Furr, Jami Graduate Faculty
- Associate Professor, Center for Children and Families , College of Arts, Sciences & Education
Overview
biography
- Jami Furr, PhD, Associate Clinical Director of the Center for Children and Families, has clinical expertise and research interests in cognitive-behavioral treatment of childhood anxiety and disruptive behavior disorders, with a focus on preschool mental health. Specifically, she specializes in weekly and intensive treatment programs for preschool aged children with selective mutism, and obsessive compulsive disorder and other anxiety disorders, as well as in parent-child interaction therapy for young children with disruptive behavior disorders.
- Jami Furr, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor and Senior Psychologist of the Mental Health Interventions and Novel Therapeutics (MINT) Program of the FIU Center for Children and Families, has clinical expertise and research interests in cognitive-behavioral treatment of childhood anxiety, selective mutism, and disruptive behavior disorders, disaster mental health prevention and training, and a focus on preschool mental health. Specifically, she serves as a Trainer for the Network for Enhancing Wellness in Disaster-Affected Youth (NEW DAY), a SAMHSA funded project providing trainings to support youth and families after disasters. Dr. Furr specializes in weekly and intensive treatment programs for children with selective mutism, obsessive compulsive disorder, and other anxiety disorders, as well as in parent-child interaction therapy for young children with disruptive behavior disorders.
research interests
- Cognitive-behavioral treatment of childhood anxiety and disruptive behavior disorders, with a focus on preschool mental health.
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Cognitive-behavioral treatment of childhood anxiety, selective mutism, and disruptive behavior disorders, with a focus on preschool mental health.
Disaster mental health prevention and training,
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected scholarly works & creative activities
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Article
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2026Predictive validity of the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-4 and Florida Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-II severity scale.. JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH. 194:349-360.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2025.12.011
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2025Transdiagnostic links of reward processing in obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression. JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS. 391.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2025.119886
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2025Benchmarking empirical severity for the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale-Second Edition. JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS. 390.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2025.119719
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2025COVID-19-Related Posttraumatic Stress in US and Canadian Youth in the First Year of the Pandemic. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2025.2521843 Web of Science: 001530379200001
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2025Psychometric properties of the Spanish Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale – Second Edition. PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH. 348.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2025.116456
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2024Psychometric Evaluation of the Abbreviated Multidimensional Acculturation Scale (AMAS) in a Treatment-Seeking Sample of First-Generation Immigrant Caregivers. CHILD PSYCHIATRY & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT. 55:1664-1676.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10578-023-01525-w Web of Science: 000955769100001
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2023The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) pediatric and parent-proxy short forms for anxiety: Psychometric properties in the Kids FACE FEARS sample. JOURNAL OF ANXIETY DISORDERS. 94.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2023.102677 Web of Science: 000964656000001
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2022Gauging Perceptions and Attitudes About Student Anxiety and Supports Among School-Based Providers. SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH. 14:374-390.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12310-021-09470-6 Web of Science: 000679753300001
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2022Psychometric evaluation of a caregiver-report adaptation of the Overall Anxiety Severity and Impairment Scale (OASIS) for use with youth populations. JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS. 300:341-348.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2021.12.113 Web of Science: 000742844700021
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2021Therapist-Led, Internet-Delivered Treatment for Early Child Social Anxiety: A Waitlist-Controlled Evaluation of the iCALM Telehealth Program. BEHAVIOR THERAPY. 52:1171-1187.Web of Science: 000689507200013
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2021Expanding Treatment Options for Children With Selective Mutism: Rationale, Principles, and Procedures for an Intensive Group Behavioral Treatment. COGNITIVE AND BEHAVIORAL PRACTICE. 28:379-392.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpra.2020.06.002 Web of Science: 000670526200005
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2020Internet-Delivered Parent Training for Preschoolers with Conduct Problems: Do Callous-Unemotional Traits Moderate Efficacy and Engagement?. JOURNAL OF ABNORMAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY. 48:1169-1182.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10802-020-00660-5 Web of Science: 000539869100001
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2019Intensive Group Behavioral Treatment (IGBT) for Children With Selective Mutism: A Preliminary Randomized Clinical Trial. JOURNAL OF CONSULTING AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY. 87:720-733.Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/ccp0000422 Web of Science: 000474730300005
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2019What Teachers Should Know About Selective Mutism in Early Childhood. EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION JOURNAL. 47:107-114.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10643-018-0905-y Web of Science: 000456421800011
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2018Working From Home: An Initial Pilot Examination of Videoconferencing-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxious Youth Delivered to the Home Setting. BEHAVIOR THERAPY. 49:917-930.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2018.01.007 Web of Science: 000448632300007
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2017Remotely Delivering Real-Time Parent Training to the Home: An Initial Randomized Trial of Internet-Delivered Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (I-PCIT). JOURNAL OF CONSULTING AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY. 85:909-917.Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/ccp0000230 Web of Science: 000409374500007
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2017Internet-Delivered, Family-Based Treatment for Early-Onset OCD: A Pilot Randomized Trial. JOURNAL OF CONSULTING AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY. 85:178-186.Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/ccp0000155 Web of Science: 000394993800008
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2015Rationale and Considerations for the Internet-Based Delivery of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy. COGNITIVE AND BEHAVIORAL PRACTICE. 22:302-316.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpra.2014.07.003 Web of Science: 000356908100006
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2014Internet-Delivered, Family-Based Treatment for Early-Onset OCD: A Preliminary Case Series. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY. 43:74-87.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2013.855127 Web of Science: 000329688400006
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2010Disasters and youth: A meta-analytic examination of posttraumatic stress. JOURNAL OF CONSULTING AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY. 78:765-780.Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/a0021482
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2009Anxiety, mood, and substance use disorders in parents of children with anxiety disorders. CHILD PSYCHIATRY & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT. 40:405-419.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10578-009-0133-1
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2009The Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale for Children: A Psychometric Evaluation. PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT. 21:402-411.Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/a0016719 Web of Science: 000269571900015
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2008Flexibility Within Fidelity. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY. 47:987-993.Full Text via DOI: 10.1097/chi.obo13e31817eed2f
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2008Children and terrorism-related news: Training parents in Coping and Media Literacy. JOURNAL OF CONSULTING AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY. 76:568-578.Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/0022-006X.76.4.568 Web of Science: 000258008000004
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2008Experiential avoidance in the parenting of anxious youth: Theory, research, and future directions. COGNITION & EMOTION. 22:480-496.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/02699930801886599
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2006Adapting manualized CBT for a cognitively delayed child with multiple anxiety disorders. CLINICAL CASE STUDIES. 5:488-510.Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/1534650106290371
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2004Imagery vividness and perceived anxious arousal in prolonged exposure treatment for PTSD.. JOURNAL OF TRAUMATIC STRESS. 17:461-465.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10960-004-5794-8
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2003Symptom Presentation and Outcome of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. JOURNAL OF CONSULTING AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY. 71:1049-1057.Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/0022-006X.71.6.1049
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2003Interpretation bias in social anxiety: A dimensional perspective. COGNITIVE THERAPY AND RESEARCH. 27:569-577.Full Text via DOI: 10.1023/A:1026359105456
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Media use and children's perceptions of societal threat and personal vulnerability. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY. 37:622-630.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/15374410802148145 Web of Science: 000258950900013
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Book Chapter
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2024Intensive Treatment of Childhood Selective Mutism. 91-112.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-60746-2_6
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2020Exposure therapy for childhood selective mutism: principles, practices, and procedures. 113-142.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-815915-6.00006-8
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2019Terrorism exposure and the family: Where we are, and where we go next.. 571-585.Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/0000100-035
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2018Adapting PCIT to treat anxiety in young children: The PCIT CALM program. 129-147.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-97698-3_9
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2018Trauma and child psychopathology: From risk and resilience to evidence-based intervention.. 187-211.Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/0000065-010
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1999Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. 946-954.Web of Science: 000083434000001
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Review
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2008Flexibility within fidelity. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY. 987-993.Full Text via DOI: 10.1097/chi.obo13e31817eed2f
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2003Exposure therapy with other CBT procedures. 47-53.Full Text via DOI: 10.3928/0048-5713-20030101-08
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Research
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- Jami Furr
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- https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6948-2624 (confirmed)
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