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Phone: 212-543-5352 Dr. Jonathan Comer is a Clinician at the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders, and also serves as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Child Psychiatry at Columbia University-New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Comer provides individual and family therapy, as well as parent training services. Dr. Comer received his B.A. from the University of Rochester, graduating magna cum laude in Psychology. He went on to receive his M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Temple University. Dr. Comer completed his clinical psychology internship training in the Child and Adolescent Track of the NYU-Bellevue Clinical Psychology Internship Program and the NYU Child Study Center. Dr. Comer’s research examines the assessment and treatment of childhood anxiety disorders and the psychological impact of terrorism on youth—with particular focus on the impact of terrorism-related news on children’s mental health. His work examines the merits of coping and media literacy programs in helping children process terrorism-related news. Dr. Comer just completed a study investigating the efficacy of different parental approaches to offsetting youth anxiety following exposure to terrorism-related news. Dr. Comer is also active in several professional associations, including the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT). His work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals. His research has been funded by the APA and the Anxiety Disorders Association of America. PUBLICATIONS: Comer, J.S., & Kendall, P.C. (in press). Terrorism: The psychological impact on youth. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Comer, J.S., & Kendall, P.C. (2004) A symptom-level examination of parent-child agreement in the diagnosis of anxious youths. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 43, 878-886. Comer, J.S., Kendall, P.C., Franklin, M.E., Hudson, J.L., & Pimentel, S.S. (2004). Obsessing/worrying about the overlap between obsessive-compulsive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder in youth. Clinical Psychology Review, 24, 663-683. Comer, J.S., & Kendall, P.C. (2005). High-end specificity of the Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI) in a sample of anxiety-disordered youth. Depression and Anxiety, 22, 11-19. Puliafico, A.C., Comer, J.S., & Kendall, P.C. (2007). Social phobia in youth: The diagnostic utility of feared social situations. Psychological Assessment, 19, 152-158. Gibb, B.E., Alloy, L.B., Walshaw, P.D., Comer, J.S., Shen, G.H.C., & Villari, A.G. (2006). Predictors of attributional style change in children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 34, 425-439. Suveg, C., Kendall, P.C., Comer, J.S., & Robin, J.A. (2006). Emotion-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxious youth: A multiple-baseline evaluation. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 36, 77-85. Suveg, C., Comer, J.S., Furr, J.M., & Kendall, P.C. (2006). Adapting manualized CBT for a cognitively delayed child with multiple anxiety disorders. Clinical Case Studies, 2006, 5, 488-510. Robin, J., Puliafico, A.C., Creed, T.A., Comer, J.S., Hofflich, S., Barmish, A., Suveg, C., & Kendall, P.C. (2005). Generalized anxiety disorder. In M. Hersen & J.C. Thomas (Eds.) Child Psychopathology. NY: John Wiley & Sons. Pimentel, S.S., Robin, J., Comer, J.S., Regan, J., & Albano, A.M. (in press). From everyday worries to anxiety disorders in youth: A cognitive-behavioral approach for helping children cope with a scary world. Child and Family Journal. Comer, J.S. (2006). Changing the field, one article at a time. The Behavior Therapist, 29, 174. MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW: Comer, J.S., Kendall, P.C., Furr, J.M., Beidas, R., & Weiner, C.L. (under editorial review). Parenting and terrorism-related news: Evaluating coping and media literacy. Kendall, P.C., Comer, J.S., Marker, C., Creed, T.A., Puliafico, A.C., Hughes, A.A., Martin, E. (under editorial review). Exposure tasks and therapeutic alliance across the treatment of childhood anxiety disorders. Hudson, J.L., Comer, J.S., & Kendall, P.C. (under editorial review). Children’s emotion and parental anxiety in the parenting of anxious children. HONORS AND AWARDS: 2006 APA Division 53 (Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology) Dissertation Prize |
