Aimee Sullivan

  • Graduate Student in Clinical Psychology
  • Faculty Advisor: David Miklowitz
  • Phone: 303-735-5721
  • Fax: 303-492-2967
  • Email: Aimee.Sullivan@Colorado.edu

Education

  • BS, Biopsychology and Cognitive Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2003
  • MA, University of Colorado Boulder, 2009
  • PhD, expected 2013

Research Interests

My research focuses on the treatment of adolescent bipolar disorder. Specifically, I am interested in the ways that family and peer social environments can influence, and also be influenced by, adolescent mood disorder.

Publications and Presentations

Sullivan, A., Miklowitz, D., Judd, C. & Axelson, D. (2011). Family functioning and the course of adolescent bipolar disorder. Manuscript under review.

Sullivan, A., Miklowitz, D. & Axelson, D. (2011, June). Social impairment in adolescents with bipolar disorder. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference for Bipolar Disorder, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Sullivan, A. & Miklowitz, D. (2010). Family functioning among adolescents with bipolar disorder. Journal of Family Psychology, 24(1), 60-67.

Sullivan, A., Miklowitz, D., George, E., Taylor, D. (2010, November). Influence of family environment on the social functioning of adolescents with bipolar disorder. Poster accepted for the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, San Francisco, California.

Miklowitz, D., Axelson, D., George, E., Taylor, D., Schneck, C., Sullivan, A., Dickinson, M., & Birmaher, B. (2009). Expressed emotion moderates the effects of family-focused treatment for bipolar adolescents. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 48(6), 643-651.

Sullivan, A., Miklowitz, D., George, E., Taylor, D. (2009, November). Family functioning as a mediator of treatment outcome in adolescent bipolar disorder. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, New York.

Sullivan, A., Miklowitz, D., Axelson, D. (2009, June). Adolescent bipolar disorder: Gender, symptom polarity and diagnostic comorbidity as predictors of family functioning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference for Bipolar Disorder, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Sullivan, A., Miklowitz, D., Gagnon, L., George, E. (2008, November). Family environment in adolescent bipolar disorder. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Orlando, Florida.

Esler, A., Sullivan, A. (2006). STAR: Social themes for augmenting relationships. Intervention manual for social groups with youth and teens with high functioning autism spectrum disorder. Protocol for youth social skills groups; University of Michigan Autism and Communication Disorders Center, Ann Arbor, MI.

Sullivan, A., Risi, S., Burke, J., Qiu, S., Lord, C. (2006, May). Social responsiveness scale: Concurrence with diagnosis, correlation with the ADI-R, and inter-rater agreement. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Meeting for Autism Research, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Saffran, J.R., Reeck, K., Niebuhr, A., & Wilson, D. (2005). Changing the tune: The structure of the input affects infants' use of absolute and relative pitch. Developmental Science, 8(1), 1-7.

Sullivan, A., Anderson, D., Risi, S., Heinz, S., & Lord, C. (2005, May). Relationship between language skills and adolescent behavior in autism spectrum disorders. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Meeting for Autism Research, Boston, Massachusetts.

Spence, S.J., Caplan, R., Sullivan, A., Qiu, S., Gotham, K. & Lord, C. (2005, April). The relationship of epilepsy and IQ in autism spectrum disorders and nonspectrum developmental delay. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, New York.