Publications

Select Publications

Anghel, E., Graybill, E., Melendez, M., Barger, B., & Salmon, A. (2025). Longitudinal trends in behavior screening and office discipline referrals. Journal of School Violence. 

Anghel, E., Graybill, E., Lewis, S., & Sanchez-Alvarez, S. (2025). Gaps in access, retention, and outcomes of school-based mental health services. Journal of Child & Family Studies. 

Blanton, M., Nadeem, E., Vona, P., Sahay, A., Kycia, O., Dudek, C., Garcia, J., & Coccaro, C. (2025). Co-Creating a District-Wide Professional Development Program and Implementation Model for Trauma-Informed Schools. Behavioral Sciences, 15(6), 726. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15060726 

Cox, B., Flemen-Tung, M., May, N., Cappella, E., Nadeem, E., Park, C., & Chacko, A. (2024). Adapting SEL interventions to meet student needs: A research-practice partnership supporting students with emotional disabilities. Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy, 3, 100047.

Graybill, E., Lewis, S., Anghel, E., Awan, S., Barger, B., & Salmon, A. (2025). Using a behavior screener as part of an early warning system in middle schools. Psychology in the Schools. 

Graybill, E., Barger, B., Salmon, A., & Lewis, S. (2024, April). Gender and race measurement invariance of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in a US base sample. In Frontiers in Education (Vol. 9, p. 1310449). Frontiers Media SA.

Lyon, A. R., Connors, E. H., Lawson, G. M., Nadeem, E., & Owens, J. S. (2024). Implementation science in school mental health: A 10-year progress update and development of a new research agenda. School Mental Health, 16(4), 1013-1037.

May, N., Cox, B., Cappella, E., Nadeem, E., Chacko, A., & Path Program Team. (2024). Collaborative design of an inclusive education model for students with emotional disabilities: A research-practice-policy partnership. School Mental Health, 16(3), 760-775.

Mora Ringle, V. A., Nadeem, E., Joaquin, M., Baweja, S., DeCarlo Santiago, C., & Gudiño, O. G. (2025). The impact of violence exposure and posttraumatic stress on the academic functioning of Latine middle school students: The moderating role of language use. Journal of Latinx Psychology.

Nadeem, E., Blanton, M., Sahay, A., Kycia, O., Dudek, C., Heaton, K., Garcia, J., Jimenez-Echevarria, E., Healy, S., Coccaro, C. (2025). Building trauma informed school systems: Training and practice uptake as part of a systemwide initiative in an urban school district. Child Maltreatment.

Nadeem, E., Greswold, W., Torres, L. Z., & Johnson, H. E. (2023). Trauma-informed care in school-based health centers: A mixed methods study of behavioral health screening and services. School Psychology, 38(6), 355.

Shernoff, E., Ruork, A., Kleiman, E., Nadeem, E., & Rizvi, S. (2024). DBT Skills Training Groups for School Personnel Working in High-Need Schools: An Analysis of Attendance and Stress. Journal of Trauma Studies in Education, 3(2), 19-44.

Varjas, K., Nastasi, B. K., Harper, E., Gutierrez, R., Kiperman, S., & Graybill, E. (2025). Using the Participatory Culture-Specific Intervention Model to inform cultural adaptations. School Psychology.

Select Conference Presentations

Paul, N., Brousseau, N., Santiago, S., Parreiral, S., & Graybill, E. (2025, December 2-4). Implementation and evaluation of Erika’s Lighthouse school-based suicide prevention program in a large urban district [Poster presentation]. Advancing School Mental Health Conference, Orlando, Florida, United States.

Bohl, C., Graybill, E., Lopez-Cepero, A., & Anghel, E., (2025, December 2–4). Changes in Emotional and Behavioral Risk and Academic Performance among Elementary School Students [Poster Session]. Advancing School Mental Health, Orlando, FL, United States.

Sahay, A., Kycia, O., Nadeem, E., Dudek, C., Blanton, M., Jimenez-Echevarria, E. (2025, November). Development and Initial Service Outcomes of a Brief Affirming, Trauma-Informed “Treatment as Usual” Counseling Model in Schools [Poster Session]., Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

Kycia, O., Sahay, A., Nadeem, E., Dudek, C., Blanton, M., Garcia, J. (2025, November). Wellness Clubs: Early Successes from a Youth-Driven Approach to Affirming and Inclusive Mental Health Promotion in Schools [Poster Session]., Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

Ferrara, R., Nadeem, E., & Van Meter, A. (2025, November). Differential engagement with digital CBT impacts depression symptom outcomes for adolescents from vulnerable communities. Poster presented at the 59th Annual Convention for the Association for the Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New Orleans, LA.

Venkatraman, S., Hope, C., Graybill, E., Demsky, E., Byars, J., & Byars, T. (2025, October 21–23). The relationship between emotional/behavioral risk and having a Trusted Adult in middle and high School [Conference presentation]. National PBIS Leadership Forum, Chicago, IL, United States.

Emeghara, U., Graybill, E., Bounds, K., Pass, M., Powe, F., & Aquino, K., (2025, October 21–23). PBIS for all: Using pyramid model practices to support a public school preK center [Poster Session]. National PBIS Leadership Forum, Chicago, IL, United States.

Emeghara, U., Graybill, E., Pass, M., Powe, F., Bounds, K., Aquino, K., Reynolds, A., & Corbley, J. (2025, October 21–23). It takes a village: How to assess the quality of the relationship between Schools and community mental health organizations [Poster Session]. National PBIS Leadership Forum, Chicago, IL, United States.

Joyner, N., Graybill, E., and Lewis, S. (2025, October 4). District-Level Barriers to FBA/BIP Implementation [Poster Presentation]. Rutgers University Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology 50th Anniversary Gala, New Brunswick, NJ.

Graybill, E., & Anghel, E. (2025, July 16-20). More learning, less disruptions: How behavior screening could save instructional time [Paper presentation]. International School Psychology Association Conference. Coimbra, Portugal.

Kycia, O., Sahay, A., Rojas, M. (2025, April). Building Bridges: Implementing a Trauma-Informed MTSS in a Large Urban School District [Conference Presentation]., Southeastern School Behavioral Health Conference.

Aleemuddin, S., Brousseau, N. M., & Graybill, E. (2025, April). How educational interventions can impact students’ opinions of mental health [Conference Poster]. Rutgers University Aresty Research Symposium, New Brunswick, NJ, United States.

Sheth, D., Brousseau, N. M., & Graybill, E. (2025, April). Interventional effects on depression awareness in middle school students [Conference Poster]. Rutgers University Aresty Research Symposium, New Brunswick, NJ, United States.

Wooddell, S., Brousseau, N. M., & Graybill, E. (2025, April). School intervention and positive childhood experiences [Conference Poster]. Rutgers University Aresty Research Symposium, New Brunswick, NJ, United States.

Mak, B., Brousseau, N. M., & Graybill, E. (2025, April). Equipping 9th and 11th graders with knowledge to combat suicidal ideation: Analyzing efficacy of a school-based mental health intervention [Conference Poster]. Rutgers University Aresty Research Symposium, New Brunswick, NJ, United States.

*Paradiso, A., Rajagopalan, S., Sutton, M., Webb, J., Lewis, S., & Graybill, E. (2025, April). Competency, knowledge, and confidence of educators on the functional behavior assessment and behavior intervention plan processes. [Conference Poster]. Rutgers University Aresty Research Symposium, New Brunswick, NJ, United States. *all presenters contributed equally

Nadeem, E., Exner-Cortens, D., Blanton, M., Garcia, J., Rosa, J., Heaton, K., Owens, J., DeShazer, M. (2024, December). Using Research-Practice Partnerships to Co-Design Strengths-Based, Equity Focused Multi-Tiered Systems of Supports in Schools [Conference Presentation]., Advancing School Mental Health.

Brousseau, N., Walker, L., Emeghara, U., & Graybill, E. (2024, August). Testing Rapid Qualitative Analysis in a School Setting using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research [Poster Presentation]. American Psychological Association Conference, Seattle, WA.

Anghel, E., & Graybill, E., (2024). Does online learning predict adolescents’ mental health? Evidence from a statewide survey. APA annual convention, Seattle, WA.

Anghel, E. & Graybill, E. (2024). Psychometric development of a mental health awareness training outcome measure. APA annual convention, Seattle, WA.