Publications

Recent journal articles 

Affiliated faculty and PANDA Lab graduate students/alum names are in bold.

DeLucia, E.A., Harden, S.A., Scarpa, A. (2024, May). Provider Attitudes Toward Evidence-Based Practice in Autism: A Mini-Review. Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 3, 1-7 https://doi.org/10.3389/frcha.2024.1363532    

DeLucia, E.A., McFayden, T.C., Fok, M., Andrjzejewski, T.M., Scarpa, A., McDonnell, C.G. (2024, May). Frequency and Correlates of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Use in an Autistic Inpatient Sample, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 54, 2060-2068. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05650-8

Martino, D.C., Bertollo, J.R., Scarpa, A. (2024, March). Service Acquisition for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Rural Southwest Virginia: The Role of Caregiver Psychoeducation, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-024-06305-6

Antezana, L., Albright, J., Scarpa, A., Richey, J.A., Laugeson, E.A., & Factor, R.S. (2023, December) PEERS® for Preschoolers outcomes and predictors of treatment response. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 53(12), 4671-4684, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05724-7

Fok, M., DeLucia, E.A., Andrzejewski, T., McDonnell, C.G., Scarpa, A. Measurement Invariance of Child Behavior Checklist Internalizing and Externalizing Factors Between Non-Speaking/Partially Verbal and Speaking Autistic Children. (2023, October). Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 108, 102249, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2023.102249. 

Breaux, R. (2024). The need to target parent emotion regulation in child mental health treatment: A commentary on Brandão et al. (2023). Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 31, 110-112. doi: 10.1037/cps0000198

Garcia, K. M., Carlton, C. N., Williams, C.*, Breaux, R., & Ollendick, T. H. (2024). Evaluation of the Modified Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Children: Exploring psychometrics to establish a more inclusive measure. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment. 10.1007/s10862-024-10146-z

Garcia, K. M., Shroff, D. M., Patrick, A., Ollendick, T. H., & Breaux, R. (2024). A systematic review of parent socialization of negative affect in clinical child populations: Relations to youth emotion regulation abilities. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review.

Breaux, R., Baweja, R., Eadeh, H. M., Shroff, D. M., Cash, A. R., Swanson, C. S., Knejans, A., & Waxmonsky, J. (2023). Systematic review and meta-analysis: Pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for persistent non-episodic irritability. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 62, 318-334. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2022.05.012

Breaux, R., Cash, A. R., Lewis, J., Garcia, K. M., Dvorsky, M. R., & Becker, S. P. (2023). Impacts of COVID-19 quarantine and isolation on adolescent social functioning. Current Opinion in Psychology, 52, 101613. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101613

Breaux, R., Shroff, D. M., Cash, A. R., Swanson, C. S., Carlton, C., Bertollo, J. R., & Dahiya, A. V. (2023). Telehealth delivery of the RELAX intervention for families of adolescents diagnosed with ADHD: Preliminary treatment outcomes and evidence of acceptability and feasibility. Evidence-Based Practice in Child & Adolescent Mental Health, 8, 24-38. doi: 10.1080/23794925.2021.1970053

Dvorsky, M. R., Shroff, D.*, Larkin Bonds, W. B., Steinberg, A., Breaux, R., & Becker, S. P. (2023). Impacts of COVID-19 on the school experience of children and adolescents with special educational needs and disabilities. Current Opinion in Psychology, 52, 101635.  doi: /10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101613

Albright, J., DeLucia, E.A., Fok, M., Scarpa, A. (in press, 2023, May). A Qualitative Examination of the Impact of COVID-19 on Transition Services for Autistic Youth. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-023-06009-3

Davidson, D., Russo-Ponsaran, N., van Rest, M.M & Scarpa, A. (2023, January). Editorial: Emotion Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Frontiers in Psychology: Special Issue on Emotion Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorders. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1141824

Thurman, A.J., Nunnally, A.D., Nguyen, V....Edgin, J., et al. Short-term and Long-term Stability of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2) Calibrated Comparison Scores (CCS) and Classification Scores in Youth with Down Syndrome or Fragile X Syndrome with Intellectual Disability. J Autism Dev Disord (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-024-06535-8

Spanò, G., Combs, D., Dwyer, P., Luongo, A., Parent-Johnson, W., & Edgin, J. (2024). Autism and sleep across development: Advancing research and treatment through co-production. Neurodiversity, 2.   https://doi.org/10.1177/27546330241238668

del Hoyo Soriano, L., Sterling, A., Edgin, J. et al. Associations Among Sex, Cognitive Ability, and Autism Symptoms in Individuals with Down Syndrome. J Autism Dev Disord 54, 301–311 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05779-6