Contact Info
Phone: 617-353-3253
Email: jggreen@bu.edu

Website: https://bu.digication.com/jgreen/
Research website: www.bu.edu/bullying

Educational History

  • Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, Counseling/Clinical/School Psychology
  • B.A., Brandeis University, Psychology
  • M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, Counseling Psychology

Profile

Dr. Jennifer Greif Green is an Assistant Professor in Special Education. Her research and clinical work focus on prevention, assessment, and interventions for children with emotional and behavioral disorders in schools. Dr. Green is currently developing a line of research that addresses how schools can most effectively assess social and emotional problems to inform school-wide interventions and improve the identification of students most in need of mental health services. Dr. Green’s research interests also include studies of school bullying/ school violence, the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders in adolescents, and the effectiveness of neuropsychological evaluations for improving outcomes and services for children with learning disabilities. A clinical psychologist by training, Dr. Green completed her doctorate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, trained at Yale School of Medicine, and in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.

Courses Taught

  • RS600 – Perspectives in Inquiry
  • RS653 – Quantitative Research
  • SE502 – Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

Selected Publications

  • Green, J.G., Furlong, M. J., Astor, R., Benbenishty, R., & Espinoza, E. (2011). Assessing school maltreatment in the United States, Guatemala, and Israel: A psychometric analysis of the School Victimization Scale. Victims & Offenders, 6, 290-305.
  • Green, J.G., Finkelman, M., Gruber, M., Kessler, R.C., Sampson, N.A., & Zaslavsky, A.M. (2011). Phobia and panic disorders: Concordance of the adolescent version of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview Version 3.0 (CIDI-A) with the K-SADS in the US National Comorbidity Survey Adolescent (NCS-A) Supplement. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 20, 105-115.
  • Felix, E.D., Sharkey, J.D., Green, J.G., Furlong, M.J., Tanigawa, D. (2011). Getting precise and pragmatic about the assessment of bullying: The development of the California Bullying Victimization Scale. Aggressive Behavior, 37, 234-247.
  • Kessler, R.C., Ormel, J., Petukhova, M., McLaughlin, K.A., Green, J.G., Russo, L.J., Stein, D.J., Zaslavsky, A.M., Aguilar-Gaxiola, S., Alonso, J., Andrade, L.H., Benjet, C., de Girolamo, G., de Graaf, R., Demyttenaere, K., Fayyad, J., Haro., J.M., Hu, C.Y., Karam, A.N., Lee, S., Lepine, J.P., Matschinger, H., Mihauscu-Pintia, C., Posada-Villa, J., Sagar, R., Ustun, T.B. (2011). Development of lifetime comorbidity in the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys. Archives of General Psychiatry, 68, 90-100.
  • Green, J.G., Dunn, E.C., Johnson, R.M., & Molnar, B.E. (2011). A multilevel investigation of the association between school context and adolescent nonphysical bullying. Journal of School Violence, 10, 133-149.
  • Johnson, R.M., Kidd, J.D., Dunn, E.C., Green, J.G., Corliss, H.L., & Bowen, D. (2011). Associations between caregiver support, bullying, and depressive symptoms among sexual minority and heterosexual girls: Results from the 2008 Boston Youth Survey. Journal of School Violence, 10, 185-200.
  • Green, J.G., McLaughlin, K.A., Berglund, P.A., Gruber, M.J., Sampson, N.A., Zaslavsky, A.M., & Kessler, R.C. (2010). Childhood adversities and adult psychopathology in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R) I: Associations with first onset of DSM-IV disorders. Archives of General Psychiatry, 67, 113-123.
  • McLaughlin, K.A., Green, J.G., Gruber, M.J., Sampson, N.A., Zaslavsky, A.M., & Kessler, R.C. (2010). Childhood adversities and adult psychopathology in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R) II: Associations with persistence of DSM-IV disorders. Archives of General Psychiatry, 67, 124-132.
  • McLaughlin, K.A., Green, J.G., Gruber, M.J., Sampson, N. A., Zaslavsky, A.M., & Kessler, R.C. (2010). Childhood adversities and adult psychopathology in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R) III: Associations with functional impairment related to DSM-IV disorders. Psychological Medicine, 40,847-859.
  • Green, J.G., Finkelman, M., Gruber, M., Kessler, R. C., Sampson, N. A., & Zaslavsky, A. M. (2010). Attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder: Concordance of the adolescent version of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview Version 3.0 (CIDI-A) with the K-SADS in the US National Comorbidity Survey Adolescent (NCS-A) Supplement. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 19 (1), 34-49.
  • Green, J.G., Gruber, M.J., Sampson, N.A., Zaslavsky, A.M., & Kessler, R.C. (2010). Improving the K6 short scale to predict Serious Emotional Distress in adolescents in the US. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 19(S1), 23-35.
  • Li, F., Green, J.G., Kessler, R.C., & Zaslavsky, A.M. (2010). Estimating prevalence of serious emotional disturbance in schools using a brief screening scale.International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 19(S1), 88-98.

Selected Presentations

  • Green, J.G., Furlong, M. J., & Astor, R. A. (2008, August). Cross-cultural psychometric analysis of the School Victimization Scale. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association. Boston, MA.
  • Zwick, R., Green, J.G. (2008, April). Using a hierarchical model to understand the correlation of SAT scores, high school grades, and socioeconomic factors. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education. New York, NY.
  • Smith, S. R., Green, J.G., Werner, G. A., Nowinski, L. A., Estrada, A. (2007, March). Collaborative neuropsychological assessment. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Arlington, VA.
  • Green, J.G., Felix, E. D., Furlong, M. J., & Taylor, L. (2007, March). The relationship between bullying and posttraumatic stress. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Boston, MA.
  • Furlong, M.,  Sharkey, J.,  Tanigawa, D.,  Felix, E., &  Green, J.G. (2007, March). Multi-Gating School Bullying Victimization Assessment. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association of School Psychologists. New York, NY.
  • Furlong, M. J., Felix, E., Sharkey, J., Tanigawa, D., & Green, J.G. (2006, September). California bullying survey: Development of a multi-gating assessment strategy.  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Hamilton Fish Institute on School and Community Violence.
  • Green, J.G., Smith, S. R., & Blais, M. (2006, March). Measuring treatment outcomes in adolescents: Initial development of the Schwartz Outcome Scale for Adolescents. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, San Diego, CA.
  • Furlong, M. J., Greif, J. L. (2005, August). Bullying assessment. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.

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