	Founder and President Jeremy J. Taylor, M.A. worked for the last seven years in statistical analysis, data management, and research methodology, consulting and teaching for the last three. When not working with VYS clients, Jeremy is a PhD candidate and serves as Data Management and Analysis Team Coordinator for DePaul University's Stress and Coping Project. Jeremy is committed to offering professional analysis his clients can confidently apply to their projects. Jeremy is a member of the American Statistical Association. View his authored publications following Matthew's profile.
Jeremy J. Taylor, M.A. jtaylor@varyyourstats.com

Jeremy's Professional Publications

Gaylord-Harden, N.K., Taylor, J. J., Campbell, C. L., Kesselring, C. M., & Grant, K. E. (2009). Maternal Attachment and Depressive Symptoms in Urban Adolescents: The Influence of Coping Strategies and Gender,Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 38, 1-12.

Grant, K. E., McCormick, A., Poindexter, L., Simpkins, T., Janda, C. M., Thomas, K. J., Campbell, A., Carleton, R., & Taylor, J. J., (2005). Exposure to violence and parenting as mediators between poverty and psychological symptoms in urban African American adolescents. Journal of Adolescence, 28, 507-521.

Taylor, J. J., Grant, K. E., Irsheid, S., & Meyerson, D. A. (2010) Peer and family support as moderators of the relationship between stress and symptoms in low-income urban youth. Preparing for journal submission.

Grant, K. E., Taylor, J. J., & Thompson, S. (2008). Stress in childhood and adolescence. In R. Contrada & A. Baum (Eds.). Handbook of Stress Science. Springer Publishing.

Grant, K. E., McMahon, S. D., Duffy, S. N., & Taylor, J. J. (In Press). Book Chapter: Stress. In B. Brown & M. Prinstein (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Academic Press

Davis, T., Grant, K. E., Taylor, J. J., Nathanson, A., Barrett, E., & Sokolowski, C. (2010). Stressful life experiences and peer externalizing behavior as mediators of the relation between reduced family support and externalizing symptoms in low-income urban youth. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Grant, K. E., Thomas, K. J., Carlson, G. C., Gipson, P. Y., Mance, G. A., Smith Carter, J., Carleton, R. A., Taylor, J. J., Carothers, K. J., Ford, R. E., Sajous-Brady, D. L., Cardemil, E. V., & Lambert, S. F. (2010). Why aren’t low-income urban youth more depressed: A test of two hypotheses. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Carleton, R., Grant, K.E., Campbell, A., Thomas, K., Mance, G., & Taylor, J. (Manuscript under preparation.). Specificity of cognitive predictors for depression in urban youth.

Grant, K. E., Carleton, R. A., Taylor, J. J., Meyerson, D., Cosentino, S., Sharko, M., Noorian, N., & Behling, S. (Manuscript under preparation). Protective factors that break the link between stressors and psychological symptoms in adolescents.

Grant, K. E., Westerholm, R., Farahmand, F., Taylor, J. J., Gipson, P. Y., Mance, G., A., & Sajous-Brady, D. L. (Manuscript under preparation). The manifestation of depression in urban youth exposed to chronic stress.

Jeremy's Symposia and Presentations

Taylor, J.J., Grant, K.E., Amrhein, K, Carter, J (March, 2010). Does the Context of Urban Poverty Affect the Manifestation of Depression: Examining the Factor Structure of the Children's Depression Inventory in a Sample of Low-income Urban Youth. Symposium presented at the biennial conference of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Philadelphia, PA.

Taylor, J.J., Grant, K. E., Ford-Paz, R., Farahmand, F., Carter, Smith, Meyerson, D. A., et al., (November, 2009).Testing the Universality of Risk Factors for Psychopathology in Highly Stressed Youth, Symposiumpresented at the annual convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.

Grant, K. E. & Taylor, J. (March, 2007). Stressors and developmental psychopathology: Conceptualization and measurement issues. Paper presented at the biennial convention of the Society for Research on Child Development, Boston, MA.

Grant, K. E., Westerholm, R. I., Farahmand, F. K., & Taylor, J. J., (March, 2006). The manifestation of depression in low-income urban youth. Paper presented at the biennial convention of the Society for Research on Adolescence, San Francisco, CA.

Cultural Identity, Gender, and Psychological Symptoms in Latino Adolescents. R. Ford-Paz; K. E. Grant; D. Sajous-Brady; S. Thompson; J. J. Taylor View Pres.

Malinowski, S., Taylor, J. J., Grant, K. E., & Farahmand, F. K. (March, 2006). Exploring mediation in the relationship between chronic stress and externalizing symptoms in low-income urban youth. Poster presented at the biennial convention of the Society for Research on Adolescence, San Francisco, CA.