Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Kansas
Undergraduate, University of North Dakota

dljohnson@uh.edu

Research Interests

• Schizophrenia and the Environment
• Psychosocial Measures
• Families and Serious Mental Illnesses
• Otitis Media and Child Development

Teaching

• Abnormal Psychology
• Community Psychology: Treating serious mental illness in the community
• Psychology and Prevention
• Developmental Pscyhology

Selected Publications

Johnson, D. L. (2000). Das "Houston Parent-Child Development Center." In H. Scheithauer, K. Niebank & F Petermann (Eds.) Risiken in der Fruhkindlichen Entwickling. Hogrefe.

Johnson, D. L. (2000). The perspective of the relative in the assessment of negative symptom treatment efficacy. In R. Keefe & J. McEvoy (Eds.) Assessment of negative symptom response (pp. 139-152). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.

Johnson, D. L. (2000). On giving up on mental health services. In F. Frese (Ed.) Psychologists and serious mental illness (pp. 27-38). San Francisco, CA: New Directions in Mental Health Jossey-Bass.

McCormick, D. P., Baldwin, C. D., Klecan-Aker, J. S., Swank, P. R., & Johnson, D. L. (2001). Association of early bilateral middle ear effusion with language at age five years. Ambulatory Pediatrics, 1, 87-90.

Spaulding, W., Johnson, D. L., & Coursey, R. D. (2001). Psychopharmacology and schizophrenia. In M. Sammons & N. B. Schmidt (Eds.) Combined treatments for mental disorders: a guide to psychological and harmacological interventions (pp. 161-190). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press.

Johnson, D. L., & Blumenthal, J. (in press). The Parent-Child Development Centers: a follow-up on school achievement. Journal of Prevention.

Johnson, D. L. (1997). Mental illnesses: A new way of thinking about families. Amsterdam: Geneva Initiative Press.

Lefley, H. P., & Johnson, D. L. (2002). Family interventions in mental illness: international perspectives. Westport, CT: Praeger.