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Coping with chronic illness in childhood and adolescenceBruce E Compas
Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA
Annu Rev Clin Psychol 8:455-80. 2012..Avenues for future research are highlighted...
Family group cognitive-behavioral preventive intervention for families of depressed parents: 18- and 24-month outcomesBruce E Compas
Department of Psychology and Human Development, VanderbiltUniversity, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 79:488-99. 2011....- Coping and parenting: Mediators of 12-month outcomes of a family group cognitive-behavioral preventive intervention with families of depressed parentsBruce E Compas
Vanderbilt University, Department of Psychology and Human Development, Peabody 552, 230 Appleton Place, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 78:623-34. 2010.... - Randomized controlled trial of a family cognitive-behavioral preventive intervention for children of depressed parentsBruce E Compas
Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 77:1007-20. 2009..Implications for the prevention of adverse outcomes in children of depressed parents are highlighted... 
Psychobiological processes of stress and coping: implications for resilience in children and adolescents--comments on the papers of Romeo & McEwen and Fisher et alBruce E Compas
Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Peabody 512, 230 Appleton Place, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1094:226-34. 2006..Implications for future research on resilience and the development of interventions to promote resilience are highlighted...- Latent variable analysis of coping, anxiety/depression, and somatic symptoms in adolescents with chronic painBruce E Compas
Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 74:1132-42. 2006..Implications for understanding child and adolescent coping with pain are highlighted... - Temperament, stress reactivity, and coping:implications for depression in childhood and adolescenceBruce E Compas
Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 33:21-31. 2004..Temperamental characteristics may moderate and be moderated by stress responses and coping in their effects on depression. Directions for future research are highlighted... - Measurement of coping and stress responses in women with breast cancerBruce E Compas
Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Peabody 512, 230 Appleton Place, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Psychooncology 15:1038-54. 2006..Significant correlations with symptoms of anxiety and depression are also reported. Applications of the RSQ-CV for research with breast cancer patients are discussed... - Cross-situational coping with peer and family stressors in adolescent offspring of depressed parentsSarah S Jaser
Vanderbilt University, Department of Psychology and Human Development, Peabody 512, 230 Appleton Place, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Adolesc 30:917-32. 2007..Implications for understanding the characteristics of effective coping with stress related to living with a depressed parent are highlighted... - Caretaking behaviors by adolescent children of mothers with and without a history of depressionJennifer E Champion
Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Fam Psychol 23:156-66. 2009..Theoretical and clinical implications are discussed... - Self-reported and laboratory-based responses to stress in children with recurrent pain and anxietyLynette M Dufton
Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Peabody 512, 230 Appleton Place, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 36:95-105. 2011..To examine heart rate (HR) responses to and coping with stress in children with recurrent abdominal pain (RAP), anxiety, and healthy controls... - A quantitative meta-analysis of neurocognitive sequelae in survivors of pediatric brain tumorsKristen E Robinson
Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennesse 37203, USA
Pediatr Blood Cancer 55:525-31. 2010..Deficits in neurocognitive functioning are an important area of late effects in survivors of pediatric brain tumors, but a quantitative analysis of the magnitude of these deficits has yet to be conducted... - Working memory in survivors of childhood acute lymphocytic leukemia: functional neuroimaging analysesKristen E Robinson
Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA
Pediatr Blood Cancer 54:585-90. 2010..Despite indications of deficits based on cognitive assessment, the identification of specific mechanisms of neurocognitive deficits using neuroimaging techniques has yet to be adequately considered... - Parental depression and interparental conflict: children and adolescents' self-blame and coping responsesJessica M Fear
Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Fam Psychol 23:762-6. 2009.... - Anxiety and somatic complaints in children with recurrent abdominal pain and anxiety disordersLynette M Dufton
Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 34:176-86. 2009..To compare anxiety symptoms and disorders in children and adolescents with recurrent abdominal pain (RAP), anxiety disorders, and healthy control children... - Coping with the stress of parental depression II: adolescent and parent reports of coping and adjustmentSarah S Jaser
Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 34:193-205. 2005..Implications for future research on coping and adjustment in offspring of depressed parents are highlighted... - Effects of stress on pain threshold and tolerance in children with recurrent abdominal painLynette M Dufton
Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Peabody 512, 230 Appleton Place, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Pain 136:38-43. 2008..The present research demonstrates the first evidence of the occurrence of stress-induced hyperalgesia in a pediatric pain population... - Direct observation of mother-child communication in pediatric cancer: assessment of verbal and non-verbal behavior and emotionMadeleine J Dunn
Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 36:565-75. 2011..To examine the acceptability and feasibility of coding observed verbal and nonverbal behavioral and emotional components of mother-child communication among families of children with cancer... - Coping with the stress of parental depression: parents' reports of children's coping, emotional, and behavioral problemsAdela M Langrock
Department of Psychology, Middlebury College, VT, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 31:312-24. 2002..Implications of these findings for developing interventions for children to reduce the risk of psychopathology are discussed... - Stress, coping, and immune function in breast cancerLinda J Luecken
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287, USA
Ann Behav Med 24:336-44. 2002..Although strong evidence suggests that coping and psychosocial intervention can improve psychological outcomes for breast cancer patients, potential effects on physiological outcomes remain speculative... - Attentional biases to pain and social threat in children with recurrent abdominal painMargaret C Boyer
Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, California 94305, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 31:209-20. 2006..Previous research indicates that individuals attend to disorder-relevant threat words, and in this study, attentional biases to disorder-relevant threat (pain), alternative threat (social threat), and neutral words were compared... - Self-blame and distress among women with newly diagnosed breast cancerKymberley K Bennett
Department of Psychology, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809, USA
J Behav Med 28:313-23. 2005..Furthermore, perceptions of control did not mediate the self-blame/distress relation. Implications for social cognitive processes in adaptation to breast cancer are discussed... - Parent reports of coping and stress responses in children with recurrent abdominal painAlexandra Harding Thomsen
University of Vermont, Burlington 05405, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 27:215-26. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: We highlight implications of these findings for understanding processes of coping and stress reactivity in children with RAP... - Single parents of children with chronic illness: an understudied phenomenonRonald T Brown
Temple University, College of Health 3307 North Broad Street, 300 Jones Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 33:408-21. 2008..To examine the chronic illness literature and evaluate the impact on single parenting and children and adolescents with chronic illness... - Stressors and child and adolescent psychopathology: measurement issues and prospective effectsKathryn E Grant
Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, IL 60614, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 33:412-25. 2004..Implications of these findings are that conclusive evidence now exists for the importance of stressors in the development of child and adolescent psychopathology... - Alterations in morning cortisol associated with PTSD in women with breast cancerLinda J Luecken
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
J Psychosom Res 56:13-5. 2004..The current study investigated morning cortisol levels in newly diagnosed (i.e., within 6 months) breast cancer patients... - Neuropsychological effects of treatments for adults with cancer: a meta-analysis and review of the literatureCay Anderson-Hanley
Department of Psychology, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York 12866, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 9:967-82. 2003..More research is needed to clarify which treatments may produce cognitive decrements, the size of those effects, and their duration, while ruling out a wide variety of possible mediating or moderating variables... - Stressors and child and adolescent psychopathology: moving from markers to mechanisms of riskKathryn E Grant
Department of Psychology, DePaul University, 2219 North Kenmore Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60614, USA
Psychol Bull 129:447-66. 2003..Results generally provide support for the specific model as well as for the broader model... - Stress and psychopathology in children and adolescents: is there evidence of specificity?Susan D McMahon
Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, IL 60614, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 44:107-33. 2003..Little evidence for specificity was found. Methodological problems in the literature and the lack of theory-driven specificity research are discussed, and directions for future research are identified...
Research Grants
- Parent-Child Communication About CancerBruce Compas; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Parent-Child Communication About CancerBruce Compas; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Family Cognitive-Behavioral Prevention of DepressionBruce Compas; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- COMPARISON OF PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTION IN BREAST CANCERBruce Compas; Fiscal Year: 2001..The effects of the interventions on affective distress are hypothesized to be mediated by decreased use of avoidance coping methods, decreased levels of intrusive negative thoughts, and increased use of engagement coping. ..
- Parent-Child Communication About CancerBruce E Compas; Fiscal Year: 2010....