Professor

Clinical Science

Office: 313B Hobbs
Phone: 615-322-28217
Fax: 615-343-9494
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Curriculum Vitae

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Degrees

• Ph.D. (University of Minnesota, 1987)

Research Area

• Developmental Psychopathology
• Mood disorders
• Prevention
• Stress and coping
• Illness behavior in children

Current Research

• "Prevention of depression in at-risk adolescents." NIMH (1R01MH064735), 2/1/03-1/31/08
• "Risk and prevention of depression in youth." NIMH (1 K02 MH66249), 4/1/03-3/31/08
• "Treatment of depression in parents: Impact on children." NIMH (1R01MH57822), 8/1/98 7/31/05
• "Children of depressed mothers: A STAR*D ancillary study." NIMH (1R01MH63852), 9/15/01-9/14/06
• "Life span development of normal and abnormal behavior." NIMH (T32MH18921), 7/1/04-6/30/08

Current Positions

• Professor of Psychology, Peabody College
• Associate Professor of Psychology, College of Arts and Science;
• Senior Fellow, Institute for Public Policy Studies
• Investigator, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development.

Professional Societies

• Secretary/Treasurer, International Society for Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

Professional Honors

• W. T. Grant Faculty Scholar, 1988-1993
• Boyd R. McCandless Young Scientist Award for Research in Developmental Psychology, 1992
• David Shakow Young Investigator Award from the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association, 1995

Representative Publications

• Garber, J. & Flynn, C.A. (2001). Predictors of depressive cognitions in young adolescents. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 25, 353-376.
• Garber, J., Keiley, M.K., & Martin, N.C. (2002). Developmental trajectories of adolescents' depressive symptoms: Predictors of change. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 79-95.
• Garber, J., & Little, S.A. (1999). Predictors of competence in offspring of depressed mothers. Journal of Adolescent Research, 14, 44-71.
• Garber, J., & Robinson, N.S. (1997). Cognitive vulnerability in children at risk for depression. Cognitions and Emotions, 11, 619-635.
• Garber, J., Robinson, N.S., & Valentiner, D. (1997). The relation between parenting and adolescent depression: Self-worth as a mediator. Journal of Adolescent Research, 12, 12-33.
• Frye, A.A., & Garber, J. (2005). The relations among maternal depression, maternal criticism, and adolescents' externalizing and internalizing symptoms. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 33, 1-11.
• Hilsman, R., & Garber, J. (1995). A test of the cognitive diathesis-stress model in children: Academic stressors, attributional style, perceived competence and control. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 370-380.
• Horowitz, J.L., & Garber, J. (in press). The prevention of depressive symptoms in children and adolescents: A meta-analytic review. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
• Kane, P.P., & Garber, J. (2004). The relation between fathers' depression and children's externalizing and internalizing symptoms and conflict: A meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 24, 339-360.
• Nolan, S.A., Flynn, C. & Garber, J. (2003). The relation between rejection and depression in adolescents. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 745-755.
• Weiss, B., & Garber, J. (2003). Developmental differences in the phenomenology of depression. Development and Psychopathology, 15, 403-430.

Biography

Professor Garber has her primary appointment in Psychology and Human Development (Peabody) and joint appointments in the Departments of Psychology (Arts and Science) and Psychiatry.

Her research focuses on the etiology, course, outcome, treatment, and prevention of depression in children and adolescents. She studies social-cognitive, environmental, biological, and interpersonal factors that contribute to the onset and maintenance of mood disorders.

Dr. Garber is interested in the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral interventions with depressed adolescents, and prevention of depression in high-risk offspring.

Currently, Dr, Garber is coordinating a multi-site study funded by NIMH examining the effectiveness of a cognitive-behavioral program for the prevention of depression in at risk adolescents.

In addition, Dr. Garber is conducting two federally funded studies of the impact on offspring of depressed parents receiving pharmacological or cognitive-behavioral treatment. She also has completed a six-year longitudinal study of the role of family, cognitions, stress, and coping in the development of depression during adolescence.

In collaboration with Drs. Walker, Smith, and Compas, Dr. Garber also studies psychosocial factors associated with the onset and maintenance of recurrent abdominal pain in children.

Garber is director of an NIMH-funded training program in Developmental Psychopathology and Prevention Science, and director of the undergraduate Honors program in Psychology, Child Development, Cognitive Studies, and Child Studies.