Representative Publications

Garber, J. (2022). The Development of Psychosocial Therapeutic and Preventive Interventions for Mental Disorders (R61/R33): A User's Guide. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 51(3), 360-373. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2022.2062762 PubMed PMID: 35549571; PMCID: PMC9177818.

Nestor, B., Sutherland, S., & Garber, J. (2022). Theory of mind performance in depression: A meta-analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 303, 233-244. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.02.028.  PMID: 35176344; PMCID: PMC8961451

Stone, A. L., Epstein, I., Bruehl, S., Garber, J., Smith, C. A., Walker, L. S. (2022). Twenty-year outcomes of a pediatric chronic abdominal pain cohort: Early adulthood health status and offspring physical and behavioral health. Journal of Pain, 24(1):145-156. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2022.09.007. Epub 2022 Sep 17. PMCID: PMC9789180

Méndez, J., Sánchez-Hernández, Ó., Garber, J., Espada, J.P., Orgilés, M. (2021). Psychological treatments for depression in adolescents: More than three decades later. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(9) 1-40. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18094600

Sutherland, S., Nestor, B., Pine, A., & Garber, J. (2021). Characteristics of maternal depression and children’s functioning: A meta-analytic review. Journal of Family Psychology.https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000940. PMID: 34843324; PMCID: PMC9157221.

Walker, L. S., Stone, A. L., Han, G. T., Garber, J., Bruehl, S., Smith, C. A., Anderson, J., & Palermo, T. M. (2021). Internet-delivered cognitive behavior therapy for youth with functional abdominal pain: a randomized clinical trial testing differential efficacy by patient subgroup. Pain. April 02, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002288

Young, J.F., Jones, J.D., Gallop, R., Benas, J.S., Schueler, C.M., Garber, J., Hankin, B.L. (2021). Personalized depression prevention: A randomized controlled trial to optimize effects through risk- informed personalization. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 60(9), 1116-1126. e1. Epub 2020 Nov 13. PMCID: PMC8116944. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2020.11.004

Garber, J., & Bradshaw, C. (2020). Developmental psychopathology and the Research Domain Criteria: Friend or foe? Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 49(3):341-352. doi: 10.1080/15374416.2020.1753205. PMID: 33950761; PMCID: PMC8972141.

Garber, J., Goodman, S., *Brunwasser, S., Frankel, S.A., Herrington, C.G. (2019). The effect of content and tone of maternal evaluative feedback on self-cognitions and affect in young children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 182, 151–165. Jun; 182:151-165. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2019.01.017. Epub 2019 Feb 28. PMID: 30826468; PMCID: PMC6414248.

Lynch, F. L., Dickerson, J.F., Clarke, G., Beardslee, W., Weersing, V.R., Gladstone, G., Porta, G., Brent, D., Mark, T. L. DeBar, L., Hollon, S.D., & Garber, J. (2019). Cost-effectiveness of preventing depression in at-risk adolescents: Post-intervention and two-year follow-up. Psychiatric Services, 70(4):279-286. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.201800144

Garber, J., Weersing, V.R., Hollon, S.D., Porta, G., Clarke, G.N., Dickerson, J., Beardslee, W.R., Lynch, F.L., Gladstone, T.G., Shamseddeen, W., & Brent, D. (2018). Prevention of depression in at-risk adolescents: Moderators of long-term response. Prevention Science, Feb;19 (Suppl 1):6-15. PMCID: PMC4969230, Publ.ID: 2016-02-01_0014. doi: 10.1007/s11121-015-0626-z.

Hankin, B. L., Young, J. F., Gallop, R., & Garber, J. (2018). Cognitive and interpersonal vulnerabilities to adolescent depression: classification of risk profiles for a personalized prevention approach. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 1-13.

Goodman, S., & Garber, J. (2017). Evidence-based interventions for depressed mothers and their young children. Child Development. 88(2), 368-377. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12732. Epub 2017 Feb 3. PMID: 28160275; PMCID: PMC5342914.

Brunwasser, S.M., & Garber, J. (2016). Programs for the prevention of youth depression: Evaluation of efficacy, effectiveness, and readiness for dissemination. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 45(6), 763-783. PMCID: PMC5176361 doi: 10.1080/15374416.2015.1020541

Evans, L.D., *Kouros, C.D., Samanez-Larkin, S., & Garber, J. (2016). Concurrent and short-term prospective relations among neurocognitive functioning, coping, and depressive symptoms in youth. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 45(1), 6-20. PMCID: PMC4799276. doi:  10.1080/15374416.2014.982282

Garber, J., Brunwasser, S., Zerr, A.A., Schwartz, K.T.G., Sova, K., & Weersing, V.R. (2016). Treatment and prevention of depression and anxiety in youth: Test of cross-over effects. Depression and Anxiety 33, 939–959. PMCID: PMC5094283. doi: 10.1002/da.22519

Garber, J., Frankel, S.A., & Herrington, C.G. (2016). Developmental demands of cognitive behavioral therapy for depression in children and adolescents: Cognitive, social, and emotional processes.Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 12, 181-216. PMCID: PMC5441981, doi: 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy- 032814-112836

Klimes-Dougan, B., & Garber, J. (2016). Regulatory control in adolescents with depression: Findings from neuroimaging and neuropsychological research. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 45(1), 1-5. doi: 10.1080/15374416.2015.1123637. PMID: 26743331

Korelitz, K., & Garber, J. (2016). Congruence of parents' and children's perceptions of parenting: A meta-analysis. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 45(10). Oct;45(10):1973-95. doi: 10.1007/s10964-016-0524-0. Epub 2016 Jul 5. PMID: 27380467; PMCID: PMC5222679.

Kouros, C.D., Morris, M.C., & Garber, J. (2016). Within-person changes in individual symptoms of depression predict subsequent depressive episodes in adolescents: A prospective study. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 44:483–494. doi: 10.1007/s10802-015-0046-3. PMCID: PMC4691222..

Weersing, V.R., Shamseddeen, W., Garber, J., Hollon, S.D., Clarke, G.N., Beardslee, W.R., Gladstone, T.R., Lynch, F.L., Porta, G., Iyengar, S., & Brent, D.A. (2016). Prevention of depression in at-risk adolescents: Predictors and moderators of acute effects. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 55(3), 219-226. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2015.12.015. Epub 2016 Jan 18. PMCID: PMC4783159.                                                                        

Brent, D.A., *Brunwasser, S.M., Hollon, S.D., Weersing, V.R., Clarke, G.N., Dickerson, J.F., Beardslee, W.R., Gladstone, T.R., Porta, G., Lynch, F.L., Iyengar, S., & Garber, J. (2015). Prevention of depression in at-risk adolescents: Impact of a cognitive behavioral prevention program on depressive episodes, depression-free days, and developmental competence 6 years after the intervention. Journal of the American Medical Association – Psychiatry, 72(11), 1110-1118. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2015.1559, PMID: 2642186, PMCID: PMC4635056

Cuijpers, P., Weitz, E., Karyotaki, E., Garber, J., & Andersson, G., (2015). The effects of psychological treatment of maternal depression on children and parent functioning: A meta-analysis. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 24(2), 237-245. doi 10.1007/s00787-014-0660-6 PMID: 25522839

Kouros, C.D., & Garber, J. (2014). Trajectories of individual depressive symptoms in adolescents: Gender and family relationships as predictors. Developmental Psychology, 50(12), 2633-2643. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0038190. PMCID: PMC4591045

Morris, M.C., Kouros, C.D., Hellman, N., Rao, U., & Garber, J. (2014). Two prospective studies of changes in stress generation across depressive episodes in adolescents and emerging adults. Development and Psychopathology, 26, 1385-1400. doi:10.1017/S0954579414001096.

*Pössel, P., *Martin, N. C., Garber, J., & Hautzinger, M. (2013). A randomized controlled trial of a cognitive-behavioral program for the prevention of depression in adolescents compared with nonspecific and no-intervention control conditions. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 60(3), 432-438. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0032308 PMID: 23506514

Carter, J.S., & Garber, J. (2011). Predictors of the first onset of a major depressive episode and changes in depressive symptoms across adolescence: Stress and negative cognitions Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120(4), 779–796. doi: 10.1037/a0025441 PMID: 21928863

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. PMID: 21291439 PMCID: PMC3059224

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. PMID: 20883584

Garber, J., & Weersing, V.R. (2010). Comorbidity of anxiety and depression in youth: Implications for treatment and prevention. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 17, 293-306. PMID: 21499544 PMCID: PMC3074295

Garber, J., Clarke, G., Weersing, V. R., Beardslee, W.R., Brent, D.A., Gladstone, T.R.G., 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. [doi:10.1001/jama.2009.788] PMCID: PMC2737625

Garber, J. (2008). Prevention of depression: Are we there yet? Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 15, 336-341.

Horowitz, J.L., Garber, J., Ciesla, J.A., Young, J., & Mufson, L. (2007). Prevention of depressive symptoms in adolescents: A randomized trial of cognitive-behavioral and interpersonal prevention programs. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 75, 693-706. PMID: 17907851

Garber, J. (2006). Depression in children and adolescents: Linking risk research and prevention.American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 31, Supplement 1,104-125. PMID: 17175406

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. DOI: 10.1037/0022-006X.74.3.401 PMID: 16822098

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. PMID: 16551710

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Honors

1980-1981, National Research Service Award, Predoctoral Fellowship, NIMH

1988-1993, William T. Grant Faculty Scholar

1992, Boyd R. McCandless Young Scientist Award for Research in Developmental Psychology,

1995, David Shakow Young Investigator Award from the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association

2003 – 2008, Independent Scientist Career Development Award, National Institute of Mental Health

2010, Chancellor’s Research Award, Vanderbilt University

2012, Association for Psychological Science (APS) Fellow

2017- 2022, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair, Vanderbilt University

2019, Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for the Science of Clinical Psychology, Section III of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association