Faculty Profiles

López Jr., R., Meza, J. I., Asarnow, L. D., Berk, M. S., McCauley, E., & Asarnow, J. R. (2026). Implicit identification with death and adolescent self-injurious thoughts and behaviors: Sleep quality as a moderator. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 55(1), 150–162. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2025.2541349

López Jr., R., Esposito-Smythers, C., Lee, P., Leichtweis, R. N., & Miller, I. W. (2025). Psychometric properties Modified Scale for Suicidal Ideation Self-Report-Revised with high-risk adolescents. Behavior Therapy, 56(2), 409–421. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2024.07.004

Whitmyre, E. D., Esposito-Smythers, C., López Jr., R., Goldberg, D. G., Liu, F., & Defayette, A. B. (2024). Implementation of measurement-based care in mental health service settings for youth: A systematic review. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 27(4), 909–942. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10567-024-00498-z

Seibel, L., Harris, K. M., López Jr., R., Wolff, J., Spirito, A., & Esposito-Smythers, C. (2024). Perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness as mediators of the relation between anxiety and suicidal ideation among adolescents. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 54(6), 914–924. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.13094

López Jr., R., Harris, K. M., Seibel, L., Thomas, S. C., Leichtweis, R. N., & Esposito-Smythers, C. (2024). Trajectories of adolescent suicidal ideation and depressive symptom severity during a partial hospital program: Clinical and demographic characteristics as predictors of change. Psychological Services, 21(3), 444–453. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2024.2344735

López Jr., R., Turnamian, M. R., & Liu, R. T. (2024). Prospective relations between life stress, emotional clarity, and suicidal ideation in an adolescent clinical sample. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 53(6), 944–957. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2024.2344735

López Jr., R., Esposito-Smythers, C., Defayette, A. B., Harris, K. M., Seibel, L., & Whitmyre, E. D. (2024). Relations between discrimination, rejection sensitivity, negative affect, and decrements in problem-solving ability following social rejection: An experimental investigation. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 54(2), 233–249. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.13036

López Jr., R., & Asarnow, J. R. (2024). Firearms and suicide risk: Implications for preventing mortality and morbidity among California’s youth. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Retrieved from https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/our-work/publications/youth-firearms-and-suicide-risk-2024

López Jr., R., & Esposito-Smythers, C. (2024). Problem orientation as a moderator of the relation between discrimination and passive suicidal ideation. Journal of Affective Disorders, 17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2024.100792

López Jr., R. (2024). Parallel paths. New York, NY, United States: The New York Times Company. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/style/tiny-modern-love-stories-the-problem-was-he-smelled-really-good.html

Whitmyre, E. D., Esposito-Smythers, C., Goldberg, D. G., Scalzo, G., Defayette, A. B., & López Jr., R. (2024). Impact of a virtual suicide safety planning training on clinician knowledge, self-efficacy, and use of a safety plans in community mental health clinics. Archives of Suicide Research, 28(1), 428–437. https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2023.2183163

López Jr., R., Defayette, A. B., Williams, C. A., & Esposito-Smythers, C. (2023). Posttraumatic stress disorder symptom clusters, suicidal ideation, and social support in a clinical adolescent sample. Death Studies, 46(8), 1814–1822. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2020.1852629

Defayette, A. B., Esposito-Smythers, C., Cero, I., Kleiman, E. M., López Jr., R., Harris, K. M., & Whitmyre, E. D. (2023). Examination of proinflammatory activity as a moderator of the relation between momentary interpersonal stress and suicidal ideation. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 53(6), 922–939. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12993

López Jr., R. (2023). A new view from the shore. New York, NY, United States: The New York Times Company. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/style/tiny-modern-love-stories-my-first-post-divorce-christmas.html

López Jr., R., Esposito-Smythers, C., Defayette, A. B., Seibel, L. F., & Whitmyre, E. D. (2023). Facets of social problem-solving as moderators of the real-time relation between social rejection and negative affect in an at-risk sample. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 169.

Whitmyre, E. D., Esposito-Smythers, C., Goldberg, D. G., Scalzo, G., Defayette, A. B., & López Jr., R. (2023). Implementation of an electronic safety plan within a measurement  feedback system. Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 8(4), 541–548. https://doi.org/10.1080/23794925.2022.2081946

Poon, J. A., López Jr., R., Marie-Shea, L., & Liu, R. T. (2023). Longitudinal relations between childhood maltreatment, emotion regulation difficulties, and suicidal ideation and non-suicidal self-injury: An 18-month investigation of psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 51(9), 1315–1326. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-023-01067-8

Defayette, A. B., Esposito-Smythers, C., Cero, I., Harris, K. M., Whitmyre, E. D., & López Jr., R. (2023). Interpersonal stress and proinflammatory activity in emerging adults with a history of suicide risk: A pilot study. Journal of Mood & Anxiety Disorders, 2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xjmad.2023.100016

Maultsby, K., López Jr., R., Wolff, J., Spirito, A., & Esposito-Smythers, C. (2023). Longitudinal relations between parenting practices and adolescent suicidal ideation in a high-risk clinical sample: A moderated mediation model. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 51(5), 613–623. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-022-01018-9

López Jr., R., Maultsby, K., Seibel, L., & Esposito-Smythers, C. (2023). Fluidity of sexual orientation and factors that influence suicide among youth and young adults: A narrative review of longitudinal studies. The Behavior Therapist, 46(1), 16–23. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.20913.66405/1

López Jr., R., Gonçalves, S. F., Poon, J. A., Ansell, E. B., Esposito-Smythers, C., & Chaplin, T. M. (2022). Sexual Identity and its association with trajectories of depressive symptoms and emotion regulation difficulties from early to middle adolescence. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 53(5), 1062–1074. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-021-01188-5

López Jr., R., Maultsby, K., Defayette, A. B., Whitmyre, E. D., Wolff, J., Spirito, A., & Esposito-Smythers, C. (2022). A prospective investigation of the relation between dysfunctional family communication and suicidal ideation severity in a clinical adolescent sample: A serial mediation model. Journal of Affective Disorders, 310(310), 241–248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.05.021

Esposito-Smythers, C., Whitmyre, E. D., Defayette, A. B., López Jr., R., Maultsby, K. D., & Spirito, A. (2022). Suicide and suicide attempts during adolescence. In Comprehensive Clinical Psychology (Vol. 5, pp. 376–394). Netherlands: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818697-8.00059-5

López Jr., R., Follet, L., Defayette, A. B., Whitmyre, E. D., Wolff, J., Spirito, A., & Esposito‐Smythers, C. (2021). Depression‐related emotional problems mediate the relation between hopelessness and suicidal ideation severity. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 77(12), 2978–2993. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23236

Gonçalves, S. F., Chaplin, T. M., López Jr., R., Regalario, I. M., Niehaus, C. E., McKnight, P. E., … Ansell, E. B. (2021). High frequency heart rate variability and emotion-driven impulse control difficulties during adolescence: Examining experienced and expressed negative emotion as moderators. Journal of Early Adolescence, 41(8), 1151–1176. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431620983453

Defayette, A. B., Whitmyre, E. D., López Jr., R., Brown, B., Wolff, J. C., Spirito, A., & Esposito‐Smythers, C. (2021). Adolescent depressed mood and difficulties with emotion regulation: Concurrent trajectories of change. Journal of Adolescence, 91(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2021.07.001

López Jr., R., Brick, L. A., Defayette, A. B., Whitmyre, E. D., Wolff, J., Frazier, E., … Esposito-Smythers, C. (2020). Depressive symptom severity mediates the association between avoidant problem-solving style and suicidal ideation. Journal of Affective Disorders, 274, 662–670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.05.120