Curriculum Vitae
James H. Johnson, Ph.D., ABPP
Board Certified in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
Contact Information
Business Address: Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Box 100165,
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32610.
Home Address: 8522 NW 4th Pl, Gainesville, FL 32607.
Phone: 352-273-6144; Cell (352) 246-4025
Office email: jhj@phhp.ufl.edu; Home email: jhj@ufl.edu
WebSite: http://www.jameshjohnson.com
Employment History and Professional Experience
1987 - 2010: Professor (with tenure), Departments of Clinical and Health Psychology and
Psychology, University of Florida [2007 - 2010: Director of Clinical Training
and Associate Chair for Academic Affairs]; [1992 – 1997: Director of the University of
Florida Psychology Clinic; [1995 – 1997: Associate Chair for Clinical Affairs].
1979 - 1987 Associate Professor, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology,
University of Florida
1975 - 1979 Acting Assistant Professor/Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of
Washington, Seattle.
1972 - 1975 Director of Research, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.
1971 - 1972 Internship in Clinical Child and Pediatric Psychology, University of Texas
Medical Center, Galveston (APA Approved).
1968 - 1969 Psychologist III, State Reception and Diagnostic Center, Kentucky
Department of Child Welfare, Louisville, Kentucky.
Educational Background
1976 Ph.D., Northern Illinois University, Major: Clinical Psychology (APA approved).
1968 M.S., Murray State University, Major: Clinical Psychology.
1966 B.S., Murray State University, Major: Psychology; Minors: Biology, Sociology.
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Professional Organizations
American Psychological Association
Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (APA, Division 53)
Society of Pediatric Psychology (APA, Division 54)
American Board of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
American Academy of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
Courses and Seminars Taught
Introductory Psychology, Introduction to Personality, Abnormal Psychology,
Introduction to Clinical Psychology, Introduction to Clinical Child and Pediatric
Psychology, Seminar in Childhood Autism, Approaches to Child Treatment, Child
Behavior Therapy, Child Psychopathology and Behavior Change, Practicum in Clinical
Child/Pediatric Psychology, Graduate Seminar in ADHD.
Honors
Recognized by the American Academy of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
“for work with the Commission on the Recognition of Specialties and Proficiencies in
Professional Psychology (CRSPP) and the defining of Clinical Child and Adolescent
Psychology as a formal specialty of professional psychology”, Presented at the Annual
Meeting of the American Psychological Association, 2007.
Recognized by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) “for outstanding
contributions to furthering the importance of specialty board certification”, Presented at
the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, 2007.
President: Section/Division of Clinical Child Psychology, American Psychological
Association (1986 - 1987).
American Men and Women of Science
1998-1999 (20th Edition)
Who's Who in the South and Southwest
Who's Who in the Biobehavioral Sciences
University of Florida Audrey Schumacher Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching
(1987 and 1990).
University of Florida Hugh C. Davis Faculty Award for Excellence in Clinical
Supervision (1999 and 2000).
Professional Activities (National)
Secretary- Treasurer, American Board of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
(2007 ).
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Specialty Credentials Reviewer: American Board of Clinical Child and Adolescent
Psychology (2006 - 2007).
Specialty Board Examiner: American Board of Clinical Child and Adolescent
Psychology (2003 ).
Co-conference Coordinator: National Conference on Child Health Psychology 2005 –
2006.
Editorial Board: Child Psychiatry and Human Development (2004 -
)
Member: Board of Directors, American Board of Clinical Child and Adolescent
Psychology (2003 ).
Advisory Board: Encyclopedia of Clinical Child and Pediatric Psychology. (T. Ollendick
& C. Schroeder (Eds). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishing Co. 2002 –
2003.
Member: Council on Specialties in Professional Psychology (COS) [Representing the
Specialty of Clinical Child Psychology] 1999 - 2001; 2001 - 2004).
Guest Editor: Special issue on Child Health Psychology, Journal of Clinical Psychology
in Medical Settings, March, 2002.
Guest Editor: Special issue on Child Health Psychology, Journal of Clinical Psychology
in Medical Settings, March, 2000.
Member: Board of Directors, Division of Clinical Psychology, American Psychological
Association (Clinical Child Psychology Representative) 1997 - 2000.
Chair: Clinical Child Psychology CRSPPP Specialty Petition Task Force (Responsible
for developing CRSPPP petition for the recognition of Clinical Child Psychology as a
formal specialty area by APA - Specialty formally approved by APA Council of
Representatives August, 1998).
Associate Editor: Journal of Clinical Child Psychology (1982 - 1986).
Editorial Board: Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 1977 -1992.
Guest Editor: Special Issue on the Hilton Head Clinical Child Psychology Training
Conference, The Clinical Psychologist, 1986.
Co-Founder: Florida Conference on Child Health Psychology (Conference Coordinator
1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 2006); Note. This is now the National Conference on Child Health
Psychology.
Professional Activities (University)
Member: University of Florida Interdisciplinary ADHD Program
Member: University of Florida Cochlear Implant Program.
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Consultant: Project CARE (Department of Pediatrics: Longitudinal research program
studying children of cocaine abusing mothers).
License:
State of Florida License Number 0002751.
Board Certification:
American Board of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
Grant Related Activities
2002 - 2004: Principal Investigator, Stress in Families of Children with ADHD:
Implications for Assessment, Research, and Intervention, Opportunity Research Fund,
($30,000).
1984 - 1986 Program Director, Child Mental Health Institutional Training Grant, NIMH
($56,356).
1983 - 1986 Co-Investigator (with K. Rand, M.D. and E. Hoon, M.A.) Life Stress: Its
Impact on Genital Herpes Recurrences, NIH ($129,000).
1982 - 1983 Principal Investigator, Parental Stress: Its Relationship to Child Abuse and
Neglect, Childhelp USA/International ($51,400).
1977 - 1978 Principal Investigator, Life Stress in Childhood and Adolescence, University
of Washington Graduate School Research Fund ($4,100).
1975 - 1978 Co-Investigator and Project Director, Life Stress and Coping Skills, Irwin G.
Sarason, Principal Investigator, Office of Naval Research ($179,000).
Publications
Books:
Schwartz, S. and Johnson, J.H. (1981). Psychopathology of Childhood: A Clinical Experimental Approach. New York: Pergamon Press.
Schwartz, S. and Johnson, J.H. (1985). Psychopathology of Childhood: A Clinical Experimental Approach (2nd Edition). New York: Pergamon Press.
Johnson, J.H., Rasbury, W., and Siegel, L. (1986). Approaches to Child Treatment:
Introduction to theory, research, and practice. New York: Pergamon Press.
Johnson, J.H. (1986). Life Events as Stressors in Childhood and Adolescence. Newbury
Park, CA: Sage Publications.
Johnson, J.H. and Goldman, J.R. (Eds.) (1990). Developmental Assessment in Clinical
Child Psychology: A Handbook. New York: Pergamon.
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Johnson, J.H. and Johnson, S.B. (Eds.) (1991). Advances in Child Health Psychology.
Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press.
Johnson, J.H., Rasbury, W. and Siegel, L. (1997). Approaches to Child Treatment:
Theory, Research and Practice (2nd Edition). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
Research Articles, Book Chapters, and Other Publications
Johnson, J.H. and Overall, J.E. (1973). Factor analysis of the Psychological Screening
Inventory. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 41, 57-60.
Johnson, J.H. (1973). Bender Gestalt constriction as an indicator of depression in
psychiatric patients. Journal of Personality Assessment, 37, 53-55.
Johnson, J.H. and Persley, G. (1974). Covert semantic desensitization: Negative results.
JSAS: Catalog of Selected Documents in Psychology, 4, 17.
Lanyon, R.I., Johnson, J.H., and Overall, J.E. (1974). Factor structure of the
Psychological Screening Inventory items in a normal population. Journal of Consulting
and Clinical Psychology, 42, 219-223.
Overall, J.E., Johnson, J.H., and Lanyon, R.I. (1974). Factor structure and scoring of the
Psychological Screening Inventory: An application of Marker Variable Factor Analysis.
Multivariate Behavioral Research, 9, 407-422.
Johnson, J.H. and Thompson, D.J. (1974). Modeling in the treatment of enuresis. Journal
of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 5, 93-94.
Johnson, J.H. and Bornstein, P.H. (1974). A survey of behavior modification training
opportunities in APA-approved internship facilities. American Psychologist, 29, 342-348.
Appelbaum, A.S., Tuma, J.M., and Johnson, J.H. (1975). Internal-external control and
assertiveness in subjects high and low in social desirability. Psychological Reports, 37,
319-322.
Persley, G.W., Johnson, J.H., and Hornsby, L.G. (1975). The effects of profession, sex,
and prognostic expectancies on therapists' comments in a psychotherapy analogue.
Psychological Reports, 37, 455-459.
Johnson, J.H. and Cerreto, M.C. (1975). Internal-external control and interpersonal
attraction to a similar and dissimilar stranger. Psychological Reports, 37, 1122.
Johnson, J.H. and Van Bourgondein, M.E. (1977). Behavior therapy and encopresis: A
selective review of the literature. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 6, 15-19.
Appelbaum, A.S. Stone, W.E., Johnson, J.H., and Heck, D.H. (1978). Research training
in psychiatry residency programs. Texas Reports on Biology and Medicine, 36, 17-23.
Sarason, I.G., Johnson, J.H., and Siegel, J.M. (1978). Assessing the impact of life
changes: Development of the Life Experiences Survey. Journal of Consulting and
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Clinical Psychology, 46, 932-946 [Selected as a Current Contents Citation Classic;
August, 1987.]
Smith, R.E., Johnson, J.H., and Sarason, I.G. (1978). Life change, sensation seeking, and
psychological distress. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 46, 348-349.
Johnson, J.H. and Sarason, I.G. (1978). Life stress, depression and anxiety: Internalexternal control as a moderator variable. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 22, 205208.
Siegel, J.M., Johnson, J.H., and Sarason, I.G. (1979). Life stress and menstrual
discomfort. Journal of Human Stress, 5, 41-46.
Johnson, J.H. and Sarason, I.G. (1979). Recent developments in research on life stress. In
V. Hamilton and D.V. Warburton (Eds.) Human Stress and Cognition: An Information
Processing Approach. London: John Wiley and Sons.
Sarason, I.G. and Johnson, J.H. (1979). Life stress, organizational stress and job
satisfaction. Psychological Reports, 44, 75-79.
Larson, J.R., Johnson, J.H., and Easterbrooks, M.A. (1979). Sensation seeking and
antisocial behavior: Laboratory evidence. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 5,
169-172.
Siegel, J.M., Johnson, J.H., and Sarason, I.G. (1979). Mood states and the reporting of
life changes. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 23, 103-108.
Sarason, I.G., Johnson, J.H., Berberich, J.P., and Siegel, J.M. (1979). Helping police
officers cope with stress: A cognitive-behavioral approach. American Journal of
Community Psychology, 7, 593-603.
Johnson, J.H., Sarason, I.G., and Siegel, J.M. (1979). Arousal seeking as a moderator of
life stress. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 49, 665-666.
Johnson, J.H. and Sarason, I.G. (1979). Moderator variables in life stress research. In I.G.
Sarason and C.D. Spielberger (Eds.) Stress and Anxiety (Volume 6), Washington, D.C.:
Hemisphere Publishing Co.
Johnson, J.H. (1979). Behavioral assessment: A clinical perspective. A review of Keefe,
F.J., Kopel, S.A., and Gordon, S.B. (1978). A Practical Guide to Behavioral Assessment.
New York: Springer Publishing Co. Journal of Personality Assessment, 43, 549-550.
Gad, M.T. and Johnson, J.H. (1980). Correlates of adolescent life stress as related to race,
socioeconomic status and levels of perceived social support. Journal of Clinical Child
Psychology, 9, 13-16.
Johnson, J.H. and McCutcheon, S.M. (1980). Assessing life stress in children and
adolescents: Preliminary findings with the Life Events Checklist. In I.G. Sarason and
C.D. Spielberger (Eds.) Stress and Anxiety (Volume 7). Washington, DC: Hemisphere
Publishing Co.
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Johnson, J.H. and McCutcheon, S.M. (1981). Correlates of adolescent pessimism: A
study of the Beck Hopelessness Scale. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 10, 169-172.
Johnson, J.H. and Robbins, R.L. (1982). On the need for clinical-child psychology
training within the context of general clinical training programs. Journal of Clinical Child
Psychology, 11, 35-38.
Brand, A.H. and Johnson, J.H. (1982). Note on the reliability of the Life Events
Checklist. Psychological Reports, 50, 1274.
Johnson, J.H. (1982). Life events as stressors in childhood and adolescence. In B. Lahey
and A. Kazdin (Eds.) Advances in Clinical Child Psychology (Volume 5). New York:
Plenum Publishing Co.
Johnson, J.H. and Fennell, E.B. (1983). Aggressive and delinquent behavior in children
and adolescents. In E. Walker and M. Roberts (Eds.) Handbook of Clinical Child
Psychology. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
Johnson, J.H. and Tuma, J.M. (1983). Training in clinical child psychology: An overview
of selected issues. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 12, 365-368.
Johnson, J.H. (1984). Review of Morris, R.H. and Kratochwill, T.R. 1983). Treating
Children's Fears and Phobias: A Behavioral Approach. New York: Pergamon Press, The
Behavior Therapist, 7, 31.
Sarason, I.G., Sarason, B.R., and Johnson, J.H. (1985). Stressful life events:
Measurement, moderators and adaptation. In S.R. Burchfield (Ed.) Psychological and
Physiological Interactions in the Response to Stress. Washington, DC: Hemisphere
Publishing Co.
Johnson, J.H. (1985). General program-related issues in clinical-child training. In J.M.
Tuma (Ed.) Proceedings: Conference on training clinical child psychologists. Baton
Rouge, LA: Section of Clinical-Child Psychology, American Psychological Association,
pp. 160-167.
Johnson, J.H. (1985). Providing training in child treatment: Recommendations for the
clinical-child psychology curriculum. In J.M. Tuma (Ed.) Proceedings: Conference on
training clinical child psychologists. Baton Rouge, LA: Section on Clinical Child
Psychology, American Psychological Association, pp. 176-181.
Johnson, J.H. (1986). President's Message - Update on Section 1 activities. Clinical Child
Psychology Newsletter, 1, (Number 1), 1-2.
Johnson, J.H. (1986). President's Message - On APA reorganization. Clinical Child
Psychology Newsletter, 1 (Number 2), 1-2.
Katz-Newman, D. and Johnson, J.H. (1986). Reliability of the Parent Temperament
Questionnaire, Psychological Reports, 59, 802.
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Johnson, J.H. and Tuma, J.M. (1986). The Hilton Head conference: Recommendations
for clinical child psychology training. The Clinical Psychologist, 39, 9-11.
Brand, A., Johnson, J.H., and Johnson, S.B. (1986). Life stress and indicators of diabetic
control in children with insulin-dependent diabetes. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 11,
481-495.
Johnson, J.H. and Tuma, J.M. (Eds.) (1986). The training of clinical child psychologists:
The Hilton Head Conference [Special Issue]. The Clinical Psychologist, 39, 4-17.
Johnson, J.H. and Bradlyn, A. (1988). Assessing life stress in childhood and adolescence.
In P. Karoly (Ed.), Handbook of child health assessment:Biopsychological perspectives.
New York: Wiley.
Johnson, J.H. and Bradlyn, A. (1988). Life events and psychological adjustment in
children and adolescents: Methodological and conceptual issues. In L. Cohen (Ed.)
Research on stressful life events: Theoretical and methodological issues. Newbury Park,
CA: Sage Publishing Co.
Bodiford, C.A., Eisenstadt, T.H., Johnson, J.H., and Bradlyn, A.S. (1988). Comparison of
learned helpless cognitions and behavior in children with high and low scores on the
Children's Depression Inventory. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 17, 152-158.
Johnson, J.H. and McGlynn, F.D. (1988). Simple Phobia. In M. Hersen and C.G. Last
(Eds.), Child Behavior Therapy Casebook. New York: Plenum Publishing Co.
Johnson, J.H. and Carper. L. (1989). Autism and related conditions: A status report.
Review of D.J. Cohen and A.M. Donnellan (Eds.), Handbook of Autism and Pervasive
Developmental Disorders, New York: Wiley, 1987, Contemporary Psychology.
Doelling, J. and Johnson, J.H. (1989). Development of the Foster Placement Evaluation
Scale: Preliminary findings. Social Casework, 70, 96-100.
Johnson, J.H. and Seibring, A. (1990). Child treatment comes of age. Review of J.
Matson (Ed.) Handbook of treatment approaches in childhood psychopathology. New
York: Plenum, 1988, Contemporary Psychology, 35, 593.
Rand, K.H., Hoon, E.F., Massey, J.K., and Johnson, J.H. (1990). Daily stress and
recurrence of genital herpes simplex. Archives of Internal Medicine, 150, 1889-1893.
Johnson, J.H. and Goldman, J.R. (1990). Developmental assessment: Introduction and
overview. In J.H. Johnson and J.R. Goldman (Eds.) Developmental Assessment in
Clinical Child Psychology: A Handbook. New York: Pergamon.
Doelling, J.H. and Johnson, J.H. (1990). Predicting success in foster placements: The
contribution of parent-child temperament characteristics. American Journal of
Orthopsychiatry, 60, 585-593.
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Lumley, M.A., Abeles, L.A., Melamed, B.G., Pistoni, L., and Johnson, J.H. (1990).
Coping outcomes in children undergoing stressful medical procedures: Childenvironmental variables. Behavioral Assessment, 12, 223-238.
Jorgensen, R.S. and Johnson, J.H. (1990). Contributors to the appraisal of major life
changes: The role of perceived controllability, stimulation seeking, social support, and
prior life events. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 1123 - 1138.
Johnson, James H. and Norvell, N. (1990). Review of C. Belar, et. al., The practice of
clinical health psychology. New York: Pergamon Press, 1987. Journal of Pediatric
Psychology, 15, 680 - 682.
Hoon, E.F., Hoon, P.W., Rand, K.H., Johnson, J.H., Hall, N.R. and Edwards, N.B.
(1991). A Psycho-behavioral model of genital herpes recurrence. Journal of
Psychosomatic Research, 35, 25-36.
Jefferson, T.W. and Johnson, J.H. (1991). The relationship of hyperactivity and sensation
seeking to delinquent subtypes. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 18, 195-201.
Sheeber, L.B. and Johnson (1992). Applicability of the Impact on Family Scale for
assessing families with behaviorally difficult children. Psychological Reports, 71, 155 159.
Sheeber, L.B. and Johnson, J.H. (1992). Child temperament, maternal adjustment and
changes in family life style. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 62, 178 - 185.
Johnson, J.H. and Fennell, E. (1992). Aggressive, antisocial and delinquent behavior in
childhood and adolescence. In C.E. Walker and M.C. Roberts (Eds.), Handbook of
Clinical Child Psychology (Second Edition). New York: Wiley.
Johnson, James H. (1993). Issues in Clinical Developmental Assessment. In T.H.
Ollendick and R. J. Prinz (Eds.). Advances in Clinical Child Psychology (Volume 15),
New York: Plenum.
Sheeber, L.B. and Johnson, J.H. (1994). Evaluation of a temperament focused parent
training program. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 23, 249 - 259.
Johnson, J.H. and O'Hare E.A. (1998). Comorbidity in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder. In B. Maria (Ed.). Consensus in Child Neurology: Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder. Hamilton, Ontario: Decker Publishing Co.
Johnson, J.H. and Sheeber, L.B.(1999). Developmental assessment: Approaches and
implications for intervention. In W. K.Silverman & T. H. Ollendick (Eds.),
Developmental Issues in the Clinical Treatment of Children and Adolescents. Needham,
MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Johnson, J.H. & O'Hare, E.A. (1999) ADHD Comorbidity. In B. Maria (Ed.), Advanced
Therapy in Child Neurology. Hamilton, Ontario: Decker Publishing Co.
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Hoffman, R.G., Rodrigue, J.R. and Johnson, J.H. (1999). Effectiveness of a school-based
program to enhance knowledge of sun exposure, attitudes toward sun exposure, and
sunscreen use among adolescents, Children's Health Care, 28, 69 - 86.
Johnson, J.H. (2000). Frontiers of child health psychology: Introduction to the special
issue. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 7, 1 – 4.
Johnson, J.H. (2000). Just Noticeable Differences. In E. Craighead & C. Nemeroff (Eds.).
The Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences (Third Edition). New Youk:
Wiley.
Johnson, J.H., McCaskill, J., and Werba, B. (2001). Aggressive, Delinquent and
Antisocial Behavior in Children and Adolescents. In E. Walker & M. Roberts (Eds.),
Handbook of Clinical Child Psychology (Third Edition), New York: Wiley.
Johnson, J.H. & Loftis, C. (2002). Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Mimicry and
Comorbidty, In B. Maria (Ed). Current Management in Child Neurology, Hamilton,
Ontario:Decker Publishing Co.
Johnson, J.H.& Reader, S. K. (2002). Assessing stress in families of children with
ADHD: Preliminary development of the Disruptive Behavior Stress Inventory (DBSI).
Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 8, 51 - 62.
Heaton, S.C., Reader, S.K., Preston, A.S., Fennell, E.B., Puyana, O., and Johnson, J.H.
(2002). The Test of Everyday Attention for Children (TEA-Ch): Patterns of Performance
in Children with ADHD and Clinical Controls, Child Neuropsychology.
Johnson, J.H. (2003). Training Issues. In T. Ollendick & C. Schroeder (Eds.).
Encyclopedia of Clinical Child and Pediatric Psychology. New York: Kluwer
Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Johnson, J.H. and Reader, S.K. (2003). Temperament. In T. Ollendick & C. Schroeder
(Eds.). Encyclopedia of Clinical Child and Pediatric Psychology. New York: Kluwer
Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Johnson, J.H. and Reader, S.K. (2003). Group Therapy. In T. Ollendick & C. Schroeder
(Eds.). Encyclopedia of Clinical Child and Pediatric Psychology. New York: Kluwer
Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Johnson, J.H. and Reader, S.K. (2003). Child Psychotherapy. In T. Ollendick & C.
Schroeder (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Clinical Child and Pediatric Psychology. New York:
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Johnson, J.H. and Johnson, T.A. (2003). Life Stress in Children and Adolescents. In T.
Ollendick & C. Schroeder (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Child Psychology and Pediatric
Psychology. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Johnson, J.H. and Johnson, T.A. (2003). Risk Assessment and Risk Management. In T.
Ollendick & C. Schroeder (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Clinical Child and Pediatric
Psychology. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
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Johnson, J.H. and Loftis, C.W. (2003). Temperament Assessment. In T. Ollendick & C.
Schroeder (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Clinical Child and Pediatric Psychology. New York:
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Storch, E. A., Roth, D., Roberti, J. W., Bravata, E. A., Storch, J. B., & Johnson, J. H.
(2003). Psychosocial adjustment in early adulthood: The role of childhood teasing and
father support. Child Study Journal, 33, 153-164.
Johnson, J.H. (2004). Just Noticeable Difference (JND). In W.E. Craighead and C.
Nemeroff (Eds.). Corsini's Concise Encyclopedia of Psychology and Neuroscience, New
York: John Wiley and Sons, 502 - 503.
Johnson, J.H., McAlister, L. and Reader, S. (2005). Individual Child and Family
Treatments of ADHD. In B. Maria (Ed). Current Management in Child Neurology (Vol.
3) , Hamilton, Ontario: Decker Publishing Co.
Johnson, J. H., Janicke, D. M. and Reader, S.K. (2008). Professional roles. In M. Hersen
and A. Gross (Eds.). Handbook of Clinical Psychology (Vol. 2). New York: John Wiley
and Sons.
Johnson, J. H., Alvarez, H. K., and Johnson, T. A. (2009). Comorbidity and Mimicry in
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Implications for Assessment and Treatment. In
B. Maria (Ed.) Current Management in Child Neurology (Vol. 4), Hamilton. Ontario:
Decker Publishing Company.
Johnson, J. H., McAlister, L. E., and Reader, S. K. (2009). Treatment of Attention Deficit
Hyperactive Disorder: Individual Child and Family-Based Therapies. In B. Maria (Ed.)
Current Management in Child Neurology (Vol. 4), Hamilton. Ontario: Decker Publishing
Company.
Reader, S. K., McAlister, L.E., and Johnson, J.H. (2009) Assessing ADHD Behaviorrelated Family Stressors with the DBSI: A Replication and Extension. Journal of Clinical
Psychology in Medical Settings, 16, 148 – 160.
Johnson, J. H. and Sokolof, M. (2009). Obituary: Jacquelin R. Goldman (1934 – 2008),
American Psychologist, 64, 619.
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Overview of Professional Work Experience
1968 – 1969: Psychologist, State Reception and Diagnostic Center, Kentucky
Department of Child Welfare, Louisville, Kentucky.
My initial professional psychology position was as a Master’s level psychologist,
working with the Kentucky Department of Child Welfare, after having been supported by
a state Child Welfare training stipend during my training in the Clinical Psychology
Master’s Program at Murray State University.
Responsibilities associated with this position included conducting group therapy with
incarcerated children and adolescents committed to the Reception and Diagnostic Center
by juvenile courts in the state of Kentucky. Here, I was involved in conducting group
therapy with older children and adolescents. I also conducted full psychological
evaluations with children and adolescents (300 +) which were presented at staffing
conferences, attended by myself, a social worker, and group leader with assessment
findings being considered in making placement and treatment decisions. My work at the
reception center was supervised by a Board Certified (ABPP) Clinical Psychologist (Dr.
Ed Erwin) and I was certified to practice, under supervision, at the Master’s level by the
Kentucky State Board of Psychology.
During the time I was employed by the Department of Child Welfare, I also taught
introductory psychology at, what was then called, Kentucky Southern College and in the
Speed Scientific School at the University of Louisville.
January 1975 – September 1979: Acting Assistant Professor/Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
At the University of Washington I served as one of two psychologists responsible for
graduate training in the area of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, taught a
variety of graduate and undergraduate courses, conducted research in the area of Life
Stress, Health and Adjustment, and participated in student advising. Courses taught at the
University of Washington included. Introduction to Personality, Deviant Development,
Child Psychopathology and Behavior Change, Introduction to Child Treatment, Child
Behavior Therapy, Introduction to Clinical Psychology and a graduate specialty seminar
in the area of Autism. I also routinely served as a clinical practicum supervisor where I
supervised graduate students seeing patients for both assessment and treatment through
the departments Psychology Clinic. I also served as a mentor to my own doctoral students
and was responsible for supervision of their research activities.
Working closely with Dr. Irwin Sarason, the primary focus of my research at the
University of Washington was on the assessment of life stress, research on the
relationships between major life changes and indices of health and adjustment, and
variables that serve to moderate the relationship between stressful life events and
health/adjustment (e.g., social support, perceived controllability, and stimulation/arousal
seeking). Among other outcomes, this research program resulted in the development of a
measure, the Life Experiences Survey (LES; Sarason, Johnson and Siegel, 1978) that has
been widely used in both clinical and health psychology research.
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September 1979 - Present: Associate Professor to Professor (with tenure), Departments
of Clinical and Health Psychology and Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville,
Florida.
Since joining the faculty at the University of Florida I have functioned in many roles.
During this time I have taught formal courses at both the graduate and undergraduate
level, having taught courses in abnormal psychology, behavioral assessment, child
psychopathology, introduction to clinical psychology, introduction to clinical child and
pediatric psychology, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In addition, I
have continually been involved in the clinical supervision of master’s and doctoral
students and clinical psychology interns seeing patients for both assessment and
treatment in core and advanced practica.
In addition to teaching, I have been continuously involved in applied clinical activities.
Here, I have routinely spent from one to two full days per week providing clinical
services through our department’s psychology clinic, a very active group practice clinic
which provided both inpatient and outpatient services to children and adults, located in
the University of Florida Health Sciences Center. I have routinely seen a variety of
patients (mainly children and adolescents but some adults), displaying a wide range of
problems, for both assessment and treatment on both inpatient and outpatient services.
Clinical billings for services have routinely been in excess of $100,000 per year.
Regarding administrative roles, I served for six years, as Director of the Psychology
Clinic of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology and Associate Chair for
Clinical Affairs. This involved directing the operation of the Psychology Clinic which is
located in the major teaching hospital of the University of Florida Health Sciences
Center. This Clinic provides both inpatient and outpatient services for individuals in the
local community and as far south as Orlando and as far north as Georgia. The clinic is
staffed by some 15 PhD level licensed psychologists, more than 30 doctoral level clinical
psychology trainees who see patients referred to a variety of specialty services. The
Psychology clinic is the major clinic training site for our Ph.D. and Internship training
programs. As director, I was responsible for the development of a structure to maximize
the fiscal viability of the clinic, for insuring high quality clinical care for diverse patient
populations and for insuring that the clinic met the training needs of the department.
Most recently I have served as Director of Clinical Training for our Ph.D. program in
Clinical Psychology and as Associate Chair for Academic Affairs. Here I have been
responsible for our APA-approved Ph.D. program in Clinical Psychology that currently
has 29 doctoral level core faculty members and 82 doctoral students. The doctoral
program adheres to the scientist-practitioner model of clinical training while providing
students with broad and general training in basic psychology, core training in general
clinical psychology and allows students to pursue Area of Concentrations in Clinical
Child/Pediatric Psychology, Health/Medical Psychology, or Clinical Neuropsychology.
During the past two years I was responsible for conducting the program self-study and
the APA Commission on Accreditation site visit for the re-accreditation of our program.
This effort resulted in an additional seven years of full accreditation of the program
which has now been continuously accredited since 1953. In my role as Director of
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Clinical Training I have also served as chair of committees central to the functioning of
the doctoral program including the Curriculum Committee, the Admissions Committee as
well as dealing with issues of student funding, new course offerings, faculty-student
relations (e.g. mentoring), as well as relating to the college, the graduate school, office of
minority affairs, and other university related entities.
In addition to the above, over the years I have maintained my involvement in research
through mentoring doctoral students and conducting my own research program. As
previously noted, a major area of my early research involvement had to do with the
assessment of life stress, the relationship between life stress and indices of health and
adjustment, and investigations into those variables that moderate the relationship between
life stress and health/adjustment. Research in this area, which began at Washington,
continued at the University of Florida, with the focus being more on the assessment of
life stress with children, using a measure specifically developed for use with children and
adolescents, the Life Events Checklist (LEC), which was developed in collaboration with
Dr. Steve McCutcheon, a former student of mine at the University of Washington.
Other areas of research involvement, in collaboration with former graduate students, have
included research related to child temperament, looking at the relationship between
difficult temperament and parent psychological adjustment (Dr. Lisa Sheeber), the
relationship between parent-child temperament mismatches and foster placement
outcomes (Dr. Jenny Doelling), as well as research assessing an intervention approach to
modifying the impact of difficult child temperament on parents (Dr. Lisa Sheeber).
My most recent area of research involvement has related to studies of ADHD-related
family stress. Here, in collaboration with Dr. Steven Reader, I have focused on the
development of a measure, the Disruptive Behavior Stress Inventory (DBSI) which
assesses the nature of behavior-related stressors that are frequently experienced by
families of children with ADHD. This research has also sought to determine specific
dimensions of ADHD-related stress, and the relationship of these empirically derived
dimensions and indices of family functioning.
Professional Involvement at the National Level
During the course of my career I have been fortunate to have been extensively involved
in clinical and clinical child psychology at the national level. Here, I served as a member
of the National Clinical Child Psychology Training Committee, which was responsible
for the development of the Hilton Head Conference on Clinical Child Psychology
Training (1985). I have served as President of the Section (now Division) of Clinical
Child and Adolescent Psychology (American Psychological Association), as Associate
Editor of the Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, as co-founder of the Florida
Conference on Child Health Psychology (now the National Conference on Child Health
Psychology) and as the national Clinical Child Psychology representative to the Council
of Specialties in Professional Psychology (CoS) for six years. I also served as Head of the
Clinical Child Psychology Task Force (along with Drs. Susan B. Campbell, Sandra Russ,
and William A. Rae) that developed the initial petition, submitted to the APA
Commission on the Recognition of Specialties and Proficiencies in Professional
Psychology (CRSPP), which resulted in Clinical Child Psychology being formally
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recognized as specialty in professional psychology. Finally, through my involvement
with the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, I was one of several
psychologists who were involved in the development of the American Board of Clinical
Child and Adolescent Psychology and currently serve as an officer on the Board of
Directors of this organization which, in association with the American Board of
Professional Psychology (ABPP), is responsible for Specialty Board Certification in
Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.
References
Ronald Rozensky, Ph.D., ABPP
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
Box 100165
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida 32610
Duane Dede, Ph.D
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
Box 100165
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida 32610
David Janicke, Ph.D.
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
Box 100165
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida 32610