Yo Jackson, Ph.D., ABPP

Dr. Jackson is a board-certified, clinical child psychologist whose federally funded research focuses on the development of models of the process of resilience for youth exposed to trauma with a specific focus on youth exposed to child maltreatment and the intergenerational transmission of trauma. Her work includes observational and physiological techniques in addition to survey measures in longitudinal and prospective research approaches. She also works on the development of assessment for trauma as well as the assessment of emotion regulation and cognitive functioning for youth and families exposed to adversity. She has served in the leadership of the American Psychological Association, the past president of the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, as well as the president-elect of the Society of Child and Family Policy and Practice. 

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Cooley, D. T., & Jackson, Y. (2020). Informant discrepancies in child maltreatment reporting: A systematic review. Child Maltreatment. (21)1. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077559520966387

Gabrielli, J., & Jackson, Y. (2019). Innovative methodological and statistical approaches to the study of child maltreatment: Introduction. Child Abuse & Neglect, 87. https://doi:0.1016/j.chiabu.2018.12.001

Jackson, Y. (2023). Future directions in child maltreatment research. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 52(4), 578-587.

McGuire, A., & Jackson, Y. (2024). A multiverse analysis examining measurement factors of potentially traumatic events that influence predictability of developmental functioning among children. Traumatology. https://doi.org/10.1037/trm0000502

McGuire, A., Singh, A., & Jackson, Y. (2024). Let it go, let it go: Stop measuring child maltreatment as a binary yes/no. Child Abuse & Neglect, 155, 106994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106994