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  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

G. Leonard Burns is affiliated with Washington State University in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of psychology and medicine, with a strong focus on experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and education.

The main topics of their work include Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, sleep and related disorders, mental health research topics, mind wandering and attention, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, and sleep and wakefulness research.

Burns has published extensively in several journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
  • Assessment
  • Psychological Assessment
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Child Psychiatry & Human Development

Notable recent papers include:

  • Report of a Work Group on Sluggish Cognitive Tempo: Key Research Directions and a Consensus Change in Terminology to Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome (2022), published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Editorial Statement About JCCAP's 2023 Special Issue on Informant Discrepancies in Youth Mental Health Assessments: Observations, Guidelines, and Future Directions Grounded in 60 Years of Research (2023), published in the Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
  • On the Meaning of the "P Factor" in Symmetrical Bifactor Models of Psychopathology: Recommendations for Future Research From the Bifactor-(S−1) Perspective (2021), published in Assessment
  • Sluggish cognitive tempo and ADHD symptoms in relation to task-unrelated thought: Examining unique links with mind-wandering and rumination (2020), published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Internal and External Validity of Self-Report and Parent-Report Measures of Sluggish Cognitive Tempo in South Korean Adolescents (2020), published in the Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment

Frequent co-authors of Burns include:

  • Stephen P. Becker
  • Mateu Servera
  • Matthew A. Jarrett
  • Aaron M. Luebbe
  • Joseph W. Fredrick

Among their academic recognitions, Burns was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Revision of the Padua Inventory of obsessive compulsive disorder symptoms: distinctions between worry, obsessions, and compulsions.

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  • Sleep in a large, multi-university sample of college students: sleep problem prevalence, sex differences, and mental health correlates.

    Stephen P. Becker;Stephen P. Becker;Matthew A. Jarrett;Aaron M. Luebbe;Annie A. Garner

  • The Internal, External, and Diagnostic Validity of Sluggish Cognitive Tempo: A Meta-Analysis and Critical Review.

    Stephen P. Becker;Daniel R. Leopold;G. Leonard Burns;Matthew A. Jarrett

  • Dandelions, tulips and orchids: evidence for the existence of low-sensitive, medium-sensitive and high-sensitive individuals.

    Francesca Lionetti;Arthur Aron;Elaine N Aron;G Leonard Burns

  • Validity of the Sluggish Cognitive Tempo Symptom Dimension in Children: Sluggish Cognitive Tempo and ADHD-Inattention as Distinct Symptom Dimensions

    SoYean Lee;G. Leonard Burns;Jerry Snell;Keith McBurnett

  • Unexpected Childhood Death: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Surviving Siblings and Parents

    Debra R. Applebaum;G. Leonard Burns

  • The utilization of nonpatient samples in the study of obsessive compulsive disorder

    G.Leonard Burns;Gina M. Formea;Susan Keortge;Lee G. Sternberger

  • Report of a Work Group on Sluggish Cognitive Tempo: Key Research Directions and a Consensus Change in Terminology to Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome.

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  • Obsessions and compulsions: psychometric properties of the Padua inventory with an American college population

    Lee G. Sternberger;G.Leonard Burns

  • The influence of ADHD-hyperactivity/impulsivity symptoms on the development of oppositional defiant disorder symptoms in a 2-year longitudinal study

    G. Leonard Burns;James A. Walsh

  • Structure and validity of sluggish cognitive tempo using an expanded item pool in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

    Keith McBurnett;Miguel Villodas;G. Leonard Burns;Stephen P. Hinshaw

  • A confirmatory factor analysis on the DSM-IV ADHD and ODD symptoms: what is the best model for the organization of these symptoms?

    G. Leonard Burns;Brian Boe;James A. Walsh;Rita Sommers-Flanagan

  • A multitrait-multisource confirmatory factor analytic approach to the construct validity of ADHD rating scales.

    Rapson Gomez;G. Leonard Burns;James A. Walsh;Marcela Alves De Moura

  • Internal validity of the disruptive behavior disorder symptoms: implications from parent ratings for a dimensional approach to symptom validity.

    G. Leonard Burns;James A. Walsh;David R. Patterson;Carol S. Holte

  • Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and sluggish cognitive tempo throughout childhood: temporal invariance and stability from preschool through ninth grade

    Daniel R. Leopold;Micaela E. Christopher;G. Leonard Burns;Stephen P. Becker

  • Conduct problem behaviors in a stratified random sample of children and adolescents : new standardization data on the Eyberg child behavior inventory

    G. Leonard Burns;David R. Patterson

  • Relation of sexual abuse and bulimia in college women.

    Karen A. Beckman;G. Leonard Burns

  • Distinctions Between Sluggish Cognitive Tempo, ADHD-IN, and Depression Symptom Dimensions in Spanish First-Grade Children

    G. Leonard Burns;Mateu Servera;Maria del Mar Bernad;Jesus Maria Carrillo

  • Normative data on the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory and sutter-eyberg Student Behavior inventory : Parent and teacher rating scales of disruptive Behavior problems in children and adolescents

    G. Leonard Burns;David R. Patterson

  • Compulsive Activity Checklist and the Maudsley Obsessional-Compulsive Inventory: Psychometric properties of two measures of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Lee G. Sternberger;G. Leonard Burns

  • Clinical differentiation of sluggish cognitive tempo and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children.

    Mateu Servera;Belén Sáez;G Leonard Burns;Stephen P Becker

  • A cross-sectional and longitudinal investigation of the external correlates of sluggish cognitive tempo and ADHD-inattention symptoms dimensions.

    Maria del Mar Bernad;Mateu Servera;Gloria Grases;Susana Collado

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen P. Becker
Stephen P. Becker Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Aaron M. Luebbe
Aaron M. Luebbe Miami University
Keith McBurnett
Keith McBurnett University of California, San Francisco
Rapson Gomez
Rapson Gomez Federation University Australia
Theodore P. Beauchaine
Theodore P. Beauchaine The Ohio State University
Erik G. Willcutt
Erik G. Willcutt University of Colorado Boulder
Leanne Tamm
Leanne Tamm Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Joshua M. Langberg
Joshua M. Langberg Virginia Commonwealth University
Linda J. Pfiffner
Linda J. Pfiffner University of California, San Francisco
Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells
Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats

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