Peter Wyman, Ph.D.

Academic and Clinical Appointments

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Contact Information

Education

Selected Publications

Book

Cowen, E. L., Hightower, A. D., Pedro-Carroll, J. L., Work, W. C., & Wyman, P. A. (1996).  School based prevention for children at risk:  The Primary Mental Health Project.  Washington, DC.  American Psychological Association.

Original Articles and Book Chapters

Wyman, P. A., Cowen, E. L., Hightower, A. D., & Pedro-Carroll, J. L. (1985).  Perceived competence, self-esteem and anxiety in latency-aged children of divorce.  Journal of Child-Clinical Psychology, 14, 20-26.

Work, W. C., Cowen, E. L., Parker, G. R., & Wyman, P. A. (1990).  Stress resilient children in an urban setting.  Journal of Primary Prevention, 11, 3-17.

Parker, G. R., Cowen, E. L., Work, W. C., & Wyman, P. A. (1990).  Test correlates of stress affected and stress resilient outcomes among urban children.  Journal of Primary Prevention, 11, 19-35.

Cowen, E. L., Wyman, P. A., & Work, W. C. (1990).  The Rochester Child Resilience Project (RCRP):  Overview and summary of first year findings.  Development and Psychopathology, 2, 193-212.

Wyman, P. A., Cowen, E. L., Work, W. C., & Parker, G. R. (1991).  Developmental and family milieu correlates of resilience in urban children who have experienced major life-stress. American Journal of Community Psychology, 19, 405-426.

Cowen, E. L., Work, W. C., Hightower, A. D., Wyman, P. A., Parker, G. R., & Lotyczewski, B. S. (1991).  The development and evaluation of a measure of perceived self-efficacy in children.  Journal of Child-Clinical Psychology, 20, 169-178.

Cowen, E. L., Work, W. C., Wyman, P. A., Parker, G. R., Wannon, M., & Gribble, P. A. (1992). Test comparisons among stress affected, stress resilient and nonclassified 5th-6th grade urban children.  Journal of Community Psychology, 20, 200-214.

Cowen, E. L., Wyman, P. A., & Work, W. C., (1992).  The relationship between retrospective reports of early child temperament and adjustment at ages 10-12.  Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 20, 39-50.

Cowen, E. L., Work. W. C., & Wyman, P. A. (1992).  Resilience among profoundly stressed urban school children.  In M. Kessler, S. E., Goldston, & J. M. Joffe (Eds.).  The present and future of prevention, (pp. 155-168).  Newbury Park, CA:  Sage.

Cowen, E. L., Work, W. C., & Wyman, P. A. (1992).  Similarity of parent and child self-views in stress affected and stress resilient urban families.  Acta Paedopsychiatrica, 55, 193-197.

Wyman, P. A., Cowen, E. L, Work, W. C., Raoof, A., Gribble, P. A., Parker, G. R., & Wannon, M. (1992).  Interviews with children who experienced major life stress:  Family and child attributes that predict resilient outcomes.  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 31, 904-910.

Gribble, P. A., Cowen, E. L., Wyman, P. A., Work. W. C., Wannon, M. & Raoof, A. (1992).  Parent and child views of the parent child relationship and resilient outcomes among urban children.  Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 33, 507-519.

Cowen, E. L., Work, W. C., Wyman, P. A., Parker, G. R., Wannon, M. & Gribble, P. A., (1992). Test comparisons among stress affected, stress resilient and nonclassified 4th-6th grade urban children.  Journal of Community Psychology, 20,200-214.

Wyman, P. A., Cowen, E. L., Work, W. C. & Kerley, J. H. (1993).  The role of children's future expectations in self-system functioning and adjustment to life-stress.  A prospective study of urban at risk children.  Development and Psychopathology, 5, 649-661.

Cowen, E. L., Work, W. C., Wyman, P. A. & Jarrell, D. D. (1994).  Relationships between retrospective parental reports of developmental milestones and school adjustment at ages 10-12.  Journal of Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 33,  400-406.

Cowen, E. L., Wyman, P. A., Work, W. C., & Iker, M. R. (1994).  A preventive intervention for enhancing resilience among young highly stressed urban children. Journal of Primary Prevention, 15, 247-260.

Hoyt-Meyers, L. A., Cowen, E. L., Work, W. C., Wyman, P. A., Magnus, K., Fagen, D. F. & Lotyczewski, B. S. (1995).  Test correlates of resilient outcomes among highly stressed 2nd and 3rd grade urban children.  Journal of Community Psychology, 23, 326-338.

Fagen, D. B., Cowen, E. L., Wyman, P. A. & Work, W. C. (1996).  Relationships between parent-child relational variables and child-test variables in highly stressed urban children.  Child Study Journal, 26, 87-108.

Cowen, E. L. Wyman, P. A. & Work, W. C. (1996).  Resilience in highly stressed urban children:  Concepts and findings.  Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 73, 267-284.

Cowen, E. L., Work, W.C., & Wyman, P. A. (1997).  The Rochester Child Resilience Project (RCRP):  Facts found, lessons learned and future directions divined.  In S. Luthar, J. Burack, J. Weisz, & D. Cicchetti (Eds.), Developmental psychopathology:  Perspectives on risk and disorder (pp. 527-547).  New York:  Cambridge University Press. 

Cowen, E. L. Wyman, P. A., Work, W. C., Kim, J., Fagen, D. B. & Magnus, K. B. (1997).  Follow-up study of young stress affected and stress resilient urban children.  Development and Psychopathology, 9, 565-577.

Kilmer, R. P., Cowen, E. L., Wyman, P. A., Work, W. C., & Magnus, K. B. (1998).  Differences in stressors experienced by urban African-American, White and Hispanic children.  Journal of Community Psychology, 26, 415-428.  

Magnus, K. B., Cowen, E. L., Wyman, P. A., Work, W. C., & Fagen, D. B. (1999).  Parent-child relationship qualities and child adjustment in highly stressed urban Black and White families.  Journal of Community Psychology, 27, 55-71. 

Magnus, K. B., Cowen, E. L., Wyman, P. A., Fagen, D. F., & Work, W. C. (1999).  Correlates of resilient outcomes among Black and White urban children.  Journal of Community Psychology, 27, 259-272.

Pedro-Carroll, J. L., Sutton, S. E., & Wyman, P. A. (1999).  A two-year follow-up evaluation of a preventive intervention program for young children of divorce.  School Psychology Review, 28, 467-476.

Sutton, S. E., Cowen, E. L, Crean, H., Wyman, P. A., & Work, W. C. (1999).  Pathways to aggression in young highly stressed urban children.  Child Study Journal, 28, 49-68.

Cowen, E. L., & Wyman, P.A. (1999). Resilience in children:  The nature and importance of the concept.  Psicologia Escolar e Educacional.

Wyman, P. A., Sandler, I. N., Wolchik, S., & Nelson, K. (1999).  Resilience as cumulative competence promotion and stress protection: Theory and intervention.  In D. Cicchetti, J. Rappaport, I. Sandler, & R. P. Weissberg (Eds.), The promotion of wellness in children and adolescents.  Washington, DC:  Child Welfare League of America Press.  . 

Wyman, P.A., Cowen, E.L., Work, W.C., Hoyt, L., Magnus, K., & Fagen, D. (1999).  Caregiving and developmental factors differentiating young at-risk urban children showing resilient vs. stress-affected outcomes: A replication and extension.  Child Development, 70, 645-659. 

Wyman, P.A.  & Forbes-Jones, E. L., & (2001).  Creative adaptation to life adversities:  Deriving meaning from the past and expectations for the future.  In B. Bloom and T. Gullotta (Eds.), Hartman Monograph Series: Creativity Across the Life-Span.  Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America Press. 

Kilmer, R. P., Cowen, E. L., & Wyman, P. A. (2001).  A micro-level analysis of developmental, parenting, and family milieu variables that differentiate urban stress resilient and stress affected children.  Journal of Community Psychology, 29, 391-416.  

Wyman, P.A., Pedro-Carroll, J. L.,  & Forbes-Jones, E. L., & (2001).  Promoting resilience in childhood.  In B. Bloom and T. Gullotta (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention.  New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. 

Wyman, P. A. and Cross, W (2002).  A partnership between a school prevention program and state office of mental health: Towards a sustainable prevention-treatment continuum.  In Prevention-treatment continuum in the public mental health system.  Washington, DC: Center for Mental Health Services (SAMHSA). 

Wyman, P.A. (2003).  Emerging perspectives on context-specificity of children’s adaptation and resilience:  Evidence from a decade of research with urban children in adversity.   In S. Luthar (Ed.), Resilience and vulnerability:  Adaptation in the context of childhood adversity.  New York: Cambridge University Press. 

Wyman, P.A., Cross, W.C., & Barry, J. (2004).  Translating research on resilience into school-based prevention: Program components and preliminary outcomes from the Promoting Resilient Children Initiative (PRCI).  In M. Weist & C. Clauss-Ehlers (Eds.), Community Planning to Foster Resilience in Children.  New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. 

Cross, W. & Wyman, P.A. (2005).  Training and motivational factors as predictors of job satisfaction and retention among implementers of a school-based prevention program.  Journal of Primary Prevention. 

Brown, C. H., Wyman, P. A., Guo, J., & Pena, J. (2006).  Dynamic Wait-Listed Designs for Randomized Trials:  New Designs for Prevention of Youth Suicide.  Clinical Trials: The Journal of the Society for Clinical Trials; 3:259-271.

Wyman, P.A., Moynihan, J., Eberly, S., Cox, C., Cross, W., Jin, X., & Caserta, M. (2007) Association of family stress with natural killer cell activity and the frequency of illnesses in children.  Arch Pediatr Adol Med, Vol 161: 228-234. 

Kaufmann, D., Wyman, P.A., Forbes-Jones, E., & Barry, J. (2007).  Prosocial involvement and antisocial peer affiliations as predictors of behavior problems in urban adolescents:  Main effects and moderating effects.  Journal of Community Psychology, Vol 35: 417-434. 

Brown, C. H., Wyman, P. A., Brinales, J., & Gibbons, R. (2007). The Role of Randomized Trials in Testing Intervention for the Prevention of Youth Suicide. International Review of Psychiatry; Vol 18: 617-631.

Brown, C.H., Wang, W., Kellam, S., Wyman, P.A., et al., (2007).  Methods for Testing Theory and Evaluating Impact in Randomized Field Trials: Intent to Treat Analyses for Integrating the Perspectives of Person, Place, and Time.  Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Vol 95S: 74-104.  

Wyman, P. A., Brown, C H., Inman, J., Cross, W., Schmeelk-Cone, K., Guo, J., & Pena, J. (2008).  Randomized trial of a gatekeeper program for suicide prevention: 1-year impact on middle and high school staff.  Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology Vol 76: 104-115. 

Caserta, MT, O’Connor, TG., Wyman, P. A., Wang, H., Moynihan, J, Cross, W., Tu, X., and Jin, X  (2008).  The associations between psychosocial stress and the frequency of illness and innate and adaptive immune function in children.  Brain, Behavior, and Immunity; Vol 22: 933-940.    

Pena, J., Wyman, P.A., Brown, H., Matthieu, M. Olivares, T. (2008).  Immigration generation status and its association with suicide attempts, substance use, and depressive symptoms among Latino adolescents in the United States.  Prevention Science.  (In press).