Check out this debate-style article on the validity of the oppositional defiant disorder diagnosis. Spoiler alert: the answer is in the title!
Burke, J. D., Evans, S. C., & Carlson, G. A. (2022). Oppositional defiant disorder is a real disorder. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 27(3), 297-299. https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12588
Oliver and Olivia, having completed their internships and passed their dissertation defenses, become the first BADCO students to graduate! Congratulations to our first BADCO emeritus members. 😥 
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Check out the lab’s recent review article in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America issue on Emotion Dysregulation and Outbursts:
Burke, J.D., Johnston, O.G., & Butler, E.J. (2021). The irritable and oppositional dimensions of ODD: Integral factors in the explanation of affective and behavioral psychopathology. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 30(3), 637-647. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chc.2021.04.012 |
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Congratulations, Ari for winning a Pre-Doctoral Award from UConn’s El Instituto to support data collection in Argentina for her dissertation: “Physician Referral to Children’s Mental Health Services: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Contributing Factors”
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Congratulations to Ari Romano-Verthelyi for matching to an APA-accredited doctoral internship for the 2021-2022 academic year.
Ari matched to the Child & Adolescent Track at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, NY! |
First, M. B., Gaebel, W., Maj, M., Stein, D. J., Kogan, C. S., Saunders, J. B., Poznyak, V. B., Gureje, O., Lewis-Fernández, R., Maercker, A., Brewin, C. R., Cloitre, M., Claudino, A., Pike, K. M., Baird, G., Skuse, D., Krueger, R. B., Briken, P., Burke, J. D., Lochman, J. E., Evans, S. C., Woods, D. W., Reed, G. M. (2021). An organization- and category-level comparison of diagnostic requirements for mental disorders in ICD-11 and DSM-5. World Psychiatry, 20(1), 34-51. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20825
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Olivia presented preliminary findings from her dissertation project that was expanded to examine parent-child coping during COVID-19!
You can find her talk below!
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Congratulations to Dr. Burke and the rest of the ICD-11 Field Studies Working Group on Disruptive Behaviour and Dissocial Disorders on the publication of their global diagnostic field trials:
Evans, S. C., Roberts, M. C., Keeley, J. W., Rebello, T. J., Peña, F., Lochman, J. E., Burke, J. D., Fite, P. J., Ezpeleta, L., Matthys, W., Youngstrom, E. A., Matsumoto, C., Andrews, H. F., Elena Medina, M. M., Ayuso, M. J. L., Khoury, B., Kulygina, M., Robles, R., Sharan, P., … Reed, G. M. (2020). Diagnostic classification of irritability and oppositionality in youth: A global field study comparing ICD‐11 with ICD‐10 and DSM‐5. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13244 |
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Congratulations to Olivia and the rest of the BADCO lab for publishing the findings from their pilot study testing an irritability-specific group treatment for kids and their parents!
Derella, O.J., Burke, J.D., Romano-Verthelyi, A.M., Butler, E.J., & Johnston, O.G. (2020). Feasibility and acceptability of a brief cognitive-behavioral group intervention for chronic irritability in youth. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1-12. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359104520918331 |