (i.e...
Objective: Transgender adolescents experience adversity accessing mental healthcare, which is exacerbated by transgender-specific mental health provider shortages in the United States. Factors associated with variability in transgender-specific mental health provider availability across states—especially at the macro-social level—have yet to be ide...
Asian American (AsA) youth comprise a large and fast-growing proportion of the U. S. population. AsA youth have comparable and sometimes higher rates of mental health concerns compared to White youth, but are significantly less likely to access mental health services. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) was originally designed by and for White and W...
Many youth with mental health needs cannot access treatment, with multiply-marginalized youth, such as sexual minority youth of Color (SMYoC), experiencing both structural and identity-related barriers to care. The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to exacerbate multi-level treatment access barriers facing SMYoC youth nationwide. However, little large-sc...
Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) adolescents and their caregivers have highlighted the dearth of providers trained in gender-affirming practices as a critical treatment barrier, yet little is known about their specific experiences in mental health therapy. The present study sought to elucidate these experiences. Qualitative description was empl...
Background: Relative to cisgender adolescents, transgender adolescents experience greater interpersonal trauma, depression, and suicidality. Structural transphobia (societal conditions constraining transgender people’s rights/wellbeing) may exacerbate associations between trauma and poor mental health for this group. Indeed, a recent study found mo...
We examined whether cultural sexism (county- and state-level sexist attitudes) moderates the efficacy of psychotherapies by re-analyzing data from a previous meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of youth psychotherapy for the most commonly targeted problems (depression, anxiety, conduct, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; 2,698 effe...
Transgender and gender diverse youth (TGD youth; i.e., children and adolescents who do not identify with their birth-assigned sex) face a variety of traumas and adversities, including those explicit to their gender identity and/or expression (hereafter “gender”; e.g., gender-related victimization, caregiver rejection). However, few studies or clini...
We examined whether cultural sexism (county- and state-level gender attitudes) moderates the efficacy of psychotherapies by re-analyzing data from a previous meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of youth psychotherapy for the most commonly targeted problems (depression, anxiety, conduct, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; 2,698 effe...
Objective
We examined whether anti-Black cultural racism moderates the efficacy of psychotherapy interventions among youth.
Method
We analyzed a subset of studies from a previous meta-analysis of five decades of youth psychotherapy randomized controlled trials. Studies were published in English between 1963 and 2017 and identified through a system...
Transgender and gender diverse youth (TGD youth; i.e., children and adolescents who do not identify with their birth-assigned sex) face a variety of traumas and adversities, including those explicit to their gender identity and/or expression (hereafter “gender”; e.g., gender-related victimization, caregiver rejection). However, few studies or clini...
Objective: Many youth with mental health needs cannot access treatment, with multiply-marginalized youth, such as sexual minority youth of Color (SMYoC), experiencing both structural and identity-related barriers to care. The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to exacerbate multi-level treatment access barriers facing SMYoC youth nationwide. However, litt...
Asian American (AsA) youth comprise a large and fast-growing proportion of the U. S. population. AsA youth have comparable, and in some cases higher, rates of mental health concerns compared to White youth, but are significantly less likely to utilize mental health services. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), although originally designed by and fo...
Research consistently links internalizing/externalizing symptomatology in Black youth to discrimination (Benner et al., 2018), with a near exclusive focus on interpersonal racism (Williams, 2018). Despite recent calls (Trent et al., 2019), few studies have explored anti-Black racism at the macro level, including if and how cultural racism (i.e., a...
Objective: Mounting evidence indicates that transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth experience significant mental health inequities and poorer psychotherapy outcomes relative to cisgender youth (Hollinsaid et al., 2020). Emerging research suggests that this may be partially attributable to structural transphobia (i.e., discriminatory state laws/...
Introduction: Schools have become a primary setting for providing mental health care to youths in the U.S. School-based interventions have proliferated, but their effects on mental health and academic outcomes remain understudied. In this study we will implement and evaluate the effects of a flexible multidiagnostic treatment called Modular Approac...
Gay men experience violence at disproportionate rates. This disparity is driven by state-sanctioned structural violence, homophobia, and problematic masculine norms. The present chapter reviews the historical legacies of violence against gay men and provides an overview of research on current prevalence rates. The authors introduce multiple theoret...
We examined whether cultural sexism (county- and state-level gender attitudes) moderates the efficacy of psychotherapies by re-analyzing data from a previous meta-analysis of youth psychotherapy randomized controlled trials (4,233 effect sizes (ESs) from 319 studies; N=20,513; ages 4-18). Higher cultural sexism was associated with lower ESs for stu...
Objective: The study examined whether cultural racism moderates the efficacy of psychotherapy interventions among youth.Method: We analyzed a subset of studies from a previous meta-analysis of five decades of youth psychotherapy randomized controlled trials. Studies were published in English between 1963 and 2017 and identified through a systematic...
Objective: Gender minority youth (i.e., children/adolescents whose gender identity and/or expression is inconsistent with their birth-assigned sex) experience elevated rates of emotional and behavioral problems relative to cisgender youth (who identify with their birth-assigned sex), which are not intrinsic to gender identity but attributable to un...
Gender minority (GM) youths’ risk for mental health problems is partially attributable to barriers they face accessing appropriate mental health services. GM youths and their caregivers have highlighted the dearth of providers trained in gender-affirming care as a
critical barrier to treatment access and engagement. Provider-focused training is a p...
Relative to their cisgender peers, gender minority (GM) adolescents—whose
gender identity and/or expression differs from their birth-assigned sex (Turban & Ehrensaft, 2018)—are at elevated risk for internalizing psychopathology (Becerra-Culqui et al., 2018). This disparity may be partially attributable to their exposure to adverse childhood experie...
[In press in Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health]
Despite great advancements in the development of evidence-based treatments (EBTs) for youth mental health problems, few EBTs have been adopted by or successfully implemented in schools. This is of concern, as schools are the most common entry point for youth mental health...
Objective: Gender minority youth (i.e., children/adolescents whose gender identity and/or expression is inconsistent with their birth-assigned sex) experience elevated rates of emotional and behavioral problems relative to cisgender youth (who identify with their birth-assigned sex), which are not intrinsic to gender identity but attributable to un...
Purpose: Gender minority (GM) adolescents’ risk for mental health problems is partially attributable to barriers they face accessing and engaging in mental health services. GM adolescents and their caregivers have highlighted the dearth of providers trained in gender affirming care as a critical treatment barrier, yet little is known about their sp...
Published in: The Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision
Counselors frequently receive their initial training about the dynamics of race and culture in the counseling process in didactic group settings, such as multicultural courses and experiential skills- building labs. Whereas multicultural and diversity courses reportedly have been g...
The negative impact of discrimination on adolescent mental health is well established, but less is known about the effects of identity-based bullying (i.e., verbal or physical assaults targeting identity(ies)). The current study examined the impact of identity-based victimization (i.e., everyday discrimination and identity-based bullying) on mental...
Introduction
Growing evidence indicates that identity‐based victimization (IBV; e.g., discrimination) is traumatic, and associated with mental health and academic concerns. Youth with multiple stigmatized identities face a higher risk of both victimization and poor mental health. The current study enhances a growing research base on intersectional...
The present study examined the effectiveness and acceptability of a modular youth psychotherapy across cisgender and gender minority youths.
The present chapter focuses on the myriad ways young people are victimized for exhibiting gender nonconformity. First, the gender socialization process and the roles of parents and peers are discussed. Subsequent sections focus on the nature of discrimination and victimization motivated by gender nonconformity, and the particularly high risk of gen...
Over the past 20 years, there has been ongoing interest in the concepts of complex trauma and emerging adulthood. Building upon the principles of developmental psychopathology, the authors attempt to inform the creation of developmentally sensitive, evidence-based clinical practice by integrating these two areas of scholarship. After defining the c...
School context serves as a testing ground for exploring social relationships and satisfying needs for connection and affirmation, but often includes feelings of rejection. With a diverse high school sample (n = 645; 55% female; 61% White, 18% African American, 10% Latino, 10% Asian American, 1% Multiracial), patterns of experiences with marginaliza...
In contrast to the focus on short-term, extrinsic goals in our society (e.g., wealth, prestige), positive youth development scholars have highlighted the need for parents and schools to help youths cultivate and plan for long-term, intrinsic, and meaningful goals (i.e., envisioning a meaningful future), arguing that envisioning a meaningful future...
In the context of widespread media coverage of economic problems, un- and under-employment, and overwhelming student loan debt, youth are making sense of the prospects of getting a job and value of education. Further, they are assessing the implications of the job market in curtailing or enhancing their future success. School-based and familial rel...
Emerging research suggests that Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy (EFP) may be beneficial for traumatized youth. In addition, complex trauma (i.e., multiple and/or prolonged developmentally adverse traumatic events which are typically interpersonal in nature) treatment research is still growing and there is a need for the development and examination...
Examination of novel treatment for complexly trau- matized youth, in particular, those exposed to preverbal trau- ma, is necessary given challenges associated with effective intervention for this population. Therapies that facilitate so- matic regulation have demonstrated benefit for some trauma survivors. The current article briefly reviews the em...
Examination of novel treatment for complexly traumatized youth, in particular, those exposed to preverbal trauma, is necessary given challenges associated with effective intervention for this population. Therapies that facilitate somatic regulation have demonstrated benefit for some trauma survivors. The current article briefly reviews the emerging...
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Background:
Yoga has been found to be an effective posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment for a variety of trauma survivors, including females with chronic PTSD. Aim/Purpose: The current study builds on extant research by examining an extended trauma-sensitive yoga treatment for women with chronic PTSD. The study sought to optimize the res...
The present study sought to gain a better understanding of cyber bullying (i.e., the use of information technologies to inflict harm on another person) by examining its prevalence, its relationship with traditional bullying, and the relationship between bullying, anxiety, and depression in a sample of rural and ethnoracially diverse youth (N = 211;...
This study examined the psychometric properties of the DSM-oriented scales of the Child Behavior Checklist (Achenbach, Dumenci, & Rescorla, 2003) using confirmatory factor analysis to compare the six-factor structure of the DSM-oriented scales to competing models consistent with developmental theories of symptom differentiation. We tested these mod...