Publications

Publications (new as of November 2025)

• Song, S.*, Kon, Z.*, Stephens, T.*, Saladino, P.*, An, K.*, Carson, A.B.*, Okamura, K. H., Marshall, S. M., Chin, S. K., Kaholokula, J. K., Subica, A., Pokhrel, P., & Okamoto, S. K. (2025). Gendered Motivations for E-Cigarette Use Among Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Youth: A Relational–Cultural Perspective. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1010539525138414 
   
• Casline, E., Douglas, S., van Sonsbeek, M., Okamura, K. H., & Jensen-Doss, A. (2024) Measurement-based care as a tool to detect and prevent harm in youth psychotherapy. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 53, 655-668. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-024-01262-1  
   
• Okamoto, S., Subica, A., Okamura, K.H., An, K.*, Song, S.*, Saladino, P.*, Carson, A.*, Kon, Z.*, Marshall, S. M., Chin, S. K., Kaholokula, J. K., Pagano, I., & Pokhrel, P. (2024). Exploring youths’ offers to use e-cigarettes in rural Hawai‘i: A test development and validation study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21(11), 1427. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21111427  
   
• Palafu, T.*, Carreira Ching, D. L.*, Acosta, V. M., Okamoto, S. K., & Okamura, K. H. (2024). Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander identity and housing status: The impact on historical trauma and perceived stress. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21 (9), 1249. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21091249  
   
• Okamura, K. H., Palafu, T.*, Harris, C. J., Crane, M., Wislocki, K., Galanti, R., Osborne, T. L., Reiser, R. P., Sze, J. A., & Persons, J. B. (2024). A demonstration project using professional listserv and Twitter to disseminate research findings to mental health practitioners. the Behavior Therapist, 47(6), 278-291
   
• Marshall, S. M., Saladino, P. A., An, K. J., Song, S. D., Stephens, T. A., Carson, A. B., Chin, S. K., Okamura, K. H., Subica, A., Pokhrel, P., Kaholokula, J. K., & Okamoto , S. K. (2024) Adult familial influences on rural Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander youths’ e-cigarette use. Substance Use and Misuse, https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2024.2392540  
   
• Okamoto, S. K., Okamura, K. H., Marshall, S. M., Chin, S. K., Carson, A. B., An, K. J., Song, S. D., Saladino, P. A., Prado, G., & Kulis, S. S. (2024). Examining implementation determinants of a culturally grounded, school-based prevention curriculum in rural Hawai‘i: A test development and validation study. Implementation, Research, and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1177/2633489524126282
   
• Okamoto, S., Subica, A., An, K., Okamura, K. H., Song, S., Saladino, P., Carson, A., Stephens, T., Marshall, S. M., Chin, S. K., Wills, T., Kaholokula, J., & Pokhrel, P. (2024). Exploring Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander youths’ e-cigarette resistance strategies: Implications for health promotion and disease prevention. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 35(2), 692-706. 
   
• Okamura, K. H., Jackson, D., Carreira Ching, D. L.*, Suh, D. E.*, Hartsock, T. L. R., Hee, P. J., & Shimabukuro, S. K. (2024). 30 years of youth system of care lessons learned - A qualitative study of Hawaiʻi’s partnership with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. BMC Health Services Research, 24(658), 1-12. DOI: 10.1186/s12913-024-11114-9 
   

• Okamura. K. H., Palafu, T.,An, K., Marshall, S. M., Chin, S. K., Stern, K. A., Powell, B. J., Becker, S. J., Mandell, D. S., & Okamoto, S. K. (2024). “Allowing space for voice…all our voices:” Understanding Ho‘ouna Pono implementation through community and educator perspectives in rural Hawai‘i schools. School Mental Health. DOI: 10.1007/s12310-024-09660-y

• Pascual, S., Martini, A., Gambito, J., Gemar, C., Bell, E., Delucio, K., & Ciao, A. C. (2024). Developing a justice-focused body image program for U.S. middle schoolers: A school-based community-engaged research process. Eating Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1080/10640266.2024.2328402

• Jensen-Doss, A., Casline, E., Woodard, G.S., Phillips, D.A., Lane, E., Palafu, T., Waye, C., Ramirez, V., Cheron, D.M., & Okamura, K. H. (2024). Provider use of, attitudes towards, and self-efficacy with key measurement-based care practices: A multi-site examination. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-024-01354-6 
   
• Wislocki, K., Keller, N., Okamura, K. H., & Becker-Haimes, E. (2023). Evidence-based Practice in Clinical Child Psychology. In J. L. Matson (eds) Handbook of Clinical Psychology: Integrating Theory and Research into Practice. Autism and Child Psychopathology Series. New York: Springer Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24926-6_3
   

• Okamura, K. H., Okamoto, S. K., Marshall, S. M., Chin, S. K., Garcia, P. M., Powell, B. J., Stern, K. A., Becker, S. J., & Mandell, D. S. (2022). Ho‘ouna Pono implementation: Applying concept mapping to a culturally-grounded substance abuse prevention curriculum in rural schools. Implementation Science Communications, 3(111), 1-6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s43058-022-00359-2  
   
• Maddox, B. B., Phan, M. L., Byeon, Y. V., Wolk, C. B., Stewart, R. E., Powell, B. J., Okamura, K. H., Pellecchia, M., Becker-Haimes, E. M., Asch, D. A., & Beidas, R. S. (2022). Short report: Metrics to evaluate implementation scientists in the USA: What matters most? Implementation Science Communications, 3, 75. DOI:0.1186/s43058-022-00323-0 

• Okamura, K. H., Skriner, L. C., Becker-Haimes, E. M., Adams, D. R., Becker, S., Kratz, H. E., Jackson, K., Berkowitz, S., Zinny, A., Cliggitt, L., & Beidas, R. S. (2020). Perceptions of evidence-based treatment among consumers receiving Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 29(6), 1712-1722. DOI: 10.1007/s10826-020-01708-2 
   
• Lawson, G., Moore, T. M., Okamura, K. H., Becker-Haimes, E. M., & Beidas, R. S. (2020). Knowledge of evidence-based services questionnaire: Development and validation of a short form. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 47, 581-596. DOI: 10.1007/s10488-020-01020-7
   
• Okamoto, S. K., Helm, S., Chin, S. K., Hata, J., Hata, E., & Okamura, K. H. (2020). The implementation of a culturally grounded, school-based, drug prevention curriculum in rural Hawaiʻi. Journal of Community Psychology, 48(4), 1085-1099. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22222
   
• Becker-Haimes, E. M., Williams, N. J., Okamura, K. H., & Beidas, R. S. (2019). Interactions between clinician and organizational characteristics as predictors of evidence-based practice use. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 46, 701-712. DOI: 10.1007/s10488-019-00959-6 
   
• Okamura, K. H., Jackson D., & Nakamura, B. J. (2019). Therapist and youth predictors of specific practices derived from the evidence-base in community mental health. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 46(5), 609-619. DOI: 10.1007/s10488-019-00942-1 
   
• Okamura, K. H., Orimoto, T. E., Nakamura, B. J., Chang, B., Chorpita, B. F., & Beidas, R. S. (2019). A history of child and adolescent treatment through a distillation lens: Looking back to move forward. Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, 47(1), 70-85. DOI: 10.1007/s11414-019-09659-3 
   
• Becker-Haimes, E. M., Okamura, K. H., Baldwin, C. D., Schmidt, C., Wahesh, E., & Beidas, R. S. (2019). Understanding the landscape of behavioral health pre-service training to inform evidence-based intervention implementation. Psychiatric Services, 70(1), 68-70. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201800220 
   
• Okamura, K. H., Orimoto, T. E., Mah, A. C., Slavin, L. A., Rocco, S., Shimabukuro, S. K., Michels, M. S., & Nakamura, B. J. (2018). The Help Your Keiki website: Increasing youth and caregiver awareness of youth psychosocial mental health treatment. Hawaiʻi Journal of Medicine and Public Health, 77(8), 203-207.  
   
• Okamura, K. H., Hee, P. J., Jackson, D., & Nakamura, B. J. (2018). Furthering our understanding of therapist knowledge and attitudinal measurement in youth community mental health. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 45(5), 699-708. DOI: 10.1007/s10488-018-0854-1 
   
• Okamura, K. H., Wolk, C. L., Kang-Yi, C. D., Stewart, R., Rubin, R. M., Weaver, S., Evans, A. C., Cidav, Z., Beidas, R. S., & Mandell, D. S. (2018). The price per prospective consumer of providing therapist training and consultation in seven evidence-based treatments within a large public behavioral health system: An example cost-analysis metric. Frontiers in Public Health, 5(356), 1-8. DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2017.00356 
   
• Becker Haimes, E., Okamura, K. H., Benjamin Wolk, C., Rubin, R., Evans, A., & Beidas, R. (2017). Predictors of clinician use of exposure therapy in community mental health settings. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 49, 88-94. DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2017.04.002 
   
• Burgess, A. M., Chang, J., Nakamura, B. J., Izmirian, S. C., & Okamura, K. H. (2017). Evidence-based practice implementation within a theory of planned behavior framework. Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, 44(4), 647-665. DOI: 10.1007/s11414-016-9523-x
   
• Burgess, A. M., Okamura, K. H., Izmirian, S. C., & Nakamura, B. J. (2017). Therapist attitudes towards evidence-based practice: A joint factor analysis. Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, 44(3), 414-427. DOI: 10.1007/s11414-016-9517-8 
   
• Okamura, K. H., Ebesutani, C., Bloom, R., Higa-McMillan, C. K., Nakamura, B. J. & Chorpita, B. F. (2016). Differences in internalizing symptoms across specific ethnic minority groups: An analysis across Chinese American, Filipino American, Japanese American, Native Hawaiian, and White youth. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25(11), 3353-3366. DOI: 10.1007/s10826-016-0488-4 
   
• Okamura, K.H., Nakamura, B. J., Mueller, C., Hayashi, K., & Higa-McMillan, C. K. (2016). An exploratory factor analysis of the knowledge of evidence-based services questionnaire. Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, 43(2), 214-232.  DOI: 10.1007/s11414-013-9384-5 
   
• Nakamura, B. J. Selbo-Bruns, A., Okamura, K. H., Chang, J. P., Slavin, L., & Shimabukuro, S. (2014). Developing a systematic evaluation approach for training programs within a train-the-trainer model for youth cognitive behavior therapy. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 53, 10-19. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2013.12.001 
   
• Nakamura, B. J., Mueller, C. W., Higa-McMillan, C. K., Okamura, K. H., Chang, J. P., Slavin, L., & Shimabukuro, S. (2013) Engineering youth service system infrastructure: Hawaiʻi’s continued efforts at large-scale implementation through knowledge management strategies. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2013.812039 
   
• Price, M.,  Ebesutani, C., Higa-McMillan, C. K., Okamura, K. H., Nakamura, B. J., Chorpita, B. F., & Weisz, J. R. (2013). Symptom differentiation of anxiety and depression across youth development and clinic-referred/non-referred samples: An examination of competing factor structures of Child Behavior Checklist DSM-oriented scales. Development and Psychopathology, 25, 1005-1015. DOI: 10.1017/S0954579413000333 
   
• Ward, A., Regan, J., Chorpita, B., Rodriguez. A., Starace, N., Okamura, K. H., Daleiden, E., Bearman, S.K., Weisz, J, & the Research Network on Youth Mental Health. (2012). Tracking evidence-based practice with youth : Validity of the MATCH and standard manual consultation records. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 42(1), 44-55. DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2012.700505 
   
• Ebesutani, C. K., Okamura, K. H., Higa-McMillan, C. K., & Chorpita, B. F. (2011). A psychometric evaluation of the positive affect and negative affect schedule for children – parent report in a school sample. Psychological Assessment, 23(2), 406-416. DOI: 10.1037/a0022057
   
• Nakamura, B. J., Higa-McMillan, C. K., Okamura, K. H., & Shimabukuro, S. (2011). Knowledge of and attitudes towards evidence-based practices in community child mental health practitioners. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 38(4), 287-300. DOI: 10.1007/s10488-011-0351-2
   
• Chorpita, B. F., Daleiden, E. L., Ebesutani, C. E., Young, J., Becker, K. D., Nakamura, B. J., Phillips, L., Hershberger, A. M., Stumpf, R., Trent, L., Smith, R., Okamura, K. H., & Starace, N. K. (2011). Evidence based treatments for children and adolescents: An updated review of efficacy and clinical utility. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 18(2), 154-172. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2850.2011.01247.x