Nikeea Copeland Linder

Biography

Dr. Nikeea Copeland Linder is an Associate Professor of Psychology. She earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and a Master of Public Health in Health Behavior and Health Education from the University of Michigan. She completed an NIMH-funded postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Michigan and a research fellowship in the Department of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her research examines the impact of contextual stress on the mental health and health-risk behaviors of children and adolescents. She is particularly interested in individual, family, and cultural protective factors that decrease depression and anxiety and enhance adaptive coping among youth who have experienced high levels of stress. Her work also focuses on the development of evidence-based interventions designed to reduce stress and promote resilience. Dr. Linder is a co-developer and project team leader of the COPE Project, a training program at Kennedy Krieger Institute designed to deliver an evidence-based group mental health intervention to adolescents with autism spectrum disorder who have experienced stressful life events. She is passionate about training the next generation of mental health and public health leaders, practitioners and researchers.

Education

• Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Michigan
• M.P.H., Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
• M.A., Clinical Psychology, University of Michigan
• B.A., Psychology, University of Michigan

Presentations

• • Copeland-Linder, N., Otite, E., Serico, J., Jamora, M., & Belcher, H. M. E. (2016).Neurobiology of child maltreatment and psychological trauma. In M.V. Johnson, H. P.Adams, & S. A. Fatemi (Eds). Neurobiology of Disease, Second Edition. (pp. 1269-1274). Oxford University Press.
• • Perry-Parrish, C., Copeland-Linder, N., Webb, L., Shields, A. H., & Sibinga, E. M. (2016). Improving self-regulation in adolescents: current evidence for the role of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy. Adolescent health, medicine and therapeutics, 7, 101–108. https://doi.org/10.2147/AHMT.S65820
• • Copeland-Linder, N., Lambert, S. F., Chen, Y., & Ialongo, N. (2011). Contextual stress and health risk behaviors among African American adolescents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 40, 158-173. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-010-9520-y
• • Murry, V. M., Berkel, C., Gaylord-Harden, N., Copeland-Linder, N., & Nation, M. (2011).Neighborhood poverty and adolescent development. Journal of Research on Adolescence: Special issue Decade Review, 21, 114-128. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-7795.2010.00718.x
• Copeland-Linder, N., Lambert, S. F., Chen, Y., & Ialongo, N. (2011). Contextual stress
• and health risk behaviors among African American adolescents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 40, 158-173. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-010-9520-y
• Murry, V. M., Berkel, C., Gaylord-Harden, N., Copeland-Linder, N., & Nation, M. (2011).
• Neighborhood poverty and adolescent development. Journal of Research on Adolescence: Special issue Decade Review, 21, 114-128. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-7795.2010.00718.x
• Copeland-Linder, N., Lambert, S. F., & Ialongo, N. S. (2010). Community violence, protective factors, and adolescent mental health: A profile analysis. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 39, 176-186. doi: 10.1080/15374410903532601