Professor of Psychiatry; Professor of Psychology (By Courtesy)
About
My research program, the Youth and Young Adult Depression and Suicide Prevention Research Program, focuses on the development and improvement of evidence-based screening tools, risk assessment strategies, and psychosocial interventions for suicidal adolescents and young adults. I am currently leading a large-scale NIMH-funded study that will develop and validate a personalized and adaptive youth suicide risk screening tool for use in medical emergency departments. This collaborative study involves 13 emergency departments from the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Applied Research Network (PECARN) in addition to an Indian Health Service Hospital. I am also leading two intervention studies. One is an NIMH-funded study, involving four universities, examining the efficacy of Electronic Bridge to Mental Health for College Students (eBridge), an online personalized suicide risk screening tool with optional online counseling ( based on motivational interviewing principles). The other is a CDC-funded study examining a mentorship intervention for youth, ages 12 to 15, who are at risk for suicidal behavior due to experiences with bullying perpetration and victimization.
Our group’s other studies focus on the developmental trajectories, including risk and resilience factors, of youth and young adults who are facing social and/or mental health challenges; predictors of the longitudinal outcomes of psychiatric emergency patients; a treatment intervention for active U.S. military who are traumatized and acutely suicidal; and strategies for optimizing clinical risk assessment with high risk individuals.
Representative Publications:
King, C.A., Eisenberg, D., Zheng, K., Czyz, E., Kramer, A., Horwitz, A., & Chermack, S. Online suicide risk screening and intervention with college students: A pilot randomized controlled clinical trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 83(3), 630-636, 2015. PMID: 25688811
King CA, Berona J, Horwitz AG, Czyz EK, & Gipson, PY. Identifying adolescents at highly elevated risk for suicidal behavior in the emergency department. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 25(2), 100-108, 2015. PMID: 25746114
King CA, Gipson PY, Horwitz AG, & Opperman KJ. Teen Options for Change: An intervention for adolescent emergency patients who screen positive for suicide risk. Psychiatric Services, 66(1), 97-100, 2015. PMID: 25321886
Horwitz A, Czyz E, King CA. Predicting future suicide attempts among adolescent and young adult psychiatric emergency patients. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 28:1-11, 2014. PMID: 24871489
Czyz, E.K & King, C.A. Longitudinal trajectories of suicidal ideation and subsequent suicide attempts among adolescent inpatients. In press. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Published online: Sep 30 2013. PMID: 24079705
King C.A., Ewell Foster C., Rogalski K. Teen Suicide Risk: A practitioner guide to screening, assessment and care management. Guilford Publications, 2013.
King, C.A., Hill, R.M., Wynne, H.A. & Cunningham, R.M. Adolescent Suicide Risk Screening: The Effect of Communication about type of Follow-Up on Adolescents’ Screen Response. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 41(4), 508-515, 2012. PMID: 22540534
King, C.A., Horwitz, A.G., Berona, J., & Jiang, Q. Acutely Suicidal Adolescents Who Engage in Bullying Behavior: One Year Trajectories. Journal of Adolescent Health, 53(1 Suppl); S43-50, 2012. PMID: 2379020
King CA, O’Mara RM, Hayward CN, Cunningham RM: Adolescent suicide risk screening in the emergency department. Academic Emergency Medicine, 16, 1234-1241, 2009. PMID: 19845554
King C.A., Klaus N, Kramer A, Venkataraman S, Quinlan P, Gillespie G. The Youth-Nominated Support Team for Suicidal Adolescents Version II: A randomized controlled intervention trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 77(5), 880-893, 2009. PMID: 19803568
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