Email: jacobsr@childpsych.columbia.edu

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Dr. Rachel Jacobs specializes in empirically supported treatments for mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder among children and adolescents. She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. from Northwestern University under the mentorship of Dr. Mark Reinecke as the site study coordinator for the Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study (TADS).

Dr. Jacobs’ dissertation work was funded by a National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Mental Health and her clinical internship was conducted at the Institute for Juvenile Research in Chicago, IL.

Her research interests include 1) examining cognitive mediation in treatment outcomes, 2) information processing in the development and etiology of psychopathology, and 3) the intergenerational transmission of mental illness. Dr. Jacobs is an active member of the Association for Psychological Science and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

As a T32 funded research fellow, Dr. Jacobs is collaborating with Dr. Bradley Peterson to learn neuroimaging and to examine brain based biomarkers for depression and anxiety http://childpsych.columbia.edu/ brainimaging/.

Publications

Klein, J.B., Jacobs, R.H., & Reinecke, M.A. (2007). Cognitive-behavioral therapy for adolescent depression: A meta-analytic investigation of changes in effect size estimates. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 46, 1403-1411.

TADS Team. (2007). The Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study (TADS): Long-term effectiveness and safety outcomes. Archives of General Psychiatry, 64, 1132-1143.

Jacobs, R.H., Klein, J.B., Reinecke, M.A., Silva, S.G., Breland-Noble, A., Tonev, S., Martinovich, Z., Rezac, A., Kratochvil, C.J., Jones, J., & March, J.S. (2008). Ethnic differences in attributions and treatment expectancies for adolescent depression. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 1, 163-178.

Jacobs, R.H., Reinecke, M.A., Gollan, J.K., & Kane, P.P. (2008). Empirical evidence of cognitive vulnerability among children and adolescents: A cognitive science and developmental perspective. Clinical Psychology Review, 28, 759-782.

Becker-Weidman, E.G., Reinecke, M.A., Jacobs, R.H., Martinovich, Z., Silva, S.G., & March, J.S. (2009). Predictors of hopelessness among clinically depressed youth. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 37, 267-291.

West, A.E., Jacobs, R.H., Westerholm, R., Lee, A., Carbray, J., Heidenreich, J., & Pavuluri, M.N. (2009). Child and family-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy for pediatric bipolar disorder: Pilot study of group treatment format. The Journal of the Canadian Academy of Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 18, 239-246.

TADS Team. (2009). The Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study (TADS): Outcomes over one year of naturalistic follow-up. American Journal of Psychiatry, 166, 1141-1149.

Jacobs, R.H., Silva, S.G., Reinecke, M.A., Curry, J., Kratchovil, C.J., Ginsburg, G., & March, J.S. (2009). DAS perfectionism: A predictor and partial mediator of acute treatment outcome among Clinically depressed adolescents. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 38,803-813.

Ginsburg, G.S., Silva, S.G., Jacobs, R.H., Hoyle, R., Tonev, S., Kingery, J.N., Reinecke, M.A., Curry, J.F., & March, J.S. (2009). Cognitive measures of adolescent depression: Unique or unitary constructs? Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 38, 1-13.

Becker-Weidman, E.G., Jacobs, R.H., & Reinecke, M.A. (2010). Social problem-solving among adolescents treated for depression. Behavior Research and Therapy, 48, 11-18.

Stein, G.L., Curry, J.F., Hersh, J., Breland-Noble, A., March, J.S., Silva, S.G., Reinecke, M.A., & Jacobs, R.H. (2010). Ethnic differences among adolescents beginning treatment for depression. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 16, 152-158.

Jacobs, R.H., Becker-Weidman, E.G., Reinecke, M.A., Jordan, N., Rohde, P., Silva, S.G., & March, J.S. (2010). Treating depressed and oppositional adolescents. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 39, 559-567.

Jacobs, R.H., Reinecke, M.A., Gollan, J.K., Jordan, N., Silva, S.G., & March, J.S. (in press). Extreme thinking in clinically depressed adolescents: Results from the Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study (TADS). Behavior Research and Therapy.

Chapters

Reinecke, M.A. & Jacobs, R.H. (2009). Cognitive behavior therapy for depression. In Dulcan, M.K. (Ed.). Dulcan’s Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (pp. 907-914). Washington D.C.: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.