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Faculty
Rick Heimberg, Ph.D. received his doctoral degree from Florida State University in 1977. In the 30 years since, he has been a member of the clinical psychology faculties at the University at Albany, State University of New York, and Temple University, where he is currently Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Director of the Adult Anxiety Clinic of Temple. He is Past President of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy and the current Editor of its flagship journal Behavior Therapy. Dr. Heimberg is well known for his work on the development and evaluation of cognitive-behavioral treatments for social anxiety disorder and for his more recent work on emotion dysregulation in generalized anxiety disorder. He has published 300 papers on these and related topics. He is co-editor/co-author of 8 books, including; Social Phobia: Diagnosis, Assessment, and Treatment, Managing Social Anxiety: A cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy for Social Phobia: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Strategies, Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Advances in Research and Practice, Making Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Work: Clinical Process for New Practitioners, and Improving Outcomes and Preventing Relapse in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Dr. Heimberg’s work has been supported by a number of grants from the National Institute of Mental health. His work has also been recognized in several other ways. For example, he was name one of the eight most influential researchers in anxiety in a 2001 survey of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America. In 2001, he was also the inaugural recipient of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy’s A.T. Beck Award for Significant and Enduring Contribution to Cognitive Therapy. In 2005, he received awards from Temple University (Paul Eberman Award for Outstanding Faculty Research) and Florida State University (Doctoral Graduate of Distinction in Clinical Psychology). In 2006, he was named the Outstanding Mentor by the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy based on his work with over 50 doctoral students in clinical psychology.
Steve Levinson, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist (University of Rochester, 1973) and director of a comprehensive mental health program in rural Minnesota that marches to the beat of a different drummer. Levinson, an outspoken critic of the traditional medical model of mental health care, developed and implemented an award-winning outside-the-box model for dramatically improving the functional abilities and quality of life of persons with mental illness. He is an author, inventor, unabashed contrarian and popular speaker who has made several national and international media appearances.
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychology at Emory University in Atlanta. Dr. Lilienfeld is founder and editor of the new journal, Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice and is past (2001-2002) President of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology, which is Section III within Division 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology) of the American Psychological Association (APA). He also served as the Division 12 Program Chair for the 2001 APA Convention. He is a member of eight journal editorial boards, including the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Psychological Assessment, and Clinical Psychology Review, and he has served as an external reviewer for over 50 journals and several grant proposals. Dr. Lilienfeld has published over 160 articles, book chapters, and books in the areas of personality disorders (particularly psychopathic personality), personality assessment, anxiety disorders, psychiatric classification and diagnosis, and questionable practices in clinical psychology. In 1998, Dr. Lilienfeld received the David Shakow Award for Outstanding Early Career Contributions to Clinical Psychology from APA Division 12.
Sandra Sigmon, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at the University of Maine, an Allied Senior Scientist with the Maine Institute for Human Genetics and Health and an Allied Scientist with Eastern Maine Medical Center. Dr. Sigmon teaches Advanced Psychopathology, Abnormal Psychology, Health Psychology of Women courses as well as supervising doctoral clinical students in the Psychological Services Center at the University of Maine. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1989. She spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Kansas, working with Rick Snyder and Annette Stanton researching the relationship between stress and coping. Her research interest include investigation vulnerability factors that contribute to the severity and experience of seasonal affective disorder, developing alternative treatment approaches for SAD, gender issues in psychopathology and menstrual cycle reactivity in women with panic disorder and in women who are at risk for developing panic disorder. Dr. Sigmon is currently working on a project looking at cortisol levels across the menstrual cycle in women with panic disorder. With over 50 publications, she has published in top journals in psychology and continues to play a very active role in the activities of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. She recently received a DOD grant to investigate the development of posttraumatic symptoms in the well siblings of children with cancer and is a co-PI on a small grant to investigate the effect of chemotherapy on learning in mice. She also continues to publish research on seasonal affective disorder.
Robyn D. Walser, Ph.D., is a psychologist at the National Center for PTSD, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System and she works as a consultant, workshop presenter and therapist in her private business, TLConsultation Services. Dr. Walser received her degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Nevada-Reno. During her graduate studies she developed expertise in traumatic stress, substance abuse, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). She has been doing ACT workshop trainings both nationally and internationally since 1998; training in multiple formats and for multiple client problems. She is currently developing innovative ways to translate science=into-practice and is responsible for the dissemination of state-of-the-art knowledge and treatment interventions, related to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and other disorders, to health care professionals and trainees across all VA facilities nationally. She continues her research aspirations and is currently involved in several projects investigating use of mindfulness and ACT in PTSD populations. In addition, she has a private practice that includes consultation and workshop services plus psychotherapy. (robyn.walser@sbcgobal.net)
John Wincze, Ph.D., is a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Department of Psychology in the Brown University Medical School. Wincze has published over 60 research articles and book chapters and has written four books including Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Dysfunction, 2nd Ed which was published in 2001. He has served as Head of the Licensing Board in Psychology for the State of Rhode Island and currently serves as associate editor for the Journal of Sex Research.
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