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  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Anthony Spirito is affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their research primarily intersects the fields of psychology and medicine, with a strong emphasis on clinical psychology and psychiatry and mental health. Their scholarly output covers a diverse range of subfields including general health professions, epidemiology, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their work frequently addresses key topics such as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, suicide and self-harm studies, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, cannabinoid research, prenatal substance exposure effects, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, and schizophrenia research and treatment.

Selected recent publications by Anthony Spirito reflect the focus on adolescent mental health and suicide risk. Notable works include:

  • Online Self-Injury Activities among Psychiatrically Hospitalized Adolescents: Prevalence, Functions, and Perceived Consequences (2021, Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology)
  • Prediction of Suicide Attempts and Suicide-Related Events Among Adolescents Seen in Emergency Departments (2023, JAMA Network Open)
  • Suicidal thoughts and behavior (STB) and psychosis-risk symptoms among psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents (2020, Schizophrenia Research)
  • User-informed marketing versus standard description to drive demand for evidence-based therapy: A randomized controlled trial (2020, American Psychologist)
  • Social connectedness and adolescent suicide risk (2023, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry)

Anthony Spirito regularly publishes in venues including UNC Libraries, Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Journal of Affective Disorders.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Jennifer C. Wolff, Sara J. Becker, Kathleen Kemp, Christianne Esposito-Smythers, and Lauren Micalizzi.

In recognition of contributions to the field, Anthony Spirito was awarded Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2001.

Best Publications

  • The Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ): psychometric properties of a survey instrument for school-aged children.

    Judith A. Owens;Anthony Spirito;Melissa McGuinn

  • The children's depression inventory: a systematic evaluation of psychometric properties.

    Conway F. Saylor;A. J. Finch;Anthony Spirito;Brad Bennett

  • Brief intervention for harm reduction with alcohol-positive older adolescents in a hospital emergency department

    Peter M Monti;Suzanne M Colby;Nancy P Barnett;Anthony Spirito

  • Sleep habits and sleep disturbance in elementary school-aged children.

    Judith A. Owens;Anthony Spirito;Melissa McGUINN;Chantelle Nobile

  • Switching to Another SSRI or to Venlafaxine With or Without Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents With SSRI-Resistant Depression: The TORDIA Randomized Controlled Trial

    David Brent;Graham Emslie;Greg Clarke;Karen Dineen Wagner

  • Suicide attempts and nonsuicidal self-injury in the treatment of resistant depression in adolescents: findings from the TORDIA study.

    Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow;Giovanna Porta;Anthony Spirito;Graham J Emslie

  • Development of a Brief Coping Checklist for Use with Pediatric Populations

    Anthony Spirito;Lori J. Stark;Connie Williams

  • Adolescents' and Their Friends' Health-Risk Behavior: Factors That Alter or Add to Peer Influence

    Mitchell J. Prinstein;Julie Boergers;Anthony Spirito

  • Longitudinal trajectories and predictors of adolescent suicidal ideation and attempts following inpatient hospitalization.

    Mitchell J. Prinstein;Matthew K. Nock;Valerie Simon;Julie Wargo Aikins

  • Anhedonia Predicts Poorer Recovery among Youth with Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Treatment-Resistant Depression

    Dana L. McMakin;Thomas M. Olino;Giovanna Porta;Laura J. Dietz

  • Brief motivational interviewing in a hospital setting for adolescent smoking: a preliminary study.

    Suzanne M. Colby;Peter M. Monti;Nancy P. Barnett;Damaris J. Rohsenow

  • A randomized clinical trial of a brief motivational intervention for alcohol-positive adolescents treated in an emergency department

    Anthony Spirito;Peter M. Monti;Nancy P. Barnett;Suzanne M. Colby

  • Attempted suicide in adolescence: A review and critique of the literature

    Anthony Spirito;Larry Brown;James Overholser;Gregory Fritz

  • Attempted and Completed Suicide in Adolescence

    Anthony Spirito;Christianne Esposito-Smythers

  • Self-mutilative behavior in adolescents who attempt suicide by overdose.

    Tracey Guertin;Elizabeth Lloyd-Richardson;Anthony Spirito;Deidre Donaldson

  • Peer functioning, family dysfunction, and psychological symptoms in a risk factor model for adolescent inpatients' suicidal ideation severity.

    Mitchell J. Prinstein;Julie Boergers;Anthony Spirito;Todd D. Little

  • Reasons for adolescent suicide attempts: associations with psychological functioning

    Julie Boergers;Anthony Spirito;Deidre Donaldson

  • Peer influence and nonsuicidal self injury: longitudinal results in community and clinically-referred adolescent samples.

    Mitchell J. Prinstein;Nicole Heilbron;John D. Guerry;Joseph C. Franklin

  • Suicide Attempts and Self-Mutilative Behavior in a Juvenile Correctional Facility

    Joseph V. Penn;Christianne L. Esposito;Leah E. Schaeffer;Gregory K. Fritz

  • Sleep and daytime behavior in children with obstructive sleep apnea and behavioral sleep disorders

    Judith Owens;Lisa Opipari;Chantelle Nobile;Anthony Spirito

Frequent Co-Authors

Christianne Esposito-Smythers
Christianne Esposito-Smythers George Mason University
Nancy P. Barnett
Nancy P. Barnett Brown University
Peter M. Monti
Peter M. Monti Brown University
James C. Overholser
James C. Overholser Case Western Reserve University
Damaris J. Rohsenow
Damaris J. Rohsenow Brown University
Lori J. Stark
Lori J. Stark Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Shirley Yen
Shirley Yen Harvard Medical School
David A. Brent
David A. Brent University of Pittsburgh
Graham J. Emslie
Graham J. Emslie The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Suzanne M. Colby
Suzanne M. Colby Brown University

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