RISKIND, John Haskell, Professor
of Psychology.
B.A., University of Texas at Austin, 1970;
Ph.D., Psychology, Yale University, 1977.
E-mail to: jriskind@gmu.edu
Office located in David King Hall, Room 2043; Phone: 993-4094
Dr. Riskind has prior faculty appointments at Texas
A & M University, and University of Pennsylvania Department of Psychiatry.
Dr. Riskind was Director of Research at the Center for Cognitive Therapy
at the University of Pennsylvania (1983-1985). He was also a member
of the DSM-IV work group on Generalized Anxiety Disorder. His teaching
and research interests include anxiety and mood disorders, cognitive theories
of emotion and emotion disorder, cognitive-behavior therapy, and more general
interests in clinical and social psychology. Dr. Riskind's
current focus is on a new cognitive theory of anxiety, which he has
developed, called the "looming vulnerability" formulation. He is the author
of a forthcoming book with Plenum Press called, Looming and Loss: Cognitive
Factors in Emotion Dysfunction.
His papers have appeared in the Journal
of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Psychology,
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Cognitive Therapy and Research,
Archives of General Psychiatry, Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology,
and others.
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