Publications and Grants

Scientific Articles

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A scoping review of literature on the Neurosequential Model. Lindenbach, D., Desai, P., Berza, V., Lee, J., Okoye, H., Herman, P., Dimitropoulos, G., Arnold, P.D., & Wang, E.Y. (2025). Published manuscript (free).

Adverse childhood experiences predict likelihood to complete treatment in adolescents and young adults with eating disorders. Lindenbach, D., Austin, A., Singh, M., Trebilcock, A., Bhattarai, A., Marcoux-Louie, G., & Dimitropoulos, G. (2025). Published manuscript (free).

Child and caregiver perspectives on implementing a transdiagnostic cognitive behavioral therapy for children impacted by trauma in a residential treatment setting. Child Protection & Practice. Lindenbach, D.,Wang, E.Y., Scammell, J., O’Neill, T., Bennett, S., Mohammadi, F., Ehrenreich-May, J., Arnold, P.D., & Dimitropoulos, G. (2025). Published manuscript (free).

Ecological momentary assessment for adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa and their parents/caregivers in family-based treatment. International Journal of Eating Disorders. Singh, M., Austin, M., Lindenbach, D., Vander Steen, H., Habina, C., Marcoux-Louie, G., Loeb, K., Engel, S., LeGrange, D. & Dimitropoulos, G. (2025).  Published manuscript (free).

The impact of reflective practice on the wellbeing and competency of supervisors and frontline staff in a non-profit community provider of mental health services for youth and families. Child & Youth Services, 1-23. Lindenbach, D., Dimitropoulos, G., Wood, V., Bainbridge, C., Anderson, A., Hervey, V., Arnold, P.D. & Wang, E.Y. (2024). Published manuscript (subscription required) Pre-print manuscript (free)

Confidence, training and barriers for Canadian law enforcement in cases of luring, sexual abuse and child sex abuse imagery. International Journal of Child Maltreatment, 7, 553-567. Fitts, A., Binford, W., Lindenbach, D. & Dimitropoulos, G. (2024). Published manuscript (free)

Feasibility and acceptability of implementing a transdiagnostic cognitive behavioral therapy for children impacted by trauma within a residential treatment facility. Child & Youth Services, 1-26. Lindenbach, D., Anderson, A., Wang, E., Heintz, M., Rowbotham, M., Ehrenreich-May, J., Arnold, P.D. & Dimitropoulos, G. (2024). Published manuscript (subscription required) Accepted Manuscript (free)

A qualitative study on the implementation of a transdiagnostic cognitive behavioral therapy for children in a child welfare residential treatment program. Child Abuse & Neglect, 146, 106487. Dimitropoulos, G., Lindenbach, D., Anderson, A., Rowbotham, M., Wang, E., Heintz, M., Ehrenreich-May, J. & Arnold, P.D. (2023). Published manuscript (free)

Feasibility and acceptability of a brief, online transdiagnostic psychotherapy for young adults. Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 32(2): 111-125. Dimitropoulos, G., Lindenbach, D., Rowbotham, M., Devoe, D.J., Richardson, A., Mogan, T., Patten, S.B., Ehrenreich-May, J. & Arnold, P.D. (2023).  Published manuscript (free)

The Well-Being of Youth with Complex Needs in Care Preparing to Transition to Adulthood. Child & Youth Services, 45(1), 77–94. McQuay, J., Wilcox, G., & Nordstokke, D. (2023). Published manuscript (subscription required)

Capacity, confidence and training of Canadian educators and school staff to recognize and respond to sexual abuse and internet exploitation of their students. Child Abuse & Neglect 112, 104898. Lindenbach, D., Cullen, O., Bhattarai, A., Perry, R., Diaz, R.L., Patten, S.B. & Dimitropoulos, G. (2021). Published manuscript (subscription required) Accepted manuscript (free)

Restraint and Critical Incident Reduction Following Introduction of the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT). Hambrick, E. P., Brawner, T. W., Perry, B. D., Wang, E. Y., Griffin, G., DeMarco, T., … Strother, M. (2018). Residential Treatment For Children & Youth, 35(1), 2–23. Published manuscript (subscription required)

Book Chapters

A Trauma-Informed Approach to the Unified Protocol for Children with Exposure to Child Maltreatment​. In: Shenk, C.E. (eds) Innovative Methods in Child Maltreatment Research and Practice. Child Maltreatment Solutions Network. Springer, Cham. Gruen, R., Lindenbach, D., Arnold, P., Ehrenreich-May, J., Dimitropoulos, G. (2023). Published chapter (subscription required)

Understanding and Applying a Neurodevelopmental Approach in Residential Interventions. In Transforming Residential Interventions (pp. 197-234). Routledge. Lieberman, R. E., Champagne, T., Wang, E. Y., & Rushlo, K. (2020). Published chapter (subscription required)

The Neurosequential Model Approach: Integration and Practice Across Multiple Programs. Perry, E., Griffin, G., Maikoetter, M., Graner, S., Rosenfelt, J., Perry, B.D., Wang, E.Y. May 2018. Conference paper (kindle)

Grants Led by Pathways to Prevention

Co-design, embedding, and evaluation of an implementation research logic model to support the uptake of the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics in campus-based care.

Okoye (Fellowship Holder), Dimitropoulos (Primary Academic Supervisor), Lindenbach (Primary Organizational Supervisor), Wang (Organizational Co-supervisor)

Mitacs: Accelerate. 2026 – 2027. $60,000.

Co-design, embedding, and evaluation of an implementation research logic model to support the uptake of the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics in campus-based care

Okoye (Fellowship Holder), Dimitropoulos (Primary Supervisor), Lindenbach (Co-Supervisor), Wang (Co-supervisor)

Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute: Stretch Family Postdoctoral Fellowship (Mental Health). 2025 – 2027. $70,000.

Investigating interventions to support youth impacted by developmental trauma

Lindenbach (Principal Investigator), Dimitropoulos (Co-principal Investigator), Wang (Co-principal Investigator), Alama (Co-applicant), Bare Shin Bone (Co-applicant), Eagle Speaker (Co-applicant), Hervey (Co-applicant), O’Neill (Co-applicant), Pippus (Co-applicant), Sackett (Co-applicant), Somers (Co-applicant)

An Anonymous Donor. 2025 – 2027. $350,198

The FATHERS Project: Fostering Father-child Attunement using Therapeutic Recreation Supports

Lindenbach (Applicant), Dimitropoulos (Co-applicant), Okoye (Co-applicant), Wang (Co-applicant), Collins (Collaborator), Pippus (Collaborator)

Social Science and Humanities Research Council: Partnership Engage Grant. $25,000.

Evaluating use of a decision-support tool to understand level-of-care needed when transitioning children with complex needs out of residential care: a pilot project towards developing a research training platform

Lindenbach (Principal Investigator), Collins (Co-investigator), Dimitropoulos (Co-investigator), Leiding (Co-investigator), Okoye (Co-investigator), Wang (Co-investigator)

University of Calgary: Health Equity HUB at the O’Brien Institute for Public Health Community Catalyst Awards. 2025 – 2026. $5,000.

Gathering youth perspectives to optimize therapeutic recreation

Lindenbach (Principal Investigator), Pippus (co-investigator)

Burns Memorial Fund for Children: Community Grant. 2024 – 2025. $14,980.

Applying Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing to a talk therapy program for Indigenous youth, families and communities in Alberta

Lindenbach (Nominated Principal Applicant), Dimitropoulos (Principal Applicant), Eagle Speaker (Principal Applicant), Sipos (Principal Applicant), Wang (Principal Applicant), O’Neill (Co-applicant), Scammel (Collaborator)

Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute: One Child Every Child Seedling Award. 2024 – 2027. $50,000.

Preventing and mitigating developmental trauma through a transdisciplinary community-university partnership

Lindenbach (Project Holder), Dimitropoulos (Principal Applicant), Wang (Principal Applicant)

University of Calgary: Transdisciplinary Connector Grant. 2024. $17,000.

Enhancing behavioural and mental health services for youth impacted by developmental trauma by strengthening caregiver and provider networks

Dimitropoulos (Primary Academic Supervisor), Lindenbach (Primary Organizational Supervisor), Wang (Organizational Co-supervisor)

Mitacs: Accelerate. 2025. $60,000.

A beginner-level pump track to support trauma-informed recreation for vulnerable youth

Lindenbach (Primary Applicant), Pippus (Co-Applicant)

Parks Foundation Calgary: Amateur Sport Grant. 2024 – 2025. $50,000.

Enhancing resilience among vulnerable youth through online delivery of a brief, evidence-based psychotherapy

Dimitropoulos (Co-Applicant), Lindenbach (Co-applicant), Sipos (Co-Applicant), Wang (Co-Applicant)

Government of Alberta: Mental Health and Addiction COVID-19 Community Funding Application. 2020-2021. $48,000.

Grants Where Pathways to Prevention is a Partner

Youth knowledge in action: Embedding youth voices in Alberta’s learning health system

Dimitropoulos (Principal Investigator), Lindenbach (Co-investigator)

University of Calgary: O’Brien Institute for Public Health Research Catalyst Fund. 2026 – 2027. $15,000.

Together towards bright futures: Strengthening network(s) to support Indigenous youth and communities through advancing, sharing and learning from wise practices, data and stories

Dimitropoulos (Co-applicant), Eagle Speaker (Co-applicant), Lindenbach (Co-applicant)

Canadian Institutes of Health Research: IYS-Net Phase 2 Indigenous Network. 2025 – 2029. $10,798,948.

Co-developing a partnerships platform to disseminate community-led health equity research and knowledge mobilization

Lindenbach (Collaborator)

Canadian Institutes of Health Research: Planning and Dissemination Grant. $19,868.

The AURA Study

Lindenbach (Co-lead investigator), Dimitropoulos (Co-investigator)

University of Calgary: Mathison Centre Research Grant. 2025 – 2026. $50,000.

YOUTH-MIND

Dimitropoulos (Co-supervisor), Lindenbach (Co-supervisor)

University of Calgary: Program for Undergraduate Research Experience. 2025. $7,500.

Building transdisciplinary partnerships to advance post-secondary mental health and well-being research

Dimitropoulos (Team Member), Lindenbach (Team Member)

University of Calgary: Transdisciplinary Connector Grant. 2025 – 2026. $16,917.

Bridging research and practice to develop a comprehensive response to child sexual abuse materials

Dimitropoulos (Team Member), Lindenbach (Team Member)

University of Calgary: Transdisciplinary Connector Grant. 2025. $17,000.

Capturing the youth voice to inform outcomes for child and youth advocacy centres

Dimitropoulos (Co-principal Investigator), Lindenbach (Co-applicant)

Canadian Consortium on Child & Youth Trauma: Seed Grant. 2023-2024. $25,000.

LEAPS-IYS: Learning to Equitably Adapt Peer Support for Integrated Youth Services

Dimitropoulos (Principal Investigator), Lindenbach (Co-investigator)

Canadian Institutes of Health Research: Catalyst Grant. 2023-2024. $199,960.

TransitionED: Co-designing and implementing Canadian Practice Guidelines for transitions for youth and young adults with eating disorders

Dimitropoulos (Principal Investigator), Lindenbach (Co-investigator)

Canadian Institutes of Health Research: Team Grant – Transitions in Care. 2022 – 2026. $960,000.

The Canadian Consortium on Child & Youth Trauma

Dimitropoulos (Co-applicant), Lindenbach (Co-applicant), Wang (Co-applicant)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council: Partnership Grant. 2020-2027. $2,500,000.

Impact of child maltreatment: identifying biological and psycho-social predictors of risk, resilience and response to interventions

Dimitropoulos (Co-investigator), Lindenbach (Co-investigator), Wang (Co-investigator)

An Anonymous Donor. 2019-2023. $450,000.