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Overview

Diana J. Whalen is a researcher affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with a specific focus on clinical psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and education.

The research topics covered include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, personality disorders and psychopathology, suicide and self-harm studies, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, sleep and related disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and early childhood education and development.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Whalen include Joan L. Luby, Deanna M. Barch, Rebecca Tillman, Kirsten Gilbert, and Laura Hennefield.

Whalen has published multiple papers in notable venues. Frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science
  • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Significant recent publications include:

  • Trajectories of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors From Preschool Through Late Adolescence, 2021, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Early Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Cognitive and Adaptive Outcomes at the Transition to Adulthood: The Mediating Role of Gray Matter Development Across Five Scan Waves, 2021, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Prevalence and Family-Related Factors Associated With Suicidal Ideation, Suicide Attempts, and Self-injury in Children Aged 9 to 10 Years, 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • Brain connectivity and socioeconomic status at birth and externalizing symptoms at age 2 years, 2020, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Testosterone and hippocampal trajectories mediate relationship of poverty to emotion dysregulation and depression, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Resilience among children and adolescents at risk for depression: Mediation and moderation across social and neurobiological contexts

    Jennifer S. Silk;Ella Vanderbilt-Adriance;Daniel S. Shaw;Erika E. Forbes

  • Daily Emotional Dynamics in Depressed Youth: A Cell Phone Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.

    Jennifer S. Silk;Erika E. Forbes;Diana J. Whalen;Jennifer L. Jakubcak

  • Children of Mothers with Borderline Personality Disorder: Identifying Parenting Behaviors as Potential Targets for Intervention

    Stephanie D. Stepp;Diana J. Whalen;Paul A. Pilkonis;Alison E. Hipwell

  • Prevalence and Family-Related Factors Associated With Suicidal Ideation, Suicide Attempts, and Self-injury in Children Aged 9 to 10 Years

    Danielle C. DeVille;Danielle C. DeVille;Diana Whalen;Florence J. Breslin;Amanda S. Morris;Amanda S. Morris

  • The Bidirectional Association Between Daytime Affect and Nighttime Sleep in Youth With Anxiety and Depression

    Jennifer C. Cousins;Diana J. Whalen;Ronald E. Dahl;Erika E. Forbes

  • Pubertal changes in emotional information processing: Pupillary, behavioral, and subjective evidence during emotional word identification

    Jennifer S. Silk;Greg J. Siegle;Diana J. Whalen;Laura J. Ostapenko

  • Depression and Anxiety in Preschoolers: A Review of the Past 7 Years

    Diana J. Whalen;Chad M. Sylvester;Joan L. Luby

  • Reciprocal effects of parenting and borderline personality disorder symptoms in adolescent girls.

    Stephanie D. Stepp;Diana J. Whalen;Lori N. Scott;Maureen Zalewski

  • Association between early life adversity and risk for poor emotional and physical health in adolescence a putative mechanistic neurodevelopmental pathway

    Joan L. Luby;Deanna;Diana Whalen;Rebecca Tillman

  • Correlates and Consequences of Suicidal Cognitions and Behaviors in Children Ages 3 to 7 Years

    Diana J. Whalen;Katherine Dixon-Gordon;Andrew C. Belden;Deanna;Deanna

  • A Systematic Review of Personality Disorders and Health Outcomes

    Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon;Diana J. Whalen;Brianne K. Layden;Alexander L. Chapman

  • Caffeine Consumption, Sleep, and Affect in the Natural Environments of Depressed Youth and Healthy Controls

    Diana J. Whalen;Jennifer S. Silk;Mara Semel;Erika E. Forbes

  • A Randomized Controlled Trial of Parent-Child Psychotherapy Targeting Emotion Development for Early Childhood Depression.

    Joan L. Luby;M Deanna;Diana Whalen;Rebecca Tillman

  • Expressed Emotion in Mothers of Currently Depressed, Remitted, High-Risk, and Low-Risk Youth: Links to Child Depression Status and Longitudinal Course.

    Jennifer S. Silk;Melissa L. Ziegler;Diana J. Whalen;Ronald E. Dahl

  • Developmental Trajectories of the Orbitofrontal Cortex and Anhedonia in Middle Childhood and Risk for Substance Use in Adolescence in a Longitudinal Sample of Depressed and Healthy Preschoolers

    Joan L. Luby;Arpana Agrawal;Andy Belden;Diana Whalen

  • Real-world affect and social context as predictors of treatment response in child and adolescent depression and anxiety: an ecological momentary assessment study.

    Erika E. Forbes;Stephanie D. Stepp;Ronald E. Dahl;Neal D. Ryan

  • Early Childhood Depression and Alterations in the Trajectory of Gray Matter Maturation in Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence

    Joan L. Luby;Andy C. Belden;Joshua J. Jackson;Christina N. Lessov-Schlaggar

  • Difficulties in Interpersonal Emotion Regulation: Initial Development and Validation of a Self-Report Measure

    Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon;Lauren A. Haliczer;Lindsey C. Conkey;Diana J. Whalen

  • Hippocampal volume and depression among young children

    M Deanna;Rebecca Tillman;Danielle Kelly;Diana Whalen

  • Breastfeeding and Childhood IQ: The Mediating Role of Gray Matter Volume

    Joan L. Luby;Andy C. Belden;Diana Whalen;Michael P. Harms

  • Variation in common preschool sleep problems as an early predictor for depression and anxiety symptom severity across time.

    Diana J. Whalen;Kirsten E. Gilbert;M Deanna;Joan L. Luby

Frequent Co-Authors

Joan L. Luby
Joan L. Luby Washington University in St. Louis
Deanna M. Barch
Deanna M. Barch Washington University in St. Louis
Stephanie D. Stepp
Stephanie D. Stepp University of Pittsburgh
Andy C. Belden
Andy C. Belden Washington University in St. Louis
Jennifer S. Silk
Jennifer S. Silk University of Pittsburgh
Alison E. Hipwell
Alison E. Hipwell University of Pittsburgh
Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon
Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ronald E. Dahl
Ronald E. Dahl University of California, Berkeley
Joshua J. Jackson
Joshua J. Jackson Washington University in St. Louis
Erika E. Forbes
Erika E. Forbes University of Pittsburgh

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