Faculty
Lauren Bennett Cattaneo
Ph.D., University of Maryland. Assistant Professor.
Intimate partner violence, psychology of gender, and risk assessment. Dr. Cattaneo is the Principal Investigator on a Department of Justice funded program evaluation at the US Attorney’s Office in the District of Columbia, and has held prior positions conducting policy-relevant research. Her major interest is the utility of psychology for addressing pressing social problems. Her research has focused on domestic violence in the context of the court system, and risk assessment in domestic violence cases. She has published papers in the Journal of Community Psychology, the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Violence and Victims, and Violence against Women.
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Christianne Esposito-Smythers
Ph.D., Virginia Tech. Assistant Professor.
Social-cognitive development, prevention, and treatment of adolescent mental health problems and risk behaviors. Dr. Esposito-Smythers’s research interests include the study of social cognitive processes associated with the development of adolescent suicidality, depression, and substance abuse. She is also interested in the design and application of cognitive behavioral treatment and prevention protocols for adolescent psychopathology and high risk behaviors. Dr. Esposito-Smythers’s research has been funded by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS. Her papers have appeared in the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, American Journal on Addictions, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, and others. She is currently on the editorial board for the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
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Todd B. Kashdan
Ph.D., University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Associate Professor.
His work largely focuses on social anxiety and other anxiety related conditions, the role of self-regulation and positive psychological processes in understanding and treating psychopathology, risk and resilience pathways to positive health, and the assessment and cultivation of curiosity, gratitude, sense of humor, and meaning in life in clinical and non-clinical populations. Much of this research involves understanding emotional, social, and motivational factors associated with various emotion disturbances. His work integrates theory and research from clinical, personality, and social psychology. He has published papers in Psychological Science, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Therapy and Research, Journal of Anxiety Disorders, and others. His work has been funded by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology, the Anxiety Disorder Association of America, and other sources.
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James E. Maddux
Ph.D., University of Alabama. Professor.
Dr. Maddux is a Professor of Psychology at George Mason University. His major interest is the integration of theory from clinical, social, and health psychology. His research is concerned primarily with understanding the influence of beliefs about personal effectiveness and control on psychological adjustment and health-related behavior. He is the former Editor of the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology and former director of the clinical psychology doctoral program. He has published papers in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Health Psychology, and American Psychologist. He is the co-editor (with Barbara Winstead) of Psychopathology: Foundations for a Contemporary Understanding and (with June Tangney) of the forthcoming Social Psychological Foundations of Clinical Psychology. Dr. Maddux is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association Divisions of General, Clinical, and Health Psychology.
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Patrick E. McKnight
Ph.D., University of Arizona. Assistant Professor.
Applied quantitative methods, measurement, research design, and health services research. Dr. McKnight's primary interests are in the application of quantitative methods to better understand the empirical research results. He works primarily with health services researchers to develop better outcome measures and better data analytic approaches in a wide range of medical fields including low-vision, cardiology, arthritis, cancer, chronic pain, asthma, and mental health. Dr. McKnight's published work can be found in the American Psychologist, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Journal of Public Health, Journal of Applied Measurement, Journal of Pain, Journal of Asthma, among others. He is the coauthor of a forthcoming book on missing data (Guilford Press) that presents missing data from a methodologist's perspective.
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Jonathan J. Mohr
Ph.D., University of Maryland. Assistant Professor.
Dr. Mohr is interested in diversity issues in psychology including sexual orientation, same-sex romantic relationships, and psychotherapy with gay, lesbian, and bisexual clients. Some of his work has also focused on race and gender issues and psychotherapy process. His papers have appeared in the Journal of Counseling Psychology, Counseling Psychologist, Clinical Psychology: Science & Practice, and Applied & Preventive Psychology.
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Keith D. Renshaw
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Assistant Professor.
Dr. Renshaw is interested in (1) one's own and one's partner's attributions about the mental health symptoms and disorders that one of them suffers, (2) one's perceptions of one's partner's behaviors and disorder-related cognitions, and (3) how these perceptions, cognitions, and behaviors interact with each other and affect the progression of symptoms. He studies these constructs in individuals with symptoms or disorders related to depression, generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and panic, and more broadly in combat veterans. The overarching goal of his work is the development of family-based interventions that will (1) enhance individuals' response to treatment for anxiety and affective disorders and (2) improve family functioning and decrease family members' distress. His papers have appeared in the Journal of Clinical Psychology, Clinical Psychology Review, Behavior Therapy, and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
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John H. Riskind
Ph.D., Yale University. Professor.
Dr. Riskind's research focuses on cognitive aspects of anxiety and mood disorders, including cognitive theories of emotion and emotion disorders, and cognitive-behavior therapy. The primary thrust of his research is on cognitive styles and processes that underlie anxiety syndromes and disorders. He has developed his own theoretical model of these processes called the looming vulnerability model. Dr. Riskind teaches the social cognitive interventions (cognitive therapy) class in the doctoral program. He trained in cognitive therapy with Aaron Beck at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and worked with Aaron Beck on research and clinical work for two years. He is the chief editor of the International Journal of Cognitive Therapy.
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Jerome L. Short
Ph.D., Arizona State University. Associate Professor, Director of Clinical Training.
Community mental health promotion; family stress and coping. Dr. Short's specific research interests include developing and evaluating mental health promotion programs for children, adolescents, and college students; understanding the long-term effects of parental divorce on children; social support; substance abuse prevention; and mental health policy. His teaching interests include clinical supervision; group, couple and family psychotherapy; and community psychology theory and practice. His papers have appeared in the American Journal of Community Psychology, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Family Relations, Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, Journal of Primary Prevention, Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, and White House Studies.
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June Price Tangney
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. Professor.
Emotional development, shame and guilt, constructive vs. destructive responses, scientific ethics. Dr. Tangney's teaching interests include psychological assessment, personality, research methodology and statistics, systems of psychotherapy, and adolescent psychology. Dr. Tangney's research, funded by grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, focuses on personality and emotional development. Her papers have appeared in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Child Development, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, and others. She is currently a consulting editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. She is the co-editor of the book, Self-Conscious Emotions: The Psychology of Shame, Guilt, Embarrassment, and Pride.
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