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Lisa Amaya-Jackson

Lisa Amaya-Jackson

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Psychology

D-Index
35
Citations
6483
World Ranking
9769
National Ranking
5163

Overview

Lisa Amaya-Jackson is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a specific emphasis on clinical psychology and general health professions. Their work spans related subfields including psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, and health.

The scientist's research addresses several main topics, notably:

  • Child and Adolescent Health
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Community Health and Development
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Lisa Amaya-Jackson has published extensively, with a total of 16 publications in psychology-related fields. Their clinical psychology contributions amount to 15 papers, which forms a significant part of their scholarly output.

Frequent venues for their research include:

  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (15 publications)
  • PsycTESTS Dataset (2 publications)
  • American Psychologist (1 publication)
  • Implementation Science Communications (1 publication)
  • PEDIATRICS (1 publication)

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Lisa Amaya-Jackson include:

  • "All adverse childhood experiences are not equal: The contribution of synergy to adverse childhood experience scores." (2021), American Psychologist
  • "Improving the implementation and sustainment of evidence-based practices in community mental health organizations: a study protocol for a matched-pair cluster randomized pilot study of the Collaborative Organizational Approach to Selecting and Tailoring Implementation Strategies (COAST-IS)." (2020), Implementation Science Communications
  • "Children Exposed to Maltreatment: Assessment and the Role of Psychotropic Medication." (2020), PEDIATRICS
  • "Narrative Review: Impairing Emotional Outbursts: What They Are and What We Should Do About Them." (2022), Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • "Synergistic adversities and behavioral problems in traumatized children and adolescents." (2020), Child Abuse & Neglect

Lisa Amaya-Jackson collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Brooks Keeshin
  • Gabrielle A. Carlson
  • Tami D. Benton
  • Robert R. Althoff
  • Christopher Bellonci

Best Publications

  • Evidence-Based Psychosocial Treatments for Children and Adolescents Exposed to Traumatic Events

    Wendy K. Silverman;Claudio D. Ortiz;Chockalingham Viswesvaran;Barbara J. Burns

  • Children who prosper in unfavorable environments: the relationship to social capital

    Desmond K. Runyan;Wanda M. Hunter;Rebecca R. S. Socolar;Lisa Amaya-Jackson

  • Trauma‐focused cognitive‐behavioral therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in three‐through six year‐old children: a randomized clinical trial

    Michael S. Scheeringa;Carl F. Weems;Judith A. Cohen;Lisa Amaya-Jackson

  • Cognitive‐Behavioral Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder After a Single‐Incident Stressor

    John S. March;Lisa Amaya-Jackson;Mary Cathryn Murray;Ann Schulte

  • Adverse behavioral and emotional outcomes from child abuse and witnessed violence

    Renee M. Johnson;Jonathan B. Kotch;Diane J. Catellier;Jane R. Winsor

  • Enhancing early attachments : theory, research, intervention, and policy

    Lisa J Berlin;Yair Ziv;Lisa Amaya-Jackson;Mark T. Greenberg

  • Evidence Base Update for Psychosocial Treatments for Children and Adolescents Exposed to Traumatic Events

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  • Pathways to PTSD, Part II: Sexually Abused Children

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

  • Functional Impairment and Utilization of Services Associated With Posttraumatic Stress in the Community

    Lisa Amaya-Jackson;Jonathan R. Davidson;Dana C. Hughes;Marvin Swartz

  • Posttraumatic symptomatology in children and adolescents after an industrial fire.

    John S. March;Lisa Amaya-Jackson;Robert Terry;Philip Costanzo

  • All adverse childhood experiences are not equal: The contribution of synergy to adverse childhood experience scores.

    Ernestine C Briggs;Lisa Amaya-Jackson;Karen T Putnam;Frank W Putnam

  • Understanding the Behavioral and Emotional Consequences of Child Abuse

    John Stirling;Lisa Amaya-Jackson

  • Child Physical and Sexual Abuse: Guidelines for Treatment

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  • The National Child Traumatic Stress Network: Collaborating to improve the standard of care.

    Robert S. Pynoos;John A. Fairbank;Alan M. Steinberg;Lisa Amaya-Jackson

  • Links between child and adolescent trauma exposure and service use histories in a national clinic-referred sample

    Ernestine C. Briggs;John A. Fairbank;Johanna K. P. Greeson;Christopher M. Layne

  • Dissociation Predicts Later Attention Problems in Sexually Abused Children.

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

  • Use of the Breakthrough Series Collaborative to Support Broad and Sustained Use of Evidence-Based Trauma Treatment for Children in Community Practice Settings

    Lori Ebert;Lisa Amaya-Jackson;Jan M. Markiewicz;Cassandra Kisiel

  • Directly Questioning Children and Adolescents About Maltreatment A Review of Survey Measures Used

    Lisa Amaya-Jackson;Rebecca R. S. Socolar;Wanda Hunter;Desmond K. Runyan

  • Feasibility and effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in preschool children: two case reports

    Michael S. Scheeringa;Alison Salloum;Ruth A. Arnberger;Carl F. Weems

  • Treatment considerations for clinicians in applying evidence-based practice to complex presentations in child trauma.

    Lisa Amaya-Jackson;Ruth R. DeRosa

  • Childhood Traumatic Grief: A Multi-Site Empirical Examination of the Construct and its Correlates

    Elissa J. Brown;Lisa Amaya-Jackson;Judith Cohen;Stephanie Handel

  • Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Children and Adolescents

    Lisa Amaya-Jackson;John S. March

Frequent Co-Authors

Ernestine C. Briggs
Ernestine C. Briggs Duke University
John A. Fairbank
John A. Fairbank Duke University
John S. March
John S. March Duke University
Judith A. Cohen
Judith A. Cohen Allegheny General Hospital
Julie B. Kaplow
Julie B. Kaplow Baylor College of Medicine
Kenneth A. Dodge
Kenneth A. Dodge Duke University
Christopher M. Layne
Christopher M. Layne University of California, Los Angeles
Robert S. Pynoos
Robert S. Pynoos University of California, Los Angeles
Carl F. Weems
Carl F. Weems Iowa State University
Rinad S. Beidas
Rinad S. Beidas University of Pennsylvania

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