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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1996 - Rema Lapouse Award, American Public Health Association

Overview

Sheppard G. Kellam is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research contributions are primarily within the field of Psychology, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Social Psychology.

Their work addresses topics including:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Behavioral and Psychological Studies
  • Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression

Kellam has published studies in venues such as:

  • Prevention Science
  • UNC Libraries

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kellam include:

  • Testing the Impact of the Whole-Day Good Behavior Game on Aggressive Behavior: Results of a Classroom-Based Randomized Effectiveness Trial, 2022, Prevention Science
  • Increasing the Delivery of Preventive Health Services in Public Education, 2020, UNC Libraries

Frequent co-authors with Kellam are:

  • C. Hendricks Brown
  • Holly C. Wilcox
  • Hanno Petras
  • Gracelyn Cruden
  • Kelly J. Kelleher

Kellam received the Rema Lapouse Award from the American Public Health Association in 1996.

Best Publications

  • Standards of Evidence: Criteria for Efficacy, Effectiveness and Dissemination

    Brian R Flay;Anthony Biglan;Robert F Boruch;Felipe González Castro

  • Analysis of the elements of attention: A neuropsychological approach

    Allan F. Mirsky;Bruno J. Anthony;Connie C. Duncan;Mary Beth Ahearn

  • The effect of the level of aggression in the first grade classroom on the course and malleability of aggressive behavior into middle school

    Sheppard G. Kellam;Xiange Ling;Rolande Merisca;C. Hendricks Brown

  • Barriers to children's mental health services.

    Pamela L. Owens;Kimberly Hoagwood;Sarah M. Horwitz;Philip J. Leaf

  • Effect of first-grade classroom environment on shy behavior, aggressive behavior, and concentration problems.

    Lisa Werthamer-Larsson;Sheppard G. Kellam;Leonard Wheeler

  • The course and malleability of aggressive behavior from early first grade into middle school: results of a developmental epidemiologically-based preventive trial

    Sheppard G. Kellam;George W. Rebok;Nicholas Ialongo;Lawrence S. Mayer

  • Family structure and the mental health of children. Concurrent and longitudinal community-wide studies.

    Sheppard G. Kellam;Margaret E. Ensminger;R. Jay Turner

  • Effects of a universal classroom behavior management program in first and second grades on young adult behavioral, psychiatric, and social outcomes.

    Sheppard G. Kellam;Sheppard G. Kellam;C. Hendricks Brown;Jeanne M. Poduska;Nicholas S. Ialongo

  • Proximal Impact of Two First-Grade Preventive Interventions on the Early Risk Behaviors for Later Substance Abuse, Depression, and Antisocial Behavior

    Nicholas S. Ialongo;Lisa Werthamer;Sheppard G. Kellam;C. Hendricks Brown

  • General growth mixture modeling for randomized preventive interventions.

    Bengt Muthen;C. H. Brown;Katherine Masyn;Booil Jo

  • The short-term impact of two classroom-based preventive interventions on aggressive and shy behaviors and poor achievement

    Lawrence J. Dolan;Sheppard G. Kellam;C. Hendricks Brown;Lisa Werthamer-Larsson

  • Building developmental and etiological theory through epidemiologically based preventive intervention trials.

    Sheppard G. Kellam;George W. Rebok

  • Mental health and going to school : the Woodlawn program of assessment, early intervention, and evaluation

    Sheppard G. Kellam

  • The distal impact of two first-grade preventive interventions on conduct problems and disorder in early adolescence.

    Nick Ialongo;Jeanne M. Poduska;Lisa Werthamer;Sheppard Kellam

  • Paths Leading to Teenage Psychiatric Symptoms and Substance Use: Developmental Epidemiological Studies in Woodlawn.

    Sheppard G. Kellam

  • Modeling Growth in Boys' Aggressive Behavior Across Elementary School: Links to Later Criminal Involvement, Conduct Disorder, and Antisocial Personality Disorder

    Cindy M. Schaeffer;Hanno Petras;Nicholas Ialongo;Jeanne M. Poduska

  • The Significance of Self‐Reported Anxious Symptoms in First Grade Children: Prediction to Anxious Symptoms and Adaptive Functioning in Fifth Grade

    Nicholas S Ialongo;Gail Edelsohn;Lisa Werthamer-Larsson;Lisa Crockett

  • Targeting early antecedents to prevent tobacco smoking: findings from an epidemiologically based randomized field trial.

    Sheppard G. Kellam;James C. Anthony

  • The impact of two universal randomized first- and second-grade classroom interventions on young adult suicide ideation and attempts ☆

    Holly C. Wilcox;Sheppard G. Kellam;Sheppard G. Kellam;C. Hendricks Brown;Jeanne M. Poduska

  • Mental health in first grade and teenage drug, alcohol, and cigarette use.

    Sheppard G. Kellam;Margaret E. Ensminger;Marlene B. Simon

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas S. Ialongo
Nicholas S. Ialongo Johns Hopkins University
George W. Rebok
George W. Rebok Johns Hopkins University
Margaret E. Ensminger
Margaret E. Ensminger Johns Hopkins University
Anne C. Petersen
Anne C. Petersen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Brian R. Flay
Brian R. Flay Boise State University
Jeffrey C. Valentine
Jeffrey C. Valentine University of Louisville
Anthony Biglan
Anthony Biglan Oregon Research Institute
Booil Jo
Booil Jo Stanford University
Felipe González Castro
Felipe González Castro Arizona State University
Steven P. Schinke
Steven P. Schinke Columbia University

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