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Overview

Tara S. Peris is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Psychology, with a focused contribution to Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Their research topics cover various aspects of child and adolescent development and mental health concerns, including:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Behavioral and Psychological Studies
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Tara S. Peris has co-authored frequently with several researchers, including:

  • John Piacentini (30 publications)
  • Emily J. Ricketts (13 publications)
  • Michelle Rozenman (12 publications)
  • John T. Walkup (10 publications)
  • Jeffrey R. Strawn (9 publications)

Their work has been published extensively in several scientific venues. Major publication venues include:

  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (17 papers)
  • Journal of Affective Disorders (5 papers)
  • Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (5 papers)
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (4 papers)
  • Child Psychiatry & Human Development (4 papers)

Recent representative publications by or associated with Tara S. Peris include:

  • Family Intervention for Child and Adolescent Anxiety: A Meta-analytic Review of Therapy Targets, Techniques, and Outcomes, 2021, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Research Review: Pediatric anxiety disorders - what have we learnt in the last 10 years?, 2020, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Identifying subtypes of trichotillomania (hair pulling disorder) and excoriation (skin picking) disorder using mixture modeling in a multicenter sample, 2020, Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: An Empirical Approach to Defining Treatment Response and Remission in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, 2021, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Combining selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and cognitive behavioral therapy in youth with depression and anxiety, 2021, Journal of Affective Disorders

Best Publications

  • Controlled Comparison of Family Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Psychoeducation/Relaxation Training for Child Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    John Piacentini;R. Lindsey Bergman;Susanna Chang;Audra Langley

  • Correlates of Accommodation of Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Parent, Child, and Family Characteristics

    Tara S. Peris;R. Lindsey Bergman;Audra Langley;Susanna Chang

  • Naturalistic Follow-up of Youths Treated for Pediatric Anxiety Disorders

    Golda S. Ginsburg;Emily M. Becker;Courtney P. Keeton;Dara Sakolsky

  • Predictors and moderators of treatment response in childhood anxiety disorders: results from the CAMS trial.

    Scott N. Compton;Tara S. Peris;Daniel Almirall;Boris Birmaher

  • EVIDENCE-BASED PSYCHOSOCIAL TREATMENTS FOR CHILD AND ADOLESCENT OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER

    Paula M Barrett;Lara Jean Farrell;Armando A. Pina;Tara S. Peris

  • Implicit and explicit stigma of mental illness: links to clinical care.

    Tara S. Peris;Bethany A. Teachman;Brian A. Nosek

  • Functional impairment in childhood OCD: development and psychometrics properties of the Child Obsessive-Compulsive Impact Scale-Revised (COIS-R)

    John Piacentini;Tara S. Peris;R. Lindsey Bergman;Susanna Chang

  • Marital Conflict and Support Seeking by Parents in Adolescence: Empirical Support for the Parentification Construct

    Tara S. Peris;Marcie C. Goeke-Morey;E. Mark Cummings;Robert E. Emery

  • Trajectories of change in youth anxiety during cognitive-behavior therapy.

    Tara S. Peris;Scott N. Compton;Philip C. Kendall;Boris Birmaher

  • Results From the Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Extended Long-Term Study (CAMELS): Primary Anxiety Outcomes

    Golda S. Ginsburg;Emily M. Becker-Haimes;Courtney Keeton;Philip C. Kendall

  • Parental Expressed Emotion and Youth Psychopathology: New Directions for an Old Construct

    Tara S. Peris;David J. Miklowitz

  • The Child Anxiety Impact Scale: Examining Parent- and Child-Reported Impairment in Child Anxiety Disorders

    Audra K. Langley;Avital Falk;Tara Peris;Joshua F. Wiley

  • Family factors predict treatment outcome for pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Tara S. Peris;Catherine A. Sugar;R. Lindsey Bergman;Susanna Chang

  • Applications of the expressed emotion construct to young children with externalizing behavior: stability and prediction over time.

    Tara S. Peris;Bruce L. Baker

  • The Role of Treatment Expectancy in Youth Receiving Exposure-based CBT for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

    Adam B. Lewin;Tara S. Peris;R. Lindsey Bergman;James T. McCracken

  • Research Review: Pediatric anxiety disorders – what have we learnt in the last 10 years?

    Jeffrey R. Strawn;Lu Lu;Lu Lu;Tara S. Peris;Amir Levine

  • Optimizing treatment for complex cases of childhood obsessive compulsive disorder: a preliminary trial.

    Tara S. Peris;John Piacentini

  • Targeted Family Intervention for Complex Cases of Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

    Tara S. Peris;Michelle S. Rozenman;Catherine A. Sugar;James T. McCracken

  • Exposure and Response Prevention Process Predicts Treatment Outcome in Youth with OCD

    Katharina Kircanski;Tara S. Peris

  • Correlates of insight among youth with obsessive-compulsive disorder

    Adam B. Lewin;Adam B. Lewin;R. Lindsey Bergman;Tara S. Peris;Susanna Chang

Frequent Co-Authors

John Piacentini
John Piacentini University of California, Los Angeles
Golda S. Ginsburg
Golda S. Ginsburg University of Connecticut
Philip C. Kendall
Philip C. Kendall Temple University
James T. McCracken
James T. McCracken University of California, Los Angeles
Scott N. Compton
Scott N. Compton Duke University
Dara Sakolsky
Dara Sakolsky University of Pittsburgh
Anne Marie Albano
Anne Marie Albano Columbia University
John T. Walkup
John T. Walkup Lurie Children's Hospital
Boris Birmaher
Boris Birmaher University of Pittsburgh
Audra K. Langley
Audra K. Langley University of California, Los Angeles

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