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Overview

Julie B. Kaplow is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Psychology, with a strong focus on Clinical Psychology. Their scholarly work spans a variety of subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and General Health Professions.

Their research topics include:

  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Family Support in Illness

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by Kaplow include:

  • Developmental Manifestations of Grief in Children and Adolescents: Caregivers as Key Grief Facilitators, 2022, Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma
  • Supporting children and adolescents following parental bereavement: guidance for health-care professionals, 2020, The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
  • Suicide Safety Planning: Clinician Training, Comfort, and Safety Plan Utilization, 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Racial, ethnic, and neighborhood income disparities in childhood posttraumatic stress and grief: Exploring indirect effects through trauma exposure and bereavement, 2021, Journal of Traumatic Stress
  • The Safety Planning Assistant: Feasibility and Acceptability of a Web-Based Suicide Safety Planning Tool for At-Risk Adolescents and Their Parents, 2020, Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Frequent collaborators with Kaplow include:

  • Lauren Alvis
  • Robert S. Pynoos
  • Ryan M. Hill
  • Christopher M. Layne
  • Benjamin Oosterhoff

Kaplow has published multiple articles in the following venues:

  • Journal of Traumatic Stress
  • Death Studies
  • Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy
  • Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
  • Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma

In addition to journal articles, Kaplow has contributed to academic books, including a 2023 publication with Cambridge University Press titled Multidimensional Grief Therapy.

Best Publications

  • A 12-year prospective study of the long-term effects of early child physical maltreatment on psychological, behavioral, and academic problems in adolescence.

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Kenneth A. Dodge;Gregory S. Pettit;John E. Bates

  • Age of onset of child maltreatment predicts long-term mental health outcomes.

    Julie B. Kaplow;Cathy Spatz Widom

  • The Prospective Relation between Dimensions of Anxiety and the Initiation of Adolescent Alcohol Use

    Julie B. Kaplow;Patrick J. Curran;Adrian Angold;E. Jane Costello

  • Child, parent, and peer predictors of early-onset substance use: a multisite longitudinal study.

    Julie B. Kaplow;Patrick J. Curran;Kenneth A. Dodge

  • Pathways to PTSD, Part II: Sexually Abused Children

    Julie B. Kaplow;Kenneth A. Dodge;Lisa Amaya-Jackson;Glenn N. Saxe

  • Collaborative treatment of traumatized children and teens: The trauma systems therapy approach.

    Glenn N. Saxe;B. Heidi Ellis;Julie B. Kaplow

  • Polymorphisms in FKBP5 are associated with peritraumatic dissociation in medically injured children.

    K C Koenen;K C Koenen;G Saxe;G Saxe;S Purcell;J W Smoller

  • Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Parents of Children with Acute Burns

    Erin Hall;Glenn Saxe;Frederick Stoddard;Julie Kaplow

  • Psychiatric symptoms in bereaved versus nonbereaved youth and young adults: a longitudinal epidemiological study.

    Julie B. Kaplow;Jessica Saunders;Adrian Angold;E. Jane Costello

  • Associations among adolescent sleep problems, emotion regulation, and affective disorders: Findings from a nationally representative sample.

    Cara A. Palmer;Benjamin Oosterhoff;Joanne L. Bower;Julie B. Kaplow

  • DSM-V diagnostic criteria for bereavement-related disorders in children and adolescents: developmental considerations

    Julie B. Kaplow;Christopher M. Layne;Robert S. Pynoos;Judith A. Cohen

  • Validation of the UCLA PTSD Reaction Index for DSM-5: A developmentally informed assessment tool for youth.

    Julie B. Kaplow;Benjamin Rolon-Arroyo;Christopher M. Layne;Evan Rooney

  • Do Circumstances of the Death Matter? Identifying Socioenvironmental Risks for Grief‐Related Psychopathology in Bereaved Youth

    Julie B. Kaplow;Kathryn H. Howell;Christopher M. Layne

  • Using multidimensional grief theory to explore the effects of deployment, reintegration, and death on military youth and families.

    Julie B. Kaplow;Christopher M. Layne;William R. Saltzman;William R. Saltzman;Stephen J. Cozza

  • Dissociation Predicts Later Attention Problems in Sexually Abused Children.

    Julie B. Kaplow;Erin Hall;Karestan C. Koenen;Kenneth A. Dodge

  • The Long-Term Consequences of Early Childhood Trauma: A Case Study and Discussion

    Julie B. Kaplow;Glenn N. Saxe;Frank William Putnam;Robert S. Pynoos

  • Emotional suppression mediates the relation between adverse life events and adolescent suicide: implications for prevention.

    Julie B. Kaplow;Polly Y. Gipson;Adam G. Horwitz;Bianca N. Burch

  • Developmental Manifestations of Grief in Children and Adolescents: Caregivers as Key Grief Facilitators

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  • Associations Among Mother–Child Communication Quality, Childhood Maladaptive Grief, and Depressive Symptoms

    Danielle N. Shapiro;Kathryn H. Howell;Julie B. Kaplow

  • The Interplay between Posttraumatic Stress and Grief Reactions in Traumatically Bereaved Adolescents: When Trauma, Bereavement, and Adolescence Converge

    Christopher M. Layne;Julie B. Kaplow;Benjamin Oosterhoff;Ryan M. Hill

  • Using the Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma to Strengthen Clinical Knowledge in Evidence-Based Practitioners

    Christopher M Layne;Virginia Strand;Marciana Popescu;Julie B Kaplow

  • Sudden loss and psychiatric disorders across the life course: toward a developmental lifespan theory of bereavement-related risk and resilience.

    Julie B. Kaplow;Christopher M. Layne

  • "Sudden loss and psychiatric disorders across the life course: Toward a developmental lifespan theory of bereavement-related risk and resilience" (American Journal of Psychiatry (2014) 171 (807-810))

    Julie B. Kaplow;Christopher M. Layne

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher M. Layne
Christopher M. Layne University of California, Los Angeles
Robert S. Pynoos
Robert S. Pynoos University of California, Los Angeles
Kathryn H. Howell
Kathryn H. Howell University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kenneth A. Dodge
Kenneth A. Dodge Duke University
Karestan C. Koenen
Karestan C. Koenen Harvard University
Lisa Amaya-Jackson
Lisa Amaya-Jackson Duke University
Jon D. Elhai
Jon D. Elhai University of Toledo
Alicia F. Lieberman
Alicia F. Lieberman University of California, San Francisco
Cheryl A. King
Cheryl A. King University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robin S. Edelstein
Robin S. Edelstein University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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