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  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. The primary focus of their research lies in psychology and medicine, with a strong emphasis on clinical psychology as well as related subfields such as social psychology, psychiatry and mental health, public health, environmental and occupational health, and epidemiology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including suicide and self-harm studies, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, traumatic brain injury research, child abuse and trauma, mental health treatment and access, and personality disorders and psychopathology.

Recent publications by Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow include:

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Suicidal Self-Harming Youth: Emotion Regulation, Mechanisms, and Mediators (2021), Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Sleep in Youth with Repeated Self-Harm and High Suicidality: Does Sleep Predict Self-Harm Risk? (2020), Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
  • Suicide, Self-Harm, & Traumatic Stress Exposure: A Trauma-Informed Approach to the Evaluation and Management of Suicide Risk (2020), Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Additional notable papers include:

  • Development and Efficacy of a Family-Focused Treatment for Depression in Childhood (2020), Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Practitioner Review: Common Elements in Treatments for Youth Suicide Attempts and Self-Harm - A Practitioner Review Based on Review of Treatment Elements Associated with Intervention Benefits (2023), Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Their frequent coauthors highlight collaborations with several researchers including:

  • David B. Goldston
  • Elizabeth McCauley
  • Molly Adrian
  • Michele Berk
  • Robert Gallop

Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow has contributed extensively to multiple publication venues, with several papers appearing in:

  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Psychiatric Services

In recognition of professional achievements, Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2013.

Best Publications

  • The Science of Prevention: A Conceptual Framework and Some Directions for a National Research Program

    John D. Coie;Norman F. Watt;Stephen G. West;J. David Hawkins

  • Switching to Another SSRI or to Venlafaxine With or Without Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents With SSRI-Resistant Depression: The TORDIA Randomized Controlled Trial

    David Brent;Graham Emslie;Greg Clarke;Karen Dineen Wagner

  • Suicide attempts and nonsuicidal self-injury in the treatment of resistant depression in adolescents: findings from the TORDIA study.

    Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow;Giovanna Porta;Anthony Spirito;Graham J Emslie

  • Psychiatric Comorbidity in Children after the 1988: Earthquake in Armenia

    Armen K. Goenjian;Robert S. Pynoos;Alan M. Steinberg;Louis M. Najarian

  • Effectiveness of a quality improvement intervention for adolescent depression in primary care clinics: a randomized controlled trial.

    Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow;Lisa H. Jaycox;Naihua Duan;Anne P. LaBorde

  • Therapeutic Interventions for Suicide Attempts and Self-Harm in Adolescents: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Dennis Ougrin;Troy Tranah;Daniel Stahl;Paul Moran

  • Integrated Medical-Behavioral Care Compared With Usual Primary Care for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health: A Meta-analysis

    Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow;Michelle Rozenman;Jessica Wiblin;Lonnie Zeltzer;Lonnie Zeltzer

  • Efficacy of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents at High Risk for Suicide: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Elizabeth McCauley;Elizabeth McCauley;Michele S. Berk;Michele S. Berk;Joan R. Asarnow;Molly C. Adrian;Molly C. Adrian

  • Coping strategies, self-perceptions, hopelessness, and perceived family environments in depressed and suicidal children.

    Joan R. Asarnow;Gabrielle A. Carlson;Donald Guthrie

  • Anhedonia Predicts Poorer Recovery among Youth with Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Treatment-Resistant Depression

    Dana L. McMakin;Thomas M. Olino;Giovanna Porta;Laura J. Dietz

  • One-Year Outcomes of Depressive Disorders in Child Psychiatric In-patients: Evaluation of the Prognostic Power of a Brief Measure of Expressed Emotion

    Joan R. Asarnow;Michael J. Goldstein;Martha Tompson;Donald Guthrie

  • Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia

    Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow

  • Evidence that the dopamine D4 receptor is a susceptibility gene in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

    S L Smalley;J N Bailey;C G Palmer;D P Cantwell

  • An emergency department intervention for linking pediatric suicidal patients to follow-up mental health treatment.

    Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow;Larry J. Baraff;Michele Berk;Charles S. Grob

  • Predictors of Spontaneous and Systematically Assessed Suicidal Adverse Events in the Treatment of SSRI- Resistant Depression in Adolescents (TORDIA) Study

    David A. Brent;Graham J. Emslie;Greg N. Clarke;Joan Asarnow

  • When the Earth Stops Shaking: Earthquake Sequelae Among Children Diagnosed for Pre-Earthquake Psychopathology

    Joan Asarnow;Shirley Glynn;Robert S. Pynoos;Jennifer Nahum

  • Family-expressed emotion, childhood-onset depression, and childhood-onset schizophrenia spectrum disorders: is expressed emotion a nonspecific correlate of child psychopathology or a specific risk factor for depression?

    Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow;Martha Tompson;Elizabeth Burney Hamilton;Michael J. Goldstein

  • Boys with peer adjustment problems: social cognitive processes.

    Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow;Judy Weintraub Callan

  • Depression self-rating scale: Utility with child psychiatric inpatients.

    Joan R. Asarnow;Gabrielle A. Carlson

  • Treatment of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor-resistant depression in adolescents: Predictors and moderators of treatment response

    Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow;Graham Emslie;Greg Clarke;Karen Dineen Wagner

  • Children at Risk for Schizophrenia: Converging Lines of Evidence

    Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow

Frequent Co-Authors

Boris Birmaher
Boris Birmaher University of Pittsburgh
Anthony Spirito
Anthony Spirito Brown University
James T. McCracken
James T. McCracken University of California, Los Angeles
Lisa H. Jaycox
Lisa H. Jaycox RAND Corporation
Michael J. Goldstein
Michael J. Goldstein University of California, Los Angeles
Gabrielle A. Carlson
Gabrielle A. Carlson Stony Brook University
Elizabeth McCauley
Elizabeth McCauley University of Washington
Betsy D. Kennard
Betsy D. Kennard The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Robert F. Asarnow
Robert F. Asarnow University of California, Los Angeles
Marsha M. Linehan
Marsha M. Linehan University of Washington

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