Associate Professor

Clinical Science

Office: 313A Hobbs
Phone: 615-322-8218
Fax: 615-343-9494
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Laboratory Website

Curriculum Vitae

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Degrees

• Ph.D. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1988)

Research Area

• Clinical Psychology (child track)

Current Positions

• Associate Professor of Psychology, Peabody College; Investigator, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development; Co-Director, Center for Psychotherapy Research and Policy, Institue for Public Policy Studies.

Representative Publications

• Weiss, B., & Garber, J. (2003). Developmental Differences in the phenomenology of depression. Development and Psychopathology, in press.
• Weisz, J.R., Weiss, B., Suwanlert, S. & Chaiyasit, W. (2003). Syndromal structure of psychopathology in children of Thailand versus the United States. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 71, 375-385.
• Weiss, B., Harris, V., Catron, T. & Han, S.S. (2003). Efficacy of the RECAP intervention program for children with concurrent internalizing and externalizing problems. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 71, 364-374.
• Han, S.S., Weisz, J.R. & Weiss, B. (2001). Specificity of relations between children's control-related beliefs and internalizing and externalizing psychopathology. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 69, 240-251.
• Weiss, B., Catron, T. & Harris, V. (2000). A two year follow-up of the effectiveness of traditional child psychotherapy. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 68, 1094-1101.
• Weiss, B, Catron, T., Harris, V. & Phung, T. (1999). The effectiveness of traditional child psychotherapy. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 67, 82-94.
• Weiss, B. (1998). Routine monitoring of the effectiveness of child psychotherapy. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 39, 943-950.
• Weiss, B., Süsser, K. & Catron, T. (1998). Common and specific factors in childhood psychopathology. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 107, 118-127.
• Weiss, B., Jackson, E.W., & Süsser, K. (1997). The effect of co-occurrence on the referability of internalizing and externalizing problem behavior in adolescents. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 26, 198-204.
• Weiss, B. & Weisz, J.R. (1995). Relative effectiveness of behavioral versus non-behavioral child psychotherapy. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 317-320.
• Weisz, J.R., Chaiyasit, W., Weiss, B. & Eastman, K.L. (1995). A multimethod study of problem behavior among Thai and American children in school: Teacher reports versus direct observations. Child Development, 66, 402-415.
• Weiss, B. & Catron, T. (1994). The specificity of comorbidity of aggression and depression in children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 22, 389-401.
• Weiss, B. & Nurcombe, B. (1992). Age, clinical severity, and the differentiation of depressive psychopathology: A test of the orthogenetic hypothesis. Development and Psychopathology, 4, 113-124.
• Weisz, J.R., Suwanlert, S., Chaiyasit, W., Weiss, B., & Jackson, E.W. (1991). Adult attitudes toward Over- and Under-controlled child problems: Urban and rural parents and teachers from Thailand and the United States. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 32, 645-654.

Biography

Professor Weiss' main areas of research interest are assessment of the efficacy, and factors predictive of the efficacy, of child psychotherapy under non-research conditions; development of psychological interventions for non-Western populations; and comorbidity in child psychopathology. Particular interests are understanding what factors are responsible for the apparent differences in the effectiveness of child therapy under research and non-research conditions, and using knowledge of these factors to improve the effectiveness of child therapy under naturalistic conditions. Particular interests are the modification of psychological interventions for use with Southeast Asian refugee children, which necessitates understanding how these children's culture might influence response to interventions developed for Euro-and Afro-Americans. Particular interests are understanding the dimensions of comorbidity (e.g., whether it occurs at the broadband level - Internalizing and Externalizing problems - or at the narrowband level - aggression and depression), the consequences of comorbidity, and causal relations among the comorbid problem areas.