Doug Brent

Biographic Data

ID369850
NAMEDoug Brent
GIVEN NAMESDoug
FAMILY NAMEBrent
SIGNATUREBRENT D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Pittsburgh
ORCID0000-0002-5756-2157
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS16
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Behavioral Practice and Homework Completion as Predictors of Outcome in a Transdiagnostic Brief Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety and Depression in Youth

    Open AccessAraceli Gonzalez, Pauline Goger et al.ARTICLEBehavior Therapy2026References: 39

    Exposure and behavioral activation are key to youth anxiety/depression monotherapy. • These behavioral components, in- and out-of-session, are the focus of this study. • More in-session behavioral practice predicted improvement in functioning. • Greater homework completion predicted improvements in anxiety symptoms. • Behavioral practice in and out of session seems key in transdiagnostic treatment. Exposure and behavioral activation have been ide…

  • Testing the interpersonal theory of suicide in adolescents

    Open AccessDavid Pagliaccio, Alma Bitran et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2024

    BACKGROUND: Suicide is a major public health crisis among youth. Several prominent theories, including the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide (IPTS), aim to characterize the factors leading from suicide ideation to action. These theories are largely based on findings in adults and require testing and elaboration in adolescents. METHODS: Data were examined from high-risk 13-18-year-old adolescents (N = 167) participating in a multi-wave, longitudinal…

  • Positive and negative social media experiences and proximal risk for suicidal ideation in adolescents

    Open AccessJessica L Hamilton, Maya Dalack et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2024

    BACKGROUND: Social media (SM) has received considerable attention as a potential risk factor for adolescent suicide. Few empirical studies, however, have examined adolescents' daily negative and positive experiences on SM and its proximal impacts on suicidal ideation (SI), particularly using intensive monitoring designs. METHOD: Adolescents (N = 60; 14-17 years; 49% girls; 62% LGBTQ+) recruited using SM across the United States and participated i…

  • Weekly links among irritability and suicidal thoughts and behaviors in high‐risk youth

    Open AccessAleksandra Kaurin, Aidan G C Wright et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2024

    BACKGROUND: Previous studies demonstrate a link between irritability and suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) in youth samples. However, they have mostly assessed irritability in community samples and as a largely dispositional (i.e. trait-like) construct. Thus, it remains unclear to what extent links between irritability and STBs reflect within-person processes of elevated risk in clinically meaningful time periods. METHODS: The present study …

  • Social connectedness and adolescent suicide risk

    Open AccessAlejandra Arango, Doug Brent et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2024

    BACKGROUND: Despite evidence of the importance of interpersonal connectedness to our understanding of suicide risk, relatively little research has examined the protective and buffering effects of connectedness among adolescents. The aims of this study were to determine: (a) whether overall connectedness (composite of family, peer, and school) and specific domains of connectedness were related to a lower likelihood of suicide attempts, and (b) whe…

  • Early indicators of response to transdiagnostic treatment of pediatric anxiety and depression

    Open AccessPauline Goger, Michelle Rozenman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2023

    Background Pediatric anxiety and depression are prevalent, impairing, and highly comorbid. Available evidence‐based treatments have an average response rate of 60%. One path to increasing response may be to identify likely non‐responders midway through treatment to adjust course prior to completing an episode of care. The aims of this study, thus, were to identify predictors of post‐intervention response assessing (a) mid‐treatment symptom severi…

  • Sleep influences daily suicidal ideation through affective reactivity to interpersonal events among high‐risk adolescents and young adults

    Open AccessJessica L Hamilton, Aliona Tsypes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2023

    BACKGROUND: Identifying proximal risk factors for suicidal ideation that are modifiable and relevant for adolescents and young adults is critical for suicide prevention. This study used an intensive monitoring approach to examine whether objectively- and subjectively- measured sleep characteristics predict next-day suicidal ideation occurrence and intensity through affective reactivity to interpersonal events in young people at high risk for suic…

  • The Cost of Universal Suicide Risk Screening for Adolescents in Emergency Departments

    Open AccessKyle L Grazier, Jacqueline Grupp‐Phelan et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    Suicide is the second leading cause of death among adolescents. As nearly 20% of adolescents visit emergency departments (EDs) each year, EDs have an opportunity to identify previously unrecognized suicide risk. A novel Computerized Adaptive Screen for Suicidal Youth (CASSY) was shown in a multisite study to be predictive for suicide attempts within 3 months. This study uses site-specific data to estimate the cost of CASSY implementation with ado…

  • Depression in young people

    Open AccessAnita Thapar, Olga Eyre et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2022

  • Reply to

    Open AccessMarcel Adam Just, Vladimir L Cherkassky et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2021Cited by: 1References: 10

  • Annual Research Review

    Open AccessJennifer B Dwyer, Argyris Stringaris et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2020

    BACKGROUND: Adolescent major depressive disorder (MDD) is a significant health problem, associated with substantial morbidity, cost, and mortality. Depression is a significant risk factor for suicide, which is now the second leading cause of death in young people. Up to twenty per cent of adolescents will experience MDD before adulthood, and while a substantial proportion will improve with standard-of-care treatments (psychotherapy and medication…

  • Social media use and deliberate self-harm among youth

    Open AccessCandice Biernesser, Craig J R Sewall et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2020Cited by: 1References: 2

  • Suicide and suicide risk

    Open AccessGustavo Turecki, Doug Brent et al.ARTICLENature Reviews Disease Primers2019

  • The Association Between Serious Mental Health Problems and Violence

    Open AccessLia Ahonen, Rolf Loeber et al.ARTICLETrauma Violence & Abuse2019

    The media, the general public, and politicians often emphasize that mental illness is a precursor and a cause of violence, particularly emphasizing an assumed relationship between mental illness, including psychopathy and psychosis, and the use of guns to commit violence. We report which individuals with serious mental health problems have an increased risk to commit violence (including gun violence). Second, we answer the question to what extent…

  • Retracted Article

    Open AccessMarcel Adam Just, Lisa Pan et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2017Cited by: 6References: 41

  • Suicide and suicidal behaviour

    Open AccessGustavo Turecki, Doug Brent et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2016

  • The Columbia–Suicide Severity Rating Scale

    Kelly Posner, Gregory K Brown et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Psychiatry2011

    OBJECTIVE: Research on suicide prevention and interventions requires a standard method for assessing both suicidal ideation and behavior to identify those at risk and to track treatment response. The Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) was designed to quantify the severity of suicidal ideation and behavior. The authors examined the psychometric properties of the scale. METHOD: The C-SSRS's validity relative to other measures of suicid…

  • Suicide Attempts and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in the Treatment of Resistant Depression in Adolescents

    Open AccessJoan Rosenbaum Asarnow, Giovanna Porta et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…2011

  • Suicidality and Depression Disparities Between Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Youth

    Open AccessMichael P Marshal, Laura J Dietz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescent Health2011

  • Reinventing WAC (again)

    Open AccessDoug BrentCHAPTERWriting in Knowledge Societies2011

    For as long as human beings have used it to organize and conduct their activities, writing has played an integral role in the creation, sharing, and contestation of knowledge.Tracing the intertwined history of writing and secular knowledge of civilizations in Europe, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, China, India, and Mesoamerica, and Europe, Bazerman and Rogers (2008a, b), for example, map out the complex ways in which writing has been instrum…

  • The Incidence and Course of Depression in Bereaved Youth 21 Months After the Loss of a Parent to Suicide, Accident, or Sudden Natural Death

    Doug Brent, David Brent et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Psychiatry2009

    OBJECTIVE: This study examined effects of bereavement 21 months after a parent's death, particularly death by suicide. METHOD: The participants were 176 offspring, ages 7-25, of parents who died by suicide, accident, or sudden natural death. They were assessed 9 and 21 months after the death, along with 168 nonbereaved subjects. RESULTS: Major depression and alcohol or substance abuse 21 months after the parent's death were more common among bere…

  • Adolescent suicide and suicidal behavior

    Open AccessJeffrey A Bridge, Tina R Goldstein et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2006

    This review examines the descriptive epidemiology, and risk and protective factors for youth suicide and suicidal behavior. A model of youth suicidal behavior is articulated, whereby suicidal behavior ensues as a result of an interaction of socio‐cultural, developmental, psychiatric, psychological, and family‐environmental factors. On the basis of this review, clinical and public health approaches to the reduction in youth suicide and recommendat…

  • Teaching as performance in the electronic classroom

    Open AccessDoug BrentARTICLEFirst Monday2005

    New developments in online educational technology have a profound effect on notions of intellectual property. Theories of the social construction of technology explain the extremely unstable nature of new technologies. Walter Ong’s theory of the alphabet effect provides insight into the ways in which knowledge changes as media of communication change. Shoshana Zuboff’s ideas on how managerial knowledge is transformed by technology help us underst…

  • Firearms Availability and Suicide

    Open AccessDoug Brent, David A Brent et al.ARTICLEAmerican Behavioral Scientist2003Cited by: 8References: 56

    Case-control studies show an association between firearms in the home and completed suicide, with higher risks associated with loaded guns and handguns in the home. Quasi-experimental studies also show a relationship between greater restrictiveness of gun control laws and lower suicide rates by firearms and overall, although some studies fail to show an effect or show method substitution. A prospective study shows that handgun purchasers have an …

  • Age- and Sex-Related Risk Factors for Adolescent Suicide

    Open AccessDoug Brent, David A Brent et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1999