Youth Mental Health
Psychiatric Emergency Care
Publications
Havens JF, Marr M. Pediatric Psychiatric Emergency Services—Stasis in Crisis
Trauma Exposure and Suicidality in a Pediatric Emergency Psychiatric Population
Gerson et al. Utilization Patterns at a Specialized Children's Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program
Havens JF, Gerson R, Marr M. Designing Emergency Psychiatric Services for Children and Adolescents. In: Lewis’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook. Martin A, Volkmar FR, Lewis M, Eds. 5th edition. Wolters Kluwer, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2018.
Presentations
Havens J, Seigel T & Marr M. Characteristics of Youth Presenting for Emergency Psychiatric Care. Managing Psychiatric Emergencies in Children and Adolescents, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, 2016 March.
Care Pathways
Autism Spectrum Disorder Care Pathway
Cervantes et al. Sustainability of a Care Pathway for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder on an Inpatient Psychiatric Service
Kuriakose et al. Does an Autism Spectrum Disorder care pathway improve care for children and adolescents with ASD in inpatient psychiatric units?
Kuriakose et al. A Clinical Pathway for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder in a General Child Psychiatry Unit: Implementation and Evaluation
Self-Harm, Suicidality Care Pathway
Creating a care pathway for children and adolescents presenting with self-harm or suicidality, Gold Student Summer Fellowship, Arnold P. Gold Foundation
Disease Characterization, Diagnosis & Treatment
Publications
Feczko et al. The Heterogeneity problem: Approaches to better characterize the variance in cognitive neuroscience and mental health research
Havens et al. From Bipolar Disorder to DMDD: Challenges to Diagnostic and Treatment Specificity in Traumatized Youth
Hermosillo RJ et al.. Polygenic Risk Score–Derived Subcortical Connectivity Mediates Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Diagnosis.
Global Mental Health
Presentations
Characterizing suicidality in children and adolescents: From urban hospitals in the US to rural communities in northern Thailand. International Suicide Prevention Symposium. Krakow, Poland. September 18, 2025.
Addressing Burnout in Training: A SMART-R Approach. Symposium on Transcultural perspectives on physician wellbeing: Addressing burnout across four world regions. World Congress of Psychiatry. Prague, Czech Republic. October 7, 2025.
Maternal stress in pregnancy and its link to child development. Maternal and Child Health, School of Population and Global Health, University of Western Australia. March 15, 2023.
Youth Mental Health: Conceptualizing and Assessing Common Disorders. Research Seminar Series, School of Health Science, Mae Fah Luang University, February 28, 2023.
Projects
Youth Mental Health in Northern Thailand Hill Tribe Communities (Mae Fah Luang University, 2022-2024), funding support from the American Women Hospital Service
Development of an Akha Hill Tribe Depression Questionnaire (Mae Fah Luang University, 2025)
Development and Evaluation of the SMILE model for Depression in Adolescents (Mae Fah Luang University, ongoing)
Stress, Depression, and Risk Factors for Ovarian and Breast Cancer in Women (Bangkok Hospital, ongoing)
An mHealth intervention to address the burden of depression and anxiety among perinatally-infected adolescents and young adults with HIV in Uganda (Mbarara University of Science and Technology and Massachusetts General Hospital, ongoing)