Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a clinical issue that has gained increased awareness and research in recent years. However, the majority of the research has focused on self-report data in adolescent populations. To date, there have been only a few studies examining objective …
Managing mental health in children is complex as many factors can trigger emotions on an inpatient unit. Violence and aggression are common issues for the child and adolescent psychiatric inpatient units due to difficulty with verbalizing and processing their feelings. Verbal de…
Recent studies suggest that difficulties in emotion regulation (ER) or emotion dysregulation (ED) mediate the association between trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in adults and adolescents. However, elucidating how the specific facets of emotion dysregula…
Psychiatric inpatient admissions are costly to the healthcare system and burdensome to patients but are considered by providers and patients to be a necessary intervention in situations of severe acute psychiatric crisis. As a necessary intervention, it is beneficial to understa…
Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity (NGRI) acquittees uniquely walk the line of involvement in both the criminal justice and mental health systems, both of which have literature indicating the presence of underlying racial biases related to practices and outcomes. The current study…