Depression and ADHD in Adolescents: A Parent’s Guide to Understanding and Support

Carlos is a Postdoctoral Fellow through the Seattle Children’s Research Institute. He received his doctorate in clinical child and adolescent psychology from Florida International University and completed his predoctoral internship at University of Washington School of Medicine. His program of research is primarily focused on refining and developing person-centered, scalable, and cost-effective interventions to reduce long-term risk for suicide and other deleterious developmental outcomes. Carlos describes himself as a translator working within interdisciplinary teams to build consensus and translate knowledge from basic science into clinical practice. Carlos is currently exploring four areas that he identified as having high translational impact, 1) examining how sleep and sleep interventions impact emotion regulation processes and risk for suicidal behavior, 2) conducting cost analyses to identify the scalability and cost-effectiveness of promising or well-established interventions for youth, 3) characterizing risk for suicidal behavior among sub-populations at elevated risk (e.g., racial and ethnic minority youth, youth with ADHD) to inform tailoring intervention strategies to meet their needs, and 4) working with community providers to co-develop strategies to flexibility implement evidence-based interventions for youth in crisis.