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William Pelham, Ph.D.

Pronouns: William

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Health Sciences
Department of Psychiatry
Behavioral Medicine / Experimental Psychopathology

UC San Diego

Phone
716-480-7314
Location
Vc-Health Sciences
9500 Gilman Dr
La Jolla, CA 92093
Mail Code
0405
Fax
999-999-9999
Accounts

Areas of Expertise

Substance Use, Delinquency, Externalizing Spectrum, Children, Adolescents

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Bio

Dr. Pelham is a child/adolescent clinical psychologist and studies the etiology, prevention, and treatment of substance use and externalizing spectrum psychopathology (e.g., aggression, delinquency, ADHD). He is particularly interested in the role of *family processes* in the origin and maintenance of these behaviors because our most potent clinical interventions target family-based mechanisms of change. The goal of Dr. Pelham’s current research program is to rethink how we study family processes in etiological research so that its outputs have greater clinical relevance. He is pursuing this goal through both by developing theory and conducting empirical investigations.

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Education
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    Arizona State University
Publications
  1. Pelham III, W. E., West, S. G., Lemery-Chalfant, K., Goodman, S. G., Wilson, M. N, Dishion, T. J., & Shaw, D. S. (2021). Depression in mothers and child externalizing and internalizing behavior: an attempt to go beyond association. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 130(1), 60-77.
  2. Pelham III, W. E., Tapert, S. F., Gonzalez, M. R., McCabe, C. J., Lisdahl, K. M., Alzueta, E. R., Baker, F. C., Breslin, F. J., Dick, A. S., Dowling, G. J., Guillaume, M., Hoffman, E., Marshall, A. T., McCandliss, B. D., Sheth, C. S., Sowell, E. R., Thompson, W. K., Van Rinsveld, A. M., Wade, N. E., & Brown, S. A. (2021). Early adolescent substance use before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal survey in the ABCD Study cohort. Journal of Adolescent Health, 69(3): 390-397.
  3. Pelham III, W. E., Hanno, P., & Pardini, D. A. (2020). Can machine learning improve screening for targeted delinquency prevention programs? Prevention Science, 21(2), 158-170.
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