August 2007 to Present		KENT STATE UNIVERSITY Kent, OH, USA Associate Professor Department of Psychology
August 2001 to August 2007		KENT STATE UNIVERSITY Kent, OH, USA Assistant Professor Department of Psychology

EDUCATION

December 1999 to July 2001		TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Philadelphia, PA, USA Postdoctoral Fellow Adult Anxiety Clinic of Temple Department of Psychology With Richard G. Heimberg, PhD
December, 1999		UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA Chapel Hill, NC, USA Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology Dissertation Title:  Cognitive styles as moderators of the relationship of life stress to depression and anxiety Committee:  Lauren B. Alloy, PhD (Temple University); Frank Floyd, PhD; Donald H. Baucom, PhD; Dianne L. Chambless, PhD; Abigail T. Panter, PhD (University of North Carolina)
September 1996 to December 1999		TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Philadelphia, PA, USA Research Fellow Adult Anxiety Clinic of Temple Department of Psychology With Richard G. Heimberg, PhD
May 1994		UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA Chapel Hill, NC, USA Master of Art in Psychology Master's Thesis Title:  Two approaches to the comorbidity of depression and anxiety:  Comparing explanatory style to sociotropy and autonomy. Faculty Advisor:  Linda W. Craighead, PhD
May 1990		TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Philadelphia, PA, USA Psychology-Honors/CAS-Honors Major Bachelor of Art, Cum Laude, May, 1990 Honors Thesis Title:  The nature and stability of cognitive styles in the sub-syndromal mood disorders. Faculty Advisors:  Lauren B. Alloy, PhD, Philip C. Kendall, PhD

 

REVIEW AND EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

January 2009 to Present		Associate Editor Behavior Therapy
March 2005 to Present		Editorial Board Behavior Therapy
January 2010 to Present		Editorial Board Journal of Abnormal Psychology
January 2010 to Present		Editorial Board Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
January 2006 to Present		Editorial Board Cognitive Therapy and Research
January 2001 to Present		Editorial Board Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy:  An International Quarterly
October 2000 to January 2004		Editorial Board Cognitive and Behavioral Practice
February 2004 June 2004 June 2005 February 2006		Temporary Member Interventions Review Committee (ITV) National Institute of Mental Health
October 2006		Temporary Member Adult Interventions Special Emphasis Panel (ZMH1 ERB-P-01) National Institute of Mental Health
October 2007 February 2008		Temporary Member Interventions for Anxiety and Mood Disorders Review Committee (ITMA) National Institute of Mental Health
October 2009		Temporary Member Interventions Committee for Adult Disorders (ITVA) National Institute of Mental Health
March 1997 to Present		Program Committee Annual Conference of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy
November 2003 to November 2006		Publications Committee Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy

AD HOC REVIEWER
American Psychologist
Archives of General Psychiatry
Assessment
Behavior Therapy
Behaviour Research and Therapy
British Journal of Clinical Psychology
Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice
Cognition and Emotion
Cognitive and Behavioral Practice
Cognitive Therapy and Research
Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology
Depression and Anxiety
The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy:  An International Quarterly
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Journal of Positive Psychology
Personality and Individual Differences
Psychological Assessment
Psychological Bulletin
Psychological Medicine
Psychological Science

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Undergraduate
Spring 2007, Spring 2009		Course Instructor Kent State University Kent, Ohio Theories of Emotion Undergraduate section with up to 25 students
Fall 2001, Summer 2002, Fall 2002, Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2005		Course Instructor Kent State University Kent, Ohio Introduction to Personality Undergraduate section with up to 120 students
Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2009		Course Instructor Kent State University Kent, Ohio Abnormal Psychology Undergraduate section with up to 150 students
Fall 1993, Spring 1994		Course Instructor University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC Introduction to Personality Undergraduate section with 35-45 students
Graduate
Spring 2002, Spring 2004, Spring 2006, Spring 2008, Spring 2010		Course Instructor Kent State University Kent, Ohio Clinical Research Methods Core course in research methods for clinical psychology doctoral students
Spring 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2006		Course Instructor Kent State University Kent, Ohio Cognitive-Behavior Therapy course in theory, practice, and evidence for behavior therapies, CBT, and ESTs
Summer I 2003, Summer I 2004, Summer I 2005, Summer I 2006, Summer III 2007 Summer I 2009		Course Instructor Kent State University Kent, Ohio Integration Practicum course in theory and development of clinical case formulations and formal training in the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV-TR (SCID)

 

 

PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

1.       Alloy, L. B., Reilly-Harrington, N. A., Fresco, D. M., Whitehouse, W. G., & Zechmeister, J. S. (1999). Cognitive styles and life events as predictors of bipolar and unipolar episodes. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 13, 21-40.

2.       Reilly-Harrington, N. A., Alloy, L. B., Fresco, D. M., & Whitehouse, W. G. (1999). Cognitive styles and life events interact to predict bipolar and unipolar symptomatology. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 108, 567-578.

3.       Heimberg, R. G., Fresco, D. M., Travers, J., Stein, M. B., & Liebowitz, M. R. (2000). Social phobia or social anxiety disorder: What's in a nameArchives of General Psychiatry, 57, 191-192.

4.       Fresco, D. M., Craighead, L. W., Koons, A. N., & Sampson, W. S. (2001). Sociotropy and autonomy:  Dispositional variables relevant to the comorbidity of depression and anxiety. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 15, 17- 32.

5.       Fresco, D. M., Coles, M. E., Heimberg, R. G., Liebowitz, M. R., Hami, S., Stein, M. B., & Goetz, D. (2001). The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale:  A comparison of the psychometric properties of self-report and clinician-administered formats. Psychological Medicine, 31, 1025-1035

6.       Fresco, D. M. & Heimberg, R. G. (2001). Empirically supported treatments for social phobia. Psychiatric Annals, 31, 489-500.

7.     Coles, M. E., Turk, C. L., Heimberg, R., G., & Fresco, D. M. (2001). Effects of varying levels of anxiety within social situations:  Relationship to memory perspective and attributions in social phobia. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 39, 651-665.

8.     Sayers, S. L., Kohn, C. S., Fresco, D. M., Bellack, A. S., & Sarwer, D. B. (2001). Marital cognitions of depressed, maritally discordant spouses. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 25, 713-732.

9.     Fresco, D. M., Heimberg, R. G., Mennin, D. S., & Turk, C. L. (2002). Confirmatory factor analysis of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 40, 313-323.

10.    Mennin, D. S., Heimberg, R. G., Turk, C. L., & Fresco, D. M. (2002).  Applying an emotion regulation framework to integrative approaches to Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Clinical Psychology:  Science & Practice, 9, 85-90.

11.     Fresco, D. M., Frankel, A., Mennin, D. S., Turk, C. L., & Heimberg, R. G. (2002). Distinct and overlapping features of rumination and worry:  The relationship of cognitive production to negative affective states. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 26, 179-188.

12.     Mennin, D. S., Fresco, D. M., Heimberg, R. G., Liebowitz, M. R., Schneier, F. R., & Davies, S. O. (2002). Screening for social anxiety disorder in the clinical setting:  Using the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 16, 661-673.

13.     Harb, G. C., Heimberg, R. G., Fresco, D. M., Schneier, F. R., & Liebowitz, M. R. (2002). The Psychometric Properties of the Interpersonal Sensitivity Measure in Social Anxiety Disorder. Behavior Research and Therapy, 40, 961-979.

14.    Zaider, T. I., Heimberg, R. G., Fresco, D. M., Schneier, F. R., & Liebowitz, M. R. (2003).  Evaluation of the Clinical Global Impression Scale among individuals with social anxiety disorder.  Psychological Medicine, 33, 611-622.

15.      Fresco, D. M., Mennin, D. S., Heimberg, R. G., & Turk, C. L. (2003). Using the Penn State Worry Questionnaire to identify individuals with generalized anxiety disorder: A receiver operating characteristic analysis. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 34, 285-293.

16.     Erwin, B. A., Turk, C. L., Heimberg, R. G., Fresco, D. M., & Hantula, D. A. (2004). The Internet: Home to a Severe Population of Individuals with Social Anxiety Disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 18, 629-646.

17.     Turk, C. L., Heimberg, R. G., Luterek, J. A., Mennin, D. S., & Fresco, D. M. (2005). Delineating emotion regulation deficits in Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A comparison with Social Anxiety Disorder. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 29, 89-106.

18.     Mennin, D. S., Heimberg, R. G., Turk, C. L., & Fresco, D. M. (2005). Emotion regulation deficits as a key feature of generalized anxiety disorder: Testing a theoretical model. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 43, 1281-1310.

19.     Weeks, J. W., Heimberg, R. G., Fresco, D. M., Hart, T. A., Turk, C. L., Schneier, F. R., & Liebowitz, M. R. (2005). Empirical Validation and Psychometric Evaluation of the Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale in Patients with Social Anxiety Disorder. Psychological Assessment, 17, 179-190.

20.     Fresco, D. M., Williams, N. L., & *Nugent, N. R. (2006). Flexibility and Negative Affect: Examining the Associations of Explanatory Flexibility and Coping Flexibility to Each Other and to Depression and Anxiety. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 30, 201-210.

21.     Fresco, D. M., Heimberg, R. G., Abramowitz, A., & Bertram, T. L. (2006). The effect of a negative mood priming challenge on dysfunctional attitudes, explanatory style, and explanatory flexibility. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 45, 167-183.

22.     Gilles, D. M., Turk, C. L., & Fresco, D. M. (2006). Social Anxiety, Alcohol Expectancies, and Self-Efficacy as Predictors of Heavy Drinking in College Students. Addictive Behaviors, 31, 388-398.

23.    Cogswell, A., Alloy, L. B., van Dulmen, M. H., & Fresco, D. M. (2006). A Psychometric Evaluation of Behavioral Inhibition and Approach Self-Report Measures. Personality and Individual Differences, 40, 1649-1658.

24.    Fresco, D. M., Alloy, L. B., & Reilly-Harrington, N. A. (2006). Association of attributional style for negative and positive events and the occurrence of life events to depression and anxiety. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 25, 975-994.

25.    Petersen, T., Feldman, G., Harley, R., Fresco, D. M., Graves, L., Holmes, A., Bogdan, A., Papakostas, G. I., Bohn, L., Lury, E., Fava, M., & Segal, Z. V. (2007). Extreme Response Style in Recurrent and/or Chronically Depressed Patients – Change With Acute Antidepressant Treatment and Stability During Continuation Treatment. Journal of Consulting and Clincal Psychology, 75, 145-153.

26.    *Moore, M. T. & Fresco, D. M. (2007). Depressive Realism and Attributional Style: Implications for individuals at risk for depression. Behavior Therapy, 38, 144-154.

27.    Fresco, D. M., *Rytwinski, N. K., & Craighead, L. W. (2007). Explanatory flexibility and negative life events interact to predict depression symptoms.  Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 26, 595-608.

28.     Fresco, D. M., Segal, Z. V., Buis, T., & Kennedy, S. (2007). Relationship of post treatment decentering and cognitive reactivity to relapse of major depressive disorder. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 75, 447-455.

29.    Henning, E. R., Turk, C. L., Mennin, D. S., Fresco, D. M., & Heimberg, R. G. (2007). Impairment and Quality of Life in Individuals With Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Depression and Anxiety, 24, 342-349.

30.    Fresco, D. M., *Moore, M. T., van Dulmen, M., Segal, Z. V., Teasdale, J. D., Ma, H., & Williams, J. M. G. (2007). Initial psychometric properties of the Experiences Questionnaire: Validation of a self-report measure of decentering. Behavior Therapy, 38, 234-246.

31.    Mennin, D. S, Holaway, R. M., Fresco, D. M., *Moore, M. T., & Heimberg, R. G. (2007). Delineating Components of Emotion and its Dysregulation in Anxiety and Mood Psychopathology. Behavior Therapy, 38, 284-302.

32.    *Moore, M. T. & Fresco, D. M. (2007). The relationship of explanatory flexibility to explanatory style. Behavior Therapy, 38, 325-332.

33.     Hart, T. A., Flora, D., Palyo, S. A., Fresco, D. M., Holle, C., & Heimberg, R. G. (2008). Development and Examination of the Social Appearance Anxiety Scale. Assessment, 15, 48-59.

34.     Mennin, D. S., Heimberg, R. G., Fresco, D. M., & Ritter, M. R. (2008). Is generalized anxiety disorder an anxiety or mood Disorder? Considering multiple factors as we ponder the fate of GAD. Depression and Anxiety, 25, 289-299.

35.     *Rytwinski, N.K., Fresco, D.M., Heimberg, R.G., Coles, M.E., Liebowitz, M.R., Cissell, S., Stein, M.B., & Hofmann, S.G. (2009). Screening for social anxiety disorder with the self-report version of the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale.Depression and Anxiety, 26, 34-38.

36.      Ledley, D.R., Heimberg, R.G., Hope, D.A., Hayes, S.A., Zaider, T.I., Van Dyke, M., Turk, C.L., Kraus, C., & Fresco, D.M. (in press). Efficacy of a manualized and workbook-driven individual treatment for social anxiety disorder. Behavior Therapy.

37.      *Armey, M.F., *Moore, M. T., Fresco, D. M., Mennin, D. S., Turk, C. L., & Heimberg, R. G., Spasojevic, J, & Alloy, L. B. (2009). Brooding and Pondering: Isolating the active ingredients of depressive rumination with confirmatory factor analysis. Assessment, 16, 315-327.

38.      Fresco, D. M., *Moore, M. T., *Walt, L. Craighead, L.W. (in press). Self-Administered Optimism Training: Mechanisms of Change in a Minimally-Supervised Psychoeducational Intervention. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy.

39.     Blanco, C., Heimberg, R.G., Schneier, F.R., Fresco, D.M., Chen, H., Turk, C.L., Vermes, D., Erwin, B.A., Schmidt, A.B., Juster, H.R., Capeas, R., Liebowitz, M.R. (in press). A Placebo-Controlled Trial of Phenelzine, Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy and their Combination for Social Anxiety Disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry.

40.     Aldao, A., Mennin, D. S., *Linardatos, E., & Fresco, D. M. (in press). Differential patterns of physical symptoms and subjective processes in generalized anxiety disorder and unipolar depression. Journal of Anxiety Disorders.

*Denotes a KSU Graduate Student author.

CHAPTERS

1.       Persons, J. B. & Fresco, D. M. (1998). The assessment of depression.  In A. S. Bellack & M. Hersen (Eds.) Behavioral assessment:  A practical handbook, 4th edition. (pp. 210-231). New York:  Pergamon Press.

2.       Turk, C. L., Fresco, D. M., & Heimberg, R. G. (1999). Social phobia: Cognitive behavior therapy. In M. Hersen & A. S. Bellack (Eds.), Handbook of comparative treatments of adult disorders, 2nd edition (pp. 287-316). New York: John Wiley & Sons.

3.       Fresco, D. M., Erwin, B. A., Heimberg, R. G., & Turk, C. L. (2000). Social and specific phobias. In M. Gelder, N. Andreasen, & J. Lopez-Ibor (Eds.), The new Oxford textbook of psychiatry. (pp. 794-807). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

4.       Scott, E. L., Fresco, D. M., & Heimberg, R. G. (2002). Generalized Anxiety Disorder. In J. C. Thomas & M. Hersen (Eds.). Handbook of Mental Health in the Workplace (pp.  175-191). Sage Publications, Inc.

5.       Ledley, D. R., Fresco, D. M. & Heimberg, R. G. (2006). Relationship of cognitive factors to social anxiety disorder. In L. B. Alloy & J. H. Riskind (Eds.) Cognitive vulnerability to emotional disorders (pp. 251-284), Hillsdale, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

6.       Alloy, L. B., Reilly-Harrington, N. A., Fresco, D. M., & Flannery-Schroeder, E. (2006). Cognitive styles and life events as vulnerability factors for bipolar spectrum disorders. In L. B. Alloy  & J. H. Riskind (Eds.) Cognitive vulnerability to emotional disorders (pp. 63-92), Hillsdale, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

7.       Persons, J. B. & Fresco, D. M. (in press). Adult depression.  In J. Hunsley & E. J. Mash (Eds.) A Guide To Assessments That Work. (pp. xxx-xxx). New York:  Oxford University Press.

8.       Blackmore, M.A., Erwin, B. A., Heimberg, R. G., Magee, L. & Fresco, D. M.(in press). Social anxiety disorder and specific phobias. In M. Gelder, N. Andreasen, & J. Lopez-Ibor (Eds.), The new Oxford textbook of psychiatry, 2nd Ed. (pp. xxx-xxx). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

BOOK REVIEWS

1.     Sloan, D. M. & Fresco, D. M. (2001).  [Review of Handbook of Emotions (2nd Edition)]. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 15, 281-283.

2.     Fresco, D. M. (2003). [Review of Practitioner's Guide to Empirically Based Measures of Anxiety]. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 17, 99-100.

3.     Schlegelmilch, A. & Fresco, D. M. (2005).  [Review of Emotions and Life: Perspectives from Psychology, Biology, and Evolution]. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 19, 90-91.

4.     Moore, M.T. & Fresco, D.M. (2005). [Review of Positive Psychological Assessment: A Handbook of Models and Measures]. The Counseling Psychology Quarterly, 18, 169-170.

5.     Haigh, E. A.P. & Fresco, D. M. (2005).  [Review of Mindfulness and Acceptance: Expanding the Cognitive-Behavioral Tradition]. the Behavior Therapist, 28, 90-91.

6.     Schlegelmilch, A. & Fresco, D. M. (2005).  [Review of Emotion-Focused Therapy: Coaching Clients to Work Through Their Feelings]. The Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 18, 225..

7.     Rytwinski, N. K. & Fresco, D. M. (in press).  [Review of Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Advances in Research and Practice]. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice.

 

WORKS SUBMITTED

1.       Fresco, D. M., *Armey, M., Turk, C. L., Mennin, D. S., & Heimberg, R. G., (2007). Association of brooding rumination to worry, generalized anxiety disorder and to deficits in emotion regulation. Manuscript under review.

2.      Fresco, D. M., *Schumm, J. A. & Dobson, K. S. (2007). Explanatory flexibility and explanatory style: Modality-specific mechanisms of change when comparing behavioral activation with and without cognitive interventions. Manuscript under review.

3.      Fresco, D. M., Mennin, D. S., Heimberg, R. G., & Hambrick, J. (2007). Changes in explanatory flexibility among individuals with generalized anxiety disorder in an emotion evocation challenge. Manuscript under review.

4.     *Rytwinski, N., Fresco, D. M., Armelie, A. P., & Heimberg, R. G. (2007). An examination of Nolen-Hoeksema's other responses to depression: Meaningful relationships of distraction, problem-solving, and dangerous behaviors to depression and anxiety. Manuscript under review.

5.    Fresco, D. M. & *Haigh, E. A. P. (2007). Explanatory flexibility and negative life events interact to predict depression symptoms in a sample of pessimistic college students. Manuscript under review.

6.    Merrill, K, A., Fresco, D. M., Lewinsohn, P. M., & Joiner, T. E. (2007). Relationship of cognitive flexibility to depression and anxiety in a large, community sample of high school students. Manuscript under review.

 

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION

1.     Fresco, D. M., *Wolfson, S. L., Crowther, J. H., & Moore, M. T. (2006). Distinct and overlapping patterns of emotion regulation in the comorbidity of generalized anxiety disorder and binge/purge spectrum eating disorders. Unpublished manuscript. Kent State University, Kent, OH.

2.     Fresco, D. M., Hambrick, J., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2005). Optimism in American presidential candidates: The role of explanatory style in the 1996 and 2000 presidential elections. Unpublished manuscript. Kent State University, Kent, OH.

3.     Mennin, D. S., Turk, C. L., Fresco, D. M., & Heimberg, R. G. (2005). Emotion regulation therapy for generalized anxiety disorder. Unpublished manual. Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

4.     Hart, T. A., Fresco, D. M., Mennin, D. S., & Heimberg, R. G. (2005). Using self-report measures to identify social anxiety disorder and its subtypes: A receiver operating characteristic analysis. Unpublished manuscript. Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

5.     Hart, T. A., Turk, C. L., Fresco, D. M., & Heimberg, R. G. (2005). Psychometric properties of the Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale among individuals with social anxiety disorder. Unpublished manuscript. Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

6.     Fresco, D. M., *Haigh, E. A. P., Eckblad, S., & Heimberg, R. G. (2005). Worry and depressive rumination: Distinct but overlapping forms of repetitive thought related to emotional disorders. Unpublished manuscript. Kent State University, Kent, OH.

7.     *Haigh, E. A. P., *Moore, M. T., Seng, E., & Fresco, D. M. (2005). Confirmatory factor analysis of the Langer Mindfulness Scale. Unpublished manuscript. Kent State University, Kent, OH.

8.     *Barnes, J. M., *Haigh, E.A.P., & Fresco, D. M. (2006). Screening for Generalized Anxiety Disorder in a general psychology clinic: Sensitivity and specificity of the GAD-Q-IV as compared to structured clinician assessment. Unpublished manuscript. Kent State University, Kent, OH.

9.     *Haigh, E. A. P., *Linardatos, E., Fresco, D. M., Bartko, D., Logue, E., Milo, L. (2006). Screening for Generalized Anxiety Disorder with the GAD-Q-IV in a primary care medical population. Unpublished manuscript. Kent State University, Kent, OH.

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

1.       Fresco, D. M., Craighead, L. W., Sampson, W. S., & Koons, A. N. (1995, November). The Content Analysis of Verbatim Explanations technique:  Applications within psychopathology research and therapy process. In D. M. Fresco & S. L. Sayers (Chairs).  Beyond the questionnaire:  Broadening the behavioral and cognitive sciences with content analysis techniques.  A paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy. Washington, DC.

2.       Fresco, D. M., Craighead, L. W., Koons, A. N., & Sampson, W. S. (1996, March). Personality factors in the comorbidity of depression and anxiety:  The role of sociotropy and autonomy.  In D. M. Fresco & J. R. Z. Abela (Chairs). Interpersonal and achievement concerns:  Recent findings from three prevailing diathesis-stress theories of depression. A paper presented in an invited symposium at the Annual Conference of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA.

3.       Fresco, D. M., Craighead, L. W., Sampson, W. S., & Koons, A. N. (1996, November). Self-administered optimism training:  Teaching pessimists to be more optimistic. In D. M. Fresco & J. M. Satterfield (Chairs).  Innovative applications of cognitive-behavior therapy:  Giving CBT to the community.  A paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy.  New York, NY.

4.       Fresco, D. M., Heimberg, R. G., Brown, E. J., & Winning, C. D. (1997, November). Comorbidity and dysphoria in social phobia:  The role of sociotropy and autonomy. In R. Rapee (Chair). Experimental and descriptive features of social phobia. A paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy.  Miami, FL.

5.       Fresco, D. M. (1998, August).  Explanatory style:  Informing psychotherapy and psychopathology research with causal talk. In M. E. Addis (Chair). Perspectives on causal talk in psychotherapy and psychopathology research. A paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Psychological Association.  San Francisco, CA.

6.       Fresco, D. M., Heimberg, R. G., Craighead, L. W., Craighead, W. E., Brosse, A. L., & Sampson, W. S. (1998, November).  Explanatory flexibility:  An alternative conceptualization of the cognitive diathesis in the Learned Helplessness Theory. In J. M. Satterfield & D. M. Fresco (Chairs).  Innovations in cognitive diathesis-stress theories for depression. A paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy.  Washington, DC.

7.       Reilly-Harrington, N. A., Alloy, L. B., & Fresco, D. M. (1999, November). Cognitive style in bipolar disorder:  The association of family history and comorbidity. In J. H. Riskind (Chair). Cognitive processes in bipolar disorder. A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Toronto, Ontario, CA.

8.       Fresco, D. M., Heimberg, R. G., Mennin, D. S., Abramowitz, A., Dangelmaier, R. & Bertram, T. (2000, August). Explanatory flexibility:  Further examination of a measure of cognitive process. In L. B. Alloy & J. H. Riskind (Chairs). Cognitive styles and psychopathology. A paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.

9.       Fresco, D. M., Heimberg, R. G., Mennin, D. S., Abramowitz, A., & Bertram, T. (2000, November). Changes in explanatory flexibility following a mood priming challenge:  Further evidence relating a new process measure to depression and generalized anxiety disorder. In D. M. Fresco (Chair). Considering cognitive process:  Extending and advancing our understanding of psychopathology and treatment. A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA.

10.     Fresco, D. M., Mennin, D. S., Turk, C. L., & Heimberg, R. G. (2001, November). Deficits in emotion regulation as the hallmark feature of generalized anxiety disorder:  An emerging theory with mounting evidence. In H. Hazlett-Stevens (Chair). The role of emotion in generalized anxiety disorder. A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Philadelphia, PA.

11.     Fresco, D. M., Turk, C. L., Mennin, D. S., & Heimberg, R. G. (2002, November). The Association of Rumination to Generalized Anxiety Disorder and to Deficits in Emotion Regulation.  In G. Feldman & D. M. Fresco (Chairs). Worry and Rumination: Common Features, Distinctions, and Alternatives. A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Reno, NV.

12.     Fresco, D. M., Moore, M. T., Ostrowski, S. & Armey, M. (2003, October). Association of explantory flexibilty and ruminative brooding to generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder in a mood priming paradigm.  In Z. V. Segal (Chair). Depression vulnerability characterized via mood challenge and cognitive priming. A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Toronto, ON, Canada.

13.     Fresco, D. M., Schumm, J. A., Dobson, K. S., & Heimberg, R. G. (2003, November). Mood priming challenge and psychotherapy: Using experimental methodologies to evaluate theory-driven investigations of vulnerability to- and mechanisms of action in recovery from depression.  In Z. V. Segal (Chair). Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression: Data from Studies Using Mood Induction. A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Boston, MA.

14.      Fresco, D. M., Armey, M., Mennin, D. S., Holaway, R. M., Heimberg, R. G. (2004, November). Emotion dysregulation in Generalized Anxiety Disorder: The relationship of worry and brooding. In J. Joorman & J. Rottenberg (Chairs). Emotion and its (Dys)regulation in Depression and Generalized Anxiety Disorder: The role of rumination and autobiographical recall. A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA.

15.      Fresco, D. M., Moore, M. T., Rytwinski, N., & Barnes, J. M. (2005, November). Reactivity of explanatory flexibility: Development of an emotion evocation paradigm to identify vulnerability for future psychopathology. In D. M. Fresco & P. Goldin (Chairs). Mindfulness and Reactivity: Towards an experimental paradigm to broaden our conceptual and clinical boundaries. A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Washington, DC.

16.      Fresco, D. M., Wolfson, S. L., Crowther, J. H., & Moore, M. T. (2005, November). Distinct and overlapping patterns of emotion regulation in the comorbidity of generalized anxiety disorder and binge/purge spectrum eating disorders. In D. S. Mennin (Chair). Diagnostic and Process Specificity of Emotion Dysfunction in Psychopathology. A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Washington, DC.

17.     Fresco, D. M., Segal, Z. V., Buis, T., Kennedy, S., Gemar, S., Hood, K., Pedersen, R. (2006, November). Relationship of post treatment decentering and cognitive reactivity following an emotion evocation challenge to relapse of major depressive disorder. In D. M. Fresco (Chair). Translating mechanism into practice in the cognitive behavioral therapies for depression. A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Chicago, IL

CONFERENCE POSTERS AND OTHER PRESENTATIONS

1.       Alloy, L. B., Albright, J. S., Fresco, D. M., & Whitehouse, W. G. (1992, June). Stability of cognitive styles across naturally occurring mood swings of individuals with subsyndromal mood disorders. An address presented at the World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy, Toronto, Canada.

2.       Alloy, L. B., Albright, J. S., Fresco, D. M., Kruus, L.& Whitehouse, W. G. (1992, November). Nature and stability of cognitive patterns in individuals with chronic subsyndromal mood disorders.  An address presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Palm Springs, CA.

3.       Alloy, L. B., Albright, J. S., Fresco, D. M., Kruus, L.& Whitehouse, W. G. (1993, April). Stability of cognitive styles across naturally occurring mood swings.  A paper presented at the Midwest Psychological Association Meeting, Chicago, IL.

4.       Fresco, D. M. & Craighead, L. W. (1993, May). Personality factors in the comorbidity of depression and anxiety:  The role of sociotropy and autonomy.  A poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Psychological Association, Atlantic Beach, NC.

5.       Reilly, N., Alloy, L. B., Albright, J. S., Whitehouse, W. G., & Fresco, D. M. (1993, October). Cognitive styles and life events as predictors of subsyndromal affective episodes.  A poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Chicago, IL.

6.       Reilly, N., Alloy, L. B., Albright, J. S., Whitehouse, W. G., & Fresco, D. M. (1994, June). Cognitive styles and life events as predictors of depressive and hypomanic episodes:  A longitudinal study.  A poster presented at the First International Conference on Bipolar Disorder, Pittsburgh, PA.

7.       Alloy, L. B., Albright, J. S., Fresco, D. M., Murray, L. A., & Whitehouse, W. G. (1994, June). Comparison and stability of cognitive patterns in individuals with bipolar vs. unipolar subsyndromal mood disorders.  A poster presented at the First International Conference on Bipolar Disorder, Pittsburgh, PA.

8.       Fresco, D. M., Craighead, L. W., & Koons, A. N. (1994, September). Two approaches to the comorbidity of depression and anxiety:  Comparing attributional style to sociotropy and autonomy. A poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Coral Gables, FL.

9.       Reilly, N., Alloy, L. B., Albright, J. S., Whitehouse, W. G., & Fresco, D. M. (1994, November). Cognitive styles and life events as predictors of depressive and hypomanic episodes:  A longitudinal study.  A poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy.  San Diego, CA.

10.     Sampson, W. S., Craighead, L. W., & Fresco, D. M. (1994, November). The influence of sex role on depression and attributional style. A poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy.  San Diego, CA.

11.     Fresco, D. M., Craighead, L. W., & Koons, A. N. (1994, November). A comparison of two techniques for measuring attributional style:  How the ASQ and the CAVE relate to each other and to depression. A poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy.  San Diego, CA.

12.     Fresco, D. M., Craighead, L. W., Sampson, W.S., Watt, N.M., Favell, H. E., & Presnell, K. E. (1995, March). The effects of self-administered optimism training on attributional style, levels of depression and health symptoms in pessimistic college students. A poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

13.     Fresco, D. M., Sampson, W. S., Craighead, L. W., Clark, J., & Enns, C. (1995, November). Self-administered optimism training:  The process of lessening the impact of pessimistic explanatory style. A poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy. Washington, DC.

14.     Sayers, S. L., Fresco, D. M., Kohn, C., & Sarwer, D. (1995, November). Thought listing using free recall and videotape reconstruction:  Content coding of cognitions of depressed-discordant wives.  In D. M. Fresco & S. L.. Sayers (Chairs).  Beyond the questionnaire:  Broadening the behavioral and cognitive sciences with content analysis techniques.  A paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy.  Washington, DC.

15.     Fresco, D. M., Craighead, L. W., Sampson, W.S., & Koons, A.N. (1996, November). Three ways of evaluating explanatory style as a diathesis for depression:  Which measure is most clinically relevantA poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy.  New York, NY.

16.     Reilly-Harrington, N. A., Alloy, L. B., & Fresco, D. M. (1997, June). Comparisons of cognitive styles across the bipolar and unipolar spectrums.  A poster presented at the Second International Conference on Bipolar Disorder, Pittsburgh, PA.

17.     Reilly-Harrington, N. A., Alloy, L. B., & Fresco, D. M. (1997, June). Cognitive diathesis-stress interactions as predictors of bipolar and unipolar symptomatology.  A poster presented at the Second International Conference on Bipolar Disorder, Pittsburgh, PA.

18.     Fresco, D. M., Kostelnik, B. A., & Abela, J. R. Z. (1997, November). Techniques to assess explanatory style:  Further comparisons of the ASQ to the CAVE technique. A poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy.  Miami, FL.

19.     Kostelnik, B. A., Fresco, D. M., & Abela, J. R. Z. (1997, November). Examining the effect of attributional shift in explanatory style on enduring negative mood response. A poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy.  Miami, FL.

20.     Alloy, L. B., Reilly-Harrington, N. A., & Fresco, D. M. (1997, November). Cognitive styles and life events as predictors of bipolar and unipolar episodes. In J. H. Riskind (Chair). Cognitive styles and psychopathology. A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Miami, FL.

21.     Reilly-Harrington, N. A., Gould, R. A., Hirschfeld, D. R., Alloy, L. B., & Fresco, D. M. (1997, November).  Cognitive-behavioral therapy for bipolar disorder:  A treatment informed by empirical research on cognition and life stress.  In N. A. Reilly Harrington (Chair). Understanding relapse in bipolar disorder:  Triggering events, cognitive vulnerability, and an integrated cognitive-behavioral and pharmacological approach.  A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Miami, FL.

22.     Frankel, A. N., Fresco, D. M., Mennin, D. S., Turk, C. L., & Heimberg, R. G. (1998, November).  Distinct and overlapping features of rumination and worry:  The relationship of cognitive production to negative affective states. A poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy.  Washington, DC.

23.     Mennin, D. S., Fresco, D. M., & Heimberg, R. G. (1998, November). Determining subtype of social phobia in a clinical setting:  Validation using a Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Analysis. A poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy.  Washington, DC.

24.     Reilly-Harrington, N. A., Alloy, L. B., & Fresco, D. M. (1998, November). The effects of family history and comorbidity on cognitive style in bipolar disorder. A poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy.  Washington, DC.

25.     Mennin, D. S., Fresco, D. M., Frankel, A. N., Turk, C. L., & Heimberg, R. G. (1998, August). Relationship of rumination and worry to negative affective states. A poster presented at the Annual Conference of the American Psychological Association. San Francisco, CA.

26.     Coles, M. E., Fresco, D. M., Heimberg, R. G., Liebowitz, M. R., Stein, M. B., Goetz, D., & Hami, S. (1999, March). The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale: A comparison of the psychometric properties of clinician-administered and self-report formats.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America.

27.     Mennin, D.S., Fresco, D. M., Heimberg, R.G., & Liebowitz, M.R. (1999, March).  Using the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS) to determine subtype of social phobia in session. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America.

28.     Reilly-Harrington, N. A., Alloy, L. B., Fresco, D. M., Whitehouse, W. G. (1999, May). Cognition and stress in bipolar and unipolar disorder. A poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC.

29.     Reilly-Harrington, N. A., Alloy, L. B., & Fresco, D. M. (1999, June). Cognitive style in bipolar disorder:  The association of family history and comorbidity. A poster presented at the Third International Conference of Bipolar Disorder, Pittsburgh, PA.

30.     Mennin, D. S., Fresco, D. M., Heimberg, R.G., & Turk, C.L. (1999, November).  Determining when worry becomes clinically significant: A receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis approach. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Toronto, Ontario, CA.

31.     Jack, M. S., Fresco, D. M., & Heimberg, R.G. (1999, November).  Factors of anxiety sensitivity:  Differential relationship to anxiety and depression. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Toronto, Ontario, CA.

32.     Coles, M. E., Turk, C. L., Fresco, D. M., & Heimberg, R. G. (1999, November).  Memory perspectives in individuals with social phobia: Effects of anxiety levels and relationship to attributions.  A paper presented as part of the symposium Memory and False Memory in Psychopathology at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Toronto, Ontario, CA.

33.     Jack, M.S., Asmundson, G., Heimberg, R. G., Fresco, D. M., & Stein, M. B. (2000, March). Anxiety sensitivity moderates the relationship of vagal response during paced breathing and panic. Paper presented at 20th Annual Conference of Anxiety Disorders Association of America. Washington, D.C

34.     Safford, S.M., Fresco, D. M., & Heimberg, R.G. (2000, March). Comparing self-report to interview-based diagnoses of personality disorders in individuals with social phobia. Poster presented at 20th Annual Conference of Anxiety Disorders Association of America. Washington, D.C.

35.     Fresco, D. M., Mennin, D. S., Turk, C. L., Dangelmaier, R., & Heimberg, R. G. (2000, November). The relationship of explanatory flexibility to emotion dysregulation:  Towards an understanding of the benefits of flexibility. A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA.

36.     Mennin, D. S., Turk, C. L., Fresco, D. M., & Heimberg, R. G. (2000, November). Deficits in the regulation of emotion:  A new direction for understanding generalized anxiety disorder. A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA.

37.     Turk, C. L., Mennin, D. S., Fresco, D. M., & Heimberg, R. G. (2000, November). Impairment and quality of life among individuals with generalized anxiety disorder. A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA.

38.     Erwin, B. A., Heimberg, R. G., Turk, C. L., Fresco, D. M., & Hantula, D. A., (2000, November). The Internet:  The avoidance superhighway for persons with social anxiety. In N. B. Schmidt (Chair). Advances in computer technology for the assessment of anxiety disorders. A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA.

39.     Turk, C. L., Mennin, D. S., Fresco, D. M., & Heimberg, R. G. (2001, March). An examination of emotion regulation deficits among individuals with generalized anxiety disorder. Poster presented at 20th Annual Conference of Anxiety Disorders Association of America. Atlanta, GA.

40.     Heimberg, R.G., Fresco, D. M., & Roth, D.A. (2001, July).  Cognitive vulnerability to social anxiety disorder. Paper presented as part of the symposium Cognitive Vulnerability to Emotional Disorders: Assessment, Prediction and Conceptualization at the tri-annual meeting of the World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

41.     Hambrick, J. P., Fresco, D. M., Mennin, D. S., & Heimberg, R. G. (2001, August). Association of explanatory flexibility to GAD and emotion regulation. In D. M. Fresco (Chair). Broadening cognitive-behavioral models of emotional disorders with flexibility and mindfulness. A paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Psychological Association.  San Francisco, CA.

42.     Fresco, D. M., Alloy, L. B., Reilly-Harrington, N., & Armelie, A. (2001, November). The association of explanatory style for positive and negative events and life stress to depression and anxiety. A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Philadelphia, PA.

43.     Mennin, D. S., Fresco, D. M., Turk, C. L., & Heimberg, R. G. (2001, November). Emotion dysregulation in generalized anxiety disorder:  Implications for theory and treatment. A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Philadelphia, PA.

44.     Luterek, J. A., Turk, C. L., Heimberg, R. G., Fresco, D. M., & Mennin, D. S. (2001, November). Psychometric properties of the GAD-Q-IV among individuals with clinician-assessed generalized anxiety disorder. A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Philadelphia, PA.

45.     Turk, C. L., Fresco, D. M., Mennin, D. S., & Heimberg, R. G. (2001, November). Using the Penn State Worry Questionnaire to distinguish individuals with generalized anxiety disorder from individuals with social anxiety disorder.  A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Philadelphia, PA.

46.       Fresco, D. M., *Wolfson, S. L., Crowther, J. H., & Docherty, N. M. (2002, September). Distinct and overlapping patterns of emotion regulation in the comorbidity of generalized anxiety disorder and the eating disorders. A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology. San Francisco, CA.

47.       *Armelie, A. P. & Fresco, D. M. (2002, November). Association of distraction, problem solving, and dangerous activities to depression and to emotion regulation:  An examination of Nolen-Hoeksema's other responses to depression.  A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Reno, NV.

48.       Luterek, J. A., Turk, C. L., Heimberg, R. G., Fresco, D. M., & Mennin, D. S. (2002, November). Psychometric properties of the GAD-Q-IV among individuals with clinician-assessed generalized anxiety disorder:  An update. A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Reno, NV.

49.       *Nugent, N. R., Fresco, D. M. & Williams, N. L. (2002, November). Association of cognitive flexibility and coping flexibility to each other and to depression and anxiety.  A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Reno, NV.

50.       Turk, C. L., Luterek, J. A., Mennin, D. S., Heimberg, R. G., & Fresco, D. M. (2002, November). Delineating Emotion Regulation Deficits in Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A Comparison with Social Anxiety Disorder. In D. S. Mennin & D. M. Fresco (Chairs).  Rediscovering the Importance of Emotions in Adult Psychopathology and Treatment.  A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Reno, NV.

51.       *Wolfson, S. L., Fresco, D. M., & Crowther, J. H. (2002, November). Comorbidity of Bulimia Nervosa, Eating Disorder NOS, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Is emotion regulation the connection A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Reno, NV.

52.       Weeks, J. W., Heimberg, R. G., & Fresco, D. M. (2003, March). Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale in Patients with Social Anxiety Disorder. A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, Toronto, Ontario, CA.

53.      *Moore, M.T., Fresco, D.M., *Pinna, K., *Walt, L.C., & Craighead, L.W. (2003, October). Self-administered optimism training: Evidence for modality-specific mechanisms of change in a minimally supervised psychoeducational intervention. A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA.

54.      *Armey, M., Fresco, D. M., Mennin, D. S., Turk, C. L., & Heimberg, R. G., (2003, November). Brooding and Pondering: Isolating the active ingredients of depressive rumination with confirmatory factor analysis. A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Boston, MA.

55.      *Pinna, K., Carissan, D., *Moore, M. T., Fresco, D. M., & Mennin, D. S. (2003, November). Further evidence supporting the emotion regulation deficit model of GAD. A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Boston, MA.

56.      *Wolfson, S. L., Crowther, J. H., & Fresco, D. M. (2004, May). Negative Mood and Affective Instability in Bulimia Nervosa, Anxiety Disorders, and Controls. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL.

57.       Holaway, R. M., Mennin, D. S, Fresco, D. M., & Heimberg, R. G. (2004, November). Relationship of Four Higher Order Emotion Factors to Anxiety and Mood Psychopathology. A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA.

58.      *Armey, M., Fresco, D. M., Rottenberg, J., Gross, J. J., & Gotlib, I. H. (2004, November). Further psychometric refinement of depressive rumination: Support for the brooding and pondering factor solution in a diverse community sample with clinician-assessed psychopathology. A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA.

59.      Button, D., *Moore, M. T., Shane A. Mares, & Fresco, D. M. (2004, November). Relationship of explanatory flexibility and explanatory style to each other and to depression, anxiety, and emotion regulation. A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA.

60.       Gilles, D. M., Turk, C. L., & Fresco, D. M. (2004, November). An Evaluation of Alcohol Expectancies and Self-efficacy as Possible Moderating Variables in the Relationship Between Social Anxiety and Heavy Drinking in College Students. A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA.

61.       *Haigh, E. A. P., *Armey, M., Fresco, D. M., Auerbach, R., & Abela, J. R. Z. (2004, November). Brooding and Pondering: Isolating the Active Ingredients of Depressive Rumination with Confirmatory Factor Analysis in an Adult Clinical Sample. A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA.

62.       *Haigh, E. A. P., Mares, S. A., Croft, C., *Moore, M. T., & Fresco, D. M. (2004, November). The relationship of three self-report measures of mindfulness to each other and to measures of emotion, cognition, and psychopathology. In E. N. Forman (Chair). Mechanisms of Change in Acceptance-Based Interventions. A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA.

63.       Henning, E. R., Hambrick, J. P., Heimberg, R. G., & Fresco, D. M. (2004, November). Need for Cognition and Symptom Severity in Social Anxiety Disorder. A poster submitted to the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA.

64.      *Moore, M. T., & Fresco, D. M. (2004, November). Association of reactivity of explanatory flexibility and ruminative brooding in a mood-priming paradigm to depressive symptoms: Six month follow-up. A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA.

65.       *Moore, M. T., Fresco, D. M., & *Haigh, E. A. P. (2004, November). Insight into attributional style: Implications for the Depressive Realism Hypothesis. A poster submitted to the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA.

66.       *Wolfson, S. L., Crowther, J. H., & Fresco, D. M. (2004, November). Negative Affect and Avoidance in a Comorbid Sample of Eating Disorders Not Otherwise Specified, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Controls. A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA.

67.        *Barnes, J. M., *Haigh, E.A.P., & Fresco, D. M. (2005, November). Screening for Generalized Anxiety Disorder in a general psychology clinic: Sensitivity and specificity of the GAD-Q-IV as compared to structured clinician assessment. A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Washington, DC.

68.        Holaway, R. M., Mennin, D. S, Fresco, D. M., *Moore, M. T., & Heimberg, R. G. (2005, November). The Differential Relationship of Maladaptive Emotional Experiences in Anxiety and Mood Psychopathology. In D. S. Mennin (Chair). Diagnostic and Process Specificity of Emotion Dysfunction in Psychopathology. A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Washington, DC.

69.        *Moore, M. T., Fresco, D. M., van Dulmen, M., Segal, Z. V., Teasdale, J. D., & Williams, J. M. G. (2005, November). Initial psychometric properties of the Wider Experiences Questionnaire: A self-report survey of decentering from rumination. A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Washington, DC.

70.        *Moore, M. T., Fresco, D. M., Mennin, D. S., Haloway, R. M., & Heimberg, R. G., (2005, November). Signature patterns of emotion regulation and their relationship to depression and anxiety. A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Washington, DC.

71.        *Moore, M. T., Fresco, D. M., & Craighead, L. W. (2005, November). Self-administered optimism training: A hierarchical linear modeling analysis of change in pessimistic explanatory over time. A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Washington, DC.

72.        *Rytwinski, N., Fresco, D. M., Armelie, A., & Heimberg, R. G. (2005, November). An examination of Nolen-Hoeksema's other responses to depression: Meaningful relationships of distraction, problem-solving, and dangerous behaviors to depression and to emotion regulation. A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Washington, DC.

73.       *Barnes, J. M., *Rytwinski, N. K., & Fresco, D. M. (2006, November). Levels of explanatory style and explanatory flexibility in treatment-seeking patients. A poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Chicago, IL.

74.       *Haigh, E. A. P., *Linardatos, E., Fresco, D. M., Bartko, D., Logue, E., & Milo, L. (2006, November). Screening for Generalized Anxiety Disorder with the GAD-Q-IV in a primary care medical population. A poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Chicago, IL.

75.       *Linardatos, E., Fresco, D. M., Mennin, D. S., & Heimberg, R. G. (2006, November). The relationship of worry and experiential avoidance to emotion dysregulation in generalized anxiety disorder. A poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Chicago, IL.

76.       *Moore, M. T. & Fresco, D. M. (2006, November). Insight into attributional style: Replication and Psychometric Extension. A poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Chicago, IL.

77.       *Rytwinski, N. K., *Moore, M. T., *Armey, M., Fresco, D. M., & Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (2006, November). Initial psychometric properties of the Self-Reflection Questionnaire: Elucidating the adaptive and destructive facets of self-reflection. A paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Chicago, IL.

78.       *Rytwinski, N. K., & Fresco, D. M. (2006, November). A Test of the Depressive Evenhandedness Hypothesis for Attentional Biases to Pictorial Stimuli. A poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Chicago, IL.

GRANTS

Ongoing Research Support
EMOTION REGULATION THERAPY FOR GENERALIZED ANXIETY
Principal Investigator: R. G. Heimberg
Role: Co-Principal Investigator & PI of Subcontract to Kent State University
Agency: National Institute of Mental Health (1 R34 MH070682)
Status: Pending
Project Summary: Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is characterized by excessive, uncontrollable worry and significant central nervous system arousal. It is prevalent, chronic, and associated with significant functional impairment (now recognized as comparable to major depressive disorder). Cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBT) for GAD have demonstrated a degree of efficacy, but results have been disappointing when compared to CBT for other anxiety and mood disorders. Typically, only half of CBT-treated patients achieve high end-state functioning. More efficacious psychosocial treatments for GAD are clearly needed. Currently available treatments for GAD may have achieved less than satisfactory outcomes because they have not adequately targeted the essential difficulties that underlie GAD. That is, they have attempted to quell excessive worry and quiet somatic arousal but have not addressed these symptoms functionally. They have not asked, “Why does the person with GAD find worry an ‘appealing’ strategy for managing emotional distress” We take an emotional regulation approach to this question. Extensive preliminary research by our group on emotion dysregulation in GAD suggests that, while experiencing emotions as more intensely aversive than other people, persons with GAD are unable to identify, describe or accept their emotional experience, react maladaptively to both negative and positive emotions, and feel less able to repair negative moods when they occur. Furthermore, they demonstrate greater difficulties regulating experimentallyinduced negative emotions than persons without GAD. Worry may be a strategic effort to avoid feared and unmanageable emotional experience. Therefore, this exploratory research grant application will develop and manualize an approach to the treatment of GAD that integrates cognitive-behavioral procedures with techniques to increase patients’ emotional regulation skills. The manual will be initially developed with the input of a panel of scientists expert in CBT, emotion-focused approaches to psychotherapy, psychotherapy integration, and emotion regulation and will be further developed in an open clinical trial and a small-scale randomized clinical trial. Data generated in this effort will serve as the basis for later grant applications to further evaluate the utility of this emotion regulation approach to treatment of GAD.
Relevance: GAD is a common mental health problem associated with significant distress and impairment. However, current psychotherapeutic procedures have been less than optimally effective, and this may be because they have not focused on an important part of GAD, the inability to regulate one's emotional experience. This application will develop and test a manualized therapy that combines the best of current cognitive-behavioral procedures with techniques designed to help persons with GAD better regulate their emotional experience. The newly developed treatment will be evaluated in a series of small studies.

IMPROVING THE IDENTIFICATION OF MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER AND GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER IN A PRIMARY CARE MEDICAL POPULATION
Principal Investigator: D. M. Fresco, Ph.D.
Co-investigator: L. A. Milo, Ph.D.
Agency: Ohio Board of Regents
Type: Research Challenge Award Period: 06/01/2004-05/31/2005
Direct Costs: $58,950
The goals of this study are twofold: To identify point prevalence rates of major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder in a primary care medical population; and to evaluate whether there are signature serum neurotransmitter profiles of individuals as a function of current MDD and/or GAD.

AUTONOMIC PARAMETERS IN GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER DURING AN EMOTION EVOCATION CHALLENGE
Co-Principal Investigators: D. M. Fresco, Ph.D. & J. W. Hughes, Ph.D.
Agency: Kent-Summa Center for the Treatment and Study of Traumatic Stress
Type: Research Incentive Grant Period: 06/01/2004-05/31/2005
Direct Costs: $16,370
The aim of this proposal is to continuously monitor autonomic nervous system activity of individuals with and without generalized anxiety disorder during an emotion evocation challenge to determine whether there are any signature patterns of sympathetic and parasympathetic reactivity and recovery in GAD.

COGNITIVE, EMOTIONAL, AND PHYSIOLOGICAL REACTIVITY TO AN EMOTIONAL EVOCATION CHALLENGE.
Co-Principal Investigators: D. M. Fresco, Ph.D. & J. W. Hughes, Ph.D.
Agency: Kent-Summa Center for the Treatment and Study of Traumatic Stress
Type: Research Incentive Grant Period: 09/01/2005-08/31/2007
Direct Costs: $31,500
The aim of this proposal is to identify any signature patterns of cognitive, emotional, and physiological reactivity among individuals with current major depression, remitted major depression, and healthy controls in the context of an emotion evocation challenge.

Completed Research Support
MINDFULNESS-BASED STRESS REDUCTION FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
Principal Investigator: J. W. Hughes
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Agency: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (1 R21 AT002698-01A2)
Status: Funded
Award Period: 09/30/2006 to 08/31/2008
Project Summary: Nearly 60 million adults in the United States have high blood pressure (BP) in the pre-hypertension (SBP 120-139 or DBP 80-89). Hypertension is estimated to account for 1 in 8 deaths in the world, and in the US the direct and indirect costs of high BP are estimated to reach $59.7 billion in 2005. JNC-7 guidelines recommend lifestyle modifications for prehypertension, followed by antihypertensive medication if BP progresses to Stage I hypertension. Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an increasingly popular practice that has been purported to alleviate stress and treat certain health conditions. Some stress management therapies and one meditation therapy (e.g., Transcendental Meditation) have shown promise in reducing elevated BP, but MBSR has not been evaluated as a treatment for high BP. When added to lifestyle modification advice, MBSR may be an appropriate complementary treatment for prehypertension. However, prior to a large randomized clinical trial of MBSR for prehypertension and/or hypertension, pilot data is necessary to provide preliminary evidence of a treatment effect and to evaluate feasibility. This feasibility randomized clinical trial of MBSR for unmedicated prehypertension will provide preliminary evidence to support a larger randomized clinical trial by evaluating the feasibility and safety of MBSR as a complementary treatment for high BP and by documenting any treatment effect. Sixty patients with unmedicated BP in the range of SBP 120-139 mm Hg or DBP 80-89 mm Hg will be randomly assigned to MBSR or a progressive muscle relaxation control condition. All patients will receive lifestyle modification advice. Patients will complete 8 weeks of MBSR delivered in a group format by an experienced psychologist trained in MBSR or 8 weeks of progressive muscle relaxation training matched for therapist contact and homework. Patients BP will be assessed prior to randomization and following treatment by researchers blind to treatment assignment. Accrual rates, acceptance of randomization, treatment adherence, treatment fidelity, and patient satisfaction with treatment will be evaluated.

PHARMACOTHERAPY OF SOCIAL PHOBIA
Principal Investigator: R. G. Heimberg, Ph.D.
Co-Investigator: D. M. Fresco, Ph.D.
Agency: National Institute of Mental Health
Type: R10 (MH44119, Years 11-13) Period: 1/1/2000-12/31/2002
The major goals of this project were to evaluate the acute efficacy of cognitive-behavioral group therapy, the monoamine oxidase inhibitor phenelzine, the combination of phenelzine and cognitive-behavioral group therapy, and pill placebo in a 12-week trial in persons with social phobia; 2-year continuation to complete study enrollment (plus no-cost extension).

LONG-TERM TREATMENT OF SOCIAL PHOBIA
Principal Investigator: R. G. Heimberg, Ph.D.
Co-Investigator: D. M. Fresco, Ph.D.
Agency: National Institute of Mental Health
Type: R10 (MH57148, Years 1-6) Period: 7/1/96-6/30/2002
The major goals of this project are to compare the individual and combined effects of cognitive-behavioral group therapy and phenelzine as treatments for social phobia. Specifically, this study examines whether responders to 12 weeks of acute treatment with one of the study treatments will (1) show enhanced response over a 12 week intensive continuation phase, (2) whether gains will be maintained or enhanced over a 28-week maintenance phase, (3) whether gains will be maintained over a one-year follow-up period. Furthermore, this study examines whether there is differential long-term response to treatments among patients with generalized versus nongeneralized social phobia.