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Amie E. Grills-Taquechel

Research Associate Professor

Amie E. Grills-Taquechel
Amie E. Grills-Taquechel
Doctorate: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Undergraduate: Smith College


Research Interests
  • Anxiety and Depression in Youth
  • Childhood Peer Victimization/Trauma
  • Parent-Child Interactions
  • Assessment and Treatment of Childhood Disorders

Teaching

  • Seminar in Childhood Assessment (graduate)
  • Multicultural Psychology (graduate)
  • Advanced Clinical Assessment of Children (graduate)
  • Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (graduate)
  • Abnormal Psychology (undergraduate)
 
E-mail:  aegrills@uh.edu
 
Selected Publications
 
Ollendick, T. H., Grills, A. E., & King, N. (2001). Applying developmental theory to the assessment and treatment of childhood disorders: Does it make a difference? Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 8, 304-314.

Grills, A. E., & Ollendick, T. H. (2002). Peer victimization, global self-worth, and anxiety in middle school children. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 31, 59-68.

Grills, A. E., & Ollendick, T. H. (2002). Issues in parent-child agreement: The case of structured diagnostic interviews. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 5, 57-83.

Grills, A. E., & Ollendick, T. H. (2003). Multiple informant agreement and the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for Parents and Children. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 42, 30-40.

Grills, A. E., & Ollendick, T. H. (2003). Systematic desensitization. In T. H. Ollendick and C. S. Schroeder (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Clinical Child and Pediatric Psychology. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Swearer, S. M., Grills, A. E., Haye, K. M., & Cary, P. T. (2003). An examination of depression, anxiety, hopelessness, and bully/victim status. In D. L. Espelage and S. M. Swearer (Eds.), A Social-Ecological Perspective on Bullying Prevention and Intervention in American Schools. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

DiBartolo, P. M., Frost, R. O., Chang, P., LaSota, M. & Grills, A. E. (2004). Shedding light on the relationship between personal standards and psychopathology: The case of contingent self-worth. Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy, 22, 237-250.

Ollendick, T. H., & Grills, A. E. (2005). Modeling. In A. M. Gross and R. S. Drabman (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Behavior Modification and Cognitive Behavior Therapy - Volume II: Child Clinical Applications. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

DiBartolo, P. M., & Grills, A. E. (2006). Multiple informant reliability and the prediction of socially anxious behavior in children. Journal of Anxiety Disorders,20, 630-645.

Raouf, M., Shive, C., & Grills-Taquechel, A. E. (Eds.). (2006). Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy's Anxiety Disorders Special Interest Group: 2005 Abstract Book. (Available from Amie E. Grills, PhD, Anxiety SIG President, University of Houston, 126 Heyne Building, Houston, TX 77204-5022).

Fisak, B. & Grills-Taquechel, A. E. (2007). Parental modeling, reinforcement, and information transfer: Risk factors in the development of child anxiety? Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review.

Norton, P. J., Grills, A. E., & Raouf, M. (in press). Assessing Adults. In D. W. Nangle, D. J. Hansen, C. A. Erdley, & P. J. Norton (Eds.), Practitioner's guide to empirically based measures of social skills. Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy/Springer.

Grills-Taquechel, A. E., & Ollendick, T. H. (in press). Diagnostic interviewing. In M. Hersen & A. M. Gross (Eds.), Handbook of Clinical Psychology (Vol. II Children). New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.

Grills-Taquechel, A. E., Polifroni, R., & Fletcher, J. M. (in press). Interview and report writing. In J. L. Matson, F. Andrasik, & M. L. Matson (Eds.), Assessing Childhood Psychopathology and Developmental Disabilities. New York, NY: Springer.

Grills-Taquechel, A. E., Ollendick, T. H., & Fisak, B. (Under review). Re-examination of the MASC Factor Structure and Discriminant Ability in a Mixed Clinical Outpatient Sample.