Johanna Folk, PhD
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 02/2021
• PhD Clinical Psychology George Mason University 08/2018
• MA Psychology College of William and Mary 05/2012
• BM Psychology and Flute Performance SUNY Potsdam College 05/2010

Websites

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• @@johanna_folk on Twitter (twitter.com)

Grants and Projects

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• Reducing Parenting Stress to Facilitate Justice-Involved Youth?s Treatment Engagement, NIH, 2021-2026
• Cultural Adaptation of a Brief Family-Based Intervention, American Psychological Assn, Inc., 2021-2022
• Inmates' Community Connectedness: Effect on Drug Use, Recidivism, and Adjustment, NIH, 2015-2018

Publications (51)

Top publication keywords:
PrisonsSubstance-Related DisordersUnderage DrinkingRecidivismParent-Child RelationsCriminalsBullyingAdaptation, PsychologicalSocial JusticeLaw EnforcementPrisonersCriminal PsychologyMental HealthBorderline Personality DisorderJuvenile Delinquency

• Youth recidivism: youth self-report matters.
  Frontiers in psychology 2024 Holloway ED, Irgens M, McPhee J, Folk JB, Tolou-Shams M
• Implementation Considerations for Family-Based Telehealth Interventions for Youth in Foster Care: Focus Group Study With Child Welfare System Professionals.
  JMIR formative research 2023 Leo HP, Folk JB, Rodriguez C, Tolou-Shams M
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Juvenile Correctional and Detention Facilities: A Scoping Review.
  Journal of correctional health care : the official journal of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care 2023 Yang P, Folk JB, Lugosi SI, Bemat Z, Thomas A, Robles-Ramamurthy B
• Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Self-Cutting Behavior Among Adolescents at First Contact with the Juvenile Court.
  Journal of youth and adolescence 2023 Meza JI, Folk J, Hoskins D, Kemp K, Tolou-Shams M
• Psychiatric and Substance-Related Problems Predict Recidivism for First-Time Justice-Involved Youth.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2023 Tolou-Shams M, Folk JB, Holloway ED, Ordorica CM, Dauria EF, Kemp K, Marshall BDL

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• The Association Between Expanded ACEs and Behavioral Health Outcomes Among Youth at First Time Legal System Contact.
  Research on child and adolescent psychopathology 2022 Folk JB, Ramaiya M, Holloway E, Ramos L, Marshall BDL, Kemp K, Li Y, Bath E, Mitchell DK, Tolou-Shams M
• Using Social Media to Engage Justice-Involved Young Adults in Digital Health Interventions for Substance Use: Pilot Feasibility Survey Study.
  JMIR formative research 2022 Harrison A, Folk J, Rodriguez C, Wallace A, Tolou-Shams M
• Gender Differences in National Institutes of Health Grant Submissions Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  Journal of women's health (2002) 2022 Roubinov D, Haack LM, Folk JB, Rotenstein L, Accurso EC, Dahiya P, Ponce AN, Nava V, Maldonado Y, Linos E, Mangurian C
• Leveraging Technology to Increase Behavioral Health Services Access for Youth in the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems: a Cross-systems Collaboration Model.
  The journal of behavioral health services & research 2022 Tolou-Shams M, Holloway ED, Ordorica C, Yonek J, Folk JB, Dauria EF, Lehn K, Ezimora I, Wiley HMF
• Peer Mentorship: An Underrecognized Tool to Faculty Success.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2022 Roubinov DS, Accurso EC, Folk JB, Haack LM
• Juvenile Justice, Technology and Family Separation: A Call to Prioritize Access to Family-Based Telehealth Treatment for Justice-Involved Adolescents' Mental Health and Well-Being.
  Frontiers in digital health 2022 Tolou-Shams M, Bath E, McPhee J, Folk JB, Porche MV, Fortuna LR
• An Ecodevelopmental Framework for Engaging Diverse Youth in Foster Care and Their Families Into Technology-Based Family Intervention Research Trials.
  Frontiers in digital health 2022 Folk JB, Gill H, Ordorica C, Rodriguez CA, Holloway ED, Meza J, Tolou-Shams M
• Researchers' Perspectives on Digital Mental Health Intervention Co-Design With Marginalized Community Stakeholder Youth and Families.
  Frontiers in psychiatry 2022 Porche MV, Folk JB, Tolou-Shams M, Fortuna LR
• Peer, substance use, and race-related factors associated with recidivism among first-time justice-involved youth.
  Law and human behavior 2022 Holloway ED, Folk JB, Ordorica C, Tolou-Shams M
• Agreement between Youth Self-Report and Biospecimen-Confirmed Substance Use: A Systematic Review.
  Substance use & misuse 2022 Folk JB, Hirschtritt ME, McCrary QD, Kalapatapu RK
• Bringing juvenile justice and public health systems together to meet the sexual and reproductive health needs of justice-involved youth.
  The American journal of orthopsychiatry 2022 Tolou-Shams M, Dauria EF, Rosen RK, Clark MA, Spetz J, Levine A, Marshall BDL, Folk JB, Gopalakrishnan L, Nunn A, project emPOWER’D expert consultant panel
• The Ethical Implications of Using Social Media to Engage and Retain Justice-Involved Youth in Behavioral Health Research.
  Journal of empirical research on human research ethics : JERHRE 2021 Rodriguez CA, Gopalakrishnan L, Del Cid M, Folk JB, Yonek J, Tolou-Shams M
• Home-Based Telemental Health: A Proposed Privacy and Safety Protocol and Tool.
  Journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology 2021 Sharma A, Feuer V, Stuart BK, Folk JB, Doan BT, Kulkarni CA, Ramtekkar U, Fortuna L, Myers K
• VOICES: An efficacious trauma-informed, gender-responsive cannabis use intervention for justice and school-referred girls with lifetime substance use history.
  Drug and alcohol dependence 2021 Tolou-Shams M, Dauria EF, Folk J, Shumway M, Marshall BDL, Rizzo CJ, Messina N, Covington S, Haack LM, Chaffee T, Brown LK
• Rapid creation of child telemental health services during COVID-19 to promote continued care for underserved children and families.
  Psychological services 2021 Tolou-Shams M, Folk J, Stuart B, Mangurian C, Fortuna L
• The prospective impact of adverse childhood experiences on justice-involved youth's psychiatric symptoms and substance use.
  Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 2021 Folk JB, Ramos LMC, Bath EP, Rosen B, Marshall BDL, Kemp K, Brown L, Conrad S, Tolou-Shams M
• Predictors of cannabis use among first-time justice-involved youth: A cohort study.
  Drug and alcohol dependence 2021 Tolou-Shams M, Folk JB, Marshall BDL, Dauria EF, Kemp K, Li Y, Koinis-Mitchell D, Brown LK
• Cannabis Use Among Court-Involved Minority Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Adolescents.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2021 Hirschtritt ME, Folk JB, Marshall BDL, Li Y, Tolou-Shams M
• Dating Aggression among Court-Involved Adolescents: Prevalence, Offense Type, and Gender.
  Journal of interpersonal violence 2021 Collibee C, Fox K, Folk J, Rizzo C, Kemp K, Tolou-Shams M
• All in the family: parental substance misuse, harsh parenting, and youth substance misuse among juvenile justice-involved youth.
  Addictive behaviors 2021 Bosk EA, Anthony WL, Folk JB, Williams-Butler A
• Adverse childhood experiences among justice-involved youth: Data-driven recommendations for action using the sequential intercept model.
  The American psychologist 2021 Folk JB, Kemp K, Yurasek A, Barr-Walker J, Tolou-Shams M
• Feasibility of Social Media-Based Recruitment and Perceived Acceptability of Digital Health Interventions for Caregivers of Justice-Involved Youth: Mixed Methods Study.
  Journal of medical Internet research 2020 Folk JB, Harrison A, Rodriguez C, Wallace A, Tolou-Shams M
• Alcohol misuse among adolescents with BPD symptoms: exploring the moderating role of reasons for drinking and perceived coping skills in a clinical adolescent sample.
  Child and adolescent mental health 2020 Folk JB, Williams CA, Esposito-Smythers C
• Uncharted Waters: Treating Trauma Symptoms in the Context of Early Psychosis.
  Journal of clinical medicine 2019 B Folk J, Tully LM, Blacker DM, Liles BD, Bolden KA, Tryon V, Botello R, Niendam TA
• The Prospective Impact of Family Functioning and Parenting Practices on Court-Involved Youth's Substance Use and Delinquent Behavior.
  Journal of youth and adolescence 2019 Folk JB, Brown LK, Marshall BDL, Ramos LMC, Gopalakrishnan L, Koinis-Mitchell D, Tolou-Shams M
• The comparability of the visual and verbal versions of the Inclusion of Community in Self scale.
  Journal of community psychology 2019 Folk JB, Enriquez K, Cebas L, Stuewig J, Tangney JP, Mashek D
• Behind bars but connected to family: Evidence for the benefits of family contact during incarceration.
  Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) 2019 Folk JB, Stuewig J, Mashek D, Tangney JP, Grossmann J
• Differences between inmates who attempt suicide and who die by suicide: Staff-identified psychological and treatment-related risk factors.
  Psychological services 2018 Folk JB, Loya JM, Alexoudis EA, Tangney JP, Wilson JS, Barboza SE
• Changes in Jail Inmates' Community Connectedness across the Period of Incarceration.
  Deviant behavior 2018 Folk JB, Mashek DJ, Stuewig JB, Tangney JP, Moore KE, Blasko BL
• Changes in Community Integration From Pre- to Post-incarceration: The Influence of Psychological and Criminal Justice Factors.
  Crime and delinquency 2018 Moore KE, Gregorian MJ, Tangney JP, Folk JB, Stuewig JB, Salatino AC
• Maternal Incarceration, Children's Psychological Adjustment, and the Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation.
  Journal of abnormal child psychology 2018 Zeman JL, Dallaire DH, Folk JB, Thrash TM
• The Suicidal Inmate: A Comparison of Inmates Who Attempt Versus Complete Suicide.
  Suicide & life-threatening behavior 2017 Boren EA, Folk JB, Loya JM, Tangney JP, Barboza SE, Wilson JS
• Self-stigma among Criminal Offenders: Risk and Protective Factors.
  Stigma and health 2017 Moore KE, Milam KC, Folk JB, Tangney JP
• Do Demographic Factors Moderate How Well Criminal Thinking Predicts Recidivism?
  International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology 2017 Folk JB, Stuewig JB, Blasko BL, Caudy M, Martinez AG, Maass S, Taxman FS, Tangney JP
• Pilot study of a brief dialectical behavior therapy skills group for jail inmates.
  Psychological services 2016 Moore KE, Folk JB, Boren EA, Tangney JP, Fischer S, Schrader SW
• Changes in Inmates' Substance Use and Dependence From Pre-Incarceration to One Year Post-Release.
  Journal of criminal justice 2016 Tangney JP, Folk JB, Graham DM, Stuewig JB, Blalock DV, Salatino A, Blasko BB, Moore KE
• Effectiveness of a self-administered intervention for criminal thinking: Taking a Chance on Change.
  Psychological services 2016 Folk JB, Disabato DJ, Daylor JM, Tangney JP, Barboza S, Wilson JS, Bonieskie L, Holwager J
• Wise Additions Bridge the Gap between Social Psychology and Clinical Practice: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy as an Exemplar.
  Journal of psychotherapy integration 2016 Folk JB, Disabato DJ, Goodman FR, Carter SP, DiMauro JC, Riskind JH
• Psychometric validation of a simplified form of the PICTS for low-reading level populations.
  Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment 2015 Disabato DJ, Folk JB, Wilson J, Barboza S, Daylor J, Tangney J
• Connectedness to the criminal community and the community at large predicts 1-year post-release outcomes among felony offenders.
  European journal of social psychology 2015 Folk JB, Mashek D, Tangney J, Stuewig J, Moore KE
• Children's proneness to shame and guilt predict risky and illegal behaviors in young adulthood.
  Child psychiatry and human development 2015 Stuewig J, Tangney JP, Kendall S, Folk JB, Meyer CR, Dearing RL
• Feasibility and Acceptability of an Impact of Crime Group Intervention with Jail Inmates.
  Victims & offenders 2015 Folk JB, Blasko BL, Warden R, Schaefer K, Ferssizidis P, Stuewig J, Tangney JP
• Does substance misuse moderate the relationship between criminal thinking and recidivism?
  Journal of criminal justice 2015 Caudy MS, Folk JB, Stuewig JB, Wooditch A, Martinez A, Maass S, Tangney JP, Taxman FS
• A historical review of trauma-related diagnoses to reconsider the heterogeneity of PTSD.
  Journal of anxiety disorders 2014 DiMauro J, Carter S, Folk JB, Kashdan TB
• A longitudinal examination of emotion regulation: pathways to anxiety and depressive symptoms in urban minority youth.
  Child and adolescent mental health 2014 Folk JB, Zeman JL, Poon JA, Dallaire DH
• Evaluating the content and reception of messages from incarcerated parents to their children.
  The American journal of orthopsychiatry 2012 Folk JB, Nichols EB, Dallaire DH, Loper AB