Selected Publications

Bufferd, S. J., Isaac, A., Olino, T., M., & Dougherty, L. R. (2024). Mapping the duration and severity of preschool-aged children’s depressive behaviors. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 65, 1156-1164

Alacha, H. F., Isaac, A., Gemmell, N., Dougherty, L. R., Olino, T. M., & Bufferd, S. J. (In press). Comparison of baseline and daily ratings of associations between anxiety and depressive behaviors and impairment in preschool-aged children. Child Psychiatry and Human Development.

Maldonado, A., Gonzalez, R., Bufferd, S.J., Garcia, D.O., & D’Anna-Hernandez, K. (2023). Psychosocial determinants of mental health care use among Mexican-origin women from farmworker families in southern California. Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 51, 90-100. doi: 10.1007/s11414-023-09860-5

Isaac, A., Rodriguez, A., D’Anna-Hernandez, K., Gemmell, N., Acedo, G., Dougherty, L. R., & Bufferd, S. J. (2023). Preschool-aged children’s hair cortisol and parents’ behavior, psychopathology, and stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 151,106052.

Bufferd, S. J., Olino, T. M., & Dougherty, L. R. (2023). Quantifying severity of preschool-aged children’s internalizing behaviors: A daily diary analysis. Assessment, 30, 190-209. doi: 10.1177/10731911211046661

Silver, J., Mackin, D., Bufferd, S. J., Dougherty, L. R., Goldstein, B. L., Carlson, G. A., & Klein, D. N. (2023). Tonic and phasic irritability in 6-year-old-children: Differential correlates and outcomes. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64, 234-243. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13688

Silver, J., Olino, T. M., Carlson, G. A., Dougherty, L. R., Bufferd, S. J., & Klein, D. N. (2022). Depression in 3–6-year-old children: Clinical and psychosocial outcomes in later childhood and adolescence. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 63, 984-991. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13553

Bufferd, S. J., Levinson, C. A., Olino, T. M., Dougherty, L. R., Dyson, M. W., Carlson, G. A., & Klein, D. N. (2022). Temperament and psychopathology in early childhood predict body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptoms in adolescence. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 104039. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2022.104039

Silver, J., Bufferd, S. J., Dougherty, L. R., Goldstein, B. L., Carlson, G. A., & Klein, D. N. (In press). Is the distinction between tonic and phasic irritability meaningful in 3-year-old children? European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. doi: 10.1007/s00787-022-01995-8

Chad-Friedman, E., Leppert, K. A., Olino, T. M., Bufferd, S. J., & Dougherty, L. R. (2022). Affective dynamics and mean levels of preschool irritability and sadness: Predictors of children’s psychological functioning two years later. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 53, 244-255. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-021-01121-w

Dougherty, L. R., Galano, M., Chad-Friedman, E., Olino, T. M., Bufferd, S. J., & Klein, D. N. (2021). Using item response theory to compare irritability measures in early adolescent and childhood samples. Assessment, 28, 918-927. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191120936363

Finsaas, M., Kessel, E., Dougherty, L., Bufferd, S. J., Danzig, A., Davila, J., Carlson, G., & Klein, D. (2020). Early childhood psychopathology prospectively predicts social functioning in early adolescence. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 49, 353-364. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2018.1504298

Leppert, K. A., Bufferd, S. J., Olino, T. M., & Dougherty, L. R. (2019). A daily diary analysis of preschool depressive behaviors: Prospective associations and moderators across 14 days. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47, 1547-1558. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-019-00535-4

Bufferd, S. J., Dougherty, L. R., & Olino, T. M. (2019). Mapping the frequency and severity of anxiety in preschool-aged children. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 63, 9-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2019.01.006

Bufferd, S. J., Dougherty, L. R., Olino, T. M., Dyson, M. W., Carlson, G. A., & Klein, D. N. (2018). Temperament distinguishes persistent/recurrent from remitting anxiety disorders across early childhood. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 47, 1004-1013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2016.1212362

Finsaas, M. C., Bufferd, S. J., Dougherty, L. R., Carlson, G. A., & Klein, D. N. (2018). Preschool psychiatric disorders: homotypic and heterotypic continuity through middle childhood and early adolescence. Psychological Medicine, 48, 2159-2168. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0033291717003646

Olino, T.M., Bufferd, S.J., Dougherty, L.R., Dyson, M.W., Carlson, G.A., & Klein, D.N. (2018). The development of latent dimensions of psychopathology across early childhood: Stability of dimensions and moderators of change. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 46, 1373-1383. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-018-0398-6

Vandermeer, M. R. J., Sheikh, H. I., Singh, S. S., Klein, D. N., Olino, T. M., Dyson, M. W., Bufferd, S. J., Hayden, E. P. (2018). The BDNF gene val66met polymorphism and behavioral inhibition in early childhood. Social Development, 27, 543-554. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sode.12292

Bufferd, S. J., Dougherty, L. R., & Olino, T. M. (2017). Mapping the frequency and severity of depressive behaviors in preschool-aged children. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 48, 934–943. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10578-017-0715-2

Parisette-Sparks, A., Bufferd, S. J., & Klein, D. N. (2017). Parental predictors of children’s shame and guilt at age 6 in a multi-method, longitudinal study. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 46, 721-731. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2015.1063430

Barrios, C. S., Bufferd, S. J., Klein, D. N., & Dougherty, L. R. (2017). The interaction between parenting and children’s cortisol reactivity at age 3 predicts increases in children’s internalizing and externalizing symptoms at age 6. Development and Psychopathology, 29, 1319-1331. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954579417000293

Kessel, E. M., Allmann, A. E. S., Goldstein, B., Finsaas, M., Dougherty, L. R., Bufferd, S. J., Carlson, G. A., & Klein, D. N. (2017). Predictors and outcomes of childhood primary enuresis. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 56, 250-257. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2016.12.007

Kessel, E., Kujawa, A., Goldstein, B., Hajcak, G., Bufferd, S. J., Dyson, M., & Klein, D. N. (2017). Behavioral observations of positive and negative valence systems in early childhood predict physiological measures of emotional processing three years later. Journal of Affective Disorders, 216, 70-77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2016.10.044

Bufferd, S. J., Dyson, M. W., Hernandez, I. G., & Wakschlag, L. S. (2016). Explicating the “developmental” in preschool psychopathology. In D. Cicchetti (Ed.), Developmental Psychopathology, Third Edition (pp. 152-186). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

Dougherty, L. R., Smith, V. C., Bufferd, S. J., Kessel, E. M. Carlson, G. A., & Klein, D. N. (2016). Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder at the age of 6 years and clinical and functional outcomes 3 years later. Psychological Medicine, 46, 1103-1114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0033291715002809

Kopala-Sibley, D. C., Dougherty, L. R., Dyson, M. W., Laptook, R. S., Bufferd, S. J., Klein, D. N. (2017). Early childhood cortisol reactivity moderates the effects of parent-child relationship quality on the development of children’s temperament in early childhood. Developmental Science, 20, e12378. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc.12378

Carlson, G. A., Danzig, A. P., Dougherty, L. R., Bufferd, S. J., & Klein, D. N. (2016). Loss of temper and irritability: The relationship to tantrums in a community and clinical sample. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 26, 114-122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/cap.2015.0072

Johnson, V. C., Olino, T. M., Klein, D. N., Dyson, M. W., Bufferd, S. J., Durbin, C. E., Dougherty, L. R., & Hayden, E. P. (2016). A longitudinal investigation of predictors of the association between age 3 and age 6 behavioural inhibition. Journal of Research in Personality, 63, 51-61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2016.04.008

Dougherty, L. R., Leppert, K., Merwin, S., Smith, V., Bufferd, S. J., & Kushner, M. (2015). Advances and directions in preschool mental health research. Child Development Perspectives, 9, 14-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12099

Dyson, M. W., Olino, T. M., Durbin, C. E., Goldsmith, H. H., Bufferd, S. J., Miller, A. R., & Klein, D. N. (2015). The structural and rank-order stability of temperament in young children based on a laboratory-observational measure. Psychological Assessment, 27, 1388-1401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pas0000104

Dougherty, L. R., Smith, V. C., Bufferd, S. J., Kessel, E., Carlson, G. A., & Klein, D. N. (2015). Preschool irritability predicts child psychopathology, functional impairment, and service use at age nine. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 56, 999-1007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12403

Meyer, A., Proudfit, G.H., Bufferd, S. J., Kujawa, A. J., Laptook, R.S., Torpey, D. C., & Klein, D. N. (2015). Self-reported and observed punitive parenting prospectively predicts increased error-related brain activity in six-year-old children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 43, 821-829. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-014-9918-1

Bufferd, S. J., Dougherty, L. R., Olino, T. M., Dyson, M.W., Laptook, R. S., Carlson, G. A., & Klein, D. N. (2014). Predictors of the onset of depression in young children: A multi-method, multi-informant longitudinal study from ages 3 to 6. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 55, 1279-1287. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12252

Olino, T. M., Dougherty, L. R. Bufferd, S. J., Carlson, G. A, & Klein, D. N. (2014). Testing models of psychopathology in preschool-aged children using a structured interview-based assessment. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 42, 1201-1211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-014-9865-x

Klein, D. N., Bufferd, S. J., Dyson, M. W., & Danzig, A. P. (2014). Personality pathology. In M. Lewis and K. Rudolph (Eds.), Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology, Third Edition (pp. 703-719). New York, NY: Springer.

Klein, D. N., Bufferd, S. J., Ro, E., & Clark, L.A. (2014). Depression and comorbidity: Personality disorders. In C. S. Richards and M. W. O’Hara (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Depression and Comorbidity (pp. 200-217). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

R., Smith, V. C., Bufferd, S. J., Carlson, G. A., Stringaris, A., Leibenluft, E., & Klein, D. (2014). DSM-5 Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder: Correlates and predictors in young children. Psychological Medicine, 44, 2339-2350. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0033291713003115

Danzig, A. P., Bufferd, S. J., Dougherty, L. R., Carlson, G. A., & Klein, D. N. (2013). Longitudinal associations between preschool psychopathology and school-age peer functioning. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 44, 621-632. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10578-012-0356-4

Dougherty, L. R., Smith, V. C., Bufferd, S. J., Stringaris, A., Leibenluft, E., Carlson, G. A., & Klein, D. N. (2013). Preschool irritability: Longitudinal associations with psychiatric disorders at age six and parental psychopathology. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 52, 1304-1313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2013.09.007

Dougherty, L. R., Tolep, M. R., Bufferd, S. J., Olino, T. M., Dyson, M. W., Traditi, J., Rose, S.A., Carlson, G. A., & Klein, D. N. (2013). Preschool anxiety disorders: Comprehensive assessment of clinical, demographic, temperamental, familial, and life stress correlates. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 42, 577-589. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2012.759225

Meyer, A., Hajcak, G., Torpey, D. C., Kujawa, A., Kim, J., Bufferd, S. J., Carlson, G. A., & Klein, D. N. (2013). Increased error-related brain activity in six-year-old children with clinical anxiety. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 41, 1257-1266. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-013-9762-8

Dougherty, L. R., Smith, V., Olino, T. M., Dyson, M. W., Bufferd, S. J., Rose, S. R., & Klein, D. N. (2013). Maternal psychopathology and early child temperament predict young children’s salivary cortisol 3 years later. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 41, 531-542. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-012-9703-y

Sheikh, H. I., Kryski, K. R., Smith, H. J., Dougherty, L. R., Bufferd, S. J., Klein, D. N., Singh, S. M., & Hayden, E. P. (2013). Catechol-O-Methyltransferase gene val158met polymorphism and depressive symptoms during early childhood. Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 162, 245-252. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.b.32141

Hayden, E. P., Olino, T. M., Bufferd, S. J., Miller, A., Dougherty, L. R., Sheikh, H. I., Singh, S. M., & Klein, D. N. (2013). The serotonin transporter linked polymorphic region and brain-derived neurotrophic factor valine to methionine at position 66 polymorphisms and maternal history of depression: Associations with cognitive vulnerability to depression in childhood. Development and Psychopathology, 25, 587-598. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579413000035

Klein, D. N., Torpey, D. C., Bufferd, S. J., & Dyson, M.W. (2008). Depressive disorders. In T. P. Beauchaine and S.P. Hinshaw (Eds.), Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (pp. 477-509). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

Bufferd, S. J., Dougherty, L. R., Carlson, G. A., Rose, S. R., & Klein, D. N. (2012). Psychiatric disorders in preschoolers: Continuity from ages 3 to 6. American Journal of Psychiatry, 169, 1157-1164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.12020268

Kim, J., Carlson, G. A., Meyer, S. E., Bufferd, S. J., Dougherty, L. R., Dyson, M. W., Laptook, R. S., Olino, T. M., & Klein, D. N. (2012). Correlates of the CBCL-dysregulation profile in preschool-aged children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 53, 918-926. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2012.02546.x

Bufferd, S. J., Dougherty, L. R., Carlson, G. A., & Klein, D. N. (2011). Parent-reported mental health in preschoolers: Findings using a diagnostic interview. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 52, 359-369. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2010.08.006

Dougherty, L. R., Bufferd, S. J., Carlson, G. A., Dyson, M. W., Olino, T. M., & Klein, D. N. (2011). Preschoolers' observed temperament and psychiatric disorders assessed with a parent diagnostic interview. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 40, 295-306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2011.546046

Klein, D. N., Kotov, R., & Bufferd, S. J. (2011). Personality and depression. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 7, 5.1-5.27. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-032210-104540

Hayden, E. P., Klein, D. N., Dougherty, L. R., Olino, T. M., Dyson, M. W., Bufferd, S. J., Durbin, C. E., Sheikh, H. I., & Singh, S. M. (2010). The dopamine D2 receptor gene and depressive and anxious symptoms in childhood: Associations and evidence for gene-environment correlation and gene-environment interaction. Psychiatric Genetics, 20, 304-310. 10.1097/YPG.0b013e32833adccb

Nemeroff, R., Levitt, J. M., Faul, L., WonPat-Borja, A. J., Bufferd, S. J., Setterberg, S., & Jensen, P. S. (2008). Establishing ongoing, early identification programs for mental health problems in our schools: A feasibility study. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 47, 328-338. https://doi.org/10.1097/CHI.0b013e318160c5b1