Anna Van Meter

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Anna Van Meter
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Scientific career
FieldsClinical psychology
InstitutionsYeshiva University
Hofstra University

Anna Van Meter is an American clinical psychologist. She is on the faculty of New York University Grossman School of Medicine in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She leads the Investigating Mood Pathology: Assessment, Course, Treatment (IMPACT) Lab. Van Meter and her team conduct research on mood disorders and associated clinical phenomena, including suicide. They focus on innovative, technology-based approaches to improve the rapid identification of symptoms in youth and to facilitate access to evidence-based care.[1]

Education and degrees[edit]

Anna Van Meter, Ph.D. graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College. She majored in Psychology and minored in Women's Studies. She earned her Master of Arts in clinical psychology and her doctorate in clinical psychology with an emphasis in quantitative psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She completed her clinical internship at the University of Illinois at Chicago.[2]

Positions and roles[edit]

Van Meter is currently on the faculty of NYU Grossman School of Medicine in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She was on the faculty of Yeshiva University in the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology from 2013 to 2017. In 2018, she joined the faculty at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research of Northwell Health and Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Although she joined NYU in 2022, she remains affiliated with Northwell Health and the Zucker School of Medicine.[3]

Research[edit]

Van Meter has authored over 60 peer-reviewed publications and has given more than 50 national and international talks on topics including bipolar spectrum disorders, evidence-based assessment, and digital psychiatry. She is an author on more than 100 conference abstracts.[4] Her most cited work is a 2011 meta-analysis of the prevalence of bipolar disorder in youth (updated in 2019), which helped to establish that bipolar disorder affects youth and that its prevalence has been consistent over time around the world.[5] She is also the lead author on a meta-analysis of the symptoms of the prodrome to bipolar disorder, which provided a foundation for work by her and others aiming to predict the risk of onset of bipolar disorder.[6] Van Meter is the recipient of a K23 career development award from the National Institute of Mental Health to study the digital phenotype of bipolar disorder in youth. The aims of this study include determining whether data collected from adolescents' smartphone sensors can help to predict relapse in those with bipolar disorder and identifying differences in the digital phenotypes of typically developing adolescents and those with bipolar disorder.[7]

Van Meter also has several publications related to suicide, including an international meta-analysis of the prevalence of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in youth, and a paper describing how Google search data may have potential as a way by which to identify suicide risk. She has a NARSAD Young Investigator Award from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation to study the digital phenotype of proximal risk for suicide in youth. This study aims to evaluate whether keyboard metadata, along with other smartphone sensor data, can help identify youth at imminent risk for suicidal behaviors.[8][9]

Van Meter is interested in how technology can help facilitate access to evidence-based care for youth, especially those in under-served communities. She has led multiple RCTs of technology-based interventions.[10] She demonstrated preliminary efficacy for computer-based interpretation bias training as a way by which to improve social functioning and mood in young people with bipolar disorder.[11] Additionally, she recently completed a trial of an online peer support community for adolescents to test the feasibility and safety of such a community.[12] She also conducted a study using blue-light blocking glasses to improve sleep quality and mental health outcomes among college students.[13]

Van Meter has published multiple papers on the process of evidence-based assessment and on the diagnostic efficiency of commonly used assessment tools.[14] These papers guide readers through the process of evidence-based assessment and are intended to facilitate early identification and appropriate treatment for youth with mental health problems. She is active in Helping Give Away Psychological Science (HGAPS), a 501(c)3, focused on disseminating information to promote well-being in the community. Much of her work with HGAPS has involved updating Wikipedia pages for symptom measures to make these tools easily accessible.[15]

Service[edit]

Van Meter serves as the President of HGAPS, a non-profit service organization.[16] She is also on the Council for the American Psychopathological Association.[17] Van Meter conducts pro bono psychological evaluations for people seeking asylum through the Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights. She previously served as Secretary on the board of directors for the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and as co-president for the Bipolar Disorders Special Interest Group of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.[18]

Clinical work[edit]

Van Meter is trained in cognitive behavior therapy and dialectical behavioral therapy. In her clinical work, she specializes in evidence-based assessment and diagnosis and in the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders. She sees patients through the Faculty Group Practice at New York University Langone Health.[19]

Honors and awards[edit]

Van Meter is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the following.

Honors and Awards
Award Title Organization Year
Clinical and Translational Science Institute K to Independence Program NYU Langone Health 2022
Advancing Women in Science and Medicine Educational Advancement Award The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research 2021
NARSAD Young Investigator Award Brain and Behavior Research Foundation 2021
K23 Career Development Award K23MH120505 National Institute of Mental Health 2019
Barbara Zucker Early Faculty Career Award The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research 2019
Travel Award American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2018
Travel Award American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2018
Abidin Early Career Award Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 2018
Rising Star Association for Psychological Science 2018
John and Polly Sparks Foundation Early Career Grant American Psychological Foundation 2017
Visionary Grant American Psychological Foundation 2016
Hollander Seed Grant The Hollander Foundation 2016
Kavli Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience The National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the Kalvi Foundation 2016
Career Development Institute for Bipolar Disorder The National Institute of Mental Health and the University of Pittsburgh 2015
Clinical Scientist Training Initiative Grant Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology 2014
Institute of Clinical and Translational Research Grant Einstein-Montefiore Institute of Clinical and Translational Research 2014
Child Intervention, Prevention and Services (CHIPS) Fellowship National Institute of Mental Health 2014
Translational Research Pilot Grant North Carolina Translational and Clinical Services Institute 2011
Future Faculty Fellowship University of North Carolina Center for Faculty Excellence] 2011
Travel Award International Review of Bipolar Disorders 2011

Selected publications[edit]

Below are Van Meter's most cited publications out of more than 80 papers and chapters.

Selected Publications
Title Journal Year !
Meta-analysis of epidemiologic studies of pediatric bipolar disorder The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2011
Cyclothymic disorder: a critical review Clinical Psychology Review 2012
Clinical decision making about child and adolescent anxiety disorders using the Achenbach system of empirically based assessment Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology 2014
Multivariate meta-analysis of the discriminative validity of caregiver, youth, and teacher rating scales for pediatric bipolar disorder: Mother knows base about mania. Archives of Scientific Psychology 2015
Ten-year updated meta-analysis of the clinical characteristics of pediatric mania and hypomania Bipolar Disorders 2016
Empirically supported assessment of children and adolescents Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice 2016
The bipolar prodrome: meta-analysis of symptom prevalence prior to initial or recurrent mood episodes Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2016
Examining the validity of cyclothymic disorder in a youth sample Journal of Affective Disorders 2011
Cyclothymic Disorder The Encyclopedia of Clinical Psychology 2015
T he International Society for Bipolar Disorders Task Force report on pediatric bipolar disorder: Knowledge to date and directions for future research Bipolar Disorders 2017
Evidence-based assessment as an integrative model for applying psychological science to guide the voyage of treatment Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice 2017
Review and meta-analysis of epidemiologic studies of adult bipolar disorder The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2019
Updated meta-analysis of epidemiologic studies of pediatric bipolar disorder The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2019
Detecting relapse in youth with psychotic disorders utilizing patient-generated and patient-contributed digital data from Facebook npj Schizophrenia 2019
An International Society of Bipolar Disorders task force report: Precursors and prodromes of bipolar disorder Bipolar Disorders 2019

References[edit]

  1. ^ IMPACT Lab. (n.d.). IMPACT Lab:About. Impactlab. Retrieved September 2, 2022, from https://www.impactlabpsych.com/about
  2. ^ van Meter, A. (n.d.-a). Anna Van Meter CV. SCCAP53. Retrieved September 2, 2022, from https://sccap53.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Van-Meter-CV-01152018.pdf
  3. ^ Yeshiva University. (n.d.). Anna-Van Meter. Retrieved September 2, 2022, from https://www.yu.edu/faculty/pages/van-meter-anna
  4. ^ van Meter, A. (n.d.-b). Anna Van Meter, PhD. Google Scholar. Retrieved September 2, 2022, from https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=de-67vYAAAAJ&hl=en
  5. ^ van Meter, A. R., Moreira, A. L. R., & Youngstrom, E. A. (2011). Meta-Analysis of Epidemiologic Studies of Pediatric Bipolar Disorder. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 72(09), 1250–1256. https://doi.org/10.4088/jcp.10m06290
  6. ^ van Meter, A. R., Burke, C., Youngstrom, E. A., Faedda, G. L., & Correll, C. U. (2016). The Bipolar Prodrome: Meta-Analysis of Symptom Prevalence Prior to Initial or Recurrent Mood Episodes. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 55(7), 543–555. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2016.04.017
  7. ^ Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. (n.d.). Anna Van Meter, PhD, MA : Publications. Retrieved September 2, 2022, from https://faculty.medicine.hofstra.edu/9816-anna-van-meter/publications
  8. ^ Moon, K. C., van Meter, A. R., Kirschenbaum, M. A., Ali, A., Kane, J. M., & Birnbaum, M. L. (2021). Internet Search Activity of Young People With Mood Disorders Who Are Hospitalized for Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors: Qualitative Study of Google Search Activity. JMIR Mental Health, 8(10), e28262. https://doi.org/10.2196/28262
  9. ^ Borge, O., Cosgrove, V., Cryst, E., Grossman, S., Perkins, S., & van Meter, A. (2021). How Search Engines Handle Suicide Queries. Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.54501/jots.v1i1.16
  10. ^ van Meter, A., & Cosgrove, V. E. (2018). Overhauling technology-based interventions for young people with bipolar disorder: Lessons learned from adults. Bipolar Disorders, 21(1), 86–87. https://doi.org/10.1111/bdi.12716
  11. ^ van Meter, A., Stoddard, J., Penton-Voak, I., & Munafò, M. R. (2021). Interpretation bias training for bipolar disorder: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Affective Disorders, 282, 876–884. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.12.162
  12. ^ van Meter, A. R., Birnbaum, M. L., Rizvi, A., & Kane, J. M. (2019). Online help-seeking prior to diagnosis: Can web-based resources reduce the duration of untreated mood disorders in young people? Journal of Affective Disorders, 252, 130–134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2019.04.019
  13. ^ Perez Algorta, G., van Meter, A., Dubicka, B., Jones, S., Youngstrom, E., & Lobban, F. (2018). Blue blocking glasses worn at night in first year higher education students with sleep complaints: a feasibility study. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-018-0360-y
  14. ^ van Meter, A., Youngstrom, E., Youngstrom, J. K., Ollendick, T., Demeter, C., & Findling, R. L. (2014). Clinical Decision Making About Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Using the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 43(4), 552–565. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2014.883930
  15. ^ Helping Give Away Psychological Science. (n.d.-b). HGAPS - Home. Retrieved September 2, 2022, from https://www.hgaps.org/
  16. ^ Helping Give Away Psychological Science. (n.d.). Executive Team. Retrieved September 2, 2022, from https://www.hgaps.org/executive-team.html Archived 2020-04-12 at the Wayback Machine
  17. ^ APPA 2022–2023 Council | APPA. (n.d.). American Psychopathological Association. Retrieved September 2, 2022, from https://appassn.org/about-us/appa-council/
  18. ^ https:\/\/div12.org\/author\/annavm\/#author. (2015b, September 24). Anna Van Meter, PhD | Society of Clinical Psychology. Society of Clinical Psychology | Division 12 of the American Psychological Association. Retrieved September 2, 2022, from https://div12.org/clinician/anna-van-meter-phd/
  19. ^ van Meter, A. (n.d.). Home. Anna Van Meter, PhD. Retrieved September 2, 2022, from https://www.annavanmeter.com/

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