Publications

Publications

 

Presentations

  • Ruderman, M., Whitman, K., Waterman, J., Langley A., & Bath, E. (2022, October). Child Welfare and COVID-19: An Examination of Impact and Equity. Symposium accepted to the 2022 American-Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). Toronto, Canada.
  • Perez, V., Ruderman, M., Waterman, J., & Langley A. (2022, October). Telemental health service utilization among foster/adopted youth: An examination of race and gender. Poster accepted to the 2022 American-Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). Toronto, Canada.
  • Perez, V., Miranda M., Sophia, J., Juwadi K., Finch S., Ruderman, M., & Langley A., (2022, August). Positive and adverse effects of COVID-19 on transracial foster/adoptive families. Poster accepted to the 2022 American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Convention. Minneapolis, MN, United States.
  • Perez, V., Ruderman, M., Waterman, J., & Langley A. (2022, August). Exploring the impact of pre-adoptive risk factors on client engagement. Accepted as part of a symposium at the 2022
  • American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Convention. Minneapolis, MN, United States.
  • Juwadi K., Perez V., Ruderman, M., & Langley A. (2022, August). The relationship between number of caregivers at home and telemental health engagement. Poster accepted to the 2022 American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Convention. Minneapolis, MN, United States.
  • Juwadi K., Perez V., Ruderman, M., & Langley A. (2022, May). Black deaths and protests in 2020: A Comparison of same-race and transracial families on conversations about race. Oral presentation accepted to the 2022 UCLA Undergraduate Research Showcase, Virtual.
  • Miranda M., Perez V., Ruderman M., & Langley A. (2022, May). The impact of COVID-19 on access to remote services for foster and adoptive caregivers: An examination of race and ethnicity. Poster accepted to UCLA Undergraduate Research Week, Virtual.
  • Langley, A., Ruderman, M., Perez, V., Cardenas, L., & Waterman, J. (2021). Impact of COVID-19 on Resource Parents: Unique Challenges and Strengths. Paper presented as part of a symposium at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention.
  • Jeong, A., Perez, V., Guzman, J., Ruderman, M., Waterman, J., & Langley, A.. (2021) Adoptive parent depression and adoptive children's educational achievement. Poster presented as part of a symposium at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention.
  • Nava, S., Finch, S., Jeong, A., Lee, A., Yee, N., Perez, V., Ruderman, M., Langley, A., Addison, P., & Waterman, J. (2021). Comparing the perceptions of youth adopted from foster care and their caregivers on the impact of COVID. (2021). Poster presented as part of a symposium at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention.
  • Waterman, J., Perez, V., Ruderman, M. (2021). Adoption satisfaction for youth adopted from foster care and their parents in late adolescence/early adulthood: A follow-up study. Presented at ICAR7.
  • Guzman, J., Tung, I., Langley, A., & Waterman, J. PTSD as a mediator of pre-adoptive risk on adolescence/young-adulthood aggression and arrests. Poster presented at the American Psychological Association Convention, San Francisco, CA.
  • Brodell, R., Gaines. J. T., Cheng, C. The comparative effects of prenatal risk, postnatal risk, and socioeconomic status on executive functioning in foster and adopted youth. Poster presented at the UCLA Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
  • Nadeem, E., Blake, A. J., Langley, A. K., & Waterman, J. M. Experiences of concurrent planning and parenting among foster parents wishing to adopt. Abstract accepted for presentation at the biennial meeting of the World Congress for Infant Mental Health, Rome, Italy.
  • Blake, A.J., Tung, I., Langley, A. K., & Waterman, J. M. (2018, April). Substance use in youth adopted from foster care: Developmental mechanisms of risk. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Minneapolis, MN.
  • Blake, A.J., Langley, A.K., & Waterman, J.M. (2017, October). Gender differences in service utilization among youth adopted from foster care. Poster presented at the 64th annual meeting of the American Academy for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Washington, D.C.
  • Blake, A. J., Langley, A. K., & Waterman, J. M. (2017, October). Linking cumulative risk to friendship outcomes: The mediating role of emotion dysregulation. Poster presented at the Charleston Child Trauma Conference, Charleston, SC.
  • Preston, A. E., Blake, A. J., Langley, A. K., & Waterman, J. M. (2017, May). The effects of family environment on academic performance of adopted youth. Poster presented at the UCLA Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
  • Moore, T., Blake, A. J., Langley, A. K., & Waterman, J. M. (2017, May). Changes in willingness to adopt children with behavior and learning problems after preparatory sessions: The role of demographic differences. Poster presented at the UCLA Psychology Undergraduate Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
  • Blake, A. J., Langley, A. K., & Waterman, J. M. (2017, April). Long-term effects of preadoptive child maltreatment: Does subtype matter? Poster presented at the Western Psychological Association Convention, Sacramento, CA.
  • Tung, I., Noroña, A. N., Lee, S. S., & Waterman, J. M. (2017, April). Temperamental sensitivity to maltreatment and later family support for externalizing behaviors in children adopted from foster care. Poster presented at the 2017 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.
  • Blake, A. J. & Waterman, J. M. (2016, August). Trajectories of mental health in children adopted from foster care: Effects of age of placement. Poster presented at the American Psychological Association Convention, Denver, CO.
  • Vreeland, A., Ganz, D., Rouzitalab, S., & Waterman, J. (2016, August). Relationship between Parental Stress and Infant Cognitive Development. Poster presented at the American Psychological Association Convention, Denver, CO.
  • Rouzitalab, S., Vreeland, A., Ganz, D., & Waterman, J. (2016, August). Difficulty in Parenting Foster-Adoptive Infants. Poster presented at the American Psychological Association Convention, Denver, CO.
  • Blake, A. J. & Waterman, J. M. (2016, May). Trajectories of mental health in children adopted from foster care: Effects of abuse and neglect. Poster presented at the 13th Rudd-REFCA New Worlds of Foster Care and Adoption Conference, Amherst, MA.
  • Tung, I., Christian-Brandt, A. S., Langley, A., & Waterman, J. M. (2016, May). Predictive associations between prenatal and postnatal risk factors and developmental and temperamental outcomes among infants in foster care. Poster presented at the 13th Rudd-REFCA New Worlds of Foster Care and Adoption Conference, Amherst, MA.
  • Waterman, J. M., Blake, A. J., & Lavner, J. A. (2016, January). Long term follow-up of children adopted from foster care in the USA. Paper presented at the International Conference on Adoption Research, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Blake, A.J. & Waterman. J.M. (2015, May). Emotion regulation in foster youth: The effects of abuse/neglect and placement instability. Poster presented at UCLA Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference, Los Angeles, CA.