Alan Kazdin
Yale University · Department of Psychology
Active 1952–2026
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About
Alan Kazdin is a Research Professor and Sterling Professor Emeritus of Psychology, as well as a Professor of Child Psychiatry (Emeritus) at Yale University. His work has primarily focused on the diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of childhood psychiatric disorders, especially Oppositional-Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder. He has developed, evaluated, and provided two evidence-based treatments—parent management training and cognitive problem-solving skills training—for clinically referred children and adolescents. His research aims to understand the nature and scope of child dysfunction, as well as the parent, family, and contextual factors in which child dysfunction is embedded. Kazdin has studied family engagement in treatment, premature termination, barriers to parent participation, and factors influencing treatment outcomes such as parent expectations and therapeutic alliance. In addition to providing treatment in New Haven and worldwide via online sessions, he helped develop a free online course to assist parents with everyday child-rearing challenges. Recently, his focus has shifted toward addressing the 'treatment gap'—the disparity between those in need of psychological services and those who receive them. His interest now lies in models of delivery that can scale evidence-based treatments to reach underserved populations, including individuals of color, ethnic minorities, victims of violence, children, adolescents, and the elderly. Kazdin works extensively…
Research topics
- Political Science
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- Public relations
- Medicine
- Business
- Nursing
Selected publications
American Psychologist · 2020 · 714 citations
COVID-19 presents significant social, economic, and medical challenges. Because COVID-19 has already begun to precipitate huge increases in mental health problems, clinical psychological science must assert a leadership role in guiding a national response to this secondary crisis. In this article, COVID-19 is conceptualized as a unique, compounding, multidimensional stressor that will create a vast need for intervention and necessitate new paradigms for mental health service delivery and trainin…
Research Design in Clinical Psychology
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2023-08-25 · 659 citations
book1st authorCorrespondingGain a thorough understanding of the entire research process – developing ideas, selecting methods, analyzing and communicating results – in this fully revised and updated textbook. The sixth edition comprises the latest developments in the field, including the use of technology and web-based methods to conduct studies, the role of robots and artificial intelligence in designing and evaluating research, and the importance of diversity in research to inform results that reflect the society we liv…
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2021-08-05 · 279 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingResearch Design in Clinical Psychology helps students to achieve a thorough understanding of the entire research process – developing the idea, selecting methods, analyzing the results, and preparing the written scientific report. Drawing examples from clinical research, health, and medicine, author Alan E. Kazdin offers detailed coverage of experimental design, assessment, data evaluation and interpretation, case-control and cohort designs, and qualitative research methods. In addition to new p…
2020 · 97 citations
COVID-19 presents significant social, economic, and medical challenges. Because COVID-19 has already begun to precipitate huge increases in mental health problems, clinical psychological science must assert a leadership role in guiding a national response to this secondary crisis. In this paper, COVID-19 is conceptualized as a unique, compounding, multi-dimensional stressor that will create a vast need for intervention and necessitate new paradigms for mental health service delivery and training…
Population mental health science: Guiding principles and initial agenda.
American Psychologist · 2024-06-03 · 48 citations
articleA recent American Psychological Association Summit provided an urgent call to transform psychological science and practice away from a solely individual-level focus to become accountable for population-level impact on health and mental health. A population focus ensures the mental health of all children, adolescents, and adults and the elimination of inequities across groups. Science must guide three components of this transformation. First, effective individual-level interventions must be scale…
Recent grants
NIH · $735k · 2015
NIH · $3.1M · 1996
NIH · $272k · 1991
Frequent coauthors
- 142 shared
David H. Barlow
- 142 shared
Larissa Shamseer
- 140 shared
Michael Perdices
Royal North Shore Hospital
- 139 shared
Robyn Tate
- 139 shared
Ulrike Rosenkoetter
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
- 135 shared
Thomas R. Kratochwill
University of Wisconsin–Madison
- 134 shared
Robert H. Horner
University of Oregon
- 133 shared
Skye McDonald
UNSW Sydney
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