Peer-Reviewed Publications
* Denotes student/trainee
Accepted, In Press, & Advance Online
Bonadio, F. T., Evans, S. C., Cho*, G. Y., Callahan*, K., Chorpita, B. F., The Research Network on Youth Mental Health, & Weisz, J. R. (2021). Whose outcomes come out? Predicting parent- and youth-reported treatment trajectories from baseline multi-rater latent profiles. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2021.1955367 PDF
Evans, S. C., de la Peña, F. R., Matthys, W., & Lochman, J. E. (2022). Disruptive Behaviour and Dissocial Disorders and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. In G. M. Reed, P. L.-J. Ritchie, & A. Maercker (Eds.), A psychological approach to diagnosis using the ICD-11 as a framework. American Psychological Association and International Union of Psychological Science. https://www.apa.org/pubs/books/psychological-approach-diagnosis-icd-11
Herbert*, R. S., Evans, S. C., Guler*, J., & Roberts, M. C. (2021). Predictors of dissertation publication in clinical and counseling psychology. Training and Education in Professional Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/tep0000371 PDF
Keeley, J, W., Briken, P., Evans, S. C., First, M. B., Klein, M. B., Krueger, R. Matsumoto, C., Fresán, A., Rebello, T., Robles, R., Sharan, P., & Reed, G. M. (2021). Can clinicians use multifactorial dimensional information to make a categorical diagnostic decision? A field study of ICD-11 diagnostic guidelines for paraphilic disorders. Journal of Sexual Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsxm.2021.06.016 PDF
2021
Evans, S. C., & Santucci, L. (2021). A modular, transdiagnostic approach to treating severe irritability in children and adolescents. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America. In G. A. Carlson and M. Singh (Eds.), Special Edition on Development and Treatment Issues for Emotion Dysregulation, 30(3), 623-636. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chc.2021.04.011 PDF
Evans, S. C., Abel*, M. R., Doyle*, R. L., Skov*, H., & Harmon, S. L. (2021). Measurement and correlates of irritability in clinically referred youth: Further examination of the Affective Reactivity Index. Journal of Affective Disorders, 283, 420-429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.11.002 PDF
Evans, S. C., Diaz*, K. I., Callahan*, K. P., Wolock*, E. R., & Fite, P. J. (2021). Parallel trajectories of proactive and reactive aggression in middle childhood and their outcomes in early adolescence. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 49(2), 211–226. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-020-00709-5 PDF
Evans, S. C., Roberts, M. C., Guler*, J., Keeley, J. W., & Reed, G. M. (2021). Taxonomy and utility in the diagnostic classification of mental disorders. Journal of Clinical Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23125 PDF
Evans, S. C., Roberts, M. C., Keeley, J. W., Rebello, T. J., de la Peña, F., Lochman, J. E., Burke, J. D., Fite, P. J., Ezpeleta, L., Matthys, W., Youngstrom, E. A., Matsumoto, C., Andrews, H. F., Medina-Mora, M. E., Ayuso-Mateos, J. L., Khoury, B., Kulygina, M., Robles, R., Sharan, P., Zhao, M., & Reed, G. M. (2021). Diagnostic classification of irritability and oppositionality in youth: A global field study comparing ICD-11 with ICD-10 and DSM-5. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 62(3), 303–312. doi:10.1111/jcpp.13244 PDF
Evans, S. C., Wei*, M., Harmon, S. L., & Weisz, J. R. (2021). Modular psychotherapy outcomes for youth with different latent profiles of irritability and emotion dysregulation. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 1-15. In E. Moehler, C. Sharp, & R. Brunner (Eds.), Research Topic on Emotional Dysregulation in Children and Adolescents. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.618455 PDF
First, M. B., Wolfgang G., Maj, M., Stein D., Kogan, C. S., Saunders, J. B., Poznyak, V. B., Gureje, O., Lewis-Fernández, R. L., Maercker, A., Brewin, C. R., Cloitre, M., Claudino, A., Pike, K. M., Baird, Gillian, Skuse, D., Krueger, R. B., Briken, P., Burke, J. D, Lochman, J. E., Evans, S. C., Woods, D. W., & Reed, G. M. (2021). An organization- and category-level comparison of diagnostic requirements for mental disorders in ICD-11 and DSM-5. World Psychiatry, 20(1), 34-51. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20825 PDF
Harmon, S. L., Price, M. A., Corteselli, K. A., Lee, E. H., Metz, K., Bonadio, F. T., Hersh, J., Marchette, L. K., Rodríguez, G. M., Raftery-Helmer, J., Thomassin, K., Bearman, S. K., Jensen-Doss, A. J., Evans, S. C., & Weisz, J. R. (2021). Evaluating a modular approach to therapy for children with anxiety, depression, trauma, and conduct problems (MATCH) in school-based mental health care: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.639493 PDF
2020
Evans, S. C., Blossom, J. B., & Fite, P. J. (2020). Exploring longitudinal mechanisms of irritability in children: Implications for cognitive-behavioral intervention. Behavior Therapy, 51(2), 238-252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2019.05.006 PDF
Evans, S. C., Bonadio, F. T., Bearman, S. K., Ugueto, A. M., Chorpita, B. F., & Weisz, J. R. (2020). Assessing the irritable and defiant dimensions of youth oppositional behavior using CBCL and YSR items. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 49(6), 804-819. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2019.1622119 PDF
Evans, S. C., Cooley, J. L., Blossom, J. B., Pederson*, C. A., Tampke*, E., & Fite, P. J. (2020). Examining ODD/ADHD symptom dimensions as predictors of social, emotional, and academic trajectories in middle childhood. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 49(6), 912-929. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2019.1644645 PDF
Evans, S. C., Weisz, J. R., Carvalho*, A. C., Garibaldi*, P. M., Bearman, S. K., Chorpita, B. F., & The Research Network on Youth Mental Health. (2020). Effects of standard and modular psychotherapies in the treatment of youth with severe irritability. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 88(3), 255-268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000456 PDF
Weisz, J. R., Bearman, S. K., Ugueto, A. M., Herren, J. A., Evans, S. C., Cheron, D. M., Alleyne, A. R., Weissman, A. S., Tweed, J. L., Pollack, A. A., Langer, D.A., Southam-Gerow, M. A., Wells, K. C., & Jensen-Doss, A. (2020). Testing the robustness of Child STEPs effects: A randomized controlled effectiveness trial. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 49(6), 883-896. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2019.1655757 PDF
Weisz, J. R., Thomassin, K., Hersh, J., Santucci, L. C., MacPherson, H. A., Rodriguez, G. M., Bearman, S. K., Lang, J. M., Vanderploeg, J. J., Marshall, T. M., Lu, J. J., Jensen-Doss, A., & Evans, S. C. (2020). Clinician training, then what? A randomized controlled effectiveness trial of low-cost Child STEPs implementation support with vs. without expert consultation. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 88(12), 1065-1078. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000536 PDF
Weisz, J. R., Vaughn-Coaxum, R. A., Evans, S. C., Thomassin, K., Hersh, J. Lee, E. H., Ng, M. Y., Lau, N., Raftery-Helmer, J. N., & Mair, P. (2020). Efficient monitoring of treatment response during youth psychotherapy: Development and psychometrics of the behavior and feelings survey. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 49(6), 737-751. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2018.1547973 PDF
2019
Evans, S. C., Frazer, A. L., Blossom, J. B., & Fite, P. J. (2019). Forms and functions of aggression in early childhood. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 48(5), 790-798, doi:10.1080/15374416.2018.1485104 PDF
Evans, S. C., & Fite, P. J. (2019). Dual pathways from reactive aggression to depressive symptoms in children: Further examination of the failure model. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47, 85-97. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-018-0426-6 PDF
Evans, S. C., Boan, A. D., Bradley, C., & Carpenter, L. A. (2019). Sex/gender differences in screening for Autism Spectrum Disorder: Implications for evidence-based assessment. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 48, 840-854. doi: 10.1080/15374416.2018.1437734 PDF
Claudino, A. M., Pike, K. M., Hay, P., Keeley, J. W., Evans, S. C., Rebello, T., Bryant-Waugh, R., Dai, Y., Zhao, M., Matsumoto, C. Herscovici, C. R., Mellor-Marsá, B., Stona, A.-C., Kogan, C. S., Andrews, H. F., Monteleone, P., Pilon, D. J., Thiels, C., Sharan, P., Al-Adawi, S. & Reed, G. M. (2019). The classification of eating disorders in ICD-11: Results of a field study comparing proposed ICD-11 guidelines with existing ICD-10 guidelines. BMC Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1327-4 PDF
Eckshtain, D., Marchette, L. K., Schleider, J., Evans, S., & Weisz, J. R. (2019). Parental depressive symptoms as a predictor of outcome in the treatment of child internalizing and externalizing problems. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47, 459-574. doi:10.1007/s10802-018-0446-2 PDF
2018
Evans, S. C., Amaro, C. M., Herbert*, R., Blossom, J. B., & Roberts, M. C. (2018). “Are you gonna publish that?” Peer-reviewed publication outcomes of doctoral dissertations in psychology. PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192219 PDF
Fite, P. J., Rubens, S. L., Evans, S. C., & Poquiz*, J. (2018). The broader context: School and neighborhood factors contributing to ODD and CD symptomatology. In J. E. Lochman and W. Matthys (Eds.), The Wiley handbook of disruptive and impulse control disorders (pp. 355-370). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.
2017
Evans, S. C., Burke, J. D., Roberts, M. C., Fite, P. J., Lochman, J. E., de la Peña, F. R., & Reed, G. M. (2017). Irritability in child and adolescent psychopathology: An integrative review for ICD-11. Clinical Psychology Review, 53, 29-45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2017.01.004 PDF
Fite, P. J., Evans, S. C., Pederson*, C. A., & Tampke*, E. (2017). Functions of aggression and disciplinary actions among elementary school age youth. Child & Youth Care Forum, 46, 825-839. doi:10.1007/s10566-017-9410-5 PDF
Roberts, M. C., Blossom, J. B., Evans, S. C., Amaro, C. M., & Kanine, R. M. (2017). Advancing the scientific foundation for evidence-based practice in clinical child and adolescent psychology. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 46, 915–928. doi:10.1080/15374416.2016.1152554. Article reprinted in M. J. Prinstein (Ed.) (2017), Future work in clinical child and adolescent psychology: A research agenda. Routledge. PDF
Rubens, S. L., Evans, S. C., Becker, S. P., Fite, P. J., & Tountas, M. A. (2017). Self-reported time in bed and sleep quality in association with internalizing and externalizing problems in school-age youth. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 48, 455-467. doi:10.1007/s10578-016-0672-1 PDF
2016
Evans, S. C., Blossom, J. B., Canter, K. S., Poppert-Cordts, K., Kanine, R., Garcia, A., & Roberts, M. C. (2016). Self-reported emotion reactivity among early-adolescent girls: Evidence for convergent and discriminant validity in an urban community sample. Behavior Therapy, 47, 299-311. doi:10.1016/j.beth.2016.01.003 PDF
Evans, S. C., Pederson, C. A., Fite, P. J., Blossom, J. B. & Cooley, J. L. (2016). Teacher-reported irritable and defiant dimensions of Oppositional Defiant Disorder: Social, behavioral, and academic correlates. School Mental Health, 8, 292-304. doi:10.1007/s12310-015-9163-y PDF
Mitchell, T. B., Cooley, J. C., Evans, S. C., & Fite, P.J. (2016). The moderating effect of physical activity on the association between ADHD symptoms and peer victimization in middle childhood. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 47, 871-882. doi:10.1007/s10578-015-0618-z PDF
Blossom, J. B., Fite, P. J., Frazer, A. L., Cooley, J. L., & Evans, S. C. (2016). Parental psychological control and aggression in youth: The moderating effect of emotion dysregulation. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 44, 12-20. doi:10.1016/j.appdev.2016.02.006 PDF
Keeley, J. W., Reed, G. M., Roberts, M. C., Evans, S. C., Medina-Mora, M.-E, Robles, R., Rebello, T., Sharan, P., Gureje, O., First, M. B., Andrews, H. F., Ayuso-Mateos, J. K., Gaebel, W., Zielasek, J., & Saxena, S. (2016). Developing a science of clinical utility in diagnostic classification systems: Field study strategies for ICD-11 Mental and Behavioural Disorders. American Psychologist, 71, 3-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0039972 PDF
Keeley, J. W., Reed, G. M., Roberts, M. C., Evans, S. C., Robles, R., Matsumoto, C., Brewin, C. R., Cloitre, M., Perkonigg, A., Rousseau, C., Gureje, O., Lovelle, A. M., Sharan, P., & Maercker, A. (2016). Disorders specifically associated with stress: A case-controlled field study for ICD-11 mental and behavioural disorders. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 16, 109-127. doi:10.1016/j.ijchp.2015.09.002 (Article in English and Spanish.) PDF-En PDF-Es
Roberts, M. C., Kanine, R. M., Amaro, C. M., Evans, S. C., Blossom, J. B., & Garcia, A. M. (2016). International education and training for clinical child and adolescent psychology. South African Journal of Psychology, 46, 9-24. doi:10.1177/0081246315619510 PDF
2015
Evans, S. C., Fite, P. J., Hendrickson, M. L., Rubens, S. L, & Mages*, A. K. (2015). The role of reactive aggression in the link between hyperactive-impulsive behaviors and peer rejection in adolescents. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 46, 903-912. doi:10.1007/s10578-014-0530-y PDF
Evans, S. C., Roberts, M. C., Keeley, J. W., Blossom, J. B., Amaro, C. M., Garcia, A. M., Odar-Stough, C., Canter, K. S., Robles, R. & Reed, G. M. (2015). Vignette methodologies for studying clinicians’ decision-making: Validity, utility, and application in ICD-11 field studies. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 15, 160-170. doi:10.1016/j.ijchp.2014.12.001 (Article in English and Spanish) PDF-En PDF-Es
Evans, S. C., & Roberts, M. C. (2015). The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) mental and behavioural disorders section. In R. L. Cautin and S. O. Lilienfeld (Eds.), The encyclopedia of clinical psychology (pp. 1520-1529). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons. doi:10.1002/9781118625392
Lochman, J. E., Evans, S. C., Burke, J. D., Roberts, M. C., Fite, P. J., Reed, G. M., de la Peña, Matthys, W., Ezpeleta, L., Siddiqui, S., & Garralda, M. E. (2015). An empirically based alternative to DSM-5’s Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder for ICD-11. World Psychiatry, 14, 30-33. doi:10.1002/wps.20176 PDF
Reed, G. M., Rebello, T. J., Pike, K. M., Medina-Mora, M. E., Gureje, O., Zhao, M., Dai, Y., Roberts, M. C., Maruta, T., Matsumoto, C., Krasnov, V. N., Kulygina, M., Lovell, A. M., Stona, A.-C., Sharan, P., Robles, R., Gaebel, W., Zielasek, J., Khoury, B., Mari, J. d. J., Ayuso-Mateos, J. L., Evans, S. C., Kogan, C. S., & Saxena, S. (2015). WHO’s Global Clinical Practice Network for mental health. Lancet Psychiatry, 2, 379-380. doi:10.1016/S2215-0366(15)00183-2 PDF
Roberts, M. C., Beals-Erickson, S. E., Evans, S. C., Odar, C., & Canter, K. S. (2015). Resolving ethical lapses in the nonpublication of dissertations. In R. Sternberg and S. Fiske (Eds.), Ethical challenges in the behavioral and brain sciences: Case studies and commentaries (pp. 59-62). New York: Cambridge University Press.
2014
Becker, S. P., Fite, P. J., Vitulano, M. L., Rubens, S. L., Evans, S. C., & Cooley, J. L. (2014). Examining anxiety and depression as moderators of the associations between ADHD symptoms and academic and social problems in Hispanic adolescents. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 36, 265-275. doi:10.1007/s10862-013-9394-x PDF
Fite, P. J., Evans, S. C., Cooley, J., & Rubens, S. (2014). Further evaluation of associations between symptoms of inattention-hyperactivity and oppositional defiance and bullying and victimization in adolescence. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 45, 32-41. doi:10.1007/s10578-013-0376-8 PDF
Fite, P. J., Hendrickson, M., Evans, S., Rubens, S. L., Johnson-Motoyama, M., & Savage*, J. (2014). Associations between proactive and reactive subtypes of aggression and lifetime substance use in a sample of predominantly Hispanic adolescents. Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 23, 398-406. doi:10.1080/1067828X.2012.748440 PDF
Robles-García, R., Fresán, A., Evans, S. C., Medina-Mora, M. E., Lovell, A. M., Maj, M., & Reed, G. M. (2014). Problematic, absent, and stigmatizing diagnoses in current mental disorders classifications: Results from WHO-WPA and WHO-IUPsyS Global Surveys. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 14, 165-177. doi:10.1016/j.ijchp.2014.03.003 (Article in English and Spanish) PDF-En PDF-Es
2013
Evans, S. C., Reed, G. M., Roberts, M. C., Esparza, P., Watts, A. D., Correia, J. M., Ritchie, P., Maj, M., & Saxena, S. (2013). Psychologists’ perspectives on the diagnostic classification of mental disorders: Results from the WHO-IUPsyS Global Survey. International Journal of Psychology, 48, 177-193. doi:10.1080/00207594.2013.804189 PDF
Fite, P. J., Hendrickson, M., Rubens, S., Gabrielli, J., & Evans, S. (2013). The role of peer rejection in the link between reactive aggression and academic performance. Child and Youth Care Forum, 42, 193-205. doi:10.1007/s10566-013-9199-9 PDF
Reed, G. M., Roberts, M. C., Keeley, J., Hooppell, C., Matsumoto, C., Sharan, P., Robles, R., Carvalho, H., Wu, C., Gureje, O., Leal-Leturia, I., Flanagan, E. H., Correia, J. M., Maruta, T., Ayuso-Mateos, J. L., Mari, J. d. J., Evans, S. C., Saxena, S., & Medina-Mora, M. E. (2013). Mental health professionals’ natural taxonomies of mental disorders: Implications for the clinical utility of the ICD-11 and the DSM-5. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 69, 1191-1212. doi:10.1002/jclp.22031 PDF
Roberts, M. C., & Evans, S. C. (2013). The International Classification of Diseases system (ICD-10). In G. Koocher, J. Norcross, and B. Greene (Eds.), Psychologists’ desk reference (3rd ed.) (pp. 71-75). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Roberts, M. C., Odar, C. C., Canter, K. S., Evans, S. C., & Kessler, E. D. (2013). Psychological disorders of children and adolescents: Etiology, diagnosis and treatment. In T. G. Plante (Ed.). Abnormal psychology across the ages, Vol. II: Disorders and treatments (pp. 133-147). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger/ABC-CLIO.
Rubens, S. L., Fite, P. J., Gabrielli, J., Evans, S. C., Hendrickson, M. L., & Pederson, C. A. (2013). Examining relations between negative life events, time spent in the United States, language use, and mental health outcomes in Latino adolescents. Child and Youth Care Forum, 42, 389-402. doi:10.1007/s10566-013-9205-2 PDF
2012
Reed, G. M., Anaya, C. & Evans, S. C. (2012). ¿Qué es la CIE y por qué es importante en la psicología? [What is the ICD and why is it important for psychology?]. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 12, 461-473. (Article in Spanish only) PDF
Wu, Y. P., Aylward, B. A., Roberts, M. C., & Evans, S. C. (2012). Searching the scientific literature: Implications for quantitative and qualitative reviews. Clinical Psychology Review, 32, 553-557. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2012.06.007 PDF