Benjamin Lahey

Benjamin Lahey
Benjamin Lahey
Nationality	American
Education	Davidson College (A.B., 1967); University of Tennessee (Ph.D., 1970)
Known for	Research on ADHD
Awards	Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science
	Scientific career
Fields	Child psychology; Psychiatric epidemiology
Institutions	University of Chicago
Thesis	Effects of Verbal Response Consequences in Fixed-Trial Choice Learning (1970)
Doctoral students	Paul Frick

Benjamin Bernard Lahey is an American psychologist and developmental epidemiologist. He is the Irving B. Harris Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Health Studies and Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Chicago. He has conducted research on psychological problems in children, adolescents, and adults such as ADHD and antisocial behavior, and he was a member of a scientific panel that constructed the current definition of ADHD in the 1990s.^[1] He was one of the authors of the papers that first hypothesized a hierarchical organization of dimensions of psychological problems, with a general factor at the top of the hierarchy.^[2]^[3]^[4] He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. He is also a member of both the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology and the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, as well as a former president of both organizations.^[5] Lahey has received the Distinguished Research Award from the Society of Clinical and Adolescent Psychology.

Work

Oxford University Press published his 2021 book, "Dimensions of psychological problems: Replacing diagnostic categories with a more science-based and less stigmatizing alternative." ISBN 9780197607909.

References

^ Weintraub, Karen (2013-01-21). "ADHD diagnoses in kids increasing". USA Today. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
^ Lahey, Benjamin B.; Van Hulle, Carol A.; Singh, Amber L.; Waldman, Irwin D.; Rathouz, Paul J. (February 2011). "Higher-Order Genetic and Environmental Structure of Prevalent Forms of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology". Archives of General Psychiatry. 68 (2): 181–189. doi:10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.192. ISSN 0003-990X. PMC 3322461. PMID 21300945.
^ Lahey, Benjamin B.; Applegate, Brooks; Hakes, Jahn K.; Zald, David H.; Hariri, Ahmad R.; Rathouz, Paul J. (November 2012). "Is There a General Factor of Prevalent Psychopathology during Adulthood?". Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 121 (4): 971–977. doi:10.1037/a0028355. ISSN 0021-843X. PMC 4134439. PMID 22845652.
^ Lahey, Benjamin B.; Krueger, Robert F.; Rathouz, Paul J.; Waldman, Irwin D.; Zald, David H. (February 2017). "A Hierarchical Causal Taxonomy of Psychopathology across the Life Span". Psychological Bulletin. 143 (2): 142–186. doi:10.1037/bul0000069. ISSN 0033-2909. PMC 5269437. PMID 28004947.
^ He is the author of "Dimensions of Psychological Problems: Replacing DSM Diagnoses with a More Science-Based and Less Stigmatizing Alternative," published in 2021 by Oxford University Press, which calls for sweeping changes in how we think about psychological problems. "Benjamin B. Lahey, PhD". University of Chicago. Retrieved 2018-07-12.