Contact Information
Email
(615) 343-8714
313B Hobbs
Research Area
Education
Ph.D. (University of Minnesota, 1987)
Curriculum Vitae
Advising
Judy Garber
Professor of Psychology and Human Development
Professor of Psychology, College of Arts and Science; Professor of Psychiatry; Investigator, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development
Judy 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 has conducted two longitudinal studies of offspring of depressed parents. One study examined the relation between improvement in parents' depression and children's adjustment. The second longitudinal study examined the role of family, cognitions, stress, and coping in the development of depression across six years of adolescence.
In collaboration with Drs. Walker and Smith, 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 the "Development of Psychopathology: From Brain and Behavioral Science to Intervention."
Research Areas
- Developmental Psychopathology
- Mood disorders
- Prevention
- Stress and coping
- Illness behavior in children
Current Research
- Principal Investigator, “Parents' Adherence to Treatment Recommendations: Do It for the Children.” NIMH (1 RC1 MH088329), 09/30/09 – 08/31/11.
- Principal Investigator, NIMH (R01MH64735), “Prevention of depression: Impact on the transition to early adulthood.” 3/1/09 – 2/28/13.
- Principal Investigator, “Identification of Genetic Markers in Offspring of Depressed Parents: Predictors of Outcome of a Randomized Controlled Prevention Trial.” Innovation and Discovery in Engineering and Science (IDEAS), Vanderbilt University Central. 07/01/10 – 06/30/13.
- Co‑Principal Investigator (Lynn Walker, P.I.), NIH (R01HD23264), "Illness behavior and somatization in children." 06/01/07 – 05/31/12.
- Principal Investigator, NIMH (2 T32 MH018921-21A1). “Development of Psychopathology: From Brain and Behavioral Science to Intervention” 07/01/10-06/30/15.
Representative Publications
- Garber, J., Ciesla, J.A., McCauley, E., Diamond, G., & Schloredt, K.A, (2011). Remission of depression in parents: Links to healthy functioning in their children. Child Development, 82(1), 244–261.
- Garber, J., & Cole, D.A. (2010). Intergenerational transmission of depression: A launch and grow model of change across adolescence. Development and Psychopathology, 22(4), 819-830.
- Kouros, C., & Garber, J. (2010). Dynamic associations between maternal depressive symptoms and adolescents' depressive and externalizing symptoms. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 38, 1069-1081. DOI 10.1007/s10802-010-9433-y
- Morris, M.C., Ciesla, J.A., & Garber, J. (2010). A prospective study of stress autonomy versus stress sensitization in adolescents at varied risk for depression, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 119, 341-354.
- Garber, J., Clarke, G., Weersing, V. R., Beardslee, W.R., Brent, D., Gladstone, T., Debar, L., Lynch, F., D'Angelo, E., Hollon, S.D., Shamseddeen, W., & Iyengar, S. (2009). Prevention of depression in at-risk adolescents: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of the American Medical Association. 301(21):2215-2224.
- Horowitz, J.L., & Garber, J. (2006). The prevention of depressive symptoms in children and adolescents: A meta-analytic review. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 74, 401-415.
- Mulvaney, S., Lambert, E. W., Garber, J., & Walker, L. S. (2006). Trajectories of symptoms and functional disability for children and adolescents with functional abdominal pain. Journal of the Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 45, 737-744.
- Weissman, M.M., Pilowsky, D.J., Wickramaratne, P.J., Talati, A., Wisniewski, S.R., Fava, M., Hughes, C.W., Garber, J., Malloy, E., King, C.A., Cerda, G., Bela Sood, A., Alpert, J.E., Trivedi, M. H., & Rush, A.J. (2006). Remissions in maternal depression and child psychopathology: A STAR*D-Child report. Journal of the American Medical Association, 295, 1389-1398.
- 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.
- Weiss, B., & Garber, J. (2003). Developmental differences in the phenomenology of depression. Development and Psychopathology, 15, 403-430.
- 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.