Joseph P. Allen (psychologist)

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Joseph P. Allen
Born1958
Children3
Scientific career
Institutions University of Virginia
Website psychology.as.virginia.edu/people/profile/jpa8r

Joseph P. Allen is an American psychologist and academic and the Hugh P. Kelly Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. [1]

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Early life

Allen was born on October 30, 1958, in Washington, DC, and grew up in Oxon Hill, Maryland.

Education

He received a B.A. in psychology from the University of Virginia in May 1980, and then a Ph.D. in Clinical/Community Psychology from Yale University in May 1986. He subsequently worked as a post-doctoral fellow in research at Harvard Medical School from 1986 until 1988. [2]

Achievements and Honors

Allen's work on The Connection Project has been written up in the New York Times [3] and was recently cited by U. S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy as a promising approach to enhancing connection among youth. [4]

Allen has published three books and more than 200 academic articles, which have been cited more than 30,000 times in total. [5] He is a recipient of awards for Lifetime Achievement in Research from both the Society for Research in Adolescence and the Bowlby/Ainsworth Attachment Society, as well as an NIH MERIT award for his research. [6]

Research

His research focuses  on the predictors and long-term outcomes of social development processes from adolescence into adulthood and he is currently 25 years into a 30-year study on these topics.   He also develops and examines socially-focused interventions for adolescents designed to improve long-term academic and mental health outcomes. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

Together with Claudia W. Allen, he is the author of Escaping the Endless Adolescence: How We Can Help Our Teenagers Grow Up Before They Grow Old.. [12] In 2016, he founded The Connection Project , a small group intervention for high school and college students that has been documented to reduce loneliness and depressive symptoms and enhance a sense of belonging. [13] [10] The program is now being implemented at the high school level by Wyman of St. Louis, [14] and at the college level at the University of Virginia. [15]

In September 2023, successful replication efforts for The Connection Project were begun at Georgetown University and Virginia Tech University. [16]

References

  1. ↑ University of Virginia, Department of Psychology (July 7, 2024). "Joseph P. Allen, Hugh P. Kelly Professor of Psychology" . Retrieved July 7, 2024.
  2. ↑ "Teen Research". uva.theopenscholar.com. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
  3. ↑ Zimmerman, Eilene (October 6, 2022). "Meeting the Mental Health Challenge in School and at Home". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved July 7, 2024.
  4. ↑ Haupt, Angela (May 2, 2024). "Vivek Murthy". TIME. Retrieved July 7, 2024.
  5. ↑ "Joseph P. Allen". scholar.google.com. Retrieved July 7, 2024.
  6. ↑ "Teen Research". uva.theopenscholar.com. Retrieved July 7, 2024.
  7. ↑ Spector, Dina (June 12, 2014). "Being Cool in High School Is Bad For You". Slate Magazine. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
  8. ↑ "What happens to 'cool' kids? New study sheds light". ScienceDaily. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
  9. ↑ Allen, Joseph P.; Uchino, Bert N.; Hafen, Christopher A. (October 2015). "Running With the Pack: Teen Peer-Relationship Qualities as Predictors of Adult Physical Health". Psychological Science. 26 (10): 1574–1583. doi:10.1177/0956797615594118. ISSN   0956-7976. PMC   4698963 . PMID   26290522.
  10. 1 2 Costello, Meghan A.; Nagel, Alison G.; Hunt, Gabrielle L.; Rivens, Ariana J.; Hazelwood, Olivia A.; Pettit, Corey; Allen, Joseph P. (May 16, 2022). "Facilitating connection to enhance college student well-being: Evaluation of an experiential group program". American Journal of Community Psychology. 70 (3–4): 314–326. doi:10.1002/ajcp.12601. ISSN   0091-0562. PMC   9666641 . PMID   35575603.
  11. ↑ Allen, Joseph P.; Costello, Meghan; Kansky, Jessica; Loeb, Emily L. (December 6, 2021). "When friendships surpass parental relationships as predictors of long-term outcomes: Adolescent relationship qualities and adult psychosocial functioning". Child Development. 93 (3): 760–777. doi:10.1111/cdev.13713. ISSN   0009-3920. PMC   9167890 . PMID   34870846.
  12. ↑ Allen, Joseph P.; Claudia W. Allen (2009). Escaping the endless adolescence: how we can help our teenagers grow up before they grow old. New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN   978-0-345-50789-1. OCLC   290464723.
  13. ↑ Allen, Joseph P.; Narr, Rachel K.; Nagel, Alison G.; Costello, Meghan A.; Guskin, Karen (May 2021). "The Connection Project: Changing the peer environment to improve outcomes for marginalized adolescents". Development and Psychopathology. 33 (2): 647–657. doi:10.1017/S0954579419001731. ISSN   0954-5794. PMC   9034648 . PMID   32124707.
  14. ↑ "Teen Connection Project (TCP)". Wyman Center. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
  15. ↑ "Homepage | Hoos Connected". hoosconnected.virginia.edu. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
  16. ↑ "Georgetown, Virginia Tech Adopt UVA Initiative That Reduces Depression, Loneliness". news.virginia.edu. September 25, 2023. Retrieved July 7, 2024.


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