Anxiety and Psychotherapy Research Lab

of the Department of Psychology at Catholic University

 

Anxiety Research projects in our lab focus on cognitive factors in anxiety, with greatest emphasis on social and evaluation anxiety, and anxiety in sport performance.  Some of the areas addressed by previous and current studies include:

• sport anxiety, mindfulness, and thoughts during sport in the context of  mindfulness training       for athletes

• anxiety sensitivity, coping with panic, and thoughts during a biological challenge with Panic    Disorder patients

• social anxiety, perfectionism, and focus of attention in social interaction

• test anxiety, worry, and five-factor personality variables as predictors of performance among       law school alumni on the bar exam

• cognition and anxiety as predictors of performance in the first year of law school

• social anxiety, interdependence-independence, and the transition to college

• cognitive self-statements in social phobia across different social situations

• cognition and anxiety as predictors of performance on oral examinations

 

Psychotherapy Research primarily focuses on work in psychotherapy integration, with an emphasis on trying to understand the way in which different approaches to psychotherapy are combined and integrated in actual practice.  Recent and current studies include:

• decision-making theory and applications to integration of psychotherapy and                              pharmacotherapy for depression

• integrative therapy in manualized pure-form treatment for depression and its relation to               psychotherapy outcome

• assimilative integration of DBT into therapists’ primary theoretical orientation

• assimilative integration of EMDR into therapists’ primary theoretical orientation

• reported prototypical treatments in psychotherapy for PTSD in the community

• a patient-treatment fit@ and early engagement in therapy

• client perceptions of helpful and hindering aspects of psychotherapy

• pure-form and integrative therapists, psychotherapy methods, and the outcome of psychotherapy

 

 

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