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Psychology Faculty Joint Appointment

Curriculum Vita

	Thomas Achenbach
	Professor of Psychology   Professor of Psychiatry
	Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1966

FAHC-UHC Room 3211

(802) 656-2629

thomas.achenbach@uvm.edu

Directorships

President, Research Center for Children, Youth, and Families

Areas

I am working on multicultural methods for assessing behavioral, emotional and social problems and adaptive functioning. This work includes collaboration with colleagues in many cultures to apply standardized assessment methods, perform multicultural comparisons, and improve understanding, assessment, and treatment of psychopathology throughout the world. My research interests include: multicultural research. developmental psychopathology. assessment and taxonomy of psychopathology, adaptive functioning, and social competence across the life span. relations between cognition and psychopathology. evaluation of outcomes.

Representative Publications

Achenbach, T.M. (in press). Assessment of parental psychopathology and adaptive functioning. In L.C. Mayes & M. Lewis (Eds.), The environment of human development: A handbook of theory and measurement. New York: Cambridge University Press. Achenbach, T.M. (2008). Assessment, diagnosis, nosology, and taxonomy of child and adolescent psychopathology. In M. Hersen & A.M. Gross (Eds.), Handbook of clinical psychology (Vol. 2, pp. 429-457). New York: Wiley. Achenbach, T.M. (2008). Multicultural perspectives on developmental psychopathology. In J.J. Hudziak (Ed.), Developmental psychopathology and wellness: Genetic and environmental influences (pp. 23-47). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press. Achenbach, T.M., Becker, A., Döpfner, M., Heiervang, E., Roessner, V., Steinhausen, H-C., et al. (2008). Multicultural assessment of child and adolescent psychopathology with ASEBA and SDQ instruments: Research findings, applications, and future directions. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49, 251-275. Achenbach, T.M., & Rescorla, L.A. (2007). Multicultural supplement to the Manual for the ASEBA School-Age Forms & Profiles. Burlington, VT: University of Vermont, Research Center for Children, Youth, & Families. Ivanova, M.Y., Achenbach, T.M., Rescorla, L.A., Dumenci, L., Almqvist, F., Bilenberg, F., et al. (2007). The generalizability of the Youth Self-Report syndrome structure in 23 societies. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 75, 729-738. Rescorla, L.A., Achenbach, T.M., Ivanova, M.Y., Dumenci, L., Almqvist, F., Bilenberg, N., et al. (2007). Behavioral and emotional problems reported by parents of children ages 6 to 16 in 31 societies. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 15, 130-142.

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