Abigail Zisk
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Psychologist, Mood, Anxiety, and Trauma Section, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Psychiatry
Contact information
4601 Market Street, Third Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19139
Philadelphia, PA 19139
Education:
AB (English)
Duke University, 2012.
MA (Clinical Psychology)
University of Delaware, 2018.
PhD (Clinical Psychology)
University of Delaware, 2021.
AB (English)
Duke University, 2012.
MA (Clinical Psychology)
University of Delaware, 2018.
PhD (Clinical Psychology)
University of Delaware, 2021.
Post-Graduate Training
Predoctoral Clinical Psychology Intern, Child and Adolescent Psychology Track, New York University Langone-Bellevue Hospital, 2020-2021.
Postdoctoral Psychology Fellow, Child Track, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Westchester Division/Weill Cornell Medicine, 2021-2022.
Permanent linkPredoctoral Clinical Psychology Intern, Child and Adolescent Psychology Track, New York University Langone-Bellevue Hospital, 2020-2021.
Postdoctoral Psychology Fellow, Child Track, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Westchester Division/Weill Cornell Medicine, 2021-2022.
Selected Publications
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.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 Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 89(6): 528-536, June 2021 Notes: doi: 10.1037/ccp0000656.
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.
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.
Bounoua, N., Zisk, A., Abbott, C., & Kobak, R.: Caregivers’ cortisol reactivity to a trauma interview: Links to adolescent security in an economically disadvantaged sample Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Baltimore, Maryland March 2019.
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 Journal of Child and Family Studies 28(3): 796-804, March 2019 Notes: doi.org/10.1007/s10826-018-01320-5.
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.
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.
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.
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 Attachment & Human Development 19(5): 447-462, October 2017 Notes: doi: 10.1080/14616734.2016.1269234. Epub 2016 Dec 21.