Rate My Professor Jennifer Gillis Mattson

Jennifer Gillis Mattson is a professor in the Psychology department at the State University of New York at Binghamton, where she also holds a courtesy professorship in the School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering. She earned her BA with Honors in Psychology in 1999, MA in Clinical Psychology in 2002, and PhD in Clinical Psychology in 2006, all from Binghamton University, after completing her predoctoral internship in Child Clinical Psychology at Brown University. From 2006 to 2012, she served as Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor in Auburn University's Department of Psychology, including as Interim Director of the Applied Behavior Analysis Master’s Program. Since joining Binghamton in 2013, she has been promoted to full Professor and named Distinguished Service Professor by SUNY. She is also a Visiting Professor of Psychology at CHRIST University in Bengaluru, India, Adjunct Assistant Professor at Upstate Medical University, Co-Director of the Institute for Child Development at Binghamton, and Co-Director of the Centre for Neurodiversity Research and Innovation at CHRIST University.

Mattson's research specializations include lifespan issues for neurodivergent and autistic individuals, service provider and parent training, support, professional development, and dissemination and adaptation of evidence-based practices benefiting autistic individuals in limited-resource settings. Her current projects involve factors predicting satisfaction and success in higher education for autistic adults, online safety risk factors, cultural adaptation of evidence-based practices, development of expertise in autism and neurodiversity internationally, interventions improving health through community engagement, risk factors for school absenteeism, and machine learning to identify predictors for service access, developmental change, and mental health outcomes. Notable publications comprise "Profiles of School Refusal Among Neurodivergent Youth" (Granieri et al., 2023), "The Assessment of Bullying Experiences Questionnaire (ABE) for Neurodivergent Youth: Establishing Scoring Criteria and Clinical Thresholds" (Morton et al., 2024), "Deep learning-based school attendance prediction for autistic students" (Jarbou et al., 2022), and earlier works such as "A meta-analysis of behavioral interventions for adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorders" (Roth et al., 2014). She has earned awards including the SUNY Distinguished Service Professor title, Binghamton University Award for Excellence in International Education, Excellence in Service & Leadership Award from the Alabama Association for Behavior Analysis (2012), Mentor of the Year (Auburn Psychology, 2012), and Researcher of the Year (Auburn Psychology, 2007).