Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (C–CAP) Lab
Welcome!
The overarching goal of the Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (C-CAP) lab is to ensure that youth with mental health needs, or who are at risk for suicide, get the right treatment, at the right time, in an accessible setting. Specifically, our lab employs an implementation science approach to improve community capacity to identify and intervene for youth with mental health problems or at risk for suicide, including enhancing service delivery, efficiency, access, and engagement. Led by Dr. Jennifer Blossom, the C-CAP lab includes doctoral students, undergraduate research assistants, and multiple external collaborators (learn more about us here!). If you are interested in current research studies, interested in working with us, or want to learn more about youth mental health, we are glad you’re here!
The C-CAP Lab is now recruiting Undergraduate Research Assistants (URAs) for the Fall 2025 semester. To apply, please visit the Undergrad RA Application page.
C-CAP Lab News
April 2025– Puneet and Hannah presented at the 2025 Anxiety and Depression Association of America Annual Conference (ADAA) in Las Vegas! 🎉 And a huge congrats to Puneet for winning the 2025 BIPOC Membership Scholarship!
Lab collaborator, Ono Okeh, Ph.D., also presented on a pilot implementation study of Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Adolescents (IPT-A) and Behavioral Activation (BA) in a sample of justice-involved youth in the South-South Zone of Nigeria at the ADAA 2025 Conference. Hannah (graduate research assistant) and Aalliyah (undergraduate research assistant) also collaborated on the poster.
April 3, 2025– 🎉🎉🎉 Eleanor passed her dissertation proposal! Her dissertation, Addressing Disparities for Sexual and Gender Diverse Youth: Longitudinal trajectories, group differences, and brief treatment outcomes integrates key studies related to sexual and gender diverse youth mental health disparities. For Study 3, Eleanor’s work will also directly and immediately improve access to effective mental health treatment for sexual and gender diverse youth in Maine.
March 2025– Dr. Blossom and some of the C-CAP grad students after her talk, Managing Suicide Risk in Primary Care, at the 2025 Maine Integrated Behavioral Health Summit.
March 2025- 🎉🎉🎉 Dr. Blossom was just awarded a grant from the John T. Gorman Foundation, in collaboration with colleagues in the School of Social Work and at the Edmund N. Ervin Pediatric Center at Maine General: Expanding the Maine youth behavioral health workforce: Integrating evidence-based practice into graduate training.
This project will provide training in a flexible evidence-based youth mental health intervention (MATCH) for clinicians and graduate students in Maine, while also building a sustainable model to train future clinicians! Overall, this project aims to ensure that Maine youth in need of mental health treatment get access to effective, scientifically-supported treatment.
March 2025– Dr. Blossom, Aurora, and Katie gave a talk titled Building Community Connections to Improve Youth Suicide Prevention at the NAMI ME Beyond the Basics in Suicide Prevention: Planting Seeds of Hope conference in Portland, ME over spring break.
December 2024- The grad students and Dr. Blossom got together to celebrate another successful semester over dinner at Mason’s!
November, 2024– Eleanor, Aurora, Katie, and Dr. Blossom represented the C-CAP Lab at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) conference in Philadelphia, PA.
September 2024- All 6 of our graduate students got together for a lovely fall outing to Acadia National Park (pics at Jordan Pond below!)
September 2024– We’d like to welcome Hannah Milius and Puneet Parmar, our incoming first-year doctoral students in the C-CAP lab! Hannah’s research interests include treatment accessibility and engagement, the impact of adversity on the family system, and developmental psychopathology, and Puneet’s include researching mental health disparities and mental health interventions using implementation science approaches and community-based methods with the goal of improving access and treatment outcomes for underserved children, youth, and families. We are so excited to have Hannah and Puneet on our team and wish everyone a great fall semester!
Summer 2024- Caroline and other scholars in developmental and clinical psychology were selected to participate in a research intensive with experts on adolescent research and receive feedback on their dissertation proposals in Cyprus!
April 2024– We had an end-of-year picnic to celebrate our graduating seniors and all of the hard work our undergraduate research assistants (URAs) did during the 2023-2024 school year. Huge congratulations to our graduating URAs: Kelsey Bridges, Autumn Chadburn, Elyana Gerrie, Hunter Landry, Ben Roseman, Liana Shaw, and Eda Yavuz!!
Dr. Blossom’s paper Evaluation of the First Approach Skills Training (FAST) Integrated Pediatric Primary Care Program: Implementation and Clinical Effectiveness is now in press on Taylor & Francis Online! Check it out here.
April 2024– Caroline, Eleanor, and Dr. Blossom represented the C-CAP Lab at the 2024 Anxiety and Depression Association of America Annual Conference (ADAA) in Boston.
April 2024– Aurora at the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) biannual conference in Chicago, IL.
Autumn, Ben, and Alex presented at the UMaine Student Symposium, April, 2024
November 2023– Caroline, Eleanor, and Dr. Blossom represented the C-CAP Lab at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) conference in Seattle, WA.
