Stephen P. Becker, Ph.D.

Stephen P. Becker, Ph.D., is an associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Becker has authored or co-authored over 175 publications on ADHD, sleep, and sluggish cognitive tempo in children and adolescents. Dr. Becker is the editor of ADHD in Adolescents: Development, Assessment, and Treatment, published by Guilford Press. He is a Joint Editor of JCPP Advances and serves on the editorial/advisory boards of Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (formerly Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology), Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Journal of Attention Disorders, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Adolescent Research Review, and The ADHD Report.

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