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Sean Phipps is a researcher affiliated with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on the medical field, with specialization in pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. The research also spans clinical psychology, sociology and political science, public health, environmental and occupational health, as well as speech and hearing.

The scientist's main topics of study include childhood cancer survivors' quality of life, family support in illness, family and disability support research, palliative care and end-of-life issues, resilience and mental health, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and family and patient care in intensive care units.

Sean Phipps has contributed notable research papers, including:

  • In-person vs. web-based administration of a problem-solving skills intervention for parents of children with cancer: Report of a randomized noninferiority trial (2020, EClinicalMedicine)

Although not the primary author on these, relevant recent papers in related areas include:

  • Trajectories of resilience and posttraumatic stress in childhood cancer: Consistency of child and parent outcomes (2021, Health Psychology)
  • Centrality of the childhood cancer experience and its relation to post-traumatic stress and growth (2020, Psycho-Oncology)
  • Longitudinal Trajectories of Neurocognitive Functioning in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (2020, Journal of Pediatric Psychology)
  • Profiles of Resilience, Distress, and Posttraumatic Growth in Parents of Children with Cancer and the Relation to Subsequent Parenting and Family Functioning (2023, Journal of Pediatric Psychology)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Alanna Long (11 joint publications)
  • Kendra Parris (7 joint publications)
  • Victoria W. Willard (7 joint publications)
  • Rachel Tillery (6 joint publications)
  • Robert B. Noll (5 joint publications)

The research by Sean Phipps has been published repeatedly in certain venues, demonstrating a consistent focus on pediatric and psychosocial topics. These venues include:

  • Journal of Pediatric Psychology (5 publications)
  • Psycho-Oncology (3 publications)
  • Cancers (2 publications)
  • Pediatric Blood & Cancer (2 publications)
  • Frontiers in Psychology (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Using Problem-Solving Skills Training to Reduce Negative Affectivity in Mothers of Children With Newly Diagnosed Cancer: Report of a Multisite Randomized Trial.

    Olle Jane Z. Sahler;Diane L. Fairclough;Sean Phipps;Raymond K. Mulhern

  • Problem-solving skills training for mothers of children with newly diagnosed cancer: a randomized trial.

    Olle Jane Z. Sahler;James W. Varni;Diane L. Fairclough;Robert W. Butler

  • Assessment of health-related quality of life in children with cancer: consistency and agreement between parent and child reports.

    Kathryn M. W. Russell;Melissa Hudson;B A Alanna Long;Sean Phipps

  • Late Effects of Treatment in Survivors of Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia

    Wing Leung;Melissa M. Hudson;Donald K. Strickland;Sean Phipps

  • Repressive adaptation in children with cancer.

    Sean Phipps;Deo Kumar Srivastava

  • Trajectories of Adjustment in Mothers of Children with Newly Diagnosed Cancer: A Natural History Investigation

    Michael J. Dolgin;Sean Phipps;Diane L. Fairclough;Olle Jane Z. Sahler

  • Specificity of Problem-Solving Skills Training in Mothers of Children Newly Diagnosed With Cancer: Results of a Multisite Randomized Clinical Trial

    Olle Jane Z. Sahler;Michael J. Dolgin;Sean Phipps;Diane L. Fairclough

  • Benefit Finding Scale for Children: Preliminary Findings from a Childhood Cancer Population

    Sean Phipps;Alanna M. Long;Johanna Ogden

  • Single Parents of Children with Chronic Illness: An Understudied Phenomenon

    Ronald T Brown;Lori Wiener;Mary Jo Kupst;Tara Brennan

  • Adaptive Style in Children with Cancer: Implications for a Positive Psychology Approach

    Sean Phipps

  • Symptoms of post-traumatic stress in children with cancer and their parents: effects of informant and time from diagnosis.

    Sean Phipps;Alanna Long;Melissa Hudson;Shesh N. Rai

  • Psychological functioning of adolescent and young adult survivors of pediatric malignancy

    T. David Elkin;T. David Elkin;Sean Phipps;Raymond K. Mulhern;Diane Fairclough

  • Brief Report: Children's Response to Serious Illness: Perceptions of Benefit and Burden in a Pediatric Cancer Population

    Joseph M Currier;Susan Hermes;Sean Phipps

  • Health-related behaviors of survivors of childhood cancer.

    Raymond K. Mulhern;Vida L. Tyc;Sean Phipps;Deborah Crom

  • Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress in Parents of Children with Cancer: Are they Elevated Relative to Parents of Healthy Children?

    Nichole Jurbergs;Alanna Long;Luis Ticona;Sean Phipps

  • Avoidant Coping in Children with Cancer

    Sean Phipps;Diane Fairclough;Raymond K. Mulhern

  • Perceived positive impact of cancer among long‐term survivors of childhood cancer: a report from the childhood cancer survivor study

    Brad J. Zebrack;Margaret L. Stuber;Kathleen A. Meeske;Sean Phipps

  • Posttraumatic Stress and Psychological Growth in Children With Cancer: Has the Traumatic Impact of Cancer Been Overestimated?

    Sean Phipps;James L. Klosky;Alanna Long;Melissa M. Hudson

  • Oral ketamine premedication to alleviate the distress of invasive procedures in pediatric oncology patients.

    Joseph D. Tobias;Sean Phipps;Bruce Smith;Raymond K. Mulhern

  • Psychosocial Predictors of Distress in Parents of Children Undergoing Stem Cell or Bone Marrow Transplantation

    Sean Phipps;Maggi Dunavant;Shelly Lensing;Shesh N. Rai

  • Repressive adaptive style in children with chronic illness.

    Sean Phipps;Ric Steele

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert B. Noll
Robert B. Noll University of Pittsburgh
Ernest R. Katz
Ernest R. Katz Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
Melissa M. Hudson
Melissa M. Hudson St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Ric G. Steele
Ric G. Steele University of Kansas
Louis A. Penner
Louis A. Penner Wayne State University
James W. Varni
James W. Varni Texas A&M University
Melissa A. Alderfer
Melissa A. Alderfer Thomas Jefferson University
Maru Barrera
Maru Barrera University of Toronto
Larry L. Mullins
Larry L. Mullins Oklahoma State University
Kathryn Vannatta
Kathryn Vannatta The Ohio State University

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