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Elizabeth J. Costello

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Professor

Education:

  • Ph.D. University of London - 1981

Representative Publications

  1. 1)Kaplow, J.B., Curran, P.J., Angold, A., Costello, E.J. (2001). The prospective relation between dimensions of anxiety and the initiation of adolescent alcohol use. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 30: 316-326..

  2. Costello EJ, Angold A, Burns BJ, Stangl D, Tweed DL, & Erkanli A (1996). The Great Smoky Mountains Study of youth: Goals, designs, methods, and the prevalence of DSM-III-R disorders. Archives of General Psychiatry, 53 (12), 1129-1136..

  3. 2)Horwitz, S.M., Hoagwood, K., Stiffman, A.R., Summerfeld, T., Weisz, J.R., Costello, E.J., Rost, K., Bean, D.L., Cottler, L., Leaf, P.J., Roper, M. & Norquist, G. (2001). Reliability of the Services Assessment for Children and Adolescents. Psychiatric Services, 52: 1088-1094..

  4. Costello EJ, Burns BJ, Angold A, & Leaf PJ (1993). How can epidemiology improve mental health services for children and adolescents? Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 32, 1106-1113..

  5. 3)Costello, E.J., Angold, A., & Keeler, G.P. (2001). Poverty, race and psychiatric disorder: A study of rural children. American Journal of Public Health, 91: 1494-1498..

  6. Costello EJ (1990) Child Psychiatric Epidemiology: Implications for Clinical Research and Practice.In Lahey & A Kazdin (Eds.), Advances In Clinical Child Psychology, 13, New York: Plenum, 53-90..

  7. 4)Ezpeleta, L., Keeler, G., Erkanli, A., Costello, E.J., Angold, A. (2001). Epidemiology of psychiatric disability in childhood and adolescence. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42: 901-914..

  8. Costello EJ (1989). Developments in child psychiatric epidemiology. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 28, 836-841..

  9. 5)Angold, A. & Costello, E.J. (2001). The epidemiology of depression in children and adolescents. In I. Goodyer (Ed.), The Depressed Child and Adolescent: Developmental and Clinical Perspectives, 2nd edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, p.143-178..

  10. Costello EJ, Costello AJ, Edelbrock C, Burns BJ, Dulcan MK, Brent D & Janiszewski S (1988). Psychiatric disorders in pediatric primary care: prevalence and risk factors. Archives of General Psychiatry, 45, 1107-1116..

  11. 6)Kessler, R.C., Costello, E.J., Merikangas, K.R., and Ustun, T.B. (2001). Psychiatric Epidemiology: Recent Advances and Future Directions. To appear in R Manderscheid and M Henderson (eds.) Mental Health U.S. 2000. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office..

  12. Angold A., & Costello, E.J. (in press). Comorbidity. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Canino, G. & Costello, E.J. (in press). Assessing functional impairment for child mental health services research: A review of measures. Mental Health Services Research..

  13. Angold A., Costello E.J., & Worthman C.M. (1998). Puberty and depression: The roles of age, pubertal status, and pubertal timing. Psychological Medicine, 28:51-61..

  14. Angold, A. & Costello, E.J. (in press). Epidemiology of conduct disorder. To appear in J. Hill and B. Maughan (Eds.). Conduct Disorder. New York: Cambridge University Press..

  15. Angold, A., Costello, E.J., Farmer, E.M.Z.,Burns, B.J., & Erkanli, A. (in press). Impaired but undiagnosed. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry..

  16. Angold, A., Messer, S.C., Stangl, D., Farmer, E.M.Z., Costello, E.J., & Burns, B.J. (1998). Perceived parental burden and service use for child and adolescent psychiatric disorders. American Journal of Public Health, 88:75-80..

  17. Burns, B.J., Costello, E.J., Erkanli, A., Tweed, D.L., Farmer, E.M.Z., & Angold, A. (1997). Insurance coverage and mental health service use by adolescents with Serious Emotional Disturbance. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 6,1:89-111..

  18. Costello E.J. , Pescosolido B.A., Angold A., & Burns B.J. (1998). A family network-based model of access to child mental health services. Research in Community Mental Health, 9, 165-190..

  19. Costello E.J., Farmer E.M.Z., Angold A., Burns B.J., & Erkanli A. (1997). Psychiatric disorders among American Indian and white youth in Appalachia: The Great Smoky Mountains Study. American Journal of Public Health, 87,5:827-832..

  20. Costello, E.J. & Angold, A. (in press). The history of conduct disorder. To appear in J. Hill and B. Maughan (Eds.). Conduct Disorder. New York: Cambridge University Press..

  21. Costello, E.J. & S.C. Messer, H.R. Bird, Cohen, P., & Reinherz, H.Z. (1998). The prevalence of Serious Emotional Disturbance: A re-analysis of community studies. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 7,4:411-432..

  22. Costello, E.J. &. Angold A (in press). Developmental epidemiology: A framework for developmental psychopathology. To appear in M. Lewis & A. Sameroff (Eds.) Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology..

  23. Costello, E.J. Angold, A., March, J, & Fairbank, J. (1998). Life events and post-traumatic stress: The development of a new measure for children and adolescents. Psychological Medicine, 28:1275-1288..

  24. Costello, E.J., Angold A., Sweeney M.E. (1999). Comorbidity with depression in children and adolescents. In: Mauricio Tohen (Ed.) Comorbidity in Affective Disorders. pp. 179-196. New York: Marcel Dekker Inc..

  25. Costello, E.J., Angold, A., & Keeler, G.P. (in press). Adolescent outcomes of childhood disorders. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry..

  26. Costello, E.J., Farmer, E.M.Z. & Angold, A. (1999). Same place, different children: White and American Indian children in the Appalachian mountains. In: P. Cohen, L. Robins, and C. Slomkowski (Eds.) Where and When: historical and geographical aspects of psychopathology, pp.279-298. NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum..

  27. Egger, H.L., Angold, A., & Costello, E.J. (1998). Headaches and psychopathology in children and adolescents. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 37:951-958..

  28. Egger, H.L., Angold, A., Costello, E.J. (in press). Somatic complaints and psychopathology in children and adolescents: Stomach aches, musculoskeletal pains and headaches..

  29. Erkanli, A., Costello, E.J., Soyer, R. (in press). Bayesian inference for prevalence in longitudinal two-phase studies. Biometrics..

  30. Farmer, E.M.Z., Burns, B.J., Angold, A. & Costello, E.J. (1997) Impact of children's mental health problems on families: Relationships with service use. Journal of Emotional and Behavior Disorders, 5,4:230-238..

  31. Farmer, E.M.Z., Stangl, D.K., Burns, B.J., Costello, E.J. Angold, A. (1999). Use, persistence, and intensity: Patterns of care for children's mental health across one year. Community Mental Health Journal, 35: 31-46..

  32. Federman, E.B., Costello, E.J., Angold, A., Farmer, E.M.Z., & Erkanli, A. (1997). Development of substance use and psychiatric comorbidity in an epidemiologic study of white and American Indian young adolescents: Great Smoky Mountains Study. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 44:69-78..

  33. Journals In Press.

  34. Angold A & Costello EJ (in press). The relative diagnostic utility of child and parent reports of oppositional defiant behaviors. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research..

  35. Angold A, Erkanli A, Loeber R, Costello EJ, van Kammen W, & Stouthamer-Loeber M (1996). Disappearing depression in a population sample of boys. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 4(2), 95-104..

  36. Angold A, Costello EJ (1996). Toward establishing an empirical basis for the diagnosis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 35, 1205-1210..

  37. Angold A, Costello EJ, Farmer EMZ, Burns BJ, & Erkanli, A (in press). Impaired but undiagnosed. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry..

  38. Angold A, Erkanli A, Costello EJ, Rutter M (1996). Precision, reliability, and accuracy in the dating of symptom onsets in child and adolescent psychiatry. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 37(6), 657-664...

  39. Angold A, Messer SC, Stangl D, Farmer EMZ, Costello EJ, & Burns BJ (in press). Perceived parental burden and service use for child and adolescent psychiatric disorders. American Journal of Public Health..

  40. Burns BJ, Costello EJ, Erkanli A, Tweed DL, Farmer EMZ, & Angold A (in press). Insurance coverage and mental health service use by adolescents with Serious Emotional Disturbance. Journal of Child and Family Studies..

  41. Burns BJ, Farmer EMZ, Angold A Costello EJ, & Behar L (1996). A randomized trial of case management for youth with serious emotional disturbance. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 25, 476-486..

  42. Cairns R, Elder G, & Costello EJ (Eds.) (1996). Developmental Science. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press..

  43. Costello EJ & Angold A (1996). Developmental psychopathology. In Cairns R, Elder G, & Costello EJ (Eds.) Developmental Science, pp. 168-189. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press..

  44. Costello EJ, Angold A, Burns BJ, Erkanli A, Stangl D, & Tweed DL (1996). The Great Smoky Mountains Study of youth: Functional impairment and Severe Emotional Disturbance. Archives of General Psychiatry, 53 (12), 1137-1143..

  45. Costello EJ, Farmer EMZ, Angold A, Burns BJ, Erkanli A (in press). The Great Smoky Mountains Study: Risk and resilience in American Indian and white youth. American Journal of Public Health..

  46. Farmer EMZ, Burns BJ, Morrissey JP, Costello EJ, Angold A & Behar L (in press). Youths with serious emotional disturbance in rural and urban systems of care. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry..

  47. Federman EB, Costello EJ, Angold A, Farmer EMZ, & Erkanli A (in press). Great Smoky Mountains Study: Development of substance use and psychiatric comorbidity in an epidemiologic study of white and American Indian young adolescents. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Costello EJ, Angold A, Burns BJ, Stangl D, Tweed DL, & Erkanli A (1996). The Great Smoky Mountains Study of youth: Goals, designs, methods, and the prevalence of DSM-III-R disorders. Archives of General Psychiatry, 53 (12), 1129-1136..

  48. Messer SC, Angold A, Costello EJ, Burns BJ, Farmer EMZ, & Patrick MK (in press). The Child and Adolescent Burden Assessment: Measuring the family impact of emotional and behavioral problems. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research..

  49. Angold A. & Costello, E.J. (1995). A test-retest study of child-reported symptoms and diagnoses using the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment (CAPA). Psychological Medicine, 25, 755-762..

  50. Angold, A. & Costello, E.J. (1995). Developmental Epidemiology. Epidemiological Reviews, 17, 74-82..

  51. Angold, A. & Costello, E.J. (1995). The epidemiology of depression in children and adolescents. In I. Goodyer (Ed.) The Depressed Child and Adolescent: Developmental and Clinical Perspectives, pp. 127-147. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press..

  52. Angold, A., Erkanli, A., Loeber, R., Costello, E.J., van Kammen, W. & Stouthamer-Loeber, M. (in press). Disappearing depression in a population sample of boys. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders..

  53. Angold, A., Costello, E.J. (in press). Toward establishing an empirical basis for the diagnosis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry..

  54. Angold, A., Costello, E.J., Pickles, A, Messer, S.C., Winder, F. & Silva, D. (1995). The development of a short questionnaire for use in epidemiological studies of depression in children and adolescents. Methods in Psychiatric Research..

  55. Angold, A., Erkanli A, Costello, E.J., Rutter, M. (In press). Precision, reliability, and accuracy in the dating of symptom onsets in child and adolescent psychiatry. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry..

  56. Angold, A., Stangl, D., Farmer, E.M.Z., Costello, E.J., Burns, B.J., Messer, S.C. & Patrick, M.K.S. (in press). The Great Smoky Mountains Study of youth: Family burden resulting from child and adolescent psychiatric disorders. American Journal of Public Health..

  57. Burns, B.J., Costello, E.J., Angold, A., Erkanli, A., Stangl, D. & Tweed, D.L. (1995). Children's mental health service use across service sectors. Health Affairs, 14, 147-159..

  58. Cairns R., Elder, G., & Costello, E.J. (Eds) (in press). Developmental Science. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press..

  59. Costello E.J. & Messer, S.C. "Rates and Correlates of Serious Emotional Disturbance: Secondary Analysis of Epidemiologic Data Sets". Prepared for the Center for Mental Health Services, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Mental Health, July, 1995..

  60. Costello, E.J. & Angold, A. (1995). Developmental epidemiology. In D. Cicchetti and D. Cohen (Eds.), Manual of Developmental Psychopathology. Vol. I, p. 23-56. New York: Wiley..

  61. Costello, E.J. & Angold, A. (1995). Epidemiology. In J. March (ed.) Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents, pp. 109-124. New York: Guilford..

  62. Costello, E.J. & Angold, A. (in press). Developmental psychopathology. In Cairns R., Elder, G., Costello, E.J. & McGuire, A. Developmental Science. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press..

  63. Costello, E.J., Angold, A., Burns, B.J. Stangl, D., Tweed, D.L., & Erkanli, A. (in press). The Great Smoky Mountains Study of youth: Prevalence and correlates of psychiatric disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry..

  64. Costello, E.J., Angold, A., Burns, B.J., Erkanli, A., Stangl, D., & Tweed, D.L. (in press). The Great Smoky Mountains Study of youth: Functional impairment and Severe Emotional Disturbance. Archives of General Psychiatry..

  65. Messer, S.C., Angold, A., Loeber, R., Costello, E.J., van Kammen, W. & Stouthamer-Loeber, M. (1995). The development of a short questionnaire for use in epidemiological studies of depression in children and adolescents: Factor composition and structure across development. Methods in Psychiatric Research, Vol 5:133.1-12..

  66. Costello EJ, Burns BJ, Angold A, Leaf PJ: Epidemiology and health care reform (ltr). Journal of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 33: 1058-1059, 1994..

  67. Costello, E.J. & Tweed, D.L. "Severe Emotional Disturbance in children and Adolescents". Prepared for the Center for Mental Health Services, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Mental Health, March, 1994..

  68. Farmer EMZ, Angold A, Burns BJ, Costello EJ: Reliability of self-reported service use: test and retest consistency of children's responses to the Child and Adolescent Services Assessment (CASA). Journal Child & Family Studies, 3 (3): 307-325, 1994..

  69. Angold A, Costellow EJ: Depressive comorbidity in children and adolescents: Empirical, theoretical, and methodological issues. American Journal of Psychiatry 150: 1779-1791, 1993..

  70. Costello EJ, Angold A: Towards a developmental epidemiology of the disruptive behavior disorders. Development and Psychopathology 5: 91-101, 1993..

Elizabeth J. Costello
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