Phone: (352) 246 - 4025

E-mail: jhj@ufl.edu

Websites: http://www.jameshjohnson.com

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Employment History and Professional Experience

February 2010 - Present:  Professor Emeritus, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida

1985 - February 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 - 1985 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 Center, Galveston.

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.

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 (CRSPPP) 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”, 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)

Specialty Board Examiner: American Board of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (2003 -      ).

Webmaster: American Board of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (2004 -     ), [http://www.clinicalchildpsychology.com]

Secretary- Treasurer, American Board of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (2007 - 2011).

Specialty Credentials Reviewer: American Board of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (2006 - 2007).

Co-conference Coordinator: National Conference on Child Health Psychology 2005 – 2006.

Editorial Board: Journal of 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).

Guest Editor: Special Issue on the Hilton Head Clinical Child Psychology Training Conference, The Clinical Psychologist, 1986.

President: Section /Division of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (1986 - 1987).

Associate Editor: Journal of Clinical Child Psychology (1982 - 1986).

Editorial Board: Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 1977 -1992.

Professional Activities (National - cont.)

Co-Founder (with Suzanne Bennett Johnson): 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.

Consultant: Project CARE (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.

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 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: Internal-external control as a moderator variable. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 22, 205-208.

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.

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.

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.

Lumley, M.A., Abeles, L.A., Melamed, B.G., Pistoni, L., and Johnson, J.H. (1990). Coping outcomes in children undergoing stressful medical procedures: Child-environmental 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.

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.

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 Behavior-related 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. 

Stern, M. K. and Johnson, J.H. (2010). Just Noticeable Difference (JND).  In I. Weiner and W.E. Craighead (Eds.). Corsini's Concise Encyclopedia of Psychology and Neuroscience, New York: John Wiley and Sons, 886 - 889.  

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 the second year of my training in the Clinical Psychology Master’s Program at Murray.

Responsibilities associated with this position included conducting group therapy with incarcerated children and adolescents committed to the Reception and Diagnostic by juvenile courts in the state of Kentucky. Here, I was involved in conducting group therapy with older children and adolescents; the therapy model was based on “Reality Therapy” principles proposed by William Glasser, MD, in his book by the same title. 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 three 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 as well as a Graduate 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.

At Washington the primary focus of my research was on studies of approaches to the measurement of life stress in adults and children and adolescents as well as investigating the relationships between major life changes and indices of health and adjustment as well as variables that served to moderate (e.g., social support, perceived controllability, and stimulation/arousal seeking) the relationship between stressful life events and health/adjustment. This research, conducted in collaboration with Dr. Irwin Sarason, resulted in the development of a measure, the Life Experiences Survey (LES) that has been widely used in both clinical and health psychology research.

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 seeing patients for both assessment and treatment in both 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. This has also involved the supervision of both doctoral students and clinical psychology interns engaged in clinical work with patients. 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; clinical child and pediatric psychology, clinical neuropsychology, medical psychology and adult mental health. 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 self study and managing the APA Commission of Accreditation site visit for re-accreditation of our program. This 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 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 noted earlier, major areas of research involvement over the years have related to the development of measures to assess major life stressors and study the relationship between life stress and indices of health and adjustment as well as investigations into those variables that moderate the relationship between life stress and health/adjustment related variables. Included here has been the development of two significant life stress measures, the Life Experiences Survey (LES), in collaboration with Dr. Irwin Sarason, which was developed to assess life stress in adults and the Life Events Checklist (LEC), in collaboration with Dr. Steve McCutcheon, developed to assess life stress in children and adolescents.

Other areas of research involvement, in collaboration with former graduate students, have included research related to child temperament in 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 experienced by parents 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 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 (1982 - 1984), which was responsible for the development of the Hilton Head Conference on Clinical Child Psychology Training (1985). I have  served as President (1986-198) 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 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 initial development of the American Board of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and served as an officer on the Board of Directors of this organization for eight years 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