Grants
Parents and Children Together- St. Louis (PACT-STL)
Trish Kohl, PhD; Vision for Children
The purpose of PACT-STL is to develop, implement, and evaluate strategies that prevent child maltreatment, reduce entry into the public child welfare system, and enhance the overall well-being outcomes of children and families. Funded through Vision for Children at Risk, Trish Kohl brings together grant partners, community service providers, family assistance programs, and healthcare organizations.
Promoting Emotional Development Among Young Children Facing Adversity: An Effectiveness Implementation Study in St. Louis Schools
Joan Luby, MD; Trish Kohl, PhD
THRIVE is a brief parent-child prevention designed to enhance positive parenting skills and reduce negative child mental health outcomes. It is a brief, coached-based, early prevention for children ages 3-7 inspired by Parent Child Interaction Therapy – Emotional Development (PCIT-ED). This prevention utilizes evidence-based techniques shown to foster positive early child development. THRIVE has helped schools and families in the past reduce externalizing behaviors, increase positive peer relationships, and improve caregiver attitudes.
St. Louis Project LAUNCH
Nikole Lobb Dougherty, MA; Trish Kohl, PhD
The purpose of St. Louis Project LAUNCH is to promote the well-being of young children, from birth to 8 years of age, by addressing the social, emotional, cognitive, physical, and behavioral aspects of their development. The project will build on a previous project – Missouri Project LAUNCH to expand the geographic impact from two ZIP codes to all 18 ZIP codes in St. Louis City.
Publications
Reducing Abuse and Neglect Recurrence Among Young Foster Children Reunified With Their Families
John N. Constantino, MD; Gretchen Buchanan, PhD; Mini Tandon, DO; Carol Bander, JD; Melissa Jonson Reid, PhD
Pediatrics (2023) 152 (3): e2022060118.
https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2022-060118
Improving child behavior through parent training in child welfare services: A mixed-methods study of families receiving in-home services
Patricia L. Kohl, Allison Dunnigan, Lara Markovitz, Megan Feely, Ericka M. Lewis, Kristen D. Seay, Paul Lanier, Nicole Fedoravicius, Wendy Auslander, Shenyang Guo, Melissa Jonson-Reid
Children and Services Review (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107269
Early emotion development intervention improves mental health outcomes in low-income, high-risk community children
Laura Hennefield, Allison Dunnigan, Meghan Rose Donohue, Rebecca Tillman, Art McCoy, Gwendolyn Diggs, Patricia L. Kohl, Joan Luby
Child Psychiatry and Human Development (In press)
Maternal prenatal social disadvantage and neonatal functional connectivity: Associations with psychopathology symptoms at age 12 months
Max P. Herzberg, Ashley N. Nielsen, Rebecca Brady, Sydney Kaplan, Dimitrious Alexopoulous, Dominique Meyer, Jyoti Arora, Phillip J. Miller, Tara A. Smyser, Deanna M. Barch, Cynthia E. Rogers, Barbara B. Warner, Christopher D. Smyser, Joan L. Luby
Developmental Psychology