Cynthia Hartung
Assistant Professor
Disruptive behavior disorders across the lifespan Community mental health screening
Clinical Psychology

Ph.D., University of Kentucky 1998

Pre-doctoral internship at the University of Chicago Medical Center, 1997-1998

M.S., University of Kentucky 1993

B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison 1990
chartung@uwyo.edu • (307)766-6106 • Bio Sciences Bldg 125

Office Hours: M 1:00-2:00pm
W 3:00-4:00pm

Academic Positions:
2007 - present      Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Wyoming
2002 - 2007          Assistant Professor of Psychology, Oklahoma State University
2001 - 2002          Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Denver
1999 - 2001          Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
1998 - 1999          Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow, Oregon Health Sciences University

Current Graduate Students:
Carolyn Cleveland, M.S.
David Fedele, M.S.
Erica Allen, B.S.

Former Graduate Students:
Elizabeth Lefler, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Benjamin Sigel, Ph.D., Predoctoral Intern, Allegheny General Hospital

Research Interests:
Disruptive behavior disorders across the lifespan
Community mental health screening
Sex, age, and ethnicity differences in psychopathology
Bullying and victimization in schools

Teaching:
PSYC 3300 - Gender Development
PSYC 4310 - Behavior Disorders of Childhood
PSYC 5400 - Clinical Assessment I
PSYC 5500 - Psychopathology I

*Student co-authors

Publications:

Manuscripts Submitted for Publication

*Little, C. S., Hartung, C. M., Page, M. C. & *Allen, E. K. A comparison of student-report measures of Bullying and victimization in elementary schools.

Willcutt, E. G., Bidwell, L. C., Hartung, C. M., Barnard, H., Santerre-Lemmon, L., Shanahan, M., Betjemann, R., *Lefler, E. K. & Pennington, B. F. The neuropsychology of ADHD: A comparison of five competing theories.

Hartung, C. M., *Lefler, E. K., Crawford, M. F., Willcutt, E. G., & Pennington, B. F. Taxonomic and statistical approaches to examining sex differences in psychopathology: An illustration with a community sample of children and adolescents with and without ADHD.

*Fedele, D. A., Hartung, C. M., Canu, W. H. & Wilkowski, B. M. Multisite examination of new symptoms of ADHD in emerging adults.

*Fedele, D. A., *Lefler, E. K., Hartung, C. M., & Canu, W. H., (2009). Sex differences in the manifestation of ADHD in young adults.

Publications

*Bartgis, J., *Lefler, E. K., Hartung, C. M., & Thomas, D. G. (2009). Contrast sensitivity in children with and without ADHD. In press at Developmental Neuropsychology.

Hartung, C. M., *Lefler, E. K., *Tempel, A., *Armendariz, M. L., *Sigel, B. A., & *Little, C. S. (2009). Halo effects in the assessment of ADHD and ODD: Identification of susceptible symptoms. In press at Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment.

Hartung, C. M. & *Lefler, E. K. (2009). Preliminary examination of a new mental health screener in a pediatric sample. In press at Journal of Pediatric Health Care.

Representative Publications

*Lefler, E. K., Hartung, C. M., Scambler, D. J., Page, M. C., Sullivan, M. A., *Armendariz, M. L., *Isenberg, J. C., & *Warner, C. (2009). Effects of social skills intervention administered in mixed diagnostic groups for children with peer relationship problems. NHSA Dialog: A Research-to-practice Journal for the Early Intervention Field, 12, 18-32.

*Lefler, E. K., Hartung, C. M. &Scambler, D. J. (2009). Extension of a social skills intervention program for school-age children to the Head Start population. NHSA Dialog: A Research-to-practice Journal for the Early Intervention Field, 12, 51-59

*Bartgis, J., Thomas, D. G., *Lefler, E. K. & Hartung, C. M. (2008). The development of attention and response inhibition in early childhood. Infant and Child Development, 17, 491-502.

Hartung, C. M. & Scambler, D. J. (2007).  Approaches to measuring, preventing, and decreasing bullying and victimization in schools.  In Evans, S. W., Weist, M., & Serpell, Z. (Eds.).  Advances in School-Based Mental Health Interventions  (Vol. 2, pp. 13:1-13:17). New York: Civic Research Institute.

Lahey, B. B., Hartung, C. M., Loney, J., Pelham, W. E., Chronis, A. M. & Lee, S. (2007). Are there sex differences in the predictive validity of DSM-IV ADHD among younger children? Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 26, 113-126.

Hartung, C. M. & Scambler, D. J. (2006).  Dealing with bullying and victimization in schools.  Report on Emotional and Behavioral Disorders in Youth, 6, 77-80. New York: Civic Research Institute.

Hartung, C. M., *Van Pelt, J., *Armendariz, M. L. & Knight, L. A. (2006).  Biases in ratings of disruptive behavior in children: Effects of sex and negative halos.  Journal of Attention Disorders, 9, 620-630.

Hartung, C. M., McCarthy, D. M., Milich, R. & Martin, C. A. (2005).  Parent-adolescent agreement on disruptive behavior symptoms: A multitrait-multimethod model.  Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 27, 159-168.

Lahey, B. B., Pelham, W. E., Loney, J., Kipp, H., Ehrhardt, A., Lee, S., Willcutt, E. G., Hartung, C. M., Chronis, A., and Massetti, G. (2004).  Three-year predictive validity of DSM-IV attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children diagnosed at 4-6 years of age.  American Journal of Psychiatry, 161, 2014-2020.

Hartung, C. M., Milich, R., Lynam, D. R., & Martin, C. A. (2002). Understanding the relations among gender, disinhibition, and disruptive behavior in adolescents.  Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 111, 659-664.

Hartung, C. M., Willcutt, E. G., Lahey, B. B., Pelham, W. E., Loney, J., Stein, M., & Keenan, K. (2002).  Gender differences in young children who meet criteria for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 31, 453-464.

Willcutt, E. G., Hartung, C. M., Lahey, B. B., Loney, J. & Pelham, W. E. (1999).  Diagnostic utility of behavior ratings by examiners during assessments of children with Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.  Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 27, 463-472.

Lahey, B. B., Pelham, W. E., Stein, M., Loney, J., Trapani, C., Nugent, K., Kipp, H., Schmidt, E., Lee, S., Cale, M., Gold, E., Hartung, C. M., Willcutt, E. G. & Baumann, B. (1998).  Validity of DSM-IV Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder for young children.  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 37, 695-702.

Hartung, C. M. & Widiger, T. A. (1998).  Gender differences in the diagnosis of mental disorders: Conclusions and controversies of DSM-IV.  Psychological Bulletin, 123, 260-278.