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David M. Fresco , Ph.D.

Education: Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1999)

Research Interests

Interface of cognitive behavioral and emotion regulation approaches; etiology and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders-particularly generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder; explanatory flexibility, explanatory style, development of treatments to promote resiliency and to prevent psychological and health concerns; mindfulness meditation; acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT); third-wave behavioral technologies.

Lab Site: Psychopathology & Emotion Regulation Lab

Courses Frequently Taught

• Theories of Personality (undergraduate)
• Abnormal Psychology (undergraduate)
  
• Emotion (undergraduate)
  
• Clinical Research Methods (graduate)
  
• Behavior Therapy (graduate)
  
• Integration Practicum (graduate)
  
• Clinical Supervision (graduate)

Recent Publications

Mennin, D. S., Heimberg, R. G., Turk, C. L., & Fresco, D. M. (2005). Preliminary evidence for an emotion dysregulation model of generalized anxiety disorder: Testing a theoretical model. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 43, 1281-1310.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

*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.

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

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

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.

*Denotes a KSU Graduate Student author.