Andres De Los Reyes

De Los Reyes completed triple majors (B.A. in psychology and political science and B.S. in criminal justice) at Florida International University. He attended Yale University where he received his M.S., M. Phil and Ph.D. in clinical psychology. He completed his clinical psychology internship at the Department of Psychology, Institute for Juvenile Research at University of Illinois at Chicago.[2]

Professor of Psychology, University of Maryland at College Park[2]

2020–2021, Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Mental Health[3]

Director, Comprehensive Assessment and Intervention Program[4]

Editor, Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology[5]

Program Chair, Future Directions Forum[6]

De Los Reyes’ research broadly focuses on the most common outcomes of youth mental health assessments, more specifically that informants typically involved in these assessments (e.g., parents, teachers, youth themselves) provide discrepant reports about youth mental health, even when they complete the same measures or respond to the same items (i.e., informant discrepancies). De Los Reyes' work on these informant discrepancies covers assessments of domains as diverse as autism, social anxiety, disruptive behavior, peer relations, family functioning, depression, and conduct problems[7][8]

De Los Reyes is interested in understanding what informant discrepancies tell us about youth undergoing evaluation.[9] For instance, when a parent reports high levels of a symptom in their child that a teacher does not corroborate in their report, might such a discrepancy serve as a signal that the youth has mental health needs which appear at home to a greater extent than they do at school? Addressing this question is important because there are no clear guidelines in the field for what to make of this information,[10][11] and De Los Reyes seeks to mitigate uncertainties in research and clinical service decision-making by understanding factors that reliably predict the occurrence of these discrepancies.[7]

De Los Reyes takes a conceptually grounded and team scholarship approach to examining how informant discrepancies in youth mental health assessments reveal meaningful clinical information regarding the contexts in which the youth display mental health concerns.[7][9][12] De Los Reyes works across fields including cognitive science, education, human development, neuroscience, organizational behavior, medicine, and social work. His work involves research on informant discrepancies relevant to assessments conducted across developmental periods, including early childhood, adolescence, and periods of adulthood. De Los Reyes studies multiple mental health domains including social anxiety, disruptive behavior, autism, social competence, substance use, family functioning, and peer relations. De Los Reyes integrates multi-informant, psychophysiological, observational, and performance-based assessment paradigms in his work. He uses these paradigms to test questions using experimental, controlled observation, naturalistic, and quantitative review research designs. De Los Reyes' long-term goal in research is to understand informant discrepancies and the factors that shape them, and to leverage this knowledge to develop strategies that optimize decision-making in the settings in which these discrepancies occur.[7]

De Los Reyes has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.[2] Below are a selection of some of his most cited work and most recent work.

• De Los Reyes, A., Wang, M., Lerner, M.D., Makol, B.A., Fitzpatrick, O., & Weisz, J.R. (2022). The Operations Triad Model and youth mental health assessments: Catalyzing a paradigm shift in measurement validation. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2022.2111684
• De Los Reyes, A., Talbott, E., Power, T., Michel, J., Cook, C.R., Racz, S.J., & Fitzpatrick, O. (2022). The Needs-to-Goals Gap: How informant discrepancies in youth mental health assessments impact service delivery. Clinical Psychology Review, 92, 102114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2021.102114
• De Los Reyes, A., Tyrell, F.A., Watts, A.L., & Asmundson, G.J.G. (2022). Conceptual, methodological, and measurement factors that disqualify use of measurement invariance techniques to detect informant discrepancies in youth mental health assessments. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 931296. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.931296
• Charamut, N.R., Racz, S.J., Wang, Mo, & De Los Reyes, A. (2022). Integrating multi-informant reports of youth mental health: A construct validation test of Kraemer and Colleagues’ (2003) Satellite Model. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 911629. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.911629
• Makol, B.A., Youngstrom, E.A., Racz, S.J., Qasmieh, N., Glenn, L.E., & De Los Reyes, A. (2020). Integrating multiple informants’ reports: How conceptual and measurement models may address long-standing problems in clinical decision-making. Clinical Psychological Science, 8(6), 953–970. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702620924439
• De Los Reyes, A., Augenstein, T. M., Wang, M., Thomas, S. A., Drabick, D. A. G., Burgers, D. E., & Rabinowitz, J. (2015). The validity of the multi-informant approach to assessing child and adolescent mental health. Psychological Bulletin, 141(4), 858–900. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0038498
• De Los Reyes, A., Thomas, S. A., Goodman, K. L., & Kundey, S. M. A. (2013). Principles underlying the use of multiple informants’ reports. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 9, 123–149. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-050212-185617
• De Los Reyes, A. (2011). Introduction to the Special Section: More Than Measurement Error: Discovering Meaning Behind Informant Discrepancies in Clinical Assessments of Children and Adolescents. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 40(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2011.533405
• De Los Reyes, A., & Kazdin, A. E. (2005). Informant Discrepancies in the Assessment of Childhood Psychopathology: A Critical Review, Theoretical Framework, and Recommendations for Further Study. Psychological Bulletin, 131(4), 483–509. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.131.4.483

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