Clinical Child Psychology Program
YO JACKSON
Ph.D. from University of Alabama and completed internship at Children's Medical Center, Tulsa, OK.
Research Interests
Research focuses on how children adapt to stress and trauma and development of the resilience in youth. Especially interested in identifying the role of protective factors in children and how these might mediate the impact of stress. Another area is investigating how cultural differences impact the psychological development of minority children and the impact of culture on bi-racial children. Research also focuses on how exposure to child maltreatment impacts the development of adjustment. Also interested in investigating impact of physical and sexual abuse on the psycho-social development of the child.
Book
Jackson, Y. (2006). Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology.(Ed.). Sage: New York.
Sample Articles
Kim, K.L., Jackson, Y., Conrad, S.M., & Hunter, H.L. (in press). Adolescent report of interparental conflict: The role of threat and self-blame appraisal on adaptive outcome. Journal of Child and Family Studies.
Jackson, Y., & Roberts, M. C. (in press). Clinical child psychology: Specialty issues for the field. Professional Psychology Research and Practice.
Warren, J. S., Jackson, Y., & Sifers, S. K. (in press). Social support provisions as differential predictors of adaptive outcomes in young adolescents. Journal of Community Psychology.
Kim, K., & Jackson, Y., (in press). Interparental conflict and adolescent dating relationships: The role of perceived threat and self-blame appraisals. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Warren, J. S., Jackson, Y., & Sifers, S. K. (in press). Social support provisions as differential predictors of adaptive outcomes in young adolescents. Journal of Community Psychology.
Jackson, Y. Kim, K., & Delap, C. (2007). Mediators of control beliefs, stressful life events, and adaptive behavior in school age children: The role of appraisal and social support. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 20, 147-160.Jackson, Y. (2002) Exploring empirically supported treatment options for children: Making the case for the next generation of cultural research. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice., 9, 220-222.
Jackson, Y., Frick, P., & Dravage-Bush, J. (2000). Perceptions of control in children with externalizing and mixed behavior disorders. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 31, 43-58.
Book Chapters
Jackson, Y. (2003). Research in ethnic minority communities: Cultural diversity issues in clinical psychology. In M. C. Roberts & S. Ilardi (Eds.), Methods of research in clinical psychology: A handbook. London: Blackwell.
Roberts, M., Vernberg, E., & Jackson, Y. (2000). Psychotherapy treatments with children and adolescents. In C.R. Snyder & R. Ingram (Eds.), Handbook of psychological change (pp. 500-533). New York: Wiley.
Materials in Submission and Review
Bowers, M., & Jackson, Y. (in review). The relation between performance tests and parent reports of working memory, executive, and behavioral functioning following childhood traumatic brain injury. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings.
Vuong, N. K., Jackson, Y., Cordero, E. C., & Makanui, K. (in review). Adolescent perspectives of individualism and collectivism: Relations to family environment and Behavior. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.
Jackson, Y (in submission). School and social context: Influence on the operation of life events on adaptive behavior.
Krall, D. Jackson, Y., Warren, J., Sifers, S., & Makanui, K. (in submission). Dispositional characteristics and psychosocial adjustment: The relations to social support and negative life events.
Sifers, S., Jackson, Y., Parikshak, S. (in submission). Family Typologies and Child Behavior: A Cluster Analysis.
Wendland, M., & Jackson, Y. (in submission). Functional disability in patients with recurrent abdominal pain.
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