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William R. Beardslee

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
81
Citations
25460
World Ranking
16578
National Ranking
8328

Psychology

D-Index
84
Citations
26413
World Ranking
1227
National Ranking
748

William R. Beardslee publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 248 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

William R. Beardslee D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William R. Beardslee sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 84 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

William R. Beardslee is affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and health professions, with a predominant focus on clinical psychology and general health professions as subfields.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions

Beardslee's research contributions have been published frequently in the following venues:

  • American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
  • Prevention Science
  • AIDS Education and Prevention
  • International Journal on Child Maltreatment Research Policy and Practice
  • Child Psychiatry & Human Development

Some recent papers associated with topics of prevention, family interventions, trauma, and health equity include:

  • "Acceptability, Feasibility, and Preliminary Efficacy of a Resilience-Oriented Family Intervention to Prevent Adolescent HIV and Depression: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial" (2020, AIDS Education and Prevention)
  • "Re-envisioning, Retooling, and Rebuilding Prevention Science Methods to Address Structural and Systemic Racism and Promote Health Equity" (2022, Prevention Science)
  • "Community-Level Prevention of Childhood Maltreatment: Next Steps in a World with COVID-19" (2021, International Journal on Child Maltreatment Research Policy and Practice)
  • "A Trauma-Informed, Family-Centered, Virtual Home Visiting Program for Young Children: One-Year Outcomes" (2021, Child Psychiatry & Human Development)
  • "Understanding mechanisms of change in a family-based preventive mental health intervention for refugees by refugees in New England" (2022, Transcultural Psychiatry)

Frequent collaborators in Beardslee's research include:

  • C. Hendricks Brown
  • Tracy R. G. Gladstone
  • Gracelyn Cruden
  • George W. Howe
  • Catherine Mogil

Best Publications

  • Childhood abuse and lifetime psychopathology in a community sample.

    Harriet L. MacMillan;Jan E. Fleming;David L. Streiner;Elizabeth Lin

  • The Effects of Poverty on the Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health of Children and Youth: Implications for Prevention.

    Hirokazu Yoshikawa;J. Lawrence Aber;William R. Beardslee

  • Children of affectively ill parents: a review of the past 10 years.

    William R. Beardslee;Eve M. Versage;Tracy R. G. Gladstone

  • A randomized trial of a group cognitive intervention for preventing depression in adolescent offspring of depressed parents.

    Gregory N. Clarke;Mark Hornbrook;Frances Lynch;Michael Polen

  • A family-based approach to the prevention of depressive symptoms in children at risk: evidence of parental and child change.

    William R. Beardslee;Tracy R. G. Gladstone;Ellen J. Wright;Andrew B. Cooper

  • Prevalence of Child Physical and Sexual Abuse in the Community: Results From the Ontario Health Supplement

    Harriet L. MacMillan;Jan E. Fleming;Nico Trocmé;Michael H. Boyle

  • Children of parents with major affective disorder: a review.

    William R. Beardslee;Jules Bemporad;Martin B. Keller;Gerald L. Klerman

  • The Long War and Parental Combat Deployment: Effects on Military Children and At-Home Spouses

    Patricia Lester;Kris Peterson;James Reeves;Larry Knauss

  • Prevention of depression in at-risk adolescents: a randomized controlled trial.

    Judy Garber;Gregory N. Clarke;V. Robin Weersing;William R. Beardslee

  • Characteristics of resilient youths living in poverty: the role of self-regulatory processes.

    John C. Buckner;Enrico Mezzacappa;William R. Beardslee

  • Resilient adolescents whose parents have serious affective and other psychiatric disorders : importance of self-understanding and relationships

    W. R. Beardslee;D. Podorefsky

  • Chronic Course of Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents

    Martin B. Keller;Philip W. Lavori;Joanne Wunder;William R. Beardslee

  • Associations of depression, self-esteem, and substance use with sexual risk among adolescents.

    Lydia A. Shrier;Sion Kim Harris;Maya Sternberg;William R. Beardslee

  • Assessing adolescent interpersonal negotiation strategies: Toward the integration of structural and functional models.

    Robert L. Selman;William Beardslee;Lynn Hickey Schultz;Michael Krupa

  • Adolescent Suicidal Ideation as Predictive of Psychopathology, Suicidal Behavior, and Compromised Functioning at Age 30

    Helen Z. Reinherz;Jennifer L. Tanner;Sasha R. Berger;William R. Beardslee

  • Psychosocial intervention development for the prevention and treatment of depression: Promoting innovation and increasing access.

    Steven D Hollon;Ricardo F Muñoz;David H Barlow;William R Beardslee

  • Mechanisms of risk and resilience in military families: theoretical and empirical basis of a family-focused resilience enhancement program.

    William R. Saltzman;Patricia Lester;William R. Beardslee;Christopher M. Layne

  • Long-term effects from a randomized trial of two public health preventive interventions for parental depression.

    William R. Beardslee;Ellen J. Wright;Tracy R. G. Gladstone;Peter Forbes

  • Impact of Severity and Chronicity of Parental Affective Illness on Adaptive Functioning and Psychopathology in Children

    Martin B. Keller;William R. Beardslee;David J. Dorer;Philip W. Lavori

  • Transmission and Prevention of Mood Disorders Among Children of Affectively Ill Parents: A Review

    William R. Beardslee;Tracy R.G. Gladstone;Tracy R.G. Gladstone;Erin E. O'Connor

  • PreventionofDepressioninAt-RiskAdolescents A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Judy Garber;Gregory N. Clarke;V. Robin Weersing;William R. Beardslee

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin B. Keller
Martin B. Keller Brown University
Philip W. Lavori
Philip W. Lavori Stanford University
C. Hendricks Brown
C. Hendricks Brown Northwestern University
Theresa S. Betancourt
Theresa S. Betancourt Boston College
David A. Brent
David A. Brent University of Pittsburgh
Judy Garber
Judy Garber Harvard University
V. Robin Weersing
V. Robin Weersing San Diego State University
Steven D. Hollon
Steven D. Hollon Vanderbilt University
Howard Cabral
Howard Cabral Boston University
Catherine Ayoub
Catherine Ayoub Boston Children's Hospital

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