DEPRESSION PREVENTION RESEARCH

The Family Coping Skills Program (FCSP)

One of the primary research projects in which I am currently engaged is the development and evaluation of a novel depression prevention program for low-income Latina mothers. We have called this novel program the Family Coping Skills Program (FCSP). This summer, two graduate students and I published a paper examining pilot data on the acceptability and feasibility of implementing this project (which will be appearing shortly). We are currently evaluating its efficacy in a randomized-controlled trial.

Cardemil, E.V., Kim, S., & Pinedo, T.M., & Miller, I.W. (2005). Preventing depression in Latina mothers: The Family Coping Skills Program. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 11, 99-112.

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The Penn Resiliency Program: Inner-City Version

While at the University of Pennsylvania in the Psychology Department, I worked with Martin Seligman on a variety of topics, the most central of which was depression prevention.  Together with Karen Reivich, we modified an existing depression prevention program and implemented it with low-income African American and Latino children.

The first publication from this work came out in 2002, and the 2-year follow-up paper is currently under review for publication.

Cardemil, E.V., Reivich, K.J., Seligman, M.E.P., & James, J. (2004). The prevention of depressive symptoms in inner-city middle school students: 2 year follow-up. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Cardemil, E.V. (2002). Preventing paralysis in culture-based research: negotiating obstacles. Prevention & Treatment, 5, Article 14. Available online.

Cardemil, E. V., Reivich, K. J., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2002). The prevention of depressive symptoms in low-income minority middle-school students. Prevention & Treatment, 5, Article 8. Available online.