Randye J. Semple, PhD

Randye J. Semple, PhD is the lead developer of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Children (MBCT-C), an evidence-based therapy that has been implemented around the world. Professor Semple’s work in the area of mindfulness with youth has been at the forefront of international interest in mindfulness-based therapies in mental health care for two decades. Her research and clinical interests are in the application of mindfulness to psychological health and well-being with particular focus on the development and evaluation of mindfulness-based interventions for children and adolescents in clinic and school settings. She serves on the steering committees for Mindful USC and the USC Center for Mindfulness Science, the University’s mindfulness initiatives, and on the research committee of the American Mindfulness Research Association. She is co-author of the books Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Anxious Children and The Mindfulness Matters Program for Children and Adolescents: Strategies, Activities, and Techniques for Therapists and Teachers and has authored or co-authored nearly 60 scientific journal articles, book chapters, and other professional publications.

Professor Semple is the Principal Investigator and Project Director of the USC Child and Adolescent Collaborative for Trauma-Informed Care, a National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). Category III Community Treatment and Service (CTS) Center, which aims to increase access to effective trauma treatment and services for children, adolescents, and their families, who have experience traumatic events. The USC-CACTIC is supported by a grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA #1H79SM087898).

• The Necessity and Acceptability of Text Message Therapy to Peripartum Mothers Telemed J E Health. 2025 Feb; 31(2):222-233. . View in PubMed
• Effectiveness and satisfaction of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for children on anxiety, depression, and internet addiction in adolescents: Study protocol for a randomized control trial PLoS One. 2025; 20(4):e0317824. . View in PubMed
• Recent Suicidal Ideation and Behavior in the General Population: The Role of Depression, Posttraumatic Stress, and Reactive Avoidance J Nerv Ment Dis. 2019 May; 207(5):320-325. . View in PubMed
• Review: Yoga and mindfulness for youth with autism spectrum disorder: review of the current evidence Child Adolesc Ment Health. 2019 02; 24(1):12-18. . View in PubMed
• State of the Research: Physical and Mental Health Benefits of Mindfulness-based Interventions for Children and Adolescents OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine. 2019; 1(4). . View in PubMed
• The Mindfulness Matters Program for Children and Adolescents: Strategies, Activities, and Techniques for Therapists and Teachers 2019. . View in PubMed
• Yoga and Mindfulness for Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Review of the Current Evidence Child and Adolescent Mental Health. 2018. . View in PubMed
• Acute Stress Symptoms in Seriously Injured Patients: Precipitating Versus Cumulative Trauma and the Contribution of Peritraumatic Distress J Trauma Stress. 2017 08; 30(4):381-388. . View in PubMed
• Measuring Mindfulness in Youth: Review of Current Assessments, Challenges, and Future Directions Mindfulness. 2017; (8):1409-1420. . View in PubMed
• MINDFULNESS GOES TO SCHOOL: THINGS LEARNED (SO FAR) FROM RESEARCH AND REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCES Psychol Sch. 2017 01; 54(1):29-52. . View in PubMed
• Dissociative complexity: Antecedents and clinical correlates of a new construct Psychol Trauma. 2016 09; 8(5):577-84. . View in PubMed
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Perinatal Women with Depression or Bipolar Spectrum Disorder Cognit Ther Res. 2015 Oct; 39(5):590-600. . View in PubMed
• Component Processes of Executive Function-Mindfulness, Self-control, and Working Memory-and Their Relationships with Mental and Behavioral Health Mindfulness (N Y). 2011 Sep; 2(3):179-185. . View in PubMed
• Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Anxious Children: A Manual for Treating Childhood Anxiety 2011. . View in PubMed
• Relationship between drug company funding and outcomes of clinical psychiatric research Psychol Med. 2006 Nov; 36(11):1647-56. . View in PubMed

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