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Jami F. Young is affiliated with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a particular focus on Clinical Psychology as a subfield. Additional areas of study include Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Social Psychology.

The scientist's work concentrates on topics related to child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, suicide and self-harm studies, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, resilience and mental health, early childhood education and development, mental health research topics, as well as anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes.

Jami F. Young has contributed to several recent papers including the following:

  • COVID-19 and Adolescent Depression and Suicide Risk Screening Outcomes (2021), published in PEDIATRICS
  • Early pubertal timing predicts onset and recurrence of depressive episodes in boys and girls (2020), published in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Affective Development from Middle Childhood to Late Adolescence: Trajectories of Mean-Level Change in Negative and Positive Affect (2021), published in Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Identifying Common and Unique Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing Evidence-Based Practices for Suicide Prevention across Primary Care and Specialty Mental Health Settings (2021), published in Archives of Suicide Research
  • Individual Differences in Adolescent Coping: Comparing a Community Sample and a Low-SES Sample to Understand Coping in Context (2021), published in Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Molly Davis
  • Benjamin L. Hankin
  • Jason D. Jones
  • Monica E. Calkins
  • Raquel E. Gur

Jami F. Young publishes regularly in various academic venues, most notably:

  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
  • Academic Pediatrics

Best Publications

  • Depression from childhood into late adolescence: Influence of gender, development, genetic susceptibility, and peer stress.

    Benjamin L. Hankin;Jami F. Young;John R. Z. Abela;Andrew Smolen

  • Rates of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Youth: Age, Sex, and Behavioral Methods in a Community Sample

    Andrea L. Barrocas;Benjamin L. Hankin;Jami F. Young;John R. Z. Abela

  • Efficacy of Interpersonal Psychotherapy-Adolescent Skills Training: an indicated preventive intervention for depression.

    Jami F. Young;Laura Mufson;Mark Davies

  • Prevention of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents: A Randomized Trial of Cognitive-Behavioral and Interpersonal Prevention Programs

    Jason L. Horowitz;Judy Garber;Jeffrey A. Ciesla;Jami F. Young

  • The Role of Parent and Peer Support in Predicting Adolescent Depression: A Longitudinal Community Study

    Jami F. Young;Kathy Berenson;Patricia Cohen;Jesenia Garcia

  • Parent Relationship Quality Buffers against the Effect of Peer Stressors on Depressive Symptoms from Middle Childhood to Adolescence.

    Nicholas A. Hazel;Caroline W. Oppenheimer;Jessica R. Technow;Jami F. Young

  • COVID-19 and Adolescent Depression and Suicide Risk Screening Outcomes.

    Stephanie L. Mayne;Chloe Hannan;Molly Davis;Molly Davis;Jami F. Young;Jami F. Young

  • Preventing depression: a randomized trial of interpersonal psychotherapy-adolescent skills training.

    Jami F. Young;Laura Mufson;Laura Mufson;Robert Gallop

  • Strong Homotypic Continuity in Common Psychopathology-, Internalizing-, and Externalizing-Specific Factors Over Time in Adolescents

    Hannah R. Snyder;Jami F. Young;Benjamin L. Hankin

  • Differential susceptibility in youth: evidence that 5-HTTLPR x positive parenting is associated with positive affect 'for better and worse'

    Benjamin L Hankin;E. Nederhof;C. W. Oppenheimer;J. Jenness

  • A pilot study of interpersonal psychotherapy for preventing excess weight gain in adolescent girls at-risk for obesity.

    Marian Tanofsky-Kraff;Denise E. Wilfley;Jami F. Young;Laura Mufson

  • Predicting Intraindividual Self-Concept Trajectories during Adolescence.

    Jami F Young;Daniel K Mroczek

  • Impact of Comorbid Anxiety in an Effectiveness Study of Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Adolescents

    Jami F. Young;Laura Mufson;Mark Davies

  • Preventing excessive weight gain in adolescents : Interpersonal psychotherapy for binge eating

    Marian Tanofsky-Kraff;Denise E. Wilfley;Jami F. Young;Laura Mufson

  • Targeted prevention of excess weight gain and eating disorders in high-risk adolescent girls: a randomized controlled trial

    Marian Tanofsky-Kraff;Marian Tanofsky-Kraff;Lauren B Shomaker;Lauren B Shomaker;Lauren B Shomaker;Denise E Wilfley;Jami F Young

  • Temperament factors and dimensional, latent bifactor models of child psychopathology: Transdiagnostic and specific associations in two youth samples

    Benjamin L. Hankin;Elyssia Poggi Davis;Hannah Snyder;Jami F. Young

  • Emotional Awareness: A Transdiagnostic Predictor of Depression and Anxiety for Children and Adolescents

    Amy Kranzler;Jami F. Young;Benjamin L. Hankin;John R.Z. Abela

  • A group adaptation of Interpersonal Psychotherapy for depressed adolescents

    Laura Mufson;Trish Gallagher;Kristen Pollack Dorta;Jami F Young

  • Adolescent Emotionality and Effortful Control: Core Latent Constructs and Links to Psychopathology and Functioning

    Hannah R. Snyder;Lauren D. Gulley;Patricia Bijttebier;Catharina A. Hartman

  • The Longitudinal Association Between Self-esteem and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents: Separating Between-Person Effects from Within-Person Effects

    M.W. Masselink;G.H. van Roekel;G.H. van Roekel;B.L. Hankin;L. Keijsers

  • Pubertal Timing as a Transdiagnostic Risk for Psychopathology in Youth

    Elissa J. Hamlat;Hannah R. Snyder;Jami F. Young;Benjamin L. Hankin

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin L. Hankin
Benjamin L. Hankin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Laura Mufson
Laura Mufson Columbia University
Marian Tanofsky-Kraff
Marian Tanofsky-Kraff Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Robert Gallop
Robert Gallop West Chester University
Denise E. Wilfley
Denise E. Wilfley Washington University in St. Louis
Monica E. Calkins
Monica E. Calkins University of Pennsylvania
Raquel E. Gur
Raquel E. Gur University of Pennsylvania
Ruben C. Gur
Ruben C. Gur University of Pennsylvania
Tyler M. Moore
Tyler M. Moore University of Pennsylvania
Jane E. Gillham
Jane E. Gillham Swarthmore College

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