The Clinical Training Program

Affiliations
Affiliated Faculty, Developmental Psychopathology Concentration

Areas
My research interests center on the interplay of normal and abnormal development, especially across adolescence and the transition to young adult life. I am specifically interested in relations between competence (e.g., academic success, social relationships, and work success) and broad dimensions of psychopathology (e.g., internalizing and externalizing problems). Consistent with a developmental psychopathology perspective, my research emphasizes the interplay of multiple risk factors at multiple levels of analysis, and processes related to both resilience (positive adaptation despite adversity) as well as more maladaptive outcomes.

Current projects include:

• identifying links between social competence, academic competence, and psychopathology over time.
• examining the stability of psychopathology from adolescence to young adulthood.
• examining the role of psychosocial maturity in moderating relationships between life stress and competence.

Burt Laboratory
Research in the Burt laboratory examines processes of risk and resilience in adolescence and the transition to adulthood.

Representative Publications

• Burt, K. B., & Paysnick, A. A. (2012). Resilience in the transition to adulthood. Development and Psychopathology, 24(2), 493-505.
• Burt, K. B., & Roisman, G. I. (2010). Competence and psychopathology: Cascade effects in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. Development and Psychopathology, 22, 557-567.
• Shaffer, A., Burt, K. B., Obradovic, J., Herbers, J. E., & Masten, A. S. (2009). Intergenerational continuity in parenting quality: The mediating role of social competence. Developmental Psychology, 45, 1227-1240.
• Burt, K. B., Obradovic, J., Long, J. D., & Masten, A. S. (2008). The interplay of social competence and psychopathology over 20 years: Testing transactional and cascade models. Child Development, 79, 359-374.
• Burt, K. B., van Dulmen, M. H. M., Carlivati, J., Egeland, B., Sroufe, L. A., Forman, D. R., Appleyard, K., & Carlson, E. A. (2005). Mediating links between maternal depression and offspring psychopathology: The importance of independent data. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 46(5), 490-499.
• Burt, K. B., Hay, D. F., Pawlby, S., Harold, G., & Sharp, D. (2004). The prediction of disruptive behaviour disorders in an urban community sample: The contribution of person-centred analyses. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 45(6), 1159-1170.

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