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Peter A. Wyman is affiliated with the University of Rochester in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and social sciences, with significant contributions to clinical psychology, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, health, and general health professions.

Their work covers various topics, including:

  • Suicide and self-harm studies
  • Mental health research topics
  • LGBTQ health, identity, and policy
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder research
  • Child abuse and trauma
  • Intimate partner and family violence
  • Health policy implementation science

Peter A. Wyman has published frequently in several venues, most notably:

  • School Mental Health
  • School Psychology Review
  • Prevention Science
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • UNC Libraries

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Wyman include:

  • "Understanding Protective Factors for Suicidality and Depression Among U.S. Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents: Implications for School Psychologists" (2021, School Psychology Review)
  • "Above the influence of vaping: Peer leader influence and diffusion of a network-informed preventive intervention" (2020, Addictive Behaviors)
  • "Effect of the Wingman-Connect Upstream Suicide Prevention Program for Air Force Personnel in Training" (2020, JAMA Network Open)
  • "Protective Factors of Homophobic Name-Calling and Sexual Violence Perpetration and Victimization Among LGB, Trans, and Heterosexual High School Students" (2021, School Mental Health)
  • "Wingman-Connect Program increases social integration for Air Force personnel at elevated suicide risk: Social network analysis of a cluster RCT" (2022, Social Science & Medicine)

Frequent co-authors with whom Peter A. Wyman has collaborated include:

  • Dorothy L. Espelage
  • Karen Schmeelk-Cone
  • Alberto Valido
  • Ian Cero
  • Anthony R. Pisani

Best Publications

  • Randomized trial of a gatekeeper program for suicide prevention: 1-year impact on secondary school staff.

    Peter A. Wyman;C. Hendricks Brown;Jeff Inman;Wendi Cross

  • An outcome evaluation of the Sources of Strength suicide prevention program delivered by adolescent peer leaders in high schools.

    Peter A. Wyman;C. Hendricks Brown;Mark Lomurray;Karen Schmeelk-Cone

  • The role of children's future expectations in self-system functioning and adjustment to life stress: A prospective study of urban at-risk children

    Peter A. Wyman;Emory L. Cowen;William C. Work;Judy H. Kerley

  • Developmental and family milieu correlates of resilience in urban children who have experienced major life stress

    Peter A. Wyman;Emory L. Cowen;William C. Work;Gayle R. Parker

  • Caregiving and Developmental Factors Differentiating Young At‐Risk Urban Children Showing Resilient versus Stress‐Affected Outcomes: A Replication and Extension

    Peter A. Wyman;Emory L. Cowen;William C. Work;Lynne Hoyt-Meyers

  • Annual Research Review: A meta-analytic review of worldwide suicide rates in adolescents.

    Catherine R. Glenn;Catherine R. Glenn;Evan M. Kleiman;John Kellerman;Olivia Pollak

  • Immigration Generation Status and its Association with Suicide Attempts, Substance Use, and Depressive Symptoms among Latino Adolescents in the USA

    Juan B. Peña;Peter A. Wyman;C. Hendricks Brown;Monica M. Matthieu

  • The Rochester Child Resilience Project: Overview and summary of first year findings

    Emory L. Cowen;Peter A. Wyman;William C. Work;Gayle R. Parker

  • INTERVIEWS WITH CHILDREN WHO EXPERIENCED MAJOR LIFE STRESS: FAMILY AND CHILD ATTRIBUTES THAT PREDICT RESILIENT OUTCOMES

    Peter A. Wyman;Emory L. Cowen;William C. Work;Anisa Raoof

  • Connectedness and Suicide Prevention in Adolescents: Pathways and Implications

    Janis Whitlock;Peter A. Wyman;Sarah R. Moore

  • School-Based Prevention for Children at Risk: The Primary Mental Health Project

    Emory L. Cowen;A. Dirk Hightower;JoAnne L. Pedro-Carroll;William C. Work

  • Resilience as cumulative competence promotion and stress protection: Theory and intervention.

    Peter A. Wyman;Irwin Sandler;Sharlene Wolchik;Kathleen Nelson

  • Emotion Regulation Difficulties, Youth–Adult Relationships, and Suicide Attempts Among High School Students in Underserved Communities

    Anthony R. Pisani;Anthony R. Pisani;Peter A. Wyman;Mariya Petrova;Karen Schmeelk-Cone

  • Intervention to Strengthen Emotional Self-Regulation in Children with Emerging Mental Health Problems: Proximal Impact on School Behavior

    Peter A. Wyman;Wendi Cross;C. Hendricks Brown;Qin Yu

  • Test correlates of stress resilience among urban school children.

    Gayle R. Parker;Emory L. Cowen;William C. Work;Peter A. Wyman

  • Emerging Perspectives on Context Specificity of Children's Adaptation and Resilience: Evidence from a Decade of Research with Urban Children in Adversity

    Peter A. Wyman

  • Methods for testing theory and evaluating impact in randomized field trials: intent-to-treat analyses for integrating the perspectives of person, place, and time.

    C. Hendricks Brown;Wei Wang;Sheppard G. Kellam;Sheppard G. Kellam;Bengt O. Muthén

  • Adaptive Designs for Randomized Trials in Public Health

    C. Hendricks Brown;Thomas R. Ten Have;Booil Jo;Getachew Dagne

  • Stress resilient children in an urban setting.

    William C. Work;Emory L. Cowen;Gayle R. Parker;Peter A Wyman

  • Associations Between Suicidal High School Students’ Help-Seeking and Their Attitudes and Perceptions of Social Environment

    Anthony R. Pisani;Anthony R. Pisani;Karen Schmeelk-Cone;Douglas Gunzler;Mariya Petrova

Frequent Co-Authors

Emory L. Cowen
Emory L. Cowen University of Rochester
Dorothy L. Espelage
Dorothy L. Espelage University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thomas G. O'Connor
Thomas G. O'Connor University of Rochester
David B. Goldston
David B. Goldston Duke University
Thomas W. Valente
Thomas W. Valente University of Southern California
Kathleen K. Bucholz
Kathleen K. Bucholz Washington University in St. Louis
Janis Whitlock
Janis Whitlock Cornell University
Catherine R. Glenn
Catherine R. Glenn Old Dominion University
Kenneth R. Conner
Kenneth R. Conner University of Rochester Medical Center
Sheppard G. Kellam
Sheppard G. Kellam Johns Hopkins University

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