Description

Children and adolescents with co-occurring suicidal and antisocial behaviors are at substantially elevated risk of premature mortality. This presentation will examine patterns of these behaviors using healthcare data and address methodological considerations for studying their intersection. Emphasis will be placed on the role of mixed-methods designs in capturing individual and contextual influences on risk trajectories.

Bio

Franchesca Castro-Ramirez (Franckie; they/them) is a PhD student at Harvard University. As a clinical psychology trainee, Franckie focused on complex presentations of PTSD and has extensive experience training individuals to conduct suicide risk assessments and safety planning in academic research, clinical, and community settings. Franckie’s doctoral research investigates how violence exposure shapes trajectories of suicide risk and externalizing behavior, with a focus on interactions between neighborhood- and individual-level factors.