Dr. Rodebaugh, Ph.D.
Director
Dr. Rodebaugh is
a clinical psychologist with a focus on anxiety disorders in adults,
particularly social phobia. He is also interested in psychotherapy
outcome and process. His research focuses on improving the assessment
and treatment of anxiety, as well as increasing understanding of the
factors that maintain and reduce anxiety. He is particularly interested
in the integration of social psychological research (e.g., dual process
theories; self-regulation theories) into the domain of clinical
psychology, and the selection of appropriate statistical models (e.g.,
structural equation models; item response theory models) for evaluating
measures and testing hypotheses. Much of his recent work has also
focused on the relationship between social anxiety and interpersonal
problems, particularly in regard to friendship.
Dr.
Rodebaugh’s primary clinical focus is on supervising graduate students
who provide psychotherapy at the department’s
To contact Dr. Rodebaugh, please email him at rodebaugh@wustl.edu
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Read Dr. Rodebaugh’s curriculum vitae.
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Erik Shumaker, M.A.
Graduate Student
Erik Shumaker (M.A., Washington University in St. Louis) entered graduate school in August, 2006. His current research interests include measures of perfectionism, the relationship between social anxiety and perfectionism, and factors that affect college adjustment. He has presented posters at the annual conferences for the Anxiety Disorders Association of America and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. In his free time, Erik enjoys watching and playing sports, listening to music, and watching television.
To contact Erik, please email him at shumaker@wustl.edu
To see Erik's Curriculum Vitae, please click here
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Katya Fernandez, B.S.
Graduate Student
Katya Fernandez (B.S., Duke University) entered graduate school in August, 2008. Her current research interests include the initiation and maintenance of romantic relationships and friendships in socially anxious individuals, as well as self-complexity in socially anxious individuals. Katya has tested attentional control theory (ACT) in the context of a modified dot-probe task (particularly the relationship between effort and social anxiety), and presented her work at the Association for Psychological Science 2009 Annual Conference. She is also interested in researching ways to measure between-session changes in exposure therapy, particularly through ecological momentary assessment (EMA). Katya and Cheri Levinson are undertaking a study looking at positive affect in an exposure intervention and a study examining Facebook and its relation to social anxiety. In her free time, she enjoys writing, dancing, and spending time with friends.
To contact Katya, please email her at fernandez@wustl.edu
To see Katya's Curriculum Vitae, please click here
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Cheri Levinson B.A.
Graduate Student
Cheri
Levinson (B.A., University of Kentucky) entered graduate school in
August, 2008. She currently has two major research focuses: the effect
of culture/ethnicity on anxiety disorders, and comorbidity between
eating/body image disorders and social anxiety. Specifically, Cheri is
working on a project examining how culture affects self-discrepancy and
regulatory focus style. She is also designing a study validating a
measure of social appearance anxiety. Cheri presented a poster examining
the assessment of the Behavioral Inhibition/Activation Systems at The
Association for Psychological Sciences (APS) annual conference.
Cheri will be presenting posters at the Association for
Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies 2009 Annual Conference examining measures of social
appearance anxiety and ethnic identity. In addition, Cheri and Katya
Fernandez are undertaking a study looking at positive affect in an
exposure intervention and a study examining Facebook and its relation to
social anxiety. In Cheri's free time she likes to run, watch movies, and
spend time with friends.
To contact Cheri, please email her at calevins@artsci.wustl.edu
To see Cheri's Curriculum Vitae, please click here
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Julia Langer, B.A.
Graduate Student
Julia Langer (B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison) will enter graduate school in August 2009. Her research interests include the role of positive affect in social anxiety and how treatment can help to increase positive affect in those lacking positive social experiences. She is also interested in how emotion regulation and physiological processes influence the etiology and maintenance of anxiety disorders. In her free time, Julia enjoys playing soccer, running, and knitting.
To contact Julia, please email her at jklanger@artsci.wustl.edu
To see Julia's Curriculum Vitae, please click
here