Sarah O’Kelley

Biographic Data

ID5360804
NAMESarah O’Kelley
GIVEN NAMESSarah
FAMILY NAMEO’Kelley
SIGNATUREO’KELLEY S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham
ORCID0000-0002-6025-0074
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Symptoms of depression in autistic children and adolescents

    Open AccessElizabeth Valles-Capetillo, Paula Argueta et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2025

    Depression is a frequently co-occurring condition in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Notably, autistic individuals are approximately four times more likely to experience depression than the general population. Difficulties in emotion regulation, inhibitory control, and social skills, common in autistic individuals, are thought to contribute to increased risk and vulnerability to depression. The present study sought to examine the prevalence of de…

  • Reading comprehension improvement in autism

    Open AccessMeagan Beckerson, Courtney Paisley et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2024

    Results suggest that the V/V intervention may help improve reading comprehension for autistic children with the discrepant poor comprehender reading profile. Additionally, strategies for improving verbal memory may indirectly enhance reading comprehension in autistic children with this reading profile

  • Classifying children with ASD by service utilization and treatment type

    Open AccessAnne E Brisendine, Sarah O’Kelley et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2023

    BACKGROUND: If there are patterns of the distribution of services and treatments across the population of people with ASD, these patterns should be based along clinical characteristics or other service needs and not sociodemographic characteristics unrelated to evidence-based care. We examined how individuals in a broad, nationally representative sample "grouped together" based on service utilization and services needed but not covered by insuran…

  • Pathways to Suicidal Behavior in Children and Adolescents

    Open AccessElizabeth McRae, Laura Stoppelbein et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child & Adolescent…2022

  • Pathways from child maltreatment to proactive and reactive aggression

    Elizabeth McRae, Laura Stoppelbein et al.ARTICLEPsychological Trauma Theory…2021

    Findings suggest that symptoms associated with these specific PTSS clusters might help explain the relation between child maltreatment and reactive aggression and therefore present important implications for clinical practice and future research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

  • Testing a Tailored Social-Ecological Model for Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Open AccessAnne E Brisendine, Sarah O’Kelley et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2021

  • Comorbid Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms Among Children with ADHD

    Open AccessElizabeth McRae, Laura Stoppelbein et al.ARTICLEChild Psychiatry & Human…2020

  • Impacting development in infants with tuberous sclerosis complex

    Open AccessMarian E Williams, TACERN Study Group et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist2019Cited by: 1

    The Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Autism Center of Excellence Network (TACERN) is a 6-site collaborative conducting longitudinal research on infants with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), focused on identifying early biomarkers for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A multidisciplinary research team that includes the specialties of psychology, neurology, pediatrics, medical genetics, and speech-language pathology, its members work together to conduct s…