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Jessica L. Schleider

Jessica L. Schleider

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Rising Stars
2025

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D-Index
32
Citations
4718
World Ranking
969
National Ranking
159

Psychology

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38
Citations
6414
World Ranking
8847
National Ranking
4702

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Jessica L. Schleider is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and specializes in psychology, with a focus on clinical psychology and applied psychology. Their research area encompasses multiple subfields, including clinical psychology, applied psychology, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and general health professions.

Their work covers a range of topics related to mental health and psychological science, concentrating notably on child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development. Key research themes also include digital mental health interventions, mental health treatment and access, broader mental health research topics, the impact of COVID-19 on mental health, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, and adolescent and pediatric healthcare.

Jessica L. Schleider has authored several recent papers, including:

  • Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action. (2020, American Psychologist)
  • A randomized trial of online single-session interventions for adolescent depression during COVID-19 (2021, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • Acceptability and Utility of an Open-Access, Online Single-Session Intervention Platform for Adolescent Mental Health (2020, JMIR Mental Health)
  • Effect of Shamiri Layperson-Provided Intervention vs Study Skills Control Intervention for Depression and Anxiety Symptoms in Adolescents in Kenya (2021, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • An online, single-session intervention for adolescent self-injurious thoughts and behaviors: Results from a randomized trial (2021, Behaviour Research and Therapy)

Their publication record frequently appears in several academic journals such as the Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, JMIR Mental Health, Behaviour Research and Therapy, International Journal of Eating Disorders, and the Journal of American College Health.

Jessica L. Schleider collaborates regularly with a number of coauthors, notably Isaac Ahuvia, Kathryn R. Fox, Mallory Dobias, Jenna Sung, and Katherine Cohen.

Best Publications

  • Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action.

    June Gruber;Mitchell J. Prinstein;Lee Anna Clark;Jonathan Rottenberg

  • Little Treatments, Promising Effects? Meta-Analysis of Single-Session Interventions for Youth Psychiatric Problems.

    Jessica L. Schleider;John R. Weisz

  • A single‐session growth mindset intervention for adolescent anxiety and depression: 9‐month outcomes of a randomized trial

    Jessica Schleider;John Weisz

  • A randomized trial of online single-session interventions for adolescent depression during COVID-19

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  • Future Directions in Single-Session Youth Mental Health Interventions

    Jessica L. Schleider;Mallory L. Dobias;Jenna Y. Sung;Michael C. Mullarkey;Michael C. Mullarkey

  • Implicit theories and youth mental health problems: a random-effects meta-analysis.

    Jessica L. Schleider;Madelaine R. Abel;John R. Weisz

  • Reducing risk for anxiety and depression in adolescents: Effects of a single-session intervention teaching that personality can change

    Jessica L. Schleider;John R. Weisz

  • A linguistic signature of psychological distancing in emotion regulation.

    Erik C Nook;Jessica L Schleider;Leah H Somerville

  • Acceptability and Utility of an Open-Access, Online Single-Session Intervention Platform for Adolescent Mental Health.

    Jessica Lee Schleider;Mallory Dobias;Jenna Sung;Emma Mumper

  • Using Mechanical Turk to Study Family Processes and Youth Mental Health: A Test of Feasibility

    Jessica L. Schleider;John R. Weisz

  • Depression and Anxiety Symptoms, Social Support, and Demographic Factors Among Kenyan High School Students

    Tom L. Osborn;Katherine E. Venturo-Conerly;Akash R. Wasil;Akash R. Wasil;Jessica L. Schleider

  • Group Intervention for Adolescent Anxiety and Depression: Outcomes of a Randomized Trial with Adolescents in Kenya

    Tom L. Osborn;Akash R. Wasil;Katherine E. Venturo-Conerly;Jessica L. Schleider

  • Perceived Psychological Control and Anxiety in Early Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Attributional Style

    Jessica L. Schleider;Clorinda E. Vélez;Elizabeth D. Krause;Jane Gillham

  • Family process and youth internalizing problems: A triadic model of etiology and intervention.

    Jessica L Schleider;John R Weisz

  • Randomized Trial of a Single-Session Growth Mind-Set Intervention for Rural Adolescents' Internalizing and Externalizing Problems.

    Jessica L. Schleider;Jeni L. Burnette;Laura Widman;Crystal L. Hoyt

  • Effect of Shamiri Layperson-Provided Intervention vs Study Skills Control Intervention for Depression and Anxiety Symptoms in Adolescents in Kenya: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    Tom L. Osborn;Katherine E. Venturo-Conerly;G Susana Arango;Elizabeth Roe

  • Parental psychopathology and treatment outcome for anxious youth: roles of family functioning and caregiver strain.

    Jessica L. Schleider;Golda S. Ginsburg;Courtney P. Keeton;John R. Weisz

  • Implementing precision methods in personalizing psychological therapies: Barriers and possible ways forward.

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  • Do Immediate Gains Predict Long-Term Symptom Change? Findings from a Randomized Trial of a Single-Session Intervention for Youth Anxiety and Depression.

    Jessica L Schleider;Madelaine R Abel;John R Weisz

  • Clinical Psychological Science’s Call To Action in the Time of COVID-19

    June Gruber;Mitch Prinstein;Jonathan S Abramowitz;Anne Marie Albano

  • Implicit Theories Relate to Youth Psychopathology, But How? A Longitudinal Test of Two Predictive Models.

    Jessica Lee Schleider;John R Weisz

  • Virtual Reality and Web-Based Growth Mindset Interventions for Adolescent Depression: Protocol for a Three-Arm Randomized Trial.

    Jessica Lee Schleider;Michael C Mullarkey;John R Weisz

Frequent Co-Authors

John R. Weisz
John R. Weisz Harvard University
Kathryn R. Fox
Kathryn R. Fox University of Denver
Nicholas R. Eaton
Nicholas R. Eaton Stony Brook University
Golda S. Ginsburg
Golda S. Ginsburg University of Connecticut
June Gruber
June Gruber University of Colorado Boulder
Carolyn E. Sartor
Carolyn E. Sartor Yale University
Anne Marie Albano
Anne Marie Albano Columbia University
Joanne Davila
Joanne Davila Stony Brook University
Ananda B. Amstadter
Ananda B. Amstadter Virginia Commonwealth University
Katie A. McLaughlin
Katie A. McLaughlin University of Oregon

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