Clinical Psychology

Aaron Reuben

aal4kda — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 19:03:16 +0000

Aaron Reuben

aal4kda Fri, 08/23/2024 - 15:03

Assistant Professor of Psychology (Jan. 2025)

taa9cf@virginia.edu

Research Areas

Clinical Psychology

Office Address: 226H Gilmer Hall

Biography

Dr. Aaron Reuben is a clinical neuropsychologist concerned with the interplay of the physical environment with brain and mental health across the lifespan. His research combines new technologies to quantitatively measure environmental exposures (mass spectrometry, remote sensing, wearable technology) with gold-standard assessments of neuropsychiatric function (clinical interview, cognitive assessment, and neuroimaging) to generate novel theories about how neuropsychiatric diseases emerge and may be treated or prevented.

His lab’s research to date has focused on three central questions:

What are the lifespan neuropsychiatric consequences of early life exposure to environmental harms (e.g., toxicants, neighborhood disadvantage, etc.)?
What is the potential utility of beneficial environmental amenities (e.g., parks, nature-visits, etc.) for neuropsychiatric preventive medicine and intervention? and
What are the potential neuropsychological sequelae of a changing climate and natural / human-caused environmental disasters?

Current lab projects involve neuropsychiatric assessment of adults exposed to lead as children during the era of leaded gasoline, a multi-site RCT of nature exposure and mental health among American university students, and a mental health survey of communities impacted by the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio trail derailment.

Elise Clerkin

aal4kda — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 19:27:45 +0000

Elise Clerkin

aal4kda Wed, 07/24/2024 - 15:27

Assistant Professor of Psychology

emc2t@virginia.edu

Research Areas

Clinical Psychology

Melvin N. Wilson

Jen Musselman — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 14:25:36 +0000

Melvin N. Wilson

Jen Musselman Mon, 06/10/2024 - 10:25

Professor of Psychology

mnw@virginia.edu

434 924-0673

Research Areas

Clinical Psychology

Community Psychology

Developmental Psychology

Office Address: 306 Gilmer Hall
Office Hours: Mon: 11:00-1:00

Biography

Dr. Melvin Wilson's academic, research, and training activities generally focus on understanding contextual processes and outcomes and conducting parental interventions in low-income, ethnic minority families. Specifically, he has conducted analyses on young, low-income, unwed, and nonresident fathers and their involvement with their children. In addition, he is interested in developing intervention protocols aimed at helping young men meet family responsibilities and involvements. Currently, Dr. Wilson is conducting a preventive intervention involving low-income families with toddlers at-risk for conduct disorder.

Eric Turkheimer

Jen Musselman — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:53:05 +0000

Eric Turkheimer

Jen Musselman Tue, 06/04/2024 - 12:53

Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology

ent3c@virginia.edu

Research Areas

Clinical Psychology

Quantitative Psychology

Office Address: 226E Gilmer Hall
Office Hours: Thu: 10:00-11:00
Website: Personal Website

Biography

The Turkheimer lab studies how interactions between genes and environments shape the development of human behavior. We study many different aspects of behavior, but we are especially interested in issues involved in family life, including marriage, divorce and parenting. Other lines of research focus on the development of human intelligence and personality, particularly in the processes that lead siblings to become different from each other over time. We also study human personality in ways that don't explicitly include genetics. We are developing methods that allow richer and more individualized assessments of personality, and that control for the role played by self-esteem when people describe their own personality.

Selected Publications

Cruz, J. E., Emery, R. E., & Turkheimer, E. (2012). Peer network drinking predicts increased alcohol use from adolescence to early adulthood after controlling for genetic and shared environmental selection. Developmental Psychology. Currently online. doi:10.1037/a0027515
Nisbett, R. E., Aronson, J., Blair, C., Dickens, W., Flynn, J., Halpern, D. F., & Turkheimer, E. (2012). Intelligence: New findings and theoretical developments. American Psychologist, 67, 130-159. doi:10.1037/a0026699
Pettersson, E., Turkheimer, E., Horn, E. E., & Menatti, A. R. (2012). The general factor of personality and evaluation. European Journal of Personality, 26, 292-302. doi:10.1002/per.839
Turkheimer, E. (2012). Genome wide association studies of behavior are social science. In K. S. Plaisance & T.A.C. Reydon (Eds.) Philosophy of Behavioral Biology (pp. 43-64). New York, NY: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-1951-4_3

Bethany A. Teachman

Jen Musselman — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:28:18 +0000

Bethany A. Teachman

Jen Musselman Tue, 06/04/2024 - 09:28

Professor of Psychology | Director of Clinical Training

bat5x@virginia.edu

434 924-0676

Research Areas

Clinical Psychology

Office Address: 226C Gilmer Hall
Office Hours: Mon: 10:00-11:00; Wed: 9:00-10:00
Lab Website: PACT Lab

Biography

The Program for Anxiety, Cognition and Treatment (PACT) lab investigates cognitive processes that contribute to the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders and other forms of emotion dysregulation. We are especially interested in how thoughts that occur outside of our conscious control contribute to anxiety and avoidance, and how we can change thinking styles to improve emotional functioning. We use digital technologies, such as mobile apps and web-based cognitive bias modification programs, to shift anxious thinking. Our goal with these technologies is to increase access to evidence-based interventions to help overcome common barriers to accessing treatment, such as cost, transportation, and stigma involved in seeking mental health treatment.

Recent Selected Publications

Books

Bernstein, D. A., Teachman, B. A., Olatunji, B. O., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2020). Introduction to clinical psychology: Bridging science and practice (Ninth edition). Cambridge University Press.

Journal Articles

Daniel, K. E., Larrazabal, M. A., Boukhechba, M., Barnes, L. E. & Teachman, B. A. (2023). State and trait emotion regulation diversity in social anxiety. Clinical Psychological Science, 21677026231151956.
Daniel, K. E., Southward, M. W., & Teachman, B. A. (2023). Investigating psychiatric symptoms as predictors of the reasons people do not regulate their emotions in daily life. Emotion.
Ladis, I., Seitov, A., Barnes, L. E., & Teachman, B. A. (2023). Perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness in text messages of suicide attempt survivors. Archives of Suicide Research, 1-12.
Ladis, I., Toner, E. R., Daros, A. R., Daniel, K. E., Boukhechba, M., Chow, P. I., Barnes, L. E., Teachman, B. A., & Ford, B. Q. (2023). Assessing emotion polyregulation in daily life: Who uses it, when is it used, and how effective is it? Affective Science, 4(2), 248-259.
Beltzer, M. L., Ameko, M. K., Daniel, K. E., Daros, A. R., Boukhechba, M., Barnes, L. E., & Teachman, B. A. (2022). Building an emotion regulation recommender algorithm for socially anxious individuals using contextual bandits. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 61, 51-72.
Silverman, A. L., & Teachman, B. A. (2022). The relationship between access to mental health resources and use of preferred effective mental health treatment. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 78(6), 1020-1045.
Teachman, B. A., Werntz, A., & Silverman, A. L. (2022). Digital mental health services: Moving from promise to results. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 29(1), 97-104.
Werntz, A., Silverman, A., Behan, H., Patel, S. K., Beltzer, M. L., Boukhechba, M., Barnes, L., & Teachman, B. A. (2022). Lessons learned: Providing supportive accountability in an online anxiety intervention. Behavior Therapy, 53(3), 492-507.
Ji, J. L., Baee, S., Zhang, D., Calicho-Mamani, C. P., Meyer, M. J., Funk, D., ... & Teachman, B. A. (2021). Multi-session online interpretation bias training for anxiety in a community sample. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 103864.
Eberle, J. W., Boukhechba, M., Sun, J., Zhang, D., Funk, D., Barnes, L., & Teachman, B. A. (2020). Shifting episodic prediction with online cognitive bias modification: A randomized controlled trial. Clinical Psychological Science, 21677026221103128.

Awards

American Psychological Association Division 12 Society of Clinical Psychology Invited Speaker for the American Psychological Foundation’s (APF) Spielberger EMPathy Symposium (2023)

Featured Woman of the Month by the Committee on Women in Medicine and Science at UVA (2023)

Inaugural Psychology Dept. Excellence in Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Award (2020)

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2019)

Public Voices Fellowship with the Op-Ed Project (2019)

American Psychological Association Presidential Citation (2019)

University of Western Australia Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow (2019)

Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology Lawrence H. Cohen Outstanding Mentor Award (2018)

Stefanie Sequeira

Jen Musselman — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:25:08 +0000

Stefanie Sequeira

Jen Musselman Tue, 06/04/2024 - 09:25

Assistant Professor of Psychology

zbp2sm@virginia.edu

Research Areas

Clinical Psychology

Office Address: 226K Gilmer Hall
Personal Website
Lab Website

Biography

Dr. Sequeira studies how social threat and reward processes develop during childhood and adolescence and are associated with the development of psychopathology, with a focus on anxiety disorders and suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) in youth with anxiety disorders. She integrates ecologically valid methods at multiple levels of analysis into her work, including ecological momentary assessment (EMA), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and eye-tracking. Taking a multimethod approach, Dr. Sequeira pursues three interrelated lines of research: 1) Developing and testing novel measures to study social threat and reward processes (e.g., how the brain responds to peer rejection/acceptance; how youth perceive social threat or reward on social media); 2) Linking brain and social behavior to better understand the development of psychopathology, and 3) Investigating associations between reward functioning, anxiety, and STBs during adolescence.

Representative Publications

Sequeira, S.L., Forbes, E.E., Hanson, J.L. & Silk, J.S. (2022). Positive valence systems in youth anxiety: A scoping review. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 102588.
Kaurin, A., Sequeira, S. L., Ladouceur, C. D., McKone, K. M., Rosen, D., Jones, N., ... & Silk, J. S. (2022). Modeling sensitivity to social threat in adolescent girls: A psychoneurometric approach. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 131(6), 641.
Sequeira, S.L, Silk. J.S, Ladouceur, C.D., Hanson, J.L., Ryan, N.D., Morgan, J.K., McMakin, D., Kendall, P.C., Dahl, R.E., & Forbes, E.E. (2021). Association of neural reward circuitry function with response to psychotherapy in youths with anxiety disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry, 178(4), 343-351.
Sequeira, S. L., Silk, J. S., Edershile, E. A., Jones, N. P., Hanson, J. L., Forbes, E. E., & Ladouceur, C. D. (2021). From scanners to cell-phones: Neural and real-world responses to social evaluation in adolescent girls. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 1, 13.
Sequeira, S.L.*, Rosen, D.K.*, Silk, J.S., Jones, N.P., & Ladouceur, C.D. (2021). Linking fronto-amygdala functional connectivity to in vivo attentional biases towards social threat in adolescence. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 49, 100960. *Authors contributed equally.

Paul Perrin

Jen Musselman — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:09:00 +0000

Paul Perrin

Jen Musselman Tue, 06/04/2024 - 09:09

Professor of Data Science and Psychology

perrin@virginia.edu

Research Areas

Clinical Psychology

Office Address: 240A Gilmer Hall
Lab Website: Social Justice in Disability and Health Lab

Biography

Paul Perrin is a Professor of Data Science and Psychology at the University of Virginia and a core faculty member in the Clinical Psychology PhD Program. He believes that disparities in the context of disability and health are one of the most shocking and inhumane forms of oppression and that the academic and medical communities have a central role to play in their alleviation. A combination of modern analytic techniques and community-based participatory research approaches are key tools for identifying the sources of—and potential solutions to—these disparities. With this aim, his research area of “social justice in disability and health” encompasses three facets: (a) cultural, familial, and international approaches to disability rehabilitation and adjustment, particularly in medically underserved and minority populations with neurological conditions; (b) social determinants of health (e.g., stigma, access to integrated care and telehealth, personal and collective strengths); and (c) social justice approaches to understand and dismantle oppression.

Perrin is a clinical health and rehabilitation psychologist and holds a joint appointment with the UVA School of Data Science. He also serves as Co-Director of the Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems Program at the Central Virginia Veterans Affairs Health Care System and is editor-in-chief of Rehabilitation Psychology. He is passionate about mentoring students in psychology, data science, and allied fields to become agents of social change in their personal and professional lives with an emphasis on disability and health. He teaches courses in multivariate statistics, behavioral research methodology, data science methodology, health disparities, health psychology, multicultural psychology, and community intervention. If you are considering applying to work with Perrin as a PhD student, undergraduate student, postdoctoral fellow, or post-bac, please read more about the process on the Social Justice in Disability and Health Lab applicant page.

Perrin spent ten years as a student at the University of Florida, earning a PhD in Counseling Psychology, an MS in Psychology, a BS in Psychology, and a BA in English Literature. He completed a trauma-focused clinical internship at the Maryland Veterans Affairs Health Care System and the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Perrin completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University in Clinical Supervision and spent eleven years there as a faculty member before coming to UVA.

Alison Nagel

Jen Musselman — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:38:51 +0000

Alison Nagel

Jen Musselman Tue, 06/04/2024 - 08:38

Assistant Professor, Academic General Faculty

agn3f@virginia.edu

Research Areas

Clinical Psychology

Office Address: 240K Gilmer Hall

Patricia Llewellyn

Jen Musselman — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:51:15 +0000

Patricia Llewellyn

Jen Musselman Mon, 06/03/2024 - 12:51

Professor Academic General Faculty | Director, Mary Ainsworth Training Clinic

plh6w@virginia.edu

434 924-0645

Research Areas

Clinical Psychology

Office Address: 522D Gilmer Hall
Office Hours: By Appointment Only
Mary D. Ainsworth Psychological Clinic

Research Interests

Research interests broadly defined are health psychology, personality assessment, and women's issues. Specifically, past research projects have centered on AIDS prevention in Nigeria, eating disorders, and personality correlates of medical professionals. Current research includes the use of treatment outcome measures in training therapists and assessment issues in Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Noelle Hurd

Jen Musselman — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:32:36 +0000

Noelle Hurd

Jen Musselman Mon, 06/03/2024 - 12:32

Professor of Psychology | co-DDEI

nh3v@virginia.edu

434 924-2244

Research Areas

Clinical Psychology

Community Psychology

Office Address:140C Gilmer Hall
Office hours: by appointment
Lab Website: PHAD Lab

Biography

Dr. Noelle Hurd's research agenda has primarily focused on the promotion of healthy development among marginalized adolescents and emerging adults. Specifically, her work has focused on identifying opportunities to build on pre-existing strengths in youths’ lives, such as supportive intergenerational relationships. Increasingly, her work also has focused on opportunities to disrupt systems of oppression. She runs the Promoting Healthy Adolescent Development (PHAD) Lab at the University of Virginia. She is a former William T. Grant Scholar and a Spencer/National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2015, she was recognized as a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science. In 2017, she received the Outstanding Professor Award from the UVA Department of Psychology. In 2019, she served as a Public Voices Thought Leadership Fellow. In 2021, she received the Faculty Excellence in Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Award from the UVA Department of Psychology. From 2018 to 2023, she served as the Scully Family Discovery Associate Professor of Psychology. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and a fellow of the Society for Community Research and Action (APA Division 27). Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the William T. Grant Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Institute of Education Sciences.