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Phone: 212-543-5352 CUCARD staff e-mail is only used for administrative communication such as making or rescheduling appointments. Dr. Jonathan Comer is Chief Research Fellow in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University, and is a Clinical Psychologist at the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders. Dr. Comer provides adult, child, and family therapy, as well as parent training services, specializing in the treatment of anxiety disorders across the lifespan. Dr. Comer received his B.A. from the University of Rochester, graduating magna cum laude in Psychology. He went on to receive his M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Temple University. Dr. Comer completed his clinical psychology internship training in the Child and Adolescent Track of the NYU-Bellevue Clinical Psychology Internship Program and the NYU Child Study Center. Broadly speaking, Dr. Comer’s program of research examines four areas of overlapping inquiry: (1) The assessment, phenomenology, and course of child anxiety disorders; (2) the development and evaluation of evidence-based treatments for childhood psychopathology, with particular focus on the development of innovative methods to reduce systematic barriers to effective mental health care in the community; (3) the psychological impact of political violence on youth (including the effects of terrorism on youth and the impact of parental wartime military deployment on child development); and (4) psychosocial treatment options for mood and disruptive behavior problems presenting in early childhood. Dr. Comer is also active in several professional associations, including the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT). His work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, and his research has been funded by NIMH, the APA, and the Anxiety Disorders Association of America. Recently Dr. Comer received grant funding from the Mental Health Initiative (MINT) to support his work developing the CALM program-an extension of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy for early childhood anxiety disorders. Comer, J.S., Blanco, C., Grant, B., Hasin, D., Liu, S.M., Turner, J.B., & Olfson, M. (in press). Health-related quality of life across the anxiety disorders. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. Comer, J.S., & Kendall, P.C. (2004) A symptom-level examination of parent-child agreement in the diagnosis of anxious youths. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 43, 878-886. Comer, J.S., & Kendall, P.C. (2007). Terrorism: The psychological impact on youth. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 14, 179-212. Comer, J.S., Kendall, P.C., Franklin, M.E., Hudson, J.L., & Pimentel, S.S. (2004). Obsessing/worrying about the overlap between obsessive-compulsive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder in youth. Clinical Psychology Review, 24, 663-683. Kendall, P.C., Comer, J.S., Marker, C.D., Creed, T.A., Puliafico, A.C., Hughes, A.A., Martin, E., Suveg, C., & Hudson, J.L. (2009). In-session exposure tasks and therapeutic alliance across the treatment of childhood anxiety disorders. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 77, 517-525. Comer, J.S., & Kendall, P.C. (2005). High-end specificity of the Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI) in a sample of anxiety-disordered youth. Depression and Anxiety, 22, 11-19. Puliafico, A.C., Comer, J.S., & Kendall, P.C. (2007). Social phobia in youth: The diagnostic utility of feared social situations. Psychological Assessment, 19, 152-158. Hudson, J., Comer, J.S., & Kendall, P.C. (2008). Parental responses to positive and negative emotions in anxious and non-anxious children. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 37, 1-11. Suveg, C., Sood, E., Comer, J.S., Kendall, P.C. (2009). Changes in emotion regulation following cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxious youth. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 38, 390-401. Gibb, B.E., Alloy, L.B., Walshaw, P.D., Comer, J.S., Shen, G.H.C., & Villari, A.G. (2006). Predictors of attributional style change in children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 34, 425-439. Suveg, C., Kendall, P.C., Comer, J.S., & Robin, J.A. (2006). Emotion-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxious youth: A multiple-baseline evaluation. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 36, 77-85. Wu, P., Goodwin, R.D., Fuller, C., Liu, X., Comer, J.S., Cohen, P., & Hoven, C. (in press). The relationship between anxiety disorders and substance use among adolescents in the community: Specificity and gender differences. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. Suveg, C., Comer, J.S., Furr, J.M., & Kendall, P.C. (2006). Adapting manualized CBT for a cognitively delayed child with multiple anxiety disorders. Clinical Case Studies, 2006, 5, 488-510. Comer, J.S. (in press). Terrorism. In I. Weiner & E. Craighead (Eds.), Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology (4th Edition). NY: John Wiley & Sons. Kendall, P.C., & Comer, J.S. (in press). Childhood Disorders, Second Edition. NY: Routledge/Taylor & Francis. Comer, J.S., & Olfson, M. (in press). The epidemiology of anxiety disorders. In Y. Neria, R. Lewis-Fernandez, F. Schneier, H.B. Simpson (Eds.), Understanding Anxiety. NY: Cambridge University Press. Kendall, P.C., & Comer, J.S. (in press). Research methods in clinical psychology. In D. Barlow (Ed.) Oxford Handbook of Clinical Psychology. NY: Oxford University Press. Comer, J.S. (in press). Terrorism and adolescent development. In R.J.R. Levesque (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Adolescence. New York, NY: Springer. Hambrick, J.P., Comer, J.S., & Albano, A.M. (in press). Cognitive-behavioral treatment of anxiety disorders: Model and current issues. In Y. Neria, R. Lewis-Fernandez, F. Schneier, H.B. Simpson (Eds.), Understanding Anxiety. NY: Cambridge University Press. Puliafico, A., Comer, J.S., & Albano, A.M. (2008). Coaching Approach behavior and Leading by Modeling: The CALM Program for anxious preschoolers. New York, NY: Columbia University. Robin, J., Puliafico, A.C., Creed, T.A., Comer, J.S., Hofflich, S., Barmish, A., Suveg, C., & Kendall, P.C. (2005). Generalized anxiety disorder. In M. Hersen & J.C. Thomas (Eds.) Child Psychopathology. NY: John Wiley & Sons. Kendall, P.C., & Comer, J.S. (2006). Trauma and emotional adjustment in children. Parenting information and advice. World Trade Center Family Center Report, March, pp 1-6. Available at: http://www.wtcfamilycenter.org/wtcfamilycenter_00002b.htm. Pimentel, S.S., Robin, J., Comer, J.S., Regan, J., & Albano, A.M. (in press). From everyday worries to anxiety disorders in youth: A cognitive-behavioral approach for helping children cope with a scary world. Child and Family Journal. Comer, J.S. (2006). Changing the field, one article at a time. The Behavior Therapist, 29, 174. Honors and Awards 2009 NIMH Child Intervention, Prevention& Services (CHIPS) Fellow 2008 Mental Health Initiative (MINT) grant for work on pre-K anxiety 2006 APA Div 53 (Clinical Child & Adoles Psychol) Dissertation Prize 1995-99 Dean’s List, University of Rochester |
