• Recent Publications:

    Peña, J.B., Masyn K.E., & Wang, Y (2012). Plotting Model-Estimated Probabilities: Graphical Faux Pas or Useful Tool to Communicate Research Findings? American Journal of Public Health.

     

    Peña J.B., Zayas L.H., Cabrera, P., Vega W.A. (2012).U.S. Cultural Involvement and its Association with Suicidal Behavior among Youth in the Dominican Republic, American Journal of Public Health, 102(4), 664-671.

     

    Peña J.B., Matthieu M.M., Zayas L.H., Masyn K.E., & Caine E.D. (2012).Co-Occurring Risk Behaviors Among White, Black, and Hispanic US High School Adolescents With Suicide Attempts Requiring Medical Attention, 1999-2007: Implications for Future Prevention Initiatives, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 47(1), 29-42.

     

    Peña J.B., Kuhlberg J.A., Zayas L.H., Bauman A.A., Gulbas L., Hausmann-Stabile C.H., and Nolle A.P. (2011). Familism, Family Environment, and Suicide Attempts Among Latina Youth, Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 41(3),330-341.

     

    Kuhlberg, J. A., Peña, J. B., & Zayas, L. H. (2010). Familism, Parent-Adolescent Conflict, Self-Esteem, Internalizing Behaviors and Suicide Attempts Among adolescent Latinas., Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 41(4), 425-440.

  • Research Areas: Adolescent Mental Health, Cultural Globalization, Latino Mental Health, Suicidal Behavior