Phone:(480)965.0357
Fax: (480)965.8544

E-mail:
apina01@asu.edu

Websites:
http://www.asu.edu/acercamiento/

Armando A. Piña, PhD 2005, Florida International University

Developmental

Research Interests: Study of intra-individual level risk factors in the development of anxiety disorders in youths and the evaluation of psychosocial interventions for use with this population. Dr. Piña’s work integrates Hispanic/Latino ethnocultural and child-adolescent anxiety research and is aimed at developing empirically informed, culture specific assessment and intervention services for the growing Hispanic/Latino population residing in the United States.

Selected Publications:

Silverman, W.K., Pina, A.A., Viswesvaran, C. (2008). Evidence-based Psychosocial Treatments for Phobic and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 37:1, 105-130. (PDF)

Barett, P.M., Farrell, L., Pina, A.A. Peris, T.S., Piacentini, J. (2008). Evidence-based Psychosocial Treatments for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 37:1,131-155. (PDF)

Silverman, W.K., Ortiz, C. D., Viswesvaran, C., Burns, B.J., Kolko, D.J., Purnam, F.W. Amaya-Jackson, L. (2008). Evidence-based Psychosocial Treatments Psychosocial Treatments for Children and Adolescents Exposed to Traumatic Events. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 37:1, 156-183. (PDF)

Pina, A. A., & Silverman, W. K. (2004). Clinical phenomenology, somatic symptoms, and distress in Hispanic/Latino and European American youths with anxiety disorders. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 33, 227-236.

Pina, A. A., Silverman, W. K., Fuentes, R. M., & Kurtines, W. M. (2003). Exposure-based cognitive behavioural treatment for phobic and anxiety disorders: Treatment effects and maintenance for Hispanic American relative to Euro-American youths. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychiatry, 42,1179-1187.

Pina, A. A., Silverman, W. K., Weems, C. F. Kurtines, W. M. & Goldman, M. L. (2003). A comparison of completers and non-completers of exposure based cognitive behavioural treatment for phobic and anxiety disorders. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 71, 701-705.

Yeganeh, R., Beidel, D. C., Turner, S. M., Pina, A. A., & Silverman, W. K. (2003). Clinical distinctions between selective mutism and social phobia: An investigation of childhood psychopathology. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 42, 1069-1075.

Weems, C. F., Silverman, W. K., Rapee. R. M., Pina, A. A. (2003). The role of control in childhood anxiety disorders. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 27, 557-568.

Pina, A. A., Silverman, W. K., Alfano, C. A., & Saavedra, L. M. (2002). Relative contribution of DSM-IV generalized anxiety disorder symptoms for diagnosis in youth: An evaluation of conditional probabilities. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 43, 959-967.

Pina, A. A., Silverman, W. K., Saavedra, L. M., & Weems, C. F. (2001). An analysis of the RCMAS Lie Scale Scores in a sample of anxious children. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 15, 443-458.

Silverman, W. K., Saavedra, L. M., & Pina, A. A. (2001). Test-retest reliability of anxiety symptoms and disorders with the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM-IV: child and parent versions. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 40, 937-943.

Weems, C. F., Silverman, W. K., Saavedra, L. S., Pina, A. A., & Lumpkin, P. W. (1999). The discrimination of children’s phobias using the Revised Fear Survey for Children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 40, 941-952.