Jessica L Schleider
Biographic Data
| ID | 1730928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica L Schleider |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica L |
| FAMILY NAME | Schleider |
| SIGNATURE | SCHLEIDER J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2426-1953 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Structural stigma and LGBTQ+ youth mental health in the United States
Structural stigma, or systemic barriers to equity for minoritized populations, has been shown to have negative consequences on LGBTQ+ youth’s mental health. Most research has focused on stigma at the national or state level, limiting understanding of how local institutions and environments influence mental health. In the current study, we sought to examine the association of multiple layers of structural stigma (e.g. at the county and state level…
Application of the Minimal Clinically Important Difference to Adolescent Mental Health Interventions
Minimal clinically important difference (MCID) is a clinical change metric that can offset setbacks in statistical and effect size approaches. MCIDs may be especially important for characterizing change mechanisms to understand intervention impact. However, MCIDs are rarely examined within the context of mental health-based interventions. The current study employed anchor- and distribution-based methods to derive MCIDs for hopelessness (a change …
The potential of single session intervention approaches to enhance the mental health and resilience of older adults, care partners, and healthcare systems
Single-session interventions (SSIs) are mental health (MH) interventions that intentionally involve a single encounter. In this commentary, we outline issues with existing models of MH care for older adults & their care partners, how SSIs can address barriers, and considerations for research. We encourage the development of SSIs to increase accessibility, scalability, participation, and cost-effectiveness of mental health interventions
Anxiety identity centrality is associated with avoidant coping in anxious adults
Introduction: Some have suggested that labeling oneself as having clinical anxiety may promote avoidant coping, which is associated with poor clinical outcomes. However, the construct of anxiety identity centrality (seeing one's anxiety as relatively important to one's self-concept) has rarely been assessed, and its relationship with avoidant coping has not been investigated. Methods: In a sample of 1,234 high-anxiety adults, we analyzed the rela…
Effectiveness of an online single-session minority stress intervention
In the United States, the experience of minority stress among LGBTQ+ youth varies across regions with high and low levels of stigma (e.g., laws, policies, and cultural norms that limit the lives of individuals with stigmatized identities). Some evidence suggests that stigma can undermine response to individual-level psychosocial interventions among youth, creating the need to identify factors that may buffer against minority stressors’ effects in…
My family won't let me.” Adolescent‐reported barriers to accessing mental health care
Depression is the leading cause of disability among adolescents. Fewer than 50% of youth with depression access mental healthcare services. Leveraging a mixed-methods approach, this pre-registered study characterized youths' self-reported barriers to accessing mental healthcare in a socio-demographically diverse sample of 123 United States adolescents (ages 13-16, identifying as Asian (n = 19), Hispanic (n = 23), Black (n = 7), White (n = 65), or…
A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Single-Session Intervention to Reduce Training Psychologists’ Burnout
The impact of Covid-19 on U.S. adolescents
Causal beliefs about mental illness
A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Adolescents’ Beliefs About the Causes of Depression
The goal of the present study was to better understand adolescents’ beliefs about what causes depression and how these beliefs relate to other clinical constructs. This study explored the causal beliefs about depression held by a diverse sample of U.S. adolescents with elevated depression symptoms ( N = 281; 55% White non-Hispanic; 53% cisgender girl; 78% LGBQ*). Qualitative methods were used to identify causal beliefs from open-ended survey resp…
Population mental health science
A recent American Psychological Association Summit provided an urgent call to transform psychological science and practice away from a solely individual-level focus to become accountable for population-level impact on health and mental health. A population focus ensures the mental health of all children, adolescents, and adults and the elimination of inequities across groups. Science must guide three components of this transformation. First, effe…
Sexual Health Education Experiences and Recommendations from the Perspective of LGBTQ+ Youth
Despite the well-known benefits of comprehensive sexual health education, the majority of school sexual health education curricula in the United States (U.S.) is non-comprehensive and excludes LGBTQ+ students. This exclusion may contribute to poor health outcomes in LGBTQ+ youth, with some research beginning to document these experiences and provide recommendations for curricula changes. Using a sample of LGBTQ+ youth across the U.S. (ages 13-17;…
Evaluating a treatment selection approach for online single‐session interventions for adolescent depression
BACKGROUND: The question 'what works for whom' is essential to mental health research, as matching individuals to the treatment best suited to their needs has the potential to maximize the effectiveness of existing approaches. Digitally administered single-session interventions (SSIs) are effective means of reducing depressive symptoms in adolescence, with potential for rapid, large-scale implementation. However, little is known about which SSIs …
Adolescents’ beliefs about what symptoms constitute depression
What symptoms do people think constitute “depression”? In a mental health literacy framework, knowing more of depression's nine core symptoms (per formal psychiatric diagnostic criteria) is thought to help people identify and seek help for depression. However, the common-sense model of self-regulation suggests that more expansive beliefs about what symptoms constitute an illness may be maladaptive, whereby viewing more symptoms as characterizing …
Neighborhood resources, discrimination, and mental health treatment access for youth engaging in self-injury
Disparities in Covid-19-related trauma and internalizing symptoms across sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, and their intersection during the pandemic
Sexual minority individuals face elevated risk for internalizing problems due to minority stress, and internalizing problems may have been exacerbated with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.This study examined sexual orientation-and race/ethnicity-related mental health disparities during the first four months of COVID-19 stay-at-home orders.We investigated disparities in COVID-19-related trauma (CRT) and internalizing symptoms (depression, anxie…
Expanding the reach of psychosocial services for youth
At present, the mental healthcare system cannot meet the demand for services, and the need‐to‐access gap is widest among children and adolescents. Single session interventions (SSIs) are brief, intentional, and mechanism‐targeted programs that have shown promise in increasing the reach of effective, evidence‐based services; yet, a wide gap still remains due to structural barriers (e.g., lack of awareness, workforce shortages). The present paper p…
Leveraging the Strengths of Psychologists With Lived Experience of Psychopathology
Psychopathology is a common element of the human experience, and psychological scientists are not immune. Recent empirical data demonstrate that a significant proportion of clinical, counseling, and school psychology faculty and graduate students have lived experience, both past and present, of psychopathology. This commentary compliments these findings by leveraging the perspectives of the authors and signatories, who have personal lived experie…
Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of Covid-19
Discrimination and psychosocial engagement during the Covid-19 pandemic
Emerging evidence suggests that the effects of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic have disproportionately impacted minoritized populations, including rising rates of hate crimes directed at Asian Americans. Asian and White students (N = 1,261) at a large public university completed a survey of their experiences during the first month of the COVID-19 pandemic. Measures included anxiety, depression, academic engagement, and experienced dis…
A randomized trial of online single-session interventions for adolescent depression during Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has potentially increased the risk for adolescent depression. Even pre-pandemic, <50% of youth with depression accessed care, highlighting needs for accessible interventions. Accordingly, this randomized controlled trial (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04634903 ) tested online single-session interventions (SSIs) during COVID-19 in adolescents with elevated depression symptoms (N = 2,452, ages 13-16). Adolescents from all 50 US state…
Do Immediate Gains Predict Long-Term Symptom Change? Findings from a Randomized Trial of a Single-Session Intervention for Youth Anxiety and Depression
A single‐session growth mindset intervention for adolescent anxiety and depression
BACKGROUND: Single-session interventions (SSIs) show promise in the prevention and treatment of youth psychopathology, carrying potential to improve the scalability and accessibility of youth psychological services. However, existing SSIs have conferred greater benefits for youths with anxiety, compared to depression or comorbid problems, and their effects have generally waned over time - particularly for follow-ups exceeding 3 months. METHOD: To…
Anxiety Sensitivity Moderates the Relation Between Family Accommodation and Anxiety Symptom Severity in Clinically Anxious Children
Implicit Theories Relate to Youth Psychopathology, But How? A Longitudinal Test of Two Predictive Models
A randomized trial of online single-session interventions for adolescent depression during Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has potentially increased the risk for adolescent depression. Even pre-pandemic, <50% of youth with depression accessed care, highlighting needs for accessible interventions. Accordingly, this randomized controlled trial (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04634903 ) tested online single-session interventions (SSIs) during COVID-19 in adolescents with elevated depression symptoms (N = 2,452, ages 13-16). Adolescents from all 50 US state…
Sexual Health Education Experiences and Recommendations from the Perspective of LGBTQ+ Youth
Despite the well-known benefits of comprehensive sexual health education, the majority of school sexual health education curricula in the United States (U.S.) is non-comprehensive and excludes LGBTQ+ students. This exclusion may contribute to poor health outcomes in LGBTQ+ youth, with some research beginning to document these experiences and provide recommendations for curricula changes. Using a sample of LGBTQ+ youth across the U.S. (ages 13-17;…
My family won't let me.” Adolescent‐reported barriers to accessing mental health care
Depression is the leading cause of disability among adolescents. Fewer than 50% of youth with depression access mental healthcare services. Leveraging a mixed-methods approach, this pre-registered study characterized youths' self-reported barriers to accessing mental healthcare in a socio-demographically diverse sample of 123 United States adolescents (ages 13-16, identifying as Asian (n = 19), Hispanic (n = 23), Black (n = 7), White (n = 65), or…
Population mental health science
A recent American Psychological Association Summit provided an urgent call to transform psychological science and practice away from a solely individual-level focus to become accountable for population-level impact on health and mental health. A population focus ensures the mental health of all children, adolescents, and adults and the elimination of inequities across groups. Science must guide three components of this transformation. First, effe…
Expanding the reach of psychosocial services for youth
At present, the mental healthcare system cannot meet the demand for services, and the need‐to‐access gap is widest among children and adolescents. Single session interventions (SSIs) are brief, intentional, and mechanism‐targeted programs that have shown promise in increasing the reach of effective, evidence‐based services; yet, a wide gap still remains due to structural barriers (e.g., lack of awareness, workforce shortages). The present paper p…
Relation Between Parent Symptomatology and Youth Problems
Implicit Theories Relate to Youth Psychopathology, But How? A Longitudinal Test of Two Predictive Models
Anxiety Sensitivity Moderates the Relation Between Family Accommodation and Anxiety Symptom Severity in Clinically Anxious Children
A single‐session growth mindset intervention for adolescent anxiety and depression
BACKGROUND: Single-session interventions (SSIs) show promise in the prevention and treatment of youth psychopathology, carrying potential to improve the scalability and accessibility of youth psychological services. However, existing SSIs have conferred greater benefits for youths with anxiety, compared to depression or comorbid problems, and their effects have generally waned over time - particularly for follow-ups exceeding 3 months. METHOD: To…
Do Immediate Gains Predict Long-Term Symptom Change? Findings from a Randomized Trial of a Single-Session Intervention for Youth Anxiety and Depression
Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of Covid-19
Discrimination and psychosocial engagement during the Covid-19 pandemic
Emerging evidence suggests that the effects of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic have disproportionately impacted minoritized populations, including rising rates of hate crimes directed at Asian Americans. Asian and White students (N = 1,261) at a large public university completed a survey of their experiences during the first month of the COVID-19 pandemic. Measures included anxiety, depression, academic engagement, and experienced dis…
A randomized trial of online single-session interventions for adolescent depression during Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has potentially increased the risk for adolescent depression. Even pre-pandemic, <50% of youth with depression accessed care, highlighting needs for accessible interventions. Accordingly, this randomized controlled trial (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04634903 ) tested online single-session interventions (SSIs) during COVID-19 in adolescents with elevated depression symptoms (N = 2,452, ages 13-16). Adolescents from all 50 US state…
Leveraging the Strengths of Psychologists With Lived Experience of Psychopathology
Psychopathology is a common element of the human experience, and psychological scientists are not immune. Recent empirical data demonstrate that a significant proportion of clinical, counseling, and school psychology faculty and graduate students have lived experience, both past and present, of psychopathology. This commentary compliments these findings by leveraging the perspectives of the authors and signatories, who have personal lived experie…
Evaluating a treatment selection approach for online single‐session interventions for adolescent depression
BACKGROUND: The question 'what works for whom' is essential to mental health research, as matching individuals to the treatment best suited to their needs has the potential to maximize the effectiveness of existing approaches. Digitally administered single-session interventions (SSIs) are effective means of reducing depressive symptoms in adolescence, with potential for rapid, large-scale implementation. However, little is known about which SSIs …
Adolescents’ beliefs about what symptoms constitute depression
What symptoms do people think constitute “depression”? In a mental health literacy framework, knowing more of depression's nine core symptoms (per formal psychiatric diagnostic criteria) is thought to help people identify and seek help for depression. However, the common-sense model of self-regulation suggests that more expansive beliefs about what symptoms constitute an illness may be maladaptive, whereby viewing more symptoms as characterizing …
Neighborhood resources, discrimination, and mental health treatment access for youth engaging in self-injury
Disparities in Covid-19-related trauma and internalizing symptoms across sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, and their intersection during the pandemic
Sexual minority individuals face elevated risk for internalizing problems due to minority stress, and internalizing problems may have been exacerbated with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.This study examined sexual orientation-and race/ethnicity-related mental health disparities during the first four months of COVID-19 stay-at-home orders.We investigated disparities in COVID-19-related trauma (CRT) and internalizing symptoms (depression, anxie…
Expanding the reach of psychosocial services for youth
At present, the mental healthcare system cannot meet the demand for services, and the need‐to‐access gap is widest among children and adolescents. Single session interventions (SSIs) are brief, intentional, and mechanism‐targeted programs that have shown promise in increasing the reach of effective, evidence‐based services; yet, a wide gap still remains due to structural barriers (e.g., lack of awareness, workforce shortages). The present paper p…
The impact of Covid-19 on U.S. adolescents
Causal beliefs about mental illness
A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Adolescents’ Beliefs About the Causes of Depression
The goal of the present study was to better understand adolescents’ beliefs about what causes depression and how these beliefs relate to other clinical constructs. This study explored the causal beliefs about depression held by a diverse sample of U.S. adolescents with elevated depression symptoms ( N = 281; 55% White non-Hispanic; 53% cisgender girl; 78% LGBQ*). Qualitative methods were used to identify causal beliefs from open-ended survey resp…
Population mental health science
A recent American Psychological Association Summit provided an urgent call to transform psychological science and practice away from a solely individual-level focus to become accountable for population-level impact on health and mental health. A population focus ensures the mental health of all children, adolescents, and adults and the elimination of inequities across groups. Science must guide three components of this transformation. First, effe…
Sexual Health Education Experiences and Recommendations from the Perspective of LGBTQ+ Youth
Despite the well-known benefits of comprehensive sexual health education, the majority of school sexual health education curricula in the United States (U.S.) is non-comprehensive and excludes LGBTQ+ students. This exclusion may contribute to poor health outcomes in LGBTQ+ youth, with some research beginning to document these experiences and provide recommendations for curricula changes. Using a sample of LGBTQ+ youth across the U.S. (ages 13-17;…
The potential of single session intervention approaches to enhance the mental health and resilience of older adults, care partners, and healthcare systems
Single-session interventions (SSIs) are mental health (MH) interventions that intentionally involve a single encounter. In this commentary, we outline issues with existing models of MH care for older adults & their care partners, how SSIs can address barriers, and considerations for research. We encourage the development of SSIs to increase accessibility, scalability, participation, and cost-effectiveness of mental health interventions
Anxiety identity centrality is associated with avoidant coping in anxious adults
Introduction: Some have suggested that labeling oneself as having clinical anxiety may promote avoidant coping, which is associated with poor clinical outcomes. However, the construct of anxiety identity centrality (seeing one's anxiety as relatively important to one's self-concept) has rarely been assessed, and its relationship with avoidant coping has not been investigated. Methods: In a sample of 1,234 high-anxiety adults, we analyzed the rela…
Effectiveness of an online single-session minority stress intervention
In the United States, the experience of minority stress among LGBTQ+ youth varies across regions with high and low levels of stigma (e.g., laws, policies, and cultural norms that limit the lives of individuals with stigmatized identities). Some evidence suggests that stigma can undermine response to individual-level psychosocial interventions among youth, creating the need to identify factors that may buffer against minority stressors’ effects in…
My family won't let me.” Adolescent‐reported barriers to accessing mental health care
Depression is the leading cause of disability among adolescents. Fewer than 50% of youth with depression access mental healthcare services. Leveraging a mixed-methods approach, this pre-registered study characterized youths' self-reported barriers to accessing mental healthcare in a socio-demographically diverse sample of 123 United States adolescents (ages 13-16, identifying as Asian (n = 19), Hispanic (n = 23), Black (n = 7), White (n = 65), or…
A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Single-Session Intervention to Reduce Training Psychologists’ Burnout
Structural stigma and LGBTQ+ youth mental health in the United States
Structural stigma, or systemic barriers to equity for minoritized populations, has been shown to have negative consequences on LGBTQ+ youth’s mental health. Most research has focused on stigma at the national or state level, limiting understanding of how local institutions and environments influence mental health. In the current study, we sought to examine the association of multiple layers of structural stigma (e.g. at the county and state level…
Psychology (23 works) · Clinical Psychology (18 works) · Psychiatry (16 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (15 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Mental health (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (7 works) · Psychological intervention (7 works)