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Overview

  • Nicholas Mian teaches courses related to clinical and child psychology, as well as core psychology courses. He also oversees the Internship course in Psychology. His research focuses on understanding anxiety in young children and how this knowledge can inform the design and implementation of early intervention and prevention programs. In addition to teaching and research, Mian is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist specializing in the treatment of child anxiety. In his spare time, he enjoys fly fishing, gardening, home improvement, and hiking with his family.
  • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title
    2020 Identifying and Making Recommendations for Pediatric Anxiety Disorders in Primary Care Settings: A Video-Based Training.MedEdPORTAL.  16:11033. 2020
    2019 Training Residents in the Early Identification of Anxiety Disorders: Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy of a Novel Training Program.Clinical Pediatrics.  58:761-769. 2019
    2018 Early identification of anxiety disorders: The role of the pediatrician in primary careChildren's Health Care.  47:34-50. 2018
    2018 The Family Life Impairment Scale: Factor Structure and Clinical Utility with Young Children.Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.  47:S530-S541. 2018
    2017 The Relationship Between Worry and Dimensions of Anxiety Symptoms in Children and Adolescents.Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy.  45:124-138. 2017
    2017 Using Research-Informed Pedagogical Practices to Maximize Learning in Youth Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.Evid Based Pract Child Adolesc Ment Health.  2:82-95. 2017
    2016 Prevention Services for Externalizing and Anxiety Symptoms in Low-Income Children: the Role of Parent Preferences in Early Childhood.Prevention Science.  17:83-92. 2016
    2015 Attention bias and anxiety in young children exposed to family violence.Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.  56:1194-1201. 2015
    2015 Development of a novel observational measure for anxiety in young children: The Anxiety Dimensional Observation Scale.Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.  56:1017-1025. 2015
    2015 Targeted prevention of childhood anxiety: engaging parents in an underserved community.American Journal of Community Psychology.  55:58-69. 2015
    2014 Pathways to service receipt: modeling parent help-seeking for childhood mental health problems.Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research.  41:469-479. 2014
    2014 Little children with big worries: addressing the needs of young, anxious children and the problem of parent engagement.Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review.  17:85-96. 2014
    2012 Patterns of anxiety symptoms in toddlers and preschool-age children: evidence of early differentiation.Journal of Anxiety Disorders.  26:102-110. 2012
    2011 An ecological risk model for early childhood anxiety: the importance of early child symptoms and temperament.Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.  39:501-512. 2011
    2011 Lost toy? Monsters under the bed? Contributions of temperament and family factors to early internalizing problems in boys and girls.Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.  40:233-244. 2011

    Chapter

    Year Title
    2019 Language Disorders.  79-102. 2019
    2017 Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and Its Adaptations 2017
    Risk and protective factors

    Conference Paper

    Year Title
    2018 Early Identification of Anxiety Disorders in Primary Care: Results from a Training Program for Pediatric ResidentsJournal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. S2-S3. 2018

    Teaching Activities

  • Abnormal Behavior Taught course
  • Child Development Taught course
  • Counseling Taught course
  • Internship Taught course
  • Internship Taught course
  • Statistics in Psychology Taught course
  • Statistics in Psychology Taught course
  • Personality Taught course 2024
  • SpcTop/Clinical Child Psych Taught course 2024
  • Statistics in Psychology Taught course 2024
  • Personality Taught course 2022
  • SpcTop/Clinical Child Psych Taught course 2022
  • Statistics in Psychology Taught course 2022
  • Abnormal Behavior Taught course 2022
  • Internship Taught course 2022
  • Introduction to Psychology Taught course 2022
  • Child Development Taught course 2021
  • Counseling Taught course 2021
  • Internship Taught course 2021
  • Personality Taught course 2021
  • Abnormal Behavior Taught course 2020
  • AdvTop/Clinical Child Psych Taught course 2020
  • Statistics in Psychology Taught course 2020
  • Counseling Taught course 2020
  • Internship Taught course 2020
  • Introduction to Psychology Taught course 2020
  • Child Development Taught course 2019
  • Clinical Child Psychology Taught course 2019
  • Statistics in Psychology Taught course 2019
  • Abnormal Behavior Taught course 2019
  • Internship Taught course 2019
  • Introduction to Psychology Taught course 2019
  • Counseling Taught course 2018
  • Personality Taught course 2018
  • Child Development Taught course 2018
  • Internship Taught course 2018
  • Statistics in Psychology Taught course 2018
  • Abnormal Behavior Taught course 2017
  • Clinical Child Psychology Taught course 2017
  • Internship Taught course 2017
  • Introduction to Psychology Taught course 2017
  • Personality Taught course 2017
  • Child Development Taught course 2016
  • Counseling Taught course 2016
  • Statistics in Psychology Taught course 2016
  • Abnormal Behavior Taught course 2016
  • Internship Taught course 2016
  • Introduction to Psychology Taught course 2016
  • Counseling Taught course 2015
  • Personality Taught course 2015
  • Education And Training

  • A.B. Psychology, Bowdoin College
  • M.A. Clinical Psychology, University of Massachusetts - Boston
  • M.A. Psychology, Boston University
  • Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, University of Massachusetts - Boston
  • Full Name

  • Nicholas Mian