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151
Citations
115146
World Ranking
73
National Ranking
41

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2011 - APA Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 2010 - James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science
  • 2009 - APA Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association.
  • 2008 - Joseph Zubin Award, Society for Research in Psychopathology
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1976 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Alan E. Kazdin is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Health Professions with an emphasis on Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty.

The scientist's scholarly output covers several main topics, including:

  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Health Sciences Research and Education
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Mental Health Research Topics

Recent papers authored by Alan E. Kazdin include:

  • "Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action." (2020, American Psychologist)
  • "Age of onset and cumulative risk of mental disorders: a cross-national analysis of population surveys from 29 countries" (2023, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • "Single-case experimental designs: Characteristics, changes, and challenges" (2020, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior)
  • "Findings From World Mental Health Surveys of the Perceived Helpfulness of Treatment for Patients With Major Depressive Disorder" (2020, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • "A Web-Based Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Intervention for Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression Among University Students: Open-Label, Pragmatic Trial" (2021, JMIR Mental Health)

Frequent co-authors in their research publications comprise:

  • Nancy A. Sampson
  • Ronald C. Kessler
  • Fernando Navarro-Mateu
  • Jordi Alonso
  • Meredith Harris

Alan E. Kazdin frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • International Journal of Mental Health Systems (6 publications)
  • American Psychologist (4 publications)
  • JAMA Psychiatry (3 publications)
  • JMIR Mental Health (2 publications)
  • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (2 publications)

The scientist has authored books published by Cambridge University Press, including two editions of Research Design in Clinical Psychology (2021 and 2023), which collectively have attracted over 800 citations.

Awards received by Alan E. Kazdin include:

  • APA Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology, American Psychological Association (2011)
  • James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (2010)
  • APA Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association (2009)
  • Joseph Zubin Award, Society for Research in Psychopathology (2008)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2003)
  • Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) (1976)

Best Publications

  • Single-case research designs

    Alan E. Kazdin;A. Hussain Tuma

  • Single-Case Research Designs: Methods for Clinical and Applied Settings

    Alan E. Kazdin

  • Research design in clinical psychology

    Alan E. Kazdin

  • MEDIATORS AND MECHANISMS OF CHANGE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH

    Alan E. Kazdin

  • Advances in Clinical Child Psychology

    Benjamin B. Lahey;Alan E. Kazdin

  • Informant discrepancies in the assessment of childhood psychopathology: a critical review, theoretical framework, and recommendations for further study.

    Andres De Los Reyes;Alan E. Kazdin

  • Behavior modification in applied settings

    Alan E. Kazdin

  • How Do Risk Factors Work Together? Mediators, Moderators, and Independent, Overlapping, and Proxy Risk Factors

    Helena Chmura Kraemer;Eric Stice;Alan Kazdin;David Offord

  • Coming to Terms With the Terms of Risk

    Helena Chmura Kraemer;Alan E. Kazdin;David R. Offord;Ronald C. Kessler

  • Conduct disorders in childhood and adolescence

    Alan E. Kazdin

  • Assessing the Clinical or Applied Importance of Behavior Change through Social Validation

    Alan E. Kazdin

  • Treatment of antisocial behavior in children: current status and future directions

    Alan E. Kazdin

  • Evidence-based treatment and practice: new opportunities to bridge clinical research and practice, enhance the knowledge base, and improve patient care.

    Alan E. Kazdin

  • Rebooting Psychotherapy Research and Practice to Reduce the Burden of Mental Illness

    Alan E. Kazdin;Stacey L. Blase

  • Evidence-based psychotherapies for children and adolescents

    Alan E. Kazdin;John R. Weisz

  • Identifying and developing empirically supported child and adolescent treatments

    Alan E. Kazdin;John R. Weisz

  • ACCEPTABILITY OF ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS FOR DEVIANT CHILD BEHAVIOR

    Alan E. Kazdin

  • Cognitive problem-solving skills training and parent management training in the treatment of antisocial behavior in children.

    Alan E. Kazdin;Todd C. Siegel;Debra Bass

  • Family experience of barriers to treatment and premature termination from child therapy.

    Alan E. Kazdin;Lisa Holland;Michael Crowley

  • Delineating mechanisms of change in child and adolescent therapy: methodological issues and research recommendations.

    Alan E. Kazdin;Matthew K. Nock

  • Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice

    Alan E. Kazdin

Frequent Co-Authors

Johnny L. Matson
Johnny L. Matson Louisiana State University
Michel Hersen
Michel Hersen Pacific University Oregon
David J. Kolko
David J. Kolko University of Pittsburgh
Robyn L. Tate
Robyn L. Tate University of Sydney
David H. Barlow
David H. Barlow Boston University
Thomas R. Kratochwill
Thomas R. Kratochwill University of Wisconsin–Madison
Robert H. Horner
Robert H. Horner University of Oregon
Larry Michelson
Larry Michelson University of Pittsburgh
Skye McDonald
Skye McDonald University of New South Wales
Leanne Togher
Leanne Togher University of Sydney

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