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Overview

Bruce F. Chorpita is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields within psychology and health professions, with a focus on child and adolescent mental health, treatment engagement, and intervention development.

The primary fields of study for Chorpita include:

  • Psychology
  • Health Professions

Within these broader fields, their subfields of study cover:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • General Health Professions
  • Social Psychology
  • Speech and Hearing
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health

The main topics addressed in their research encompass:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions

Chorpita has published in several frequent venues, indicating a consistent focus on mental health and clinical psychology topics. These venues include:

  • Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research
  • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
  • Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
  • Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
  • Behavior Therapy

Among recent papers, key publications include:

  • "Effectiveness of a brief lay counsellor-delivered, problem-solving intervention for adolescent mental health problems in urban, low-income schools in India: a randomised controlled trial" (2020, The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health)
  • "Mental Distress and Human Rights Violations During COVID-19: A Rapid Review of the Evidence Informing Rights, Mental Health Needs, and Public Policy Around Vulnerable Populations" (2021, Frontiers in Psychiatry)
  • "A Multidimensional Examination of the Measurement of Treatment Engagement: Implications for Children's Mental Health Services and Research" (2021, Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology)
  • "Future Directions in Youth and Family Treatment Engagement: Finishing the Bridge Between Science and Service" (2023, Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology)
  • "Behavioral Activation as an 'active ingredient' of interventions addressing depression and anxiety among young people: a systematic review and evidence synthesis" (2021, BMC Psychology)

Their frequent coauthors reflect collaborations with experts across child and adolescent mental health research fields. These include:

  • Kimberly D. Becker
  • Wendy Chu
  • John R. Weisz
  • Eric L. Daleiden
  • Vikram Patel

Best Publications

  • Psychometric properties of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) in clinical samples

    Timothy A. Brown;Bruce F. Chorpita;William Korotitsch;David H. Barlow

  • Assessment of symptoms of DSM-IV anxiety and depression in children: a revised child anxiety and depression scale

    Bruce F Chorpita;Letitia Yim;Catherine Moffitt;Lori A Umemoto

  • The development of anxiety: The role of control in the early environment.

    Bruce F. Chorpita;David H. Barlow

  • Structural relationships among dimensions of the DSM-IV anxiety and mood disorders and dimensions of negative affect, positive affect, and autonomic arousal.

    Timothy A. Brown;Bruce F. Chorpita;David H. Barlow

  • Psychometric properties of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale in a clinical sample

    Bruce F. Chorpita;Catherine E. Moffitt;Jennifer Gray

  • Testing Standard and Modular Designs for Psychotherapy Treating Depression, Anxiety, and Conduct Problems in Youth: A Randomized Effectiveness Trial

    John R Weisz;Bruce F. Chorpita;Lawrence A. Palinkas;Sonia K. Schoenwald

  • Identifying and selecting the common elements of evidence based interventions: a distillation and matching model.

    Bruce F. Chorpita;Eric L. Daleiden;John R. Weisz

  • Mapping evidence-based treatments for children and adolescents: application of the distillation and matching model to 615 treatments from 322 randomized trials.

    Bruce F. Chorpita;Eric L. Daleiden

  • Psychological Treatments for the World: Lessons from Low- and Middle-Income Countries

    Daisy R. Singla;Brandon A. Kohrt;Laura K. Murray;Arpita Anand

  • Childhood anxiety disorders.

    Anne Marie Albano;Bruce F. Chorpita;David H. Barlow

  • Evidence Base Update: 50 Years of Research on Treatment for Child and Adolescent Anxiety

    Charmaine K. Higa-McMillan;Sarah E. Francis;Leslie Rith-Najarian;Bruce F. Chorpita

  • Evidence-Based Treatments for Children and Adolescents: An Updated Review of Indicators of Efficacy and Effectiveness

    Bruce F. Chorpita;Eric L. Daleiden;Chad Ebesutani;John Young

  • Assessment of worry in children and adolescents: an adaptation of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire.

    Bruce F. Chorpita;Susan A. Tracey;Susan A. Tracey;Timothy A. Brown;Tracy J. Collica

  • The 10-Item Positive and Negative Affect Schedule for Children, Child and Parent Shortened Versions: Application of Item Response Theory for More Efficient Assessment

    Chad Ebesutani;Jennifer Regan;Ashley Smith;Steven Reise

  • A Psychometric Analysis of the Child Behavior Checklist DSM-Oriented Scales

    Brad J. Nakamura;Chad Ebesutani;Adam Bernstein;Bruce F. Chorpita

  • Cognitive processing in children: Relation to anxiety and family influences

    Bruce F. Chorpita;Anne Marie Albano;David H. Barlow

  • The Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale-Short Version: Scale reduction via exploratory bifactor modeling of the broad anxiety factor.

    Chad Ebesutani;Steven P. Reise;Bruce F. Chorpita;Chelsea Ale

  • Youth Top Problems: using idiographic, consumer-guided assessment to identify treatment needs and to track change during psychotherapy.

    John R. Weisz;Bruce F. Chorpita;Alice Frye;Mei Yi Ng

  • Fear, panic, anxiety, and disorders of emotion.

    David H. Barlow;Bruce F. Chorpita;Julia Turovsky

  • Modularity in the design and application of therapeutic interventions

    Bruce F. Chorpita;Eric L. Daleiden;John R. Weisz

  • Toward Large‐Scale Implementation of Empirically Supported Treatments for Children: A Review and Observations by the Hawaii Empirical Basis to Services Task Force

    Bruce F. Chorpita;Letitia M. Yim;John C. Donkervoet;Alfred Arensdorf

  • Perceived control as a mediator of family environment in etiological models of childhood anxiety

    Bruce F. Chorpita;Timothy A. Brown;David H. Barlow

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric L. Daleiden
Eric L. Daleiden University of South Carolina
John R. Weisz
John R. Weisz Harvard University
David H. Barlow
David H. Barlow Boston University
Anna S. Lau
Anna S. Lau University of California, Los Angeles
Timothy A. Brown
Timothy A. Brown Boston University
Michael A. Southam-Gerow
Michael A. Southam-Gerow Virginia Commonwealth University
Jennifer L. Krull
Jennifer L. Krull University of California, Los Angeles
Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus
Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus University of California, Los Angeles
Denise A. Chavira
Denise A. Chavira University of California, Los Angeles
Anne Marie Albano
Anne Marie Albano Columbia University

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