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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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Global Diagnostic Field Trials for Irritability Published!
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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 |
I-SNAP Intervention Pilot Study Published!
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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 |
Olivia wins inCHIP Grant to study family coping during COVID-19!
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Congratulations to Olivia on her newly-funded project from inCHIP:
“Healthy Transmission of Coping During COVID-19: The Impact of Parents’ Emotional Characteristics on Caregiver and Child Pandemic Response.”
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New Commentary Published in Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology!
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Check out Dr. Burke and Oliver’s recent commentary on Burns and colleagues (2020) S-1 Bifactor Model for ADHD and ODD in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology!
Burke, J.D., & Johnston, O.G. (2020) The bifactor S-1 model: A psychometrically sounder alternative to test the structure of ADHD and ODD? Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-020-00645-4 |
Oliver and Olivia have successful APPIC Internship Match Day!
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Congratulations to “lab twins” Olivia Derella and Oliver Johnston for matching to APA-accredited doctoral internships for the 2020-2021 academic year.
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Oliver passes Ph.D. defense!
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Congratulations to Oliver Johnston for defending his dissertation entitled “Clinical Characteristics of Oppositional Defiant Disorder in College Students”
Advisory Committee: Jeffrey D. Burke, Ph.D. (chair) Dean G. Cruess, Ph.D. Rhiannon L. Smith, Ph.D.
Review Committee: Marianne Barton, Ph.D. Stephanie Milan, Ph.D. |
New Publication in Journal of Psychopathology & Behavioral Assessment!
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Congratulations to Oliver, Dr. Cruess, & Dr. Burke for their recent publication in the Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment exploring the relationship between ODD symptom dimensions and DSM-5 Personality Traits in Adults!
Johnston, O.G., Cruess, D.G., & Burke, J.D. (2020) Irritability and behavioral dimensions of ODD in young adults: Associations with DSM-5 pathological personality traits. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-020-09786-8
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Dr. Burke gives Psychiatry Grand Rounds talk at Stony Brook!
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Dr. Burke traveled to Stony Brook University this week to give a Psychiatry Grand Rounds talk on the clinical implications of oppositional defiant disorder in adulthood.
Presentation Title: ODD Doesn’t Disappear at 18: Symptom Dimensions, Impairments and Comorbidities of ODD Among Young Adults |
BADCO research at ABCT; Oliver wins poster award
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Members of the BADCO lab headed to Atlanta, GA to present their research at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Annual Convention.
Burke, J.D. & Butler (Bertschinger), E.J. (2019, November). Childhood chronic irritability and the prediction of suicidality in adults: Differential informant effects. In J.D. Burke (Chair), Irritability in childhood: Measurement, predictive utility and treatment. Symposium conducted at the 53rd Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior and Cognitive Therapies, Atlanta, GA.
Butler (Bertschinger), E.J. & Burke, J.D. (2019, November). Parental depression and child treatment response: Parental stress and parenting as mechanisms. Poster presented at the 53rd Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior and Cognitive Therapies, Atlanta, GA.
Johnston, O.G., Barber, J., Derella, O.J., & Burke, J.D. (2019, November). Identifying intervention targets for oppositional defiant disorder symptoms in college students. Poster presented at the 53rd Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior and Cognitive Therapies, Atlanta, GA. |
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Congratulations to Oliver whose poster on intervention targets for ODD in adults won the Elsie Ramos Memorial Poster Award! Here he is with the other two award winners, along with Bruce Chorpita, Ph.D. (ABCT President), Cassidy Gutner, Ph.D. (ABCT Awards & Recognition Chair), and Sara Elkins, Ph.D. (Student Awards Subcommittee Chair).
For more about the award, check out http://www.abct.org/Awards/ |
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BADCO members even ran into Claudia Paszek, a former undergraduate research assistant extraordinaire, who was presenting some of her research she has been working on as a research assistant at Brown University! |












