Publications
Heleniak, C., Goff, B., Gabard-Durnam, L., Telzer, E., Humphreys, K.L., Lumian, D.L., Flannery, J., Caldera, C., Shapiro, M., Louie, J., Shen, J., Vanucci, A., Jain, M., Glatt, C., Tottenham, N. (2023). Telomere Erosion and Depressive Symptoms across Development following Institutional Care. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Nikolaidis, A., Heleniak, C., Fields, A., Bloom, P.A., VanTieghem, M., Vannucci, A., Camacho, N.L., Choy, T., Gibson, L., Harmon, C., Hadis, S.S., Douglas, I.J., Milham, M.P., Tottenham, N. (2022). Heterogeneity in Caregiving-Related Early Adversity: Creating Stable Dimensions and Subtypes. Development and Psychopathology.
Meyer, H. C., Fields, A., Vannucci, A., Gerhard, D. M., Bloom, P. A., Heleniak, C., ... & Lee, F. S. (2022). The added value of cross-talk between developmental circuit neuroscience and clinical practice to inform the treatment of adolescent anxiety. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science.
Heleniak, C., Bolden, C., McCabe, C.J., Lambert, H.K., Rosen, M.L., King, K.M., Monahan, K.C., & McLaughlin, K.A. (2021). Distress tolerance as a mechanism linking violence exposure to problematic alcohol use in adolescence. Research on child and adolescent psychopathology, 1-15.
Fields, A., Bloom, P. A., VanTieghem, M., Harmon, C., Choy, T., Camacho, N. L., Gibson, L., Umbach, R., Heleniak, C. & Tottenham, N. (2021). Adaptation in the face of adversity: Decrements and enhancements in children's cognitive control behavior following early caregiving instability. Developmental science.
Jenness, J.L., Peverill, M., Miller, A.B., Heleniak, C., Robertson, M., Sambrook, K.A., Sheridan, M.A., & McLaughlin, K.A. (2021). Alterations in neural circuits underlying emotion regulation following child maltreatment: A mechanism underlying trauma-related psychopathology. Psychological Medicine, 51(11), 1880-1889.
Heleniak, C. & McLaughlin, K.A., (2020). Social-cognitive mechanisms in the cycle of violence: cognitive and affective theory of mind, and externalizing psychopathology in children and adolescents. Development & Psychopathology, 32(2), 735-750.
Jacobs, R.H., Bessette, K.L., Heleniak, C., Peters, A., Welsh, R.C., Watkins, E.R., & Langenecker, S.A. (2020). Malleability of rumination: An exploratory model of CBT-based plasticity and long-term resilience to depression among youth. PloS one, 15(6).
Heleniak, C., King, K.M., Monahan, K.C., & McLaughlin, K.A., (2018). Disruptions in Emotion Regulation as a Mechanism Linking Community Violence Exposure to Internalizing Problems in Adolescents. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 28(1), 229-244.
Jenness, J. L., Jager‐Hyman, S., Heleniak, C., Beck, A. T., Sheridan, M. A., & McLaughlin, K. A. (2016). Catastrophizing, rumination, and reappraisal prospectively predict adolescent PTSD symptom onset following a terrorist attack. Depression and anxiety, 33(11), 1039-1047.
Heleniak, C., McLaughlin, K., Ormel, J., & Riese, H. (2016). Cardiovascular reactivity as a mechanism linking child trauma to adolescent psychopathology. Biological Psychology, 120, 108-119.
Douglas, H.A.C., Heleniak, C., Lewis, M., Witkiweitz, K., Eakins, D., Staples, J., …& Larimer, M. (2016). Effects of Parental Monitoring on Alcohol Use in the US and Sweden: A brief report. Addictive Behaviors, 63, 89-92.
McLaughlin, K.M., Sheridan, M., Gold, A.L., Duys, A., Lambert, H.K., Peverill, M., Heleniak, C., Shechner, T., & Pine, D. (2016). Maltreatment Exposure, Brain Structure, and Fear Conditioning in Children and Adolescents. Neuropsychopharmacology, 41(8), 1956.
Heleniak, C., Jenness, J. L., Vander Stoep, A., McCauley, E., & McLaughlin, K. A. (2016). Childhood maltreatment exposure and disruptions in emotion regulation: A transdiagnostic pathway to adolescent internalizing and externalizing psychopathology. Cognitive therapy and research, 40(3), 394-415.
Katz, L.F., Heleniak, C., Kawamura, J., & Jakubiak, J. (2015). Emotion Regulation, Internalizing Symptoms and Somatic Complaints in Pediatric Survivors of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Psycho-Oncology, 24(11), 1536-1544.
Rynn, M., Puliafico, A., Heleniak, C., Rikhi, P., Ghalib, K., & Vidair, H. (2011). Advances in pharmacotherapy for pediatric anxiety disorders. Depression and Anxiety, 28(1), 76-87.
Vidair, H.B., Reyes, J.A., Shen, S., Parrilla-Escobar, M.A., Heleniak, C.M., Hollin, I.L., ... & Rynn, M.A. (2011). Screening parents during child evaluations: exploring parent and child psychopathology in the same clinic. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 50(5), 441-450.
Douglas, H., Heleniak, C., Valenstein, H., Ballard, S., & Lustyk, K.B. (2014). The effects of mindfulness on stress-related physiology, hormones, and subjective reports in women. In K. Murata-Soraci, (Ed.), Psychology of Mindfulness (pp. 107-122). Hauppage, NY: Nova Science Publishers Inc.
Heleniak, C.M., Kaur, T., Ghalib, K., & Rynn, M. (2012). Tricyclic antidepressants and monoamine oxidase inhibitors for the treatment of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders. In D. Rosenberg & S. Gershon (Eds.), Pharmacotherapy of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders, third edition (pp. 105-129). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.