IMPACT LAB

Rena Ferrara (right) with Rutgers collaborator Dr. Erum Nadeem (left). Rena presented her poster on outcomes from the open trial of SilverCloud, a CBT smartphone app, at the 2025 Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Convention. Participants with worse symptoms had higher digital CBT engagement and greater symptom reduction. 

Jimin Kim presented her poster on associations between social media use, online belongingness, and suicidal thoughts at the 2025 Annual Society for Research in Psychopathology Conference.  Findings showed that among suicidal adolescents, higher online belongingness predicted lower suicidal ideation intensity. 

Jimin Kim (left), Corinne Cheong (middle), and Rena Ferrara (right) presented their poster on associations between adolescent emotion regulation and discrepancies in caregiver-adolescent relationship quality at the 2025 NYU Langone Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Annual Poster Conference. Findings showed that adolescents who struggled with emotional clarity were less aligned with their caregiver on perceived relationship quality. 

Anna Van Meter, Jimin Kim, Chunlin An, and Rena Ferrara presented their poster on the reliability of adolescent reports of their suicidal ideation at the virtual 2025 Suicide Research Symposium. Findings indicated that more frequent measurement of suicidal ideation intensity may be a more accurate representation of adolescent suicidal ideation, but are not sustainable over time. 

Rena Ferrara presented her poster on preliminary adolescent feedback on a CBT smartphone app at the 2024 Technology in Psychiatry Summit. In general, youth from minoritized backgrounds found the app to be useful, indicating they received effective support for their symptoms of anxiety and/or depression. 

Rena Ferrara (left) and Svea Pasad (right) presented on the association between discrepancies in caregiver-adolescent reports of manic symptoms and perception of the family relationship at the NYU Langone Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Annual Poster Conference. Caregivers who rated their child's manic symptoms as higher may overestimate the quality of the relationship with their child. 

Rena Ferrara presented on the association between discrepancies in caregiver-adolescent reports of depressive symptoms and perception of the family relationship at the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Future Directions Forum. Caregivers who rate their relationship more positively may underestimate their child's depression. 

Dr. Van Meter presented our work on the prevalence of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in youth at the annual meeting for the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP)! 

Ellen Anderson presented her poster, Associations Between Income and Barriers to Mental Health Treatment for Youth, at the annual meeting for the Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies.  

Ellen Anderson presented her poster, Associations Between Emotion Interpretation Bias, Social Support, and Mood Symptoms in Young Adults with Bipolar Disorder, at the annual meeting for the Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies.  

Dr. Van Meter presented on Factors Associated with Bipolar Disorder Onset in a Clinical High-Risk Sample at the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Conference. 

Dr. Van Meter presented on leveraging online activity to facilitate symptom identification at the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Conference. 

Ellen Anderson presented her poster, Associations between Income and Barriers to Mental Health treatment for Youth, at the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Future Directions Forum. 

Lauren Yang presented our work on Relationship Between Behavioral Approach System (BAS) and Facial Emotion Recognition in People with Bipolar Disorder at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Conference in the Bipolar Disorders Special Interest Group. 

Shira Wein (left) presented her poster on the moderating role of religiosity on the relation between stress and depression at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research poster session. 

Ellen Anderson (second from left) presented on the role family and peer support play in body image dissatisfaction in college-aged women at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research poster session. 

Drs. Neha Agrawal, Melissa Roed, and Yana Lechtman at their graduation from Yeshiva University, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. 

IMPACT Lab members had a great time presenting (and exploring) at the International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) annual conference in Sydney, Australia. This photo is of one of five sessions we participated in at ISBD - all highlighting research to help young people affected by bipolar disorder. 

IMPACT Lab members had a great time presenting (and exploring) at the International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) annual conference in Sydney, Australia. Here is lab director Anna Van Meter (right) in Sydney Harbor with Robert Post, MD (left) - a hero in the field! 

Lab Director, Anna Van Meter, joined the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (SCCAP) Board. She was elected as the Secretary of the Board and is excited to work with the group to promote evidence-based mental healthcare for children and adolescents. 

Jun Min Koay presented his poster on the moderating role of culture on the relation between expressed emotion and perceived support in families at the annual convention for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT).

Jun Min Koay presented his poster on the role of BIS and BAS in youth internalizing and externalizing symptoms at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association. 

Anna Van Meter (left) with APA President, Antonio Puente (right) at a reception for the American Psychological Foundation during the annual conference of the American Psychological Association. 

Jun Min Koay (left) and Joey Sergi (right) presented on the moderating effect of emotion regulation on the relation between BIS, BAS, and mood symptoms at the annual conference for the Internal Society for Bipolar disorders. 

Joey Sergi (left) and Jun Min Koay (right) presented their poster on how family history impacts the role of sleep in the onset of mania at the annual conference for the Internal Society for Bipolar disorders. 

Neha Argrawal (left) presented on the role of social support in young adults' mental health treatment attitudes and behavior at the annual conference of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT). 

Michelle Chu presented her work on the role of emotion regulation in the relation between personality and depression at the annual conference of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT). 

Yana Lechtman presented on differences in youth physical health across diagnostic groups at ABCT. 

Yana Lechtman presented on the roles of BIS, BAS, and expressed emotion in youth internalizing and externalizing symptoms at the annual convention of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). 

Jun Min Koay (left) presented preliminary results from an ongoing study looking at difference in emotion regulation between people with bipolar disorder and healthy controls. 

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TBD on location - i believe AACAP

Anna Van Meter presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association as part of the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. Here she introduces a symposium on irritability in youth. 

Anna Van Meter presented a poster on a meta-analysis of community prevalence of bipolar disorder in youth at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association as part of the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. 

Anna Van Meter presented a poster, Emotion Recognition Modification for Bipolar Disorder at the International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) annual conference. 

Anna Van Meter (right) with colleague, Ana Lucia Moreira (left), after presenting in the Bipolar by the Number symposium at the International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) annual conference.