List of clinical psychologists

Philipp Kanske studies social-affective and social-cognitive processes. His EmpaToM study independently varied emotional content and the need to infer a speaker’s mental state, combining behavioral measures with neuroimaging. The design helps separate empathy from theory of mind rather than assuming that a response to an emotional story measures both. ^[ref]

A researcher who tested observational conditioning of fear in rhesus monkeys. Edited videos paired a demonstrator’s fear behavior with different objects, allowing acquired avoidance of fear-relevant and fear-irrelevant objects to be compared. The 1989 author record anchors this identity; the experiment tests selective social learning rather than mere exposure to an object.^[ref]

A psychologist whose research includes cognitive appraisal, emotion and psychological stress.^[ref]

A clinical psychologist whose research investigated anxiety and obsessive-compulsive problems. ^[ref][ref]

A clinical psychologist who tested whether changing reasoning processes can reduce paranoia. Her SlowMo trial evaluated a blended digital intervention against usual care, with a prespecified GPTS endpoint and additional outcomes. The study connects a cognitive account of persistent threat beliefs to an intervention whose clinical effects can be measured.^[ref]

A researcher who tested feedback-informed treatment for depression and anxiety. In a trial assigning therapists to different treatment conditions, progress feedback identified patients whose outcomes were off track. This design evaluates whether giving clinicians systematic outcome information improves treatment, while accounting for patients being clustered within therapists.^[ref]

A researcher who tested how a visuospatial task influences later intrusive recollections. Participants watched a distressing film and, after a delay, either played Tetris or entered a control condition; subsequent intrusions and deliberate recognition memory were measured separately. The analogue experiment tests a cognitive mechanism and does not by itself establish treatment effectiveness after real-world psychological trauma.^[ref]

A clinical psychologist who used virtual reality to test mechanisms maintaining persecutory delusions. A randomized experiment compared entering simulated social situations while retaining safety behaviors with entering them while dropping those behaviors. Measuring changes in conviction connects the manipulation to a proposed mechanism, beyond simply exposing participants to a social setting.^[ref]

A clinical and cognitive psychologist at the University of Western Australia whose work investigates anxiety-linked information processing. ^[ref][ref]

A clinical psychologist who coauthored the original dual representation theory of post-traumatic stress disorder. The account distinguishes verbally accessible recollections from representations activated by situational cues. This proposed difference explains how deliberately describing an event can diverge from involuntary reliving; it is a theoretical account of human memory, not a demonstration of two isolated anatomical stores.^[ref]

A clinical psychologist who, with David M. Clark, proposed a cognitive model of persistent post-traumatic stress disorder. Negative interpretations and poorly contextualized autobiographical memory can generate a sense of current threat even though the event is past. The account links continuing symptoms to cognitive and behavioral strategies that prevent those interpretations from changing.^[ref]

Clinical psychologist and psychotherapy researcher; first author of the START trial.

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Charles M. Borduin studied multisystemic therapy for serious juvenile offending. The treatment is evaluated through outcomes that extend beyond immediate symptom reports, including later offending. Distinguishing a controlled treatment comparison from a simple before-and-after change is essential when attributing long-term outcomes to an intervention. ^[ref]

A researcher who compared people with persistent psychotic experiences who did and did not need clinical care. The 2016 study also included a control group without such experiences. Differences in distress, functioning and psychological characteristics help distinguish having an unusual experience from developing a clinical difficulty requiring support.^[ref]

Erik Hedman studied internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy for severe health anxiety. A randomized trial compared therapist-guided internet treatment with an attention-control condition. The comparison tests that delivery arrangement and treatment package, rather than showing that an online format alone is sufficient or that every form of health concern has the same mechanism. ^[ref]

David F. Tolin studied decision making in hoarding. His experiment compared keep-or-discard decisions involving personally owned and control items while measuring neural activity. Ownership-dependent responses help distinguish difficulty discarding one’s own possessions from a general inability to make any decision. ^[ref]

Randy O. Frost developed a cognitive-behavioral account of hoarding incorporating information processing, attachment, avoidance and beliefs about possessions. The model links apparently similar accumulation outcomes to several candidate maintaining processes. It generates hypotheses for assessment and intervention rather than establishing one cause from the presence of clutter alone. ^[ref]

A clinical psychologist who tested prospective relationships between prior adversity, later psychological stress and depression.^[ref]

A clinical psychologist who investigated genetic and environmental contributions to adversity exposure-conditioned adaptation scores.^[ref]

A clinical psychologist who examined attachment and mental-health outcomes following randomized foster-care allocation.^[ref]

A clinical psychologist who tested the effectiveness and specificity of the Penn Resiliency Program.^[ref]

A clinical psychologist who studied prospective adaptation and differing courses after bereavement.^[ref]

A researcher who examined whether parental anxiety changes how well children respond to cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety. Her trial compared child treatment with and without additional parent anxiety management, separating families by parental-anxiety status. The design tests when a parent intervention adds benefit instead of assuming the same effect in every family.^[ref]

A researcher who tested internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy for adolescent anxiety disorders in routine care. A randomized comparison evaluated the addition of parent sessions, with diagnostic remission assessed after treatment and at follow-up. This separates evidence for the treatment package from evidence that involving parents supplies an additional benefit.^[ref]

A researcher who tested cognitive behavioral therapy for childhood anxiety disorders. A randomized trial compared a sixteen-session intervention with a waiting-list condition in children aged nine to thirteen. The work made clinical claims testable through measured outcomes, while the comparison leaves separate questions about specific mechanisms and performance against another active treatment.^[ref]

A researcher who tested parent-based treatment for childhood anxiety through the SPACE treatment program. A noninferiority trial compared the parent intervention with child cognitive behavioral therapy and measured family accommodation. This asks whether changing parental responses can achieve an acceptable clinical outcome even when the child does not attend the intervention sessions.^[ref]

A researcher who examined the applicability of a cognitive model of social anxiety disorder to adolescents. Her work with David M. Clark connects self-focused attention and safety behaviors to treatment while considering developmental qualifications. This avoids assuming that a model developed for adults transfers unchanged to younger people.^[ref]

A researcher who tested cognitive behavioral therapy for adolescent panic disorder. A trial compared an adolescent intervention with self-monitoring in 26 participants aged fourteen to seventeen. The comparison distinguishes an evaluated treatment from simply recording symptoms, and the small sample defines the precision with which its effects can be estimated.^[ref]

A researcher who examined treatment of childhood anxiety disorders when mothers also had an anxiety disorder. A 211-family trial tested additions targeting maternal anxiety or mother–child interaction alongside child treatment, including economic evaluation. Its design addresses whether treating family processes adds value beyond a child-focused intervention.^[ref]

A clinical psychologist who developed the social anxiety model with David M. Clark. ^[ref]

A clinical psychologist who developed learning-based explanations and strategies for exposure therapy.^[ref]

A clinical psychologist who tested cognitive-behavioral prevention of depression in high-risk adolescents.^[ref]

A clinical psychologist who evaluated preventive family intervention after parental bereavement.^[ref]

A clinical psychologist who tested exposure and response prevention in obsessive-compulsive disorder.^[ref]

A clinical psychologist who tested self-focused attention, safety behaviors and video feedback in social anxiety.^[ref]

A clinical psychologist who experimentally investigated the maintaining role of safety behaviors in anxiety.^[ref]

A clinical psychologist who developed cognitive accounts and treatments of panic disorder.^[ref]