Michael Young

Michael A. Young came to Illinois Tech in 1996 after having been a researcher and medical staff member a Rush University Medical Center. Prior to retiring in 2019, he was director of the Ph.D. program in clinical psychology for many years and chair of the Department of Psychology (2016 - 2019). He served as associate (action) editor of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology (now Psychopathology and Clinical Science) and as treasurer and archivist/historian of the Society for Research in Psychopathology. He also is a past-president of the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms. In retirement, he continues to review for journals and collaborate with colleagues on research and publications.

Education

A.B. University of Chicago

Ph.D. Adelphi University

Research Interests

Mood disorders, Seasonal affective disorder

Emotion regulation; Cognitive and behavioral responses to depression

Statistical modelling of psychopathology; Network analysis

Publications

Norton, R., J., Young, M.A., Rohan, K. (2022). A network intervention analysis of seasonal affective disorder: Exploring patterns of symptom change for cognitive behavioral therapy and light therapy. Cognitive Therapy and Research.

Smetter, J.B., Antler, C.A., Young, M.A., Rohan, K.J. (2021). The symptom structure of seasonal affective disorder: Integrating results from factor and network analyses in the context of the Dual Vulnerability Model. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 43(1), 95-107. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-020-09861-0

Murphy, J., Young, M.A. (2020). Monitoring processes in extended emotion regulation. Cognition and Emotion, 34(5),1059-1067. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2020.1722614

Fuller, J., Young, M.A. (2019). Assessing impairment using a configural measure. Methodological Innovations, 12(3), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059799119890794.

Meyerhoff, J., Young, M.A., Rohan, K. (2018). Patterns of depressive symptom remission during the treatment of seasonal affective disorder with cognitive-behavioral therapy or light therapy. Depression and Anxiety, 35(5), 457-467. Doi: dx.doi.org/10.1002/da.22739.

Hanson, B., Young, M.A. (2017). Understanding the impairment associated with depressive symptoms. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 205(8), 600-604.
http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.gl.iit.edu/10.1097/NMD.0000000000000644 

Young, M.A. (2017). Does seasonal affective disorder exist? A commentary on Traffanstedt, Mehta, and Lo Bello (2016). Clinical Psychological Science, 5,  750–754. doi: 10.1177/2167702616689086.

Young, M.A., Hutman, P., Enggasser, J.L., Meesters, Y. (2015). Assessing seasonal symptomatology: The Seasonal Assessment Form. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 37(1), 112-121. doi: 10.1007/s10862-014-9440-3.

Whitcomb-Smith, S., Sigmon, S.T., Martinson, A., Young, M., Craner, J., Boulard, N. (2013). The temporal development of mood, cognitive and vegetative symptoms in recurrent SAD episodes: A test of the Dual Vulnerability Hypothesis. Cognitive Therapy and Research 38, 43-54.

Hanson, B., Young, M.A. (2012). Why depressive symptoms cause distress: The client’s perspective. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 68, 860-874. doi: 10.1002/jclp.21872.

Young, M.A., Reardon, A., Azam, O. (2008). Rumination and vegetative symptoms: A test of the Dual Vulnerability Model of seasonal depression. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 32:567B576.

Young, M.A., Meaden, P. M., Fogg, L.F., Cherin, E.A., Eastman, C.I. (1997). Which environmental variables are related to the onset of seasonal affective disorder? Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 106, 554-562.

Young, M.A., Fogg, L.F., Scheftner, W.A., Fawcett. J., Akiskal, H., Maser, J. (1996). Stable trait components of hopelessness: baseline and sensitivity to depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 105(2), 155-165.

Young, M.A., Watel, L.G., Lahmeyer, H.W. and Eastman, C.I. (1991). The temporal onset of symptoms in winter depression: Differentiating underlying mechanisms, Journal of Affective Disorders, 22, 191-197.