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Audra K. Langley is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences and psychology, with notable contributions to clinical psychology, sociology and political science, safety research, general health professions, and education.

The scientist's work addresses several key topics including:

  • Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Family and Disability Support Research

Langley has published extensively, including several recent papers such as:

  • "Understanding and addressing racial stress and trauma in schools: A pathway toward resistance and healing" (2021) in Psychology in the Schools
  • "Concurrent Planning: Understanding the Placement Experiences of Resource Families" (2022) in Adoption Quarterly
  • "Long-term effects of pre-adoptive risk on emotional and behavioral functioning in children adopted from foster care" (2021) in Child Abuse & Neglect
  • "Leveraging a public-public partnership in Los Angeles County to address COVID-19 for children, youth, and families in underresourced communities." (2020) in Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy
  • "Impact of COVID-19 on resource families: Unique challenges and strengths" (2021) in Developmental Child Welfare

In addition to journal articles, Langley has contributed to book publications, including a work titled Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) for American Indian Youth (2021), published by RAND Corporation eBooks.

Langley frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Jill Waterman, Matthew A. Ruderman, Vanessa Perez, Todd Franke, and Farzana T. Saleem. Their research is also published repeatedly in venues such as the Journal of Public Child Welfare, the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Adoption Quarterly, PsycEXTRA Dataset, and Psychology in the Schools.

Best Publications

  • Evidence-Based Mental Health Programs in Schools: Barriers and Facilitators of Successful Implementation

    Audra K. Langley;Erum Nadeem;Erum Nadeem;Sheryl H. Kataoka;Bradley D. Stein;Bradley D. Stein

  • Children's mental health care following Hurricane Katrina: a field trial of trauma-focused psychotherapies.

    Lisa H. Jaycox;Judith A. Cohen;Anthony P. Mannarino;Douglas W. Walker

  • Impairment in childhood anxiety disorders: preliminary examination of the child anxiety impact scale-parent version.

    Audra K. Langley;R. Lindsey Bergman;James McCracken;John C. Piacentini

  • Controlled Comparison of Family Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Psychoeducation/Relaxation Training for Child Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    John Piacentini;R. Lindsey Bergman;Susanna Chang;Audra Langley

  • Correlates of Accommodation of Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Parent, Child, and Family Characteristics

    Tara S. Peris;R. Lindsey Bergman;Audra Langley;Susanna Chang

  • The Utility of Measures of Child and Adolescent Anxiety: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale, the State?Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children, and the Child Behavior Checklist.

    Laura D. Seligman;Thomas H. Ollendick;Audra K. Langley;Heidi Bechtoldt Baldacci

  • Support for Students Exposed to Trauma: A Pilot Study

    Lisa H. Jaycox;Audra K. Langley;Bradley D. Stein;Marleen Wong

  • Preventing secondary traumatic stress in educators

    Stephen Hydon;Marleen Wong;Audra K. Langley;Bradley D. Stein

  • The Child Anxiety Impact Scale: Examining Parent- and Child-Reported Impairment in Child Anxiety Disorders

    Audra K. Langley;Avital Falk;Tara Peris;Joshua F. Wiley

  • Family factors predict treatment outcome for pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Tara S. Peris;Catherine A. Sugar;R. Lindsey Bergman;Susanna Chang

  • CBITS: Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools

    Lisa H. Jaycox;Sheryl H. Kataoka;Bradley D. Stein;Audra K. Langley

  • Providing evidence-based practice to ethnically diverse youths: examples from the Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) program.

    Victoria K. Ngo;Audra K. Langley;Sheryl H. Kataoka;Erum Nadeem

  • Bounce back: Effectiveness of an elementary school-based intervention for multicultural children exposed to traumatic events.

    Audra K. Langley;Araceli Gonzalez;Catherine A. Sugar;Diana Solis

  • Correlates of comorbid anxiety and externalizing disorders in childhood obsessive compulsive disorder.

    Audra K. Langley;Adam B. Lewin;Adam B. Lewin;R. Lindsey Bergman;Joyce C. Lee

  • Psychological impact of fire disaster on children and their parents.

    Russell T. Jones;David P. Ribbe;Phillippe B. Cunningham;J. David Weddle

  • Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Childhood OCD: It's Only a False Alarm Therapist Guide

    John Piacentini;Audra Langley;Tami Roblek

  • Assessment of childhood anxiety

    Audra K. Langley;R. Lindsey Bergman;John C. Piacentini

  • Treating Traumatized Children After Hurricane Katrina: Project Fleur-de Lis

    Judith A. Cohen;Lisa H. Jaycox;Douglas W. Walker;Anthony P. Mannarino

  • Effects on school outcomes in low-income minority youth: preliminary findings from a community-partnered study of a school-based trauma intervention

    Sheryl H. Kataoka;Lisa H. Jaycox;Marleen Wong;Erum Nadeem

  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy for children who have obsessive-compulsive disorder

    John Piacentini;Audra K. Langley

  • Going to Scale: Experiences Implementing a School-Based Trauma Intervention.

    Erum Nadeem;Lisa H. Jaycox;Sheryl H. Kataoka;Audra K. Langley

Frequent Co-Authors

John Piacentini
John Piacentini University of California, Los Angeles
Lisa H. Jaycox
Lisa H. Jaycox RAND Corporation
Tara S. Peris
Tara S. Peris University of California, Los Angeles
Golda S. Ginsburg
Golda S. Ginsburg University of Connecticut
Boris Birmaher
Boris Birmaher University of Pittsburgh
Philip C. Kendall
Philip C. Kendall Temple University
Anthony P. Mannarino
Anthony P. Mannarino Allegheny General Hospital
Anne Marie Albano
Anne Marie Albano Columbia University
John T. Walkup
John T. Walkup Lurie Children's Hospital
Scott N. Compton
Scott N. Compton Duke University

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