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Evidence-Based Psychotherapy


The State of the Science and Practice



Edited by

Daniel David, Steven Jay Lynn, and Guy H. Montgomery
















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List of Contributors

Leigh A. Andrews is a doctoral student at the University of Delaware. He graduated cum laude from Bowdoin College in 2015 and worked for 2 years as a research coordinator in the Psychotherapy and Emotion Research Laboratory under Dr. Stefan G. Hofmann. He is interested in mechanisms of treatment in emotional disorders, particularly in novel forms of treatment. He is particularly interested in studying how some transdiagnostic factors, such as negative affect, emotional reactivity, and coping strategies including suppression, interact with treatment mechanisms.

Martin M. Antony is Professor of Psychology at Ryerson University in Toronto. He also holds faculty appointments in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University. His expertise is in the area of anxiety and related disorders (e.g., panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, phobias, obsessive–compulsive disorder) as well as perfectionism.

Isabelle Avildsen is an expert in the field of sexual disorder at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, approaching the disorders in an evidence-based paradigm.

Aaron T. Beck is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the father of cognitive therapy and the grandfather of cognitive–behavioral therapy. Professor Beck is considered one of the “Americans in history who shaped the face of American psychiatry” and one of the most influential psychotherapists of all time (e.g., by American Psychologist, 1998). Professor Beck is a key world expert in the in the theory, research, and treatment of depression.

Deborah C. Beidel is Trustee Chair and Pegasus Professor of Psychology and Medical Education at the University of Central Florida (UCF), where she is also Director of UCF RESTORES, a clinical research center dedicated to anxiety, stress, and trauma. Her recent work focuses on developing effective treatments for PTSD for veterans, active duty personnel, and first responders, using technology to enhance effective treatments for use in standard clinical practice.

Laura B. Bragdon is a graduate student in the Coles lab at the Department of Psychology, Binghamton University. She received her BS in psychology, with a minor in studio arts/art history, from Trinity College in 2008, and holds an MA in psychology from Columbia University. Before joining the Coles lab, she worked at the Anxiety Disorders Center at Hartford Hospital's Institute of Living as a full-time research assistant. Her areas of research interest focus on anxiety disorders and obsessive–compulsive disorder, specifically the varying mechanisms underlying the motivational domains of incompleteness and harm avoidance, the mediators and moderators involved in the treatment of anxiety disorders, and dissemination of evidence-based treatments for anxiety disorders more broadly.

Diana M. Cȃndea is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Babeş-Bolyai University, and a member of the International Institute for the Advanced Studies of Psychotherapy and Applied Mental Health (Cluj-Napoca, Romania). Her expertise is related to self-conscious emotions, emotion regulation, and evidence-based psychotherapies.

Rachel N. S. Cavalari is Director of Services of the Children's Unit for Treatment and Evaluation at the Institute for Child Development and adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Binghamton University. Her expertise is related to assessment, diagnosis, and treatment approaches for autism spectrum disorders, child safety and caregiver supervision, and staff supervision practices.

Meredith E. Coles is Professor of Psychology at Binghamton University and has served as the director of the Binghamton Anxiety Clinic since 2004. She is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Behavioral Therapy. Her expertise is in the nature and treatment of obsessive–compulsive disorder and anxiety disorders in both children and adults. Dr. Coles’ work spans basic mechanisms (e.g., information-processing biases, circadian rhythms) to treatment utilization (e.g., mental health literacy).

Lindsey M. Collins is a graduate student in the Coles lab in the Department of Psychology, Binghamton University. Her current areas of interest include the etiology of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), cognitive control deficits in OCD, and mechanisms of cognitive–behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety. Lindsey is currently involved in research projects investigating the development of OCD-related beliefs in children and the relation between electroencephalography indices, cognitive control, and OCD symptoms. Lindsey's clinical interests include CBT for child anxiety and behavior disorders. She is currently a clinician in the Binghamton Anxiety Clinic and the Binghamton Psychological Clinic. She interns twice a week at the Children's Home of Wyoming Conference.

Colleen M. Cowperthwait is a Clinical Associate and Fellow in the Clinical Psychology Fellowship Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center. She has clinical and research experience in cognitive–behavioral therapy and dialectical behavioral therapy, and studies how to adapt and implement evidence-based treatment programs. She is especially dedicated to adaptations of dialectical behavioral therapy for teens, college students, and young adults.

Ioana A. Cristea is Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Babeş-Bolyai University. Her research focuses on critically appraising the efficacy of psychological and pharmacological interventions for mental disorders, as well as issues related to transparency and rigor in clinical research.

Daniel David is Professor of Clinical Cognitive Sciences at Babeş-Bolyai University, Director for Research at the Albert Ellis Institute, Adjunct Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Director of the International Institute for the Advanced Studies of Psychotherapy and Applied Mental Health. His expertise is related to clinical cognitive neurogenetic sciences and evidence-based psychotherapies.

Barbara Depreeuw is based at the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University, and is an internationally trained clinical psychologist with wide clinical experience. She has worked at various universities and in clinical settings in the United States (University of California, Los Angeles; Boston University), the Netherlands, and Belgium (The Human Link; University of Leuven). She has over 10 years of experience in primary care, clinic, and corporate settings. Her main expertise is related to cognitive–behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders, work-related stress, and traumatic stress.

Anca Dobrean is Professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at Babeş-Bolyai University. Her main research interests are related to evidence-based assessment and treatment of children's and adolescents’ emotional and behavioral problems.

Manfred Döpfner is Professor of Psychotherapy in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne, Germany. He is a supervisor in behavior therapy and Director of the School of Child and Adolescent Cognitive Behavior Therapy at the University of Cologne and of the Institute of Clinical Child Psychology of the Christoph-Dornier-Foundation for Clinical Psychology at the University of Cologne. He received the German Psychology Prize for his scientific work in 2005.

Sharon Eldar is based at the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University, and is a clinical psychologist with vast experience as a clinical therapist, specializing in anxiety disorders. She received her PhD from Tel-Aviv University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Boston University. Her research is focused on the development of new therapeutic methods to treat anxiety and related disorders. These methods include attention bias modification, and enhancement of existing cognitive–behavioral therapy via positive affect training. In her clinical work, she works with all age groups and uses integrative methods in treating a wide range of mental disorders.

Jon D. Elhai is Professor in the Department of Psychology and in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio. His areas of research include posttraumatic stress disorder and cyberpsychology.

Stacy Ellenberg is a clinical psychology graduate student in the Department of Psychology at Binghamton University. Her research interests include technology-based interventions and psychosis.

Jessica C. Emanu is based at Long Island University and is an expert in the field of sexual disorders, approaching them from an evidence-based paradigm.

Katie Fracalanza is a clinical instructor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Stanford University. Her areas of expertise include cognitive–behavioral therapy, exposure and response prevention, and other empirically supported treatments for adults with mood and anxiety disorders. She is actively involved in research and in teaching psychotherapy to graduate students and psychiatry residents.

B. Christopher Frueh is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hawaii. His areas of research include posttraumatic stress disorder among combat veterans, and he also works extensively with retired and active duty members of the military special operations community.

Jennifer M. Gillis is Associate Professor and a member of the Clinical Psychology Faculty at Binghamton University. She is Codirector of the Institute for Child Development and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Her expertise is related to evidence-based treatment approaches for autism spectrum disorders throughout the lifespan, applied behavior analysis, and organizational behavior management.

Anouk L. Grubaugh is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina and a staff psychologist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. Her areas of research include posttraumatic stress disorder among combat veterans and people with severe mental illnesses.

Lisa K. Hecht is a doctoral student in clinical neuropsychology in the Department of Psychology at Georgia State University. Her research interests focus on the relationship between executive functioning, social cognition, and psychopathy.

Elisabeth Hertenstein is a psychologist and Research Associate at the University Medical Center Freiburg and member of the workgroup “Sleep, Insomnia and Mental Disorders.” She is a cognitive–behavioral therapist in training and currently works as a clinical psychologist at the sleep laboratory of the University Medical Center Freiburg.

Stefan G. Hofmann is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University. He has been the president of numerous national and international cognitive–behavioral therapy associations and has been the editor of various professional journals, including Cognitive Therapy and Research. His research focuses on the mechanism of treatment change, translating discoveries from neuroscience into clinical applications, emotion regulation, and cultural expressions of psychopathology.

Robert D. Latzman is an Associate Professor and Associate Director of Clinical Training in the Department of Psychology at Georgia State University. His research focuses on characterizing neurobehavioral mechanisms that underlie the development and persistence of psychopathological behaviors in both human and nonhuman primates, particularly externalizing-related behaviors (e.g., aggression, substance use, psychopathy).

Scott O. Lilienfeld is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology at Emory University and Visiting Professor at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on personality disorders (especially psychopathy), dissociative disorders, psychiatric classification, pseudoscience in psychology, evidence-based practice, and the application of scientific thinking to psychology.

Noriel E. Lim is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine, where he directs Emory's Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult Pre-doctoral Internship Training Program as well as the children's anxiety treatment program. He also serves on the Board of Convention Affairs for the American Psychological Association and on the Board of Directors for the Asian American Psychological Association.

Steven Jay Lynn is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Binghamton University, a licensed clinical psychologist, and the editor of Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice. He has published extensively in the areas of psychopathology, psychotherapy, memory, hypnosis and consciousness, and trauma.

James MacKillop is the Peter Boris Chair in Addictions Research, Director of the Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research, and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University/St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton. Dr. MacKillop is also a Senior Scientist at Homewood Research Institute.

Alok Madan is an Associate Professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine, and McNair Scholar and Senior Psychologist at the Menninger Clinic. His clinical and research interests include mental health quality and outcomes, psychosomatic and behavioral medicine, and minimally invasive neuromodulation for neuropsychiatric disorders.

Reed Maxwell is based at the Psychiatry Department, Weil-Cornell Medical College, and is an expert in clinical, health, and positive psychology, working in the framework of the evidence-based paradigm.

Hanna McCabe-Bennett is a graduate student at Ryerson University in Toronto. She is currently completing her predoctoral internship at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton with rotations in anxiety disorders, dialectical behavior therapy, and neuropsychology. Her expertise is in the area of anxiety and related disorders and hoarding.

Harald Merckelbach is Professor of Psychology and Law in the Departments of Forensic Psychology and Clinical Psychological Science, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University. His expertise is related to clinical psychology and law and he has been awarded the “Nobel Prize for Psychology.”

Guy H. Montgomery is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Behavioral Oncology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Montgomery is also a licensed clinical psychologist, specializing in behavioral medicine. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed empirical articles and has received research funding from the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society.

Sandra M. Neer is a clinical psychologist on the faculty of the Psychology Department at the University of Central Florida (UCF). She is Director of Clinical Services at UCF RESTORES, a clinical research center for trauma. Her research focuses on the outcome of evidence-based treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder in combat veterans and first responders.

Christian J. Nelson is a clinical psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He specializes in the treatment of patients with genitourinary malignancies and older patients with cancer. As the psychological liaison to the genitourinary and sexual medicine services, he helps men experiencing treatment-related sexual dysfunction, and their partners, optimize intimacy before, during, and after treatment. He also works with the geriatric disease management team in the hospital, providing psychological support for patients aged 65 and over coping with the combined issues of cancer and aging.

Max M. Owens is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Psychology at the University of Georgia.

Costina R. Păsărelu is Assistant Professor at Babeş-Bolyai University in the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy and a member of the International Institute for the Advanced Studies of Psychotherapy and Applied Mental Health. Her expertise is related to evidence-based assessment and interventions for children and adolescents. Her main research interests are transdiagnostic treatments delivered via technology for youth populations and parents.

Dieter Riemann has been tenured Professor of Clinical Psychophysiology at the University Medical Centre Freiburg since 1993. He is also head of the Department of Clinical Psychology at the Centre for Mental Disorders, and since 2015 he has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences). He served as a member of a DSM-5 workgroup for the American Psychiatric Association and is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Sleep Research. His research interests encompass the etiology, pathophysiology, and treatment of insomnia as well as neurophysiological and behavioral correlates of sleep and mental disorders.

Lorie A. Ritschel is Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine. She is a consultant and trainer in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) with Behavioral Tech, LLC, and she directs the adolescent DBT program at her private practice in Durham, North Carolina. Her areas of expertise are borderline personality disorder, emotion dysregulation, suicide and self-harm behavior, and a variety of empirically supported psychotherapies.

Raymond G. Romanczyk is a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor and a member of the clinical psychology faculty at Binghamton University. He is Codirector of the Institute for Child Development and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University. His expertise is related to evidence-based treatment approaches for autism spectrum disorders, large-scale service delivery, and information-processing for clinical decision-making.

Lindsay M. Stewart is Assistant Professor within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University. She specializes in the assessment and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders.

Monika Stojek is based at the Department of Psychology, University of Georgia and Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University. She is also a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Gregory P. Strauss is Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, and is an expert in the fields of psychosis and emotions. He takes a translational approach to studying various aspects of schizophrenia, relying on theoretical frameworks and methods from the field of affective neuroscience (e.g., functional magnetic resonance imaging, electroencephalography, event-related potentials, eye tracking, electrocardiography, electrodermal activity, and electromyography).

Aurora Szentágotai-Tătar is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at Babeş-Bolyai University, a fellow of the Albert Ellis Institute, and a member of the International Institute for the Advanced Studies of Psychotherapy and Applied Mental Health. Her expertise is related to emotion regulation and evidence-based psychotherapies.

Lauren VanderBroek-Stice is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Psychology at the University of Georgia.

Bogdan Voinescu is a clinical research fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, and a lecturer in Psychiatry at the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Babeş-Bolyai University. His research interests have mainly been related to insomnia and circadian rhythms in various psychiatric and somatic conditions.