Research Associate Professor
Director of the Center for Anxiety and Depressive Disorders in Youth Lab
Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Heyne Building, Room 126
713-743-8732
aegrills@uh.edu

Biographical Summary

Grills-Taquechel is a licensed clinical psychologist by the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists.

Selected Recent Research Funding

• National Institutes of Health-NICHD Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award
  • Role: PI
  • August 2009-present
  • K08 HD058020
  • Child Anxiety and Response to Intervention for Learning Disabilities
• National Institutes of Health-Loan Repayment Program in Pediatric Research
  • Role: PI
  • July 2008-present
  • An Innovative, Cognitive-Behavioral Group Parenting Intervention for Pediatric Anxiety
• National Science Foundation-Small Grant for Exploratory Research
  • Role: Consultant
  • June 2007-June 2009
  • Coping, adjustment, and resilience among college women following the mass shooting at Virginia Tech

Research Interests

• Internalizing Problems in Youth
• Anxiety/Trauma
• Learning, Academic/Cognitive Variables
• Parent-Child Interactions
• Assessment and Treatment of Childhood Disorders
• Childhood Peer Victimization

Previous Teaching

• Seminar in Childhood Assessment (graduate)
• Multicultural Psychology (graduate)
• Advanced Clinical Assessment of Children (graduate)
• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (graduate)
• Abnormal Psychology (undergraduate)

Selected Publications

Ollendick, T. H., Grills, A. E., & King, N. (2001). Applying developmental theory to the assessment and treatment of childhood disorders: Does it make a difference? Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 8, 304-314.

Ollendick, T. H., Grills, A. E., & Alexander, K. (2001). Fear and anxiety in children and adolescents. In C. A. Essau and F. Petermann (Eds.), Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Treatment. London: Harwood Academic Publishers.

Grills, A. E., & Ollendick, T. H. (2002). Peer victimization, global self-worth, and anxiety in middle school children. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 31, 59-68.

Grills, A. E., & Ollendick, T. H. (2002). Issues in parent-child agreement: The case of structured diagnostic interviews. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 5, 57-83.

Grills, A. E., & Ollendick, T. H. (2003). Multiple informant agreement and the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for Parents and Children. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 42, 30-40.

Grills, A. E., & Ollendick, T. H. (2003). Systematic desensitization. In T. H. Ollendick and C. S. Schroeder (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Clinical Child and Pediatric Psychology. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Ollendick, T. H., Blier, H. K., & Grills, A. E. (2003). Behavior therapy. In T. H. Ollendick and C. S. Schroeder (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Clinical Child and Pediatric Psychology. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Grills, A. E., & Ollendick, T. H. (2003). Participant modeling. In T. H. Ollendick and C. S. Schroeder (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Clinical Child and Pediatric Psychology. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Swearer, S. M., Grills, A. E., Haye, K. M., & Cary, P. T. (2004). An examination of depression, anxiety, hopelessness, and bully/victim status. In D. L. Espelage and S. M. Swearer (Eds.), A Social-Ecological Perspective on Bullying Prevention and Intervention in American Schools. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

DiBartolo, P. M., Frost, R. O., Chang, P., LaSota, M. & Grills, A. E. (2004). Shedding light on the relationship between personal standards and psychopathology: The case of contingent self-worth.Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy, 22, 237-250.

Ollendick, T. H., & Grills, A. E. (2005). Modeling. In A. M. Gross and R. S. Drabman (Eds.),Encyclopedia of Behavior Modification and Cognitive Behavior Therapy - Volume II: Child Clinical Applications. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

DiBartolo, P. M., & Grills, A. E. (2006). Multiple informant reliability and the prediction of socially anxious behavior in children. Journal of Anxiety Disorders,20, 630-645.

Fisak, B. & Grills-Taquechel, A. E. (2007). Parental modeling, reinforcement, and information transfer: Risk factors in the development of child anxiety? Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review.

Grills-Taquechel, A. E., & Ollendick, T. H. (2007). Special issue: Developments in the etiology and psychosocial treatments of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 10, 197-198.

Grills-Taquechel, A. E., Ollendick, T. H., & Fisak, B. (2008). Re-examination of the MASC factor structure and discriminant ability in a mixed clinical outpatient sample. Depression and Anxiety, 25, 942-950.

Ollendick, T. H., Jarrett, M., Grills-Taquechel, A. E., Seligman, L. D., & Wolff, J. (2008). Comorbidity as a predictor and moderator of treatment outcome in youth with anxiety, affective, attention deficit/hyperactivity, and oppositional/conduct disorders. Clinical Psychology Review, 28, 1447-1471.

Grills-Taquechel, A. E., & Ollendick, T. H. (2008). Diagnostic interviewing. In M. Hersen & A. M. Gross (Eds.), Handbook of Clinical Psychology (Vol. II Children). New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.

Grills-Taquechel, A. E., Polifroni, R., & Fletcher, J. M. (2009). Interview and report writing. In J. L. Matson, F. Andrasik, & M. L. Matson (Eds.), Assessing Childhood Psychopathology and Developmental Disabilities. New York, NY: Springer.

Littleton, H., Axsom, D., & Grills-Taquechel, A. E. (2009). Sexual assault victims' acknowledgment status, re-victimization risk behaviors, and post-assault experiences. Psychology of Women Quarterly. 33, 34- 42.

Littleton, H., Grills-Taquechel, A. E., & Axsom, D. (2009). Impaired and incapacitated rape victims: Assault characteristics and post-assault experiences. Violence and Victims, 24, 439-457.

Littleton, H., Grills-Taquechel, A. E., & Axsom, D. (2009). Resource loss as a predictor of posttrauma symptoms among college women following the mass shooting at Virginia Tech. Violence and Victims, 24, 669-686.

Littleton, H., Axsom, D., & Grills-Taquechel, A. E. (2009). Adjustment following the mass shooting at Virginia Tech: The roles of resource loss and gain. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, & Policy, 1, 206-219.

Norton, P. J., Grills-Taquechel, A. E., & Raouf, M. (2010). Assessing adults. In D. W., Nangle, D. J., Hansen, C. A., Erdley, C. A, & P. J. Norton (Eds.), Practitioner's guide to empirically based measures of social skills (pp. 87-98). New York: Springer.

Grills-Taquechel, A. E., Polifroni, R. & Pane, H. (in press). Methods for assessing and treating bully-victim problems for individual children and adolescents. In B. K. Biggs & E. Vernberg (Eds.), Preventing and Treating Bullying and Victimization: Integrative and Evidence-Based Practices. Oxford Press.

Wolfe, R., Carper, T. M., Scott, S. L., Middleton, M., Renk, K., & Grills-Taquechel, A. E. (in press). Coping in emerging adulthood: Internalizing and externalizing behavior problems following hurricanes. Journal of Loss and Trauma.

Davis III, T. E., Grills-Taquechel, A. E., & Ollendick, T. H. (in press). The psychological impact from Hurricane Katrina: Effects of displacement on college students. Behavior Therapy.

Grills-Taquechel, A. E., Norton, P. J., & Ollendick, T. H. (in press). A longitudinal examination of factors influencing anxiety during the transition to middle school. Journal of Anxiety, Stress, & Coping.