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Adult Psychopathology
Faculty
Raymond DiGiuseppe, Ph.D., a native of Philadelphia, received his B.A. from Villanova University and his Ph.D. from Hofstra University. He then completed a postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Rational Emotive Therapy with Albert Ellis. DiGiuseppe has published over 70 journal articles and book chapters and co-authored 5 books. His present work involves the assessment and treatment of anger, disorders in children and adolescents, and the development of REBT theory and practice. He is professor and chair of psychology at St. John’s University in New York City, and director of professional education at the Albert Ellis Institute for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. He lives in Hempstead, N.Y. with his wife and four children.
Robert A. Emmons, Ph.D., is professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis. He received his Ph.D. in personality psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and his bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of nearly 100 original publications in peer reviewed journals or chapters and has written or edited four books, including The Psychology of Ultimate Concerns (Guilford Press) and The Psychology of Gratitude (Oxford University Press). Emmons is founding editor and editor-in-chief of The Journal of Positive Psychology. His research focuses on personal goals and purpose, spirituality, the psychology of gratitude and thankfulness, and subjective well-being. Emmons has received research funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, the John M. Templeton Foundation, and the National Institute for Disability Research and Rehabilitation. He is a former Mainer living in exile in Davis, California, with his wife and two sons.
Fred J. Hanna, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Services at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition to his university duties, he consults and conducts seminars across American on the subject of therapeutic change, difficult clients, and difficult adolescents in particular. He has developed and published a wide variety of innovative techniques and strategies in psychotherapy and counseling, and his research led to the development of the precursors model of change, which is described and applied in his book Therapy with Difficult Clients: Using the Precursors Model to Awaken Change, published by the American Psychological Association.
Rick Heimberg, Ph.D., is the David Kipnis Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Psychology, director of clinical training, and Director of the Adult Anxiety Clinic of Temple University. Heimberg is well-known for his efforts to develop and evaluate cognitive-behavioral treatments for social anxiety. Recently, he and his colleagues initiated a program for the study and treatment of generalized anxiety disorder. He has published more than 250 articles and chapters on social anxiety, generalized anxiety, and related topics. He is co-editor/co-author of several books including Social Phobia: Diagnosis, Assesssment, and Treatment; Managing Social Anxiety: A cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach; Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Social Phobia: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Strategies; and Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Advances in Research and Practice. In addition, Heimberg is editor-elect of the journal, Behavior Therapy and Research and is a member of the editorial boards on 12 scientific journals. Heimberg is past president of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy. He was recently named one of the four most influential psychological researchers in anxiety in a survey of members of the Anxiety Disorders Association of American, and he serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of that association. He is a founding fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and was the inaugural recipient of the Academy’s A.T. Beck Award for Significant and Enduring Contribution to Cognitive Therapy. He received the Outstanding Research Award of the American Society for Group Work.
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Emory University in Atlanta. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1990, where he studied under David Lykken. His primary research interests include the etiology and assessment of personality disorders (e.g. psychopathic personality) and personality traits, conceptual issues in psychiatric classification and diagnosis, the etiology of anxiety disorders, the problem of pseudoscience in clinical psychology. Lilienfeld is founder and editor of the journal Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice, a journal dedicated to distinguishing science from pseudoscience in clinical practice. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Psychological Assessment, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Clinical Psychology Review, and he is a consulting editor for Skeptical Inquirer magazine. In addition, he is co-editor, along with Steven Jay Lynn and Jeffrey Lohr, of the book, Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology (Guilford Press) and co-author, along with Drs. James Wook, M Teresa Nezworski, and Howard Garb, of the book What’s Wrong with the Rorschach? Science Confronts the Controversial Inkblot Test (Jossey-Bass), both of which appeared in 2003. Professor Lilienfeld was the recipient of the 1998 David Shakow Award for Early Career Contributions to Clinical Psychology from Division 12 (Clinical Psychology) of the American Psychological Association (APA). He served as president of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (Section 3 of APA Division 12) from 2001 to 2002.
Robyn D. Walser, Ph.D., is a psychologist for the National Center of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, California. 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 is currently developing innovative ways to translate science-into-practice and is responsible for the dissemination of state-of-the-art knowledge and treatment related to PTSD to health care professionals and trainees at VA facilities nationwide. She is working on a number of Web-based and educational PTSD products for both practitioners and veterans. In addition, she is responsible for several research projects investigating use of mindfulness and ACT in PTSD populations, plus PTSD in the geriatric population.
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