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Abigail Zisk

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Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
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Psychologist, Mood, Anxiety, and Trauma Section, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
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Department: Psychiatry
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13 Education:
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28 Duke University, 2012.
21 7 MA 20 (Clinical Psychology) c
2f University of Delaware, 2018.
21 8 PhD 20 (Clinical Psychology) c
2f University of Delaware, 2021.
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24 9a Predoctoral Clinical Psychology Intern, Child and Adolescent Psychology Track, New York University Langone-Bellevue Hospital, 2020-2021.
24 94 Postdoctoral Psychology Fellow, Child Track, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Westchester Division/Weill Cornell Medicine, 2021-2022.
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Selected Publications

18a Zisk, A., Abbott, C.H., Ewing, E.S.K., Fitter, M.H., Diamond, G.S., Kobak, R.: Immersive and reflective recall of a suicidal episode: Implications for assessing and treating suicidal adolescents. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 91(9): 533-546, September 2023 Notes: doi: 10.1037/ccp0000829. Epub 2023 Jun 1.

dc Abbott, C.H., Zisk, A., Herres, J., Diamond, G.S., Ewing, S.K., Kobak, R.: Exploring the relations between interpersonal risk and adolescent suicidality during treatment 2 80 Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 89(6): 528-536, June 2021 Notes: doi: 10.1037/ccp0000656.

169 Zisk, A., Abbott, C. H., Bounoua, N., Diamond, G. S., & Kobak, R.: Parent-teen communication predicts treatment benefit for depressed and suicidal adolescents. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 87(12): 1137-1148, December 2019 Notes: doi: 10.1037/ccp0000457. Epub 2019 Oct 24.

181 Abbott, C.H., Zisk, A., Bounoua, N., Diamond, G.S., Kobak, R.: Predicting patterns of treatment response and outcome for suicidal and depressed adolescents. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 58(9): 897-906, September 2019 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2018.12.013. Epub 2019 Mar 12.

e1 Bounoua, N., Zisk, A., Abbott, C., & Kobak, R.: Caregivers’ cortisol reactivity to a trauma interview: Links to adolescent security in an economically disadvantaged sample 4f Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on 46 Child Development, Baltimore, Maryland March 2019.

d4 Abbott, C.H., Zisk, A., Bounoua, N., Diamond, G.S., Kobak, R.: Peer deviance, social networks, and suicide ideation intensity in a clinical sample of adolescents 82 Journal of Child and Family Studies 28(3): 796-804, March 2019 Notes: doi.org/10.1007/s10826-018-01320-5.

174 Bounoua, N., Abbott, C., Zisk, A., Herres, J., Diamond, G., Kobak, R.: Emotion regulation and spillover of interpersonal stressors to postsession insight among depressed and suicidal adolescents. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 86(7): 593-603, July 2018 Notes: doi: 10.1037/ccp0000316.

151 Soffer, S., Lawrence, O., Lewis, J., Proctor, S., Zisk, A.: Improving suicide risk assessment processes in pediatric outpatient behavioral health. Poster presented at the 51st Annual Conference of the American Association of Suicidology, Washington, DC April 2018.

1d6 Bounoua, N., Abbott, C., Zisk, A., Herres, J., Diamond, G., & Kobak, R.: The spillover of weekly interpersonal events on perceptions of session benefit: Emotion regulation as a moderator of spillover effects in a treatment for depressed and suicidal adolescents Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, San Diego, California November 2017.

e3 Zisk, A., Abbott, C.H., Ewing, S.K., Diamond, G.S., Kobak, R.: The Suicide Narrative Interview: Adolescents’ attachment expectancies and symptom severity in a clinical sample 91 Attachment & Human Development 19(5): 447-462, October 2017 Notes: doi: 10.1080/14616734.2016.1269234. Epub 2016 Dec 21.

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