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Overview

Denise A. Chavira is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a concentration in clinical psychology and related subfields such as social psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, experimental and cognitive psychology, and applied psychology.

The scientist's main topics of work include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, attachment and relationship dynamics, digital mental health interventions, COVID-19 and mental health, and broad mental health research topics encompassing anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Denise A. Chavira are:

  • The impact of COVID-19 on child and adolescent mental health and treatment considerations, 2022, Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Person-Centered Cultural Assessment Can Improve Child Mental Health Service Engagement and Outcomes, 2021, Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
  • Psychological interventions for depression and anxiety in pregnant Latina and Black women in the United States: A systematic review, 2020, Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
  • Discrimination and Internalizing Symptoms in Rural Latinx Adolescents: The Protective Role of Family Resilience, 2021, Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
  • Postpartum depressive symptoms in low-income Latinas: Cultural and contextual contributors, 2020, Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

Denise A. Chavira frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
  • Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology
  • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Clinical Psychological Science

The scientist often collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Carolyn Ponting
  • Amy M. Rapp
  • Giovanni Ramos
  • Emily Escovar
  • Leslie Rith-Najarian

Best Publications

  • Child Anxiety in Primary Care: Prevalent But Untreated.

    Denise A. Chavira;M.P.H. Murray B. Stein M.D.;Kelly Bailey;Martin T. Stein

  • Delivery of evidence-based treatment for multiple anxiety disorders in primary care: a randomized controlled trial.

    Peter Roy-Byrne;Michelle G. Craske;Greer Sullivan;Raphael D. Rose

  • Validation of a Brief Measure of Anxiety-Related Severity and Impairment: The Overall Anxiety Severity and Impairment Scale (OASIS)

    Laura Campbell-Sills;Sonya B. Norman;Sonya B. Norman;Michelle G. Craske;Greer Greer Sullivan;Greer Greer Sullivan

  • Genome-wide association study of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    S. E. Stewart;D. Yu;J. M. Scharf;B. M. Neale

  • Mobilizing Community Health Workers to Address Mental Health Disparities for Underserved Populations: A Systematic Review.

    Miya L. Barnett;Araceli Gonzalez;Jeanne Miranda;Denise A. Chavira

  • Partitioning the heritability of tourette syndrome and obsessive compulsive disorder reveals differences in genetic architecture

    Lea K. Davis;Dongmei Yu;Clare L. Keenan;Eric R. Gamazon

  • Practitioner Review: Psychosocial interventions for children with selective mutism: a critical evaluation of the literature from 1990–2005

    Sharon L. Cohan;Denise A. Chavira;Murray B. Stein;Murray B. Stein;Murray B. Stein

  • Abbreviated PTSD Checklist (PCL) as a guide to clinical response.

    Ariel J. Lang;Ariel J. Lang;Kendall Wilkins;Peter P. Roy-Byrne;Daniela Golinelli

  • Comorbidity of generalized social anxiety disorder and depression in a pediatric primary care sample

    Denise A Chavira;Murray B Stein;Kelly Bailey;Martin T Stein

  • Scrutinizing the relationship between shyness and social phobia.

    Denise A Chavira;Murray B Stein;Vanessa L Malcarne

  • The Coping Cat Program for Children with Anxiety and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

    Rebecca H. McNally Keehn;Alan J. Lincoln;Alan J. Lincoln;Milton Z. Brown;Denise A. Chavira;Denise A. Chavira

  • Selective mutism and social anxiety disorder: all in the family?

    Denise A. Chavira;Elisa Shipon-Blum;Carla Hitchcock;Sharon Cohan

  • Nature of anxiety comorbid with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children from a pediatric primary care setting.

    Rudy Bowen;Denise A. Chavira;Kelly Bailey;Martin T. Stein

  • Refining the classification of children with selective mutism: a latent profile analysis.

    Sharon L. Cohan;Denise A. Chavira;Elisa Shipon-Blum;Carla Hitchcock

  • ADHD prevalence and association with hoarding behaviors in childhood-onset OCD

    Brooke Sheppard;Denise Chavira;Amin Azzam;Marco A. Grados

  • Subtypes of social phobia and comorbidity with depression and other anxiety disorders

    Murray B Stein;Denise A Chavira

  • Cross-disorder genome-wide analyses suggest a complex genetic relationship between tourette's syndrome and OCD

    Dongmei Yu;Carol A. Mathews;Jeremiah M. Scharf;Benjamin M. Neale

  • The scale of ethnic experience: development and psychometric properties.

    Vanessa L Malcarne;Denise A Chavira;Senaida Fernandez;Pei-Ju Liu

  • Design of the Coordinated Anxiety Learning and Management (CALM) study: innovations in collaborative care for anxiety disorders.

    Greer Sullivan;Michelle G. Craske;Cathy Sherbourne;Mark J. Edlund

  • Use of Technology to Provide Mental Health Care for Racial and Ethnic Minorities: Evidence, Promise, and Challenges

    Giovanni Ramos;Denise A. Chavira

  • Erratum: Genome-wide association study of obsessive-compulsive disorder

    S E Stewart;D Yu;J M Scharf;B M Neale

Frequent Co-Authors

Murray B. Stein
Murray B. Stein University of California, San Diego
Michelle G. Craske
Michelle G. Craske University of California, Los Angeles
Ariel J. Lang
Ariel J. Lang University of California, San Diego
Daniela Golinelli
Daniela Golinelli RAND Corporation
Danielle Posthuma
Danielle Posthuma Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Danielle C. Cath
Danielle C. Cath Utrecht University
Peter Heutink
Peter Heutink German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Susanne Walitza
Susanne Walitza University of Zurich
Bruce F. Chorpita
Bruce F. Chorpita University of California, Los Angeles
Shaun Purcell
Shaun Purcell Harvard Medical School

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