Eric A Youngstrom
Biographic Data
| ID | 1660401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric A Youngstrom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric A |
| FAMILY NAME | Youngstrom |
| SIGNATURE | YOUNGSTROM E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Case Western Reserve University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2251-6860 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Parsing the heterogeneity of social motivation in autism
BACKGROUND: Social motivation is posited as a key factor in the expression of the autism phenotype. However, lack of precision in both conceptualization and measurement has impeded a thorough understanding of its diverse presentation and associated outcomes. This study addresses this gap by identifying subgroups of autism characterized by deficits in distinct facets of social motivation, relative to normative benchmarks. METHODS: Data were from 5…
Probing the impact of psychoanalytic therapy for bipolar disorders
No systematic review has been conducted to provide an overview of the effectiveness of psychoanalysis for treatment outcomes in bipolar depression and mania. The present study undertakes a scoping review of the effectiveness of psychoanalysis for bipolar disorder (BD), provides a summary of the evidence base, and identifies issues for future research in this area. A thorough search of journal articles in MEDLINE, PEP-Web, PsycINFO, Scopus, and th…
Assessing the patient’s affective perception of their psychotherapist
The SPARQ proves to be a valuable instrument in clinical, training, and research contexts, adept at capturing patients' session-level affective responses towards their therapist and perceptions of the therapeutic alliance. Comprehensive descriptive statistics and a range of score precision indices have been reported, intended to serve as benchmarks for future research
Reorienting Latent Variable Modeling for Supervised Learning
Despite its potentials benefits, using prediction targets generated based on latent variable (LV) modeling is not a common practice in supervised learning, a dominating framework for developing prediction models. In supervised learning, it is typically assumed that the outcome to be predicted is clear and readily available, and therefore validating outcomes before predicting them is a foreign concept and an unnecessary step. The usual goal of LV …
Clinicians’ Emotional Reactions toward Patients with Depressive Symptoms in Mood Disorders
The purpose of this article is to narratively review the empirical literature on clinicians' emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses (i.e., countertransference) to depressive and other symptoms of patients with mood disorders. Therapist subjective responses (countertransference) can negatively affect both diagnostic and therapeutic processes, especially when they are not recognized and managed promptly. However, at the same time, countertr…
Diagnostic classification of irritability and oppositionality in youth
BACKGROUND: Severe irritability has become an important topic in child and adolescent mental health. Based on the available evidence and on public health considerations, WHO classified chronic irritability within oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) in ICD-11, a solution markedly different from DSM-5's (i.e. the new childhood mood diagnosis, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder [DMDD]) and from ICD-10's (i.e. ODD as one of several conduct disord…
Improving the global identification of bipolar spectrum disorders
Using systematic reviews and meta-analyses to support regulatory decision making for neurotoxicants
We examined prospective cohort studies evaluating the relation between prenatal and neonatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and neurodevelopment in children to assess the feasibility of conducting a meta-analysis to support decision making. We described studies in terms of exposure and end point categorization, statistical analysis, and reporting of results. We used this evaluation to assess the feasibility of grouping studies into …
Advancing the Selection of Neurodevelopmental Measures in Epidemiological Studies of Environmental Chemical Exposure and Health Effects
With research suggesting increasing incidence of pediatric neurodevelopmental disorders, questions regarding etiology continue to be raised. Neurodevelopmental function tests have been used in epidemiology studies to evaluate relationships between environmental chemical exposures and neurodevelopmental deficits. Limitations of currently used tests and difficulties with their interpretation have been described, but a comprehensive critical examina…
Reliability Generalization Of Self-Report Of Emotions When Using The Differential Emotions Scale
Because self-report is a valuable and often irreplaceable source of information about emotions, it is important to learn how measurement properties change across different demographic samples. Previous findings of mean differences in the level or variability of trait emotions for men versus women or across ethnic groups suggest that there may be differences in the internal consistency of the same measure when applied to different groups. Research…
Exploring Violence Exposure, Stress, Protective Factors and Behavioral Problems Among Inner‐City Youth
This study examined relationships between violence exposure, other stressors, family support, and self‐concept on self‐reported behavioral problems among 320 urban adolescents (aged 11–18) referred for mental health treatment. Overall, participants reported high levels of violence exposure, with a median of six past encounters with violence as a witness, victim, or through the experiences of associates. All forms of violence exposure (witnessing,…
A Clinically Useful Screening Interview to Assess Violence Exposure in Youth
Emotion Knowledge as a Predictor of Social Behavior and Academic Competence in Children at Risk
Following leads from differential emotions theory and empirical research, we evaluated an index of emotion knowledge as a long-term predictor of positive and negative social behavior and academic competence in a sample of children from economically disadvantaged families (N = 72). The index of emotion knowledge represents the child's ability to recognize and label emotion expressions. We administered control and predictor measures when the childr…
Patterns and correlates of agreement between parent, teacher, and male adolescent ratings of externalizing and internalizing problems.
The authors examined how well 394 triads of male youths, caregivers, and teachers agreed about youth problems reported on the Achenbach checklists. Dyadic agreement was measured through difference scores (subtracting the raw score of youth self-report from the caregiver's or teacher's score for shared items), q correlations between pairs of raters across items, and D2 (generalized distance between item profiles) for both externalizing and interna…
Therelations between cluster indexes of risk and promotion and the problem behaviors of 6- and 7- year old children from economically disadvantaged families
This study examined the relations between alternative representations of poverty cofactors and promotion processes and teacher reports of the problem behaviors of 6- and 7-year-old children from economically disadvantaged families (N = 159). The results showed that single-index representations of risk and promotion variables predicted child aggressive behaviors but not child anxious/depressed behaviors. An additive model of individual risk indica…
Family instability and the problem behaviors of children from economically disadvantaged families
The relations between cluster indexes of risk and promotion and the problem behaviors of 6- and 7- year old children from economically disadvantaged families
This study examined the relations between alternative representations of poverty cofactors and promotion processes and teacher reports of the problem behaviors of 6- and 7-year-old children from economically disadvantaged families (N = 159). The results showed that single-index representations of risk and promotion variables predicted child aggressive behaviors but not child anxious/depressed behaviors. An additive model of individual risk indica…
Family instability and the problem behaviors of children from economically disadvantaged families
Exploring Violence Exposure, Stress, Protective Factors and Behavioral Problems Among Inner‐City Youth
This study examined relationships between violence exposure, other stressors, family support, and self‐concept on self‐reported behavioral problems among 320 urban adolescents (aged 11–18) referred for mental health treatment. Overall, participants reported high levels of violence exposure, with a median of six past encounters with violence as a witness, victim, or through the experiences of associates. All forms of violence exposure (witnessing,…
The relations between cluster indexes of risk and promotion and the problem behaviors of 6- and 7- year old children from economically disadvantaged families
This study examined the relations between alternative representations of poverty cofactors and promotion processes and teacher reports of the problem behaviors of 6- and 7-year-old children from economically disadvantaged families (N = 159). The results showed that single-index representations of risk and promotion variables predicted child aggressive behaviors but not child anxious/depressed behaviors. An additive model of individual risk indica…
Therelations between cluster indexes of risk and promotion and the problem behaviors of 6- and 7- year old children from economically disadvantaged families
This study examined the relations between alternative representations of poverty cofactors and promotion processes and teacher reports of the problem behaviors of 6- and 7-year-old children from economically disadvantaged families (N = 159). The results showed that single-index representations of risk and promotion variables predicted child aggressive behaviors but not child anxious/depressed behaviors. An additive model of individual risk indica…
Family instability and the problem behaviors of children from economically disadvantaged families
The relations between cluster indexes of risk and promotion and the problem behaviors of 6- and 7- year old children from economically disadvantaged families
This study examined the relations between alternative representations of poverty cofactors and promotion processes and teacher reports of the problem behaviors of 6- and 7-year-old children from economically disadvantaged families (N = 159). The results showed that single-index representations of risk and promotion variables predicted child aggressive behaviors but not child anxious/depressed behaviors. An additive model of individual risk indica…
Patterns and correlates of agreement between parent, teacher, and male adolescent ratings of externalizing and internalizing problems.
The authors examined how well 394 triads of male youths, caregivers, and teachers agreed about youth problems reported on the Achenbach checklists. Dyadic agreement was measured through difference scores (subtracting the raw score of youth self-report from the caregiver's or teacher's score for shared items), q correlations between pairs of raters across items, and D2 (generalized distance between item profiles) for both externalizing and interna…
Emotion Knowledge as a Predictor of Social Behavior and Academic Competence in Children at Risk
Following leads from differential emotions theory and empirical research, we evaluated an index of emotion knowledge as a long-term predictor of positive and negative social behavior and academic competence in a sample of children from economically disadvantaged families (N = 72). The index of emotion knowledge represents the child's ability to recognize and label emotion expressions. We administered control and predictor measures when the childr…
A Clinically Useful Screening Interview to Assess Violence Exposure in Youth
Reliability Generalization Of Self-Report Of Emotions When Using The Differential Emotions Scale
Because self-report is a valuable and often irreplaceable source of information about emotions, it is important to learn how measurement properties change across different demographic samples. Previous findings of mean differences in the level or variability of trait emotions for men versus women or across ethnic groups suggest that there may be differences in the internal consistency of the same measure when applied to different groups. Research…
Exploring Violence Exposure, Stress, Protective Factors and Behavioral Problems Among Inner‐City Youth
This study examined relationships between violence exposure, other stressors, family support, and self‐concept on self‐reported behavioral problems among 320 urban adolescents (aged 11–18) referred for mental health treatment. Overall, participants reported high levels of violence exposure, with a median of six past encounters with violence as a witness, victim, or through the experiences of associates. All forms of violence exposure (witnessing,…
Advancing the Selection of Neurodevelopmental Measures in Epidemiological Studies of Environmental Chemical Exposure and Health Effects
With research suggesting increasing incidence of pediatric neurodevelopmental disorders, questions regarding etiology continue to be raised. Neurodevelopmental function tests have been used in epidemiology studies to evaluate relationships between environmental chemical exposures and neurodevelopmental deficits. Limitations of currently used tests and difficulties with their interpretation have been described, but a comprehensive critical examina…
Using systematic reviews and meta-analyses to support regulatory decision making for neurotoxicants
We examined prospective cohort studies evaluating the relation between prenatal and neonatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and neurodevelopment in children to assess the feasibility of conducting a meta-analysis to support decision making. We described studies in terms of exposure and end point categorization, statistical analysis, and reporting of results. We used this evaluation to assess the feasibility of grouping studies into …
Improving the global identification of bipolar spectrum disorders
Diagnostic classification of irritability and oppositionality in youth
BACKGROUND: Severe irritability has become an important topic in child and adolescent mental health. Based on the available evidence and on public health considerations, WHO classified chronic irritability within oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) in ICD-11, a solution markedly different from DSM-5's (i.e. the new childhood mood diagnosis, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder [DMDD]) and from ICD-10's (i.e. ODD as one of several conduct disord…
Clinicians’ Emotional Reactions toward Patients with Depressive Symptoms in Mood Disorders
The purpose of this article is to narratively review the empirical literature on clinicians' emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses (i.e., countertransference) to depressive and other symptoms of patients with mood disorders. Therapist subjective responses (countertransference) can negatively affect both diagnostic and therapeutic processes, especially when they are not recognized and managed promptly. However, at the same time, countertr…
Reorienting Latent Variable Modeling for Supervised Learning
Despite its potentials benefits, using prediction targets generated based on latent variable (LV) modeling is not a common practice in supervised learning, a dominating framework for developing prediction models. In supervised learning, it is typically assumed that the outcome to be predicted is clear and readily available, and therefore validating outcomes before predicting them is a foreign concept and an unnecessary step. The usual goal of LV …
Probing the impact of psychoanalytic therapy for bipolar disorders
No systematic review has been conducted to provide an overview of the effectiveness of psychoanalysis for treatment outcomes in bipolar depression and mania. The present study undertakes a scoping review of the effectiveness of psychoanalysis for bipolar disorder (BD), provides a summary of the evidence base, and identifies issues for future research in this area. A thorough search of journal articles in MEDLINE, PEP-Web, PsycINFO, Scopus, and th…
Assessing the patient’s affective perception of their psychotherapist
The SPARQ proves to be a valuable instrument in clinical, training, and research contexts, adept at capturing patients' session-level affective responses towards their therapist and perceptions of the therapeutic alliance. Comprehensive descriptive statistics and a range of score precision indices have been reported, intended to serve as benchmarks for future research
Parsing the heterogeneity of social motivation in autism
BACKGROUND: Social motivation is posited as a key factor in the expression of the autism phenotype. However, lack of precision in both conceptualization and measurement has impeded a thorough understanding of its diverse presentation and associated outcomes. This study addresses this gap by identifying subgroups of autism characterized by deficits in distinct facets of social motivation, relative to normative benchmarks. METHODS: Data were from 5…
Psychology (13 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (4 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Disadvantaged (3 works)