Dr. Stephanie Diane Stepp PH.D.
Psychologist | Clinical Child & Adolescent
123 S Fairmount St Pittsburgh PA, 15206About
Dr. Stephanie Stepp is a psychologist practicing in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Stepp specializes in the treatment of mental health problems, and helps people to cope with their mental illnesses. As a psychologist, Dr. Stepp evaluates and treats patients through a variety of methods, most typically being psychotherapy or talk therapy. Patients usually visit Dr. Stepp because they have been experiencing depression, anxiety, stress or anger for a significant period of time and are seeking help. Psychologists may perform a variety of exams and assessments to diagnose a mental condition.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A parallel process model of the development of positive smoking expectancies and smoking behavior during early adolescence in Caucasian and African American girls.
- Brief report: Parsing the heterogeneity of adolescent girls' sexual behavior: relationships to individual and interpersonal factors.
- Time-varying associations between conduct problems and alcohol use in adolescent girls: the moderating role of race.
- Striking the (Im)Proper Balance between Scientific Advances and Clinical Utility: Commentary on the DSM-5 Proposal for Personality Disorders.
- Adolescent disruptive behavior and borderline personality disorder symptoms in young adult men.
- Development of borderline personality disorder in adolescence and young adulthood: introduction to the special section.
- Sex and age differences in the risk threshold for delinquency.
- White and black adolescent females differ in profiles and longitudinal patterns of alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use.
- Racial differences in type of alcoholic beverage consumed during adolescence in the Pittsburgh Girls Study.
- Predictors and consequences of developmental changes in adolescent girls' self-reported quality of attachment to their primary caregiver.
- Emotional reactivity and its impact on neural circuitry for attention-emotion interaction in childhood and adolescence.
- Mental health and substance use disparities among urban adolescent lesbian and bisexual girls.
- Trajectories of depression and anxiety symptoms in adolescent girls: a comparison of parallel trajectory approaches.
- Affective behavior during mother-daughter conflict and borderline personality disorder severity across adolescence.
- Parental punishment and peer victimization as developmental precursors to physical dating violence involvement among girls.
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