Lisa Dierker

Publications

Dierker, L., Marshall, S., Sledjeski, E., Johnson, S. (2009). Substance Parity Laws and the Detection and Treatment of Substance Use Problems among Adolescents in Mental Health Care. Journal of Dual Diagnosis. 5: 2-13.
 
Degenhardt, L., Chiu, W. T., Dierker, L., Glantz, M., Kalaydjian, A., Merikangas, K., Sampson, N., Swendsen, J., & Kessler, R. (2009). Does the "gateway" matter?  Associations between the order of drug use initiation and the development of drug dependence in the National Comorbidity Study Replication. Psychological Medicine. 39:157-167.
 
Costello, D., Dierker, L.C., Jones, B.L., Rose, J.S. (2008). Trajectories of smoking from adolescence to early adulthood and their psychosocial risk factors. Health Psychology.27 (6), 811-818.
 
Dierker, L., He, J., Kalaydjian, A., Swendsen, J., Degenhardt, L., Glantz, M., Conway, M., Anthony, J., Chiu, WT, Sampson, N., Kessler, R, Merikangas, K. (2008). The Importance of Timing of Transitions for Risk of Regular Smoking and Nicotine Dependence. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 36, 87-92.
 
Swendsen, J., Anthony, JC, Conway, KP, Degenhardt, L, Dierker, L., Glantz, M., He, J. Kalaydjian, A., Kessler, RC, Sampson, N, Merikangas, KR (2008). Improving targets for the prevention of drug use disorders: Sociodemographic predictors of transitions across drug use stages in the national comorbidity survey replication. 47, 629-634.
 
Sledjeski, E.M., Speisman,  B., Dierker, L. (2008) Does number of lifetime traumas explain the relationship between PTSD and chronic medical conditions? Answers from the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R). Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 31, 341-349.
 
Pisetsky, E., Chao Y., Dierker, L. May, A., Striegel-Moore, R. (2008). Disordered eating and substance use in high school students: Results from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System. International Journal of Eating Disorders. 41, 464-470.

Dierker, L., Donny, E. (2008). The role of psychiatric disorders in the relationship between cigarette smoking and DSM-IV nicotine dependence among young adults. Nicotine and Tobacco Research. 10(3):439-46.
 
Sledjeski, E., Dierker, L., Brigham, R. Breslin, E. (2008). The use of risk assessment to predict recurrent maltreatment: A classification and regression tree analysis. Prevention Science. 9, 28-37.

Chao, Y., Pisetsky, E, Dierker, L., Dohm, FA, Rosselli, F., May, A., Striegel-Moore, R. (2008) Ethnic differences in weight control practices among U.S. adolescents from 1995 to 2005. International Journal of Eating Disorders. 41(2), 124-133.
 
Costello, D., Swendsen, J., Rose, J.S., Dierker L. (2008). Risk and protective factors associated with trajectories of depressed mood from adolescence to early adulthood. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.76(2), 173-183.

Dierker, L., Stolar, M., Richardson, E., Tiffany, S., Flay, B., Collins, L., Nichter, M., Nichter, M., Bailey, S., Clayton, R., TERN (2008). Tobacco, alcohol and marijuana use among first year U.S. college students: A time series analysis. Substance Use and Misuse . 43(5), 680-699.

Tiffany, S., Agnew, C. Maylath, N., Dierker, L., Flaherty, B. Richardson, E., Blaster, R. Segress, M, Clayton, R., TERN (2007). Smoking in College Freshmen: The University Project of the Tobacco Etiology Research Network (UpTERN). Nicotine and Tobacco Research . 9(S4), S611 - S625.

Dierker, L., Sledjeski, E., Botello-Harbaum, M., Ramirez, R., Chavez, L., Canino, G. (2007). Association between psychiatric disorders and smoking stages within a representative clinic sample of Puerto Rican adolescents. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 48, 237-244.

Richardson, ER, Perrine, N., Dierker, L., Kelley, ML (2007) Characteristics and functions of self- mutilation in a community sample. Psychological Medicine, 37, 1183-1192.

Costello, D., Dierker, L., Sledjeski, E., Flaherty, B., Flay, B., Shiffman, S., TERN (2007). Confirmatory factor analysis of the Nicotine Dependence Syndrome Scale in an American college sample of light smokers. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 9(8), 811-819.

Donny, E. and Dierker, L. (2007). The absence of DSM-IV nicotine dependence in moderate-to-heavy daily smokers. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 89(1), 93-96.
 
Sledjeski, E. Dierker, L., Costello, D., Shiffman, S. Donny, E., Flay, B., TERN (2007). Predictive validity of four nicotine dependence measures in a college sample. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 87, 10-19.
 
Dierker, L., Vesel, F., Sledjeski, E.M., Costello, D., Perrine, N. (2007). Testing the dual pathway hypothesis to substance use in adolescence and young adulthood. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 87, 83-93.
 
Dierker, L., Donny, E., Tiffany, S., Colby, SM, Perrine, N., Clayton, R., TERN (2007). The association between cigarette smoking and DSM-IV nicotine dependence among first year college students. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 86, 106-114.
 
Conway, K., Swendsen, J., Dierker, L., Canino, G., Merikangas, K. (2007). Psychiatric comorbidity and acculturation stress among Puerto Rican substance abusers. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 32(6S), S219-S225.

Merikangas, K.R., Avenevoli, S., Dierker, L., Grillon, C. (1999). Vulnerability Factors among Children at Risk for Anxiety Disorders. Biological Psychiatry, 46; 1523-1535.

Ablow, J. C., Measelle, J. R., Kraemer, H. C., Harrington, R., Luby, J., Smider, N., Dierker, L., Clark, V., Dubika, B., Heffelfinger, A., Essex, M. J., & Kupfer, D. J. (1999). The MacArthur Three-City Outcome Study: Evaluating multi-informant measures of young children's symptomatomogy, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 38(12) 1580-1590.

Dierker, L., Merikangas, K.R. & Szatmari, P. (1999). Influence of Parental Concordance for Psychiatric Disorders on Psychopathology in Offspring. Journal of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 38(3), 280-288.

Grillon,C., Merikangas,K.R., Dierker, L., Snidman,N., Arriaga, RI, Kagan, J., Donzella,B., Dikel, T., & Nelson,C. (1999) Startle potentiation by threat of aversive stimuli and darkness in adolescents: A multi-site study. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 32, 63-73.

Grillon, C., Dierker, L. & Merikangas, KR (in press). Fear-Potentiated Startle in Adolescent Offspring with a Parental History of Anxiety Disorders. Biological Psychiatry.

Merikangas, KR, Dierker, L. & Szatmari, P. (1998). Psychopathology among Offspring of Parents with Substance Abuse and/or Anxiety: A High Risk Study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 39 (5), 711-720.

Dierker, L., Merikangas, K. & Essau, C. Substance Use Disorders. In C.A. Essau & F. Petermann (eds), Developmental Psychopathology: Epidemiology, diagnostics and treatment. Harwood Academic Publishers, London. 1997.

Merikangas, K.R., Dierker, L. and Fenton, B. Familial Factors and Substance Abuse: Implications for prevention. In Drug Abuse Prevention Through Family Intervention. National Institute of Drug Abuse monograph, 1997.

Grillon C., Dierker, L. Merikangas, K.R. Startle Modulation in Children at Risk for Anxiety Disorders and/or Alcoholism, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 36:7, 925-932.

Dierker, L. & Sanders, B. (1996-97) Developmental and Individual Differences in Children's Ability to Distinguish Reality from Fantasy. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 16(1) 25-49.

Dierker, L., Davis, K., & Sanders, B. (1995). The Imaginary Companion: An analysis of personality correlates and developmental antecedents, Dissociation, 8(4), 220-228.