Assaf Oshri, Ph.D.

Research Interests

The main purpose of my research is to advance knowledge on the nature of the associations and interactions between nature and nurture in the development of psychopathology among children and youth. I am interested in studying how interactions and coactions among child personality, psychopathology, genetic and biological markers underlie the link between child maltreatment and adolescent adjustment, including risk taking (e.g. substance use and sexual risk behaviors). It is my hope that such knowledge can inform intervention and prevention intervention research how to efficiently identify, prevent and treat adjustment problems and risk behaviors among children and adolescents.

Publications/Manuscripts

Peer Reviewed

Oshri, A., Tubman, J. G., & Burnette, M. (In Press). Childhood maltreatment histories, alcohol and
other drug use symptoms, and sexual risk behavior in a treatment sample of adolescents. American Journal of Public Health.

Gravener, J. A., Rogosch, F. A., Oshri, A., Toth, S. L., & Cicchetti, D. (In Press). The role of Expressed Emotion in the association between maternal depression and toddler behavior problems and attachment, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.

Oshri, A., Tubman, J. G., Morgan-Lopez, Saavedra, L., & Csizamadia, A. (In Press). Sexual
sensation seeking, co-occurring sex and alcohol use, and sexual risk behavior among adolescents in treatment for substance use problems. American Journal on Addictions.

Cicchetti, D., Rogosch, A. F., & Oshri, A. (2011). Interactive effects of CRHR1, 5-HTTLPR, and child maltreatment on diurnal cortisol regulation and internalizing symptomatology. Development and Psychopathology, 23, 1125-1138.

Teisl, M., Rogosch, F. A., Oshri, A., & Cicchetti, D. (2011). Differential expression of social dominance as a function of age and maltreatment experience. Developmental Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/a0024888

Oshri, A., Rogosch, F. A., Burnette, M., & Cicchetti, D. (2011). Developmental pathways to adolescent cannabis abuse and dependence: Child maltreatment, emerging personality, and internalizing versus externalizing psychopathology. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 25(4), 634-644. DOI: 10.1037/a0023151

Oshri, A., Tubman, G. J., & Jaccard, J. (2011). Psychiatric symptom typology in a sample of youth receiving substance abuse treatment services: Associations with self-reported child maltreatment and sexual risk behaviors. AIDS & Behavior, 15, 1844-1856. DOI: 10.1007/s10461-011-9890-5

Pickreign, E. Toth, S. L., Rogosch, F., Oshri A., Manly, J., & Cicchetti, D. (2011). Child maltreatment, attachment organization, and internal representations of mother and mother-child relationships. Child Maltreatment, 16, 137-145. DOI: 10.1177/1077559511398294

Tubman, J. G., Oshri, A., Leon-Morris, S., & Taylor, H. (2011). Maltreatment clusters among youth in outpatient substance abuse treatment: Co-occurring patterns of maladaptive health behaviors. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 40, 301-309. DOI: 10.1007/s10508-010-9699-8

Rogosch, F. A., Oshri, A., & Cicchetti, D. (2010). From child maltreatment to adolescent cannabis abuse and dependence: A developmental cascade model. Development and Psychopathology, 22, 883-897.

Oshri, A., Tubman, J. G., Wagner E., Leon-Morris, S. L., & Snyders, J. (2008). Psychiatric symptom patterns, proximal risk factors and sexual risk behaviors among youth in outpatient substance abuse treatment. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 78, 430-441.

Oshri, A., Tubman, J. G., & Mira, L. (2008). Heterogeneity in psychiatric symptom patterns and sexual risk behaviors among youth receiving substance abuse treatment services. The Addiction Newsletter, 15, 15-17.

Allen, A., Saltzman, W. R., Brymer, M. J., Oshri, A., & Silverman, W. K. (2006). An empirically informed intervention for children following exposure to severe hurricanes. The Behavior Therapist, 29, 118-124.