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  Selected Publications

   Riskind, J.H., & Williams, N.L. (2005).  The looming maladaptive style in Generalized  Anxiety Disorder:  Distinctive Danger Schema and Phenomenology. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 29, 7-27.
   Riskind, J.H. (in press). Cognitive Mechanisms in Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A second  generation of theoretical perspectives.. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 29, 1-5.
   Williams, N.L., Shahar, G., Riskind, J.H., & Joiner, T.E. (2005). The looming maladaptive style predicts shared variance in anxiety disorder symptoms: Further support for a  cognitive model of vulnerability to anxiety, Journal of Anxiety Disorders.  Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 19, 157-175
   Riskind, J.H., Long, D., Duckworth, R., & Gessner, T. (in press). Clinical Case Study: Clinical Use of the Looming  Vulnerability Construct for Social Performance Anxiety in a Dance Recital. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly.
OCCWG (2003). Psychometric validation of the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire and the Interpretation of Intrusions Inventory: Part 1, Behaviour Research & Therapy. Vol 41(8) 863-878. 
OCCWG (in press). Psychometric Validation of the Obsessive Belief Questionnaire and Interpretation of Intrusions Inventory: Part 2, Factor Analyses and Testing of a Brief Version, Behaviour Research & Therapy.
   Riskind, J.H., & Black, D. (2004). CBT and Cognitive Vulnerability. In A. Freeman (Ed.),Encyclopedia Of Cognitive Behavior Therapy.  Springer.
   Riskind, J.H., Williams, N.L., Altman, M.D., Black, D.O., Balaban, M.S., & Gessner, T.L.(2004). Developmental antecedents of the looming maladaptive style:  Parental bonding and parental attachment insecurity.  Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly, 18, 43-52.
   Williams, N.L., & Riskind, J.H. (2004).  Adult romantic attachment and cognitive vulnerabilities to anxiety and depression: Examining the interpersonal basis of vulnerability models.  Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly,18, 2-24.
   Williams, N.L., & Riskind, J.H. (2004).  Cognitive vulnerability and attachment, Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly, 18, 3-6.
   Riskind, J. H., Williams, N.L., & Joiner, T. E.  (in press). A Unique Overarching Vulnerability for the Anxiety Disorders:  the Looming Maladaptive Style.  Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.
   Riskind, J. H., & Alloy, L. B. (in press). Cognitive Vulnerability to Psychological Disorders: Theory, Design, and Methods.  Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. 
   Riskind, J.H., Ayers, C., & Bombardier, M.(in press).  Perceiving normality in clients as a potent cognitive-behavioral treatment approach for schizophrenia.  Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.
   Riskind, J.H. (in press).  Bipolar Disorder and Cognitive Therapy: A Commentary.  Cognitive and   Behavioral Practice. 
   Riskind, J. H., & Alloy, L. B. (2005). Cognitive Vulnerability to Emotional Disorders:  Theory,  Design, and Methods. In L. B. Alloy and J. H. Riskind (Eds.), Cognitive Vulnerability to  Emotional Disorders. Erlbaum.
   Riskind, J. H., & Williams, N.L.  A Unique Vulnerability Common to All Anxiety Disorders: The Looming Maladaptive Style (2005). In L. B. Alloy and J. H. Riskind (Eds.), Cognitive Vulnerability to Emotional Disorders. Erlbaum.
   Riskind, J. H. (2004). Cognitive Theory and Research on Generalized Anxiety Disorder.  In R. Leahy (Ed.), Contemporary Cognitive Therapy: Theory, Research, and Practice.   New York:  Guilford Press.
   Riskind, J. H., Williams, N.L., & Kyrios (2002). Experimental Methods for Studying Cognition. In R. O. Frost and G.  Steketee (Eds.), Cognitive Approaches to obsessions and  compulsions: Theory, assessment, and treatment.  Oxford: Elsevier Press.
   Riskind, J. H., Long, D. G., & Williams, N. L., & White, J. (2000). Desperate acts for desperate times: Looming  vulnerability and suicide. In T. Joiner (Ed.), Suicide Science. New York: Plenum Press.
   Rachman, S., Shafran, R., & Riskind, J.H. ( in press).  Cognitive vulnerability to obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD). In L. B. Alloy and J. H. Riskind (Eds.), Cognitive Vulnerability to Emotional Disorders. Erlbaum.
   Riskind, J.H. (2002).  Generalized Anxiety:  A Looming Vulnerability Model.  In Tulio Scimaldi and Lisa Grimaldi, Cognitive Psychotherapy Towards a New Millenium: Scientific Foundation and Clinical Practice, New York: KluwerAcademic/ Plenum Publisher.
   Riskind, J.H. (1999).  Preface to Special Issue on Cognitive Styles and Psychopathology.  Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly, 3, 1-3.
   Riskind, J.H., & Williams, N.L.  (1999).  Specific cognitive content of anxiety and  catastrophizing:  Looming vulnerability and the looming maladaptive style.  Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy,13, 41-54. 
   Riskind, J. H. (1999).  The Psychology of looming vulnerability: Its Relationships to Loss, Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss, 4, 25-45
   Riskind, J.H. (1999). Review of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Theory, Research, and Treatment.  Richard P. Swinson, Martin M. Antony, S. Rachman, and Margaret A. Richter (Eds.). London: Guilford Press. 1998, Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy,13,201-202.
   Riskind, J. H. (1997). Looming vulnerability to threat: A cognitive paradigm for anxiety, Behaviour Research and Therapy, 35, 685-702.
   Riskind, J. H., Abreu, K., Strauss, M., & Holt, R. (1997). Looming vulnerability to spreading contamination in subclinical OCD.  Behaviour Research and Therapy, 35, 405-414.
   Riskind, J. H., Wheeler, D. J., & Picerno, M. R. (1997). Using mental imagery with subclinical OCD to “freeze” contamination in its place: Evidence for looming vulnerability theory. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 35, 757-768.
   Riskind, J. H. (1997). Generalized anxiety disorder. In R. Leahy (Ed.), Practicing Cognitive Therapy:  A Guide to Intervnetions. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, Inc.
   Riskind, J. H., Sarampote, C., & Mercier, M. A., (1996). For every malady a sovereign cure: Optimism training. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 10, 103-117.
   Riskind, J. H., Moore, R., & Bowley, L. (1995). The looming of spiders: The fearful perceptual distortion of movement and menace. Behavior Research and Therapy, 33, 171-178.
   Riskind, J.H. (1995).  The status of cognitive change in cognitive therapy and other therapies.   Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy.
   Riskind, J. H. (1995). Diagnosing symptoms of depression. Review of C. G. Costello (Ed.), "Symptoms of depression." Contemporary Psychology.
   Moras, K., Borkovec, T.D., DiNardo, P.A., Rapee, R., Riskind, J.H., Barlow, J.H. (1996).  Generalized Anxiety Disorder:  Integrative review for DSM-IV Sourcebook.  In T. Widiger,  A. Frances, H.A. Pincus, R. Ross, M. B. First, and W. W. Davis  (Eds.), DSM-IV Sourcebook, Vol. 2.  Washington, DC:  American Psychiatric Association.
   Riskind, J. H., & Maddux, J. E. (1994). The loomingness of danger and the fear of AIDS: Perceptions of motion and menace. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 24(5), 432-442.
   Riskind, J. H. (1994). The evolutionary descent of man--into depression. Review of P. Gilbert's, Depression: The evolution of powerlessness. Contemporary Psychology.
   Riskind, J. H., & Mercier, M. A. (1994). Phobias. Encyclopedia of Human Behavior. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
   Riskind, J. H., & Maddux, J. E. (1993). Loomingness, helplessness, and fearfulness: An integration of harm-looming and self-efficacy models of fear and anxiety. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 12, 73-89.
   Riskind, J. H., & Wahl, O. (1992). Moving makes it worse: The role of rapid movement in fear of psychiatric patients. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.
   Riskind, J. , Kelly, K., Harman, W., Moore, R., & Gaines, H. (1992). The loomingness of danger: Does it discriminate focal fear and general anxiety from depression? Cognitive Therapy and Research, 16, 603-622.
   Riskind, J. H. (1991). A set of cognitive priming interventions for cognitive therapy homework exercises. Behavior Therapist, 14, 43.
   Riskind, J. H. (1991). Will the field ultimately need a more detailed analysis of mood-memory? Comments on Ellis and Ashbrook. in D. Kuiken (Ed.), Mood and memory: Theory, research and applications. Sage Publications: London. Originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Social Behavior and Personality.
   Riskind, J. H. (1991). The mediating mechanisms in mood and memory: A Cognitive-Priming formulation. In D. Kuiden (Ed.), Mood and memory: Theory, research and applications. Sage Publications: London. Originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Social Behavior and Personality.
   Riskind, J. H., Hohman, A., Harman, B., Moore, R., Stewart, B., and Beck, A. T. (1991). The relationship between generalized anxiety disorder and depression and dysthymia in particular. In R. M. Rapee and D. H. Barlow (Eds.), Chronic anxiety and generalized anxiety disorder. New York: Guilford.
   Riskind, J. H., Castellon, C., Beck, A. T. (1989). Spontaneous causal explanations in unipolar depression and generalized anxiety: A content analysis of Dysfunctional Thought Diaries. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 13, 97 108.
   Riskind, J. H. (1989). Mechanisms in mood and memory: A cognitive priming formulation. In special issue section, Mood and Memory: Theory, Research, and Application. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 4, 172 184.
   Riskind, J. H. (1989). Will the field ultimately need a more detailed analysis of mood  memory? Comments on Ellis and Ashbrook. In special issue section, Mood and Memory: Theory, Research, and Application. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 4, 39 43.
   Leahy, R., and Riskind, J. H. (1988). Complexity in search of identity: A review of Guidano's "Complexity of the Self". Contemporary Psychology.
   Beck, A. T., Riskind, J. H., Brown, G., and Steer, R. A. (1988). Levels of hopelessness in DSM III disorders: A partial test of the content specificity and depression. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 12, 459 469.
   Riskind, J. H., Rholes, W. S., Brannon, A. M., and Burdick, C. A. (1987). Attributions and expectations: A confluence of vulnerabilities in mild depression in college students. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 53, 349 354.
   Riskind, J. H., Beck, A. T., Berchick, R., Brown, G., and Steer, R. A. (1987). Reliability of DSM III diagnoses for major depression and generalized anxiety disorder using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM III. Archives of General Psychiatry, 44, 817 820.
   Riskind, J. H., Beck, A. T., Brown, G., and Steer, R. A. (1987). Taking the measure of anxiety and depression: Validity of reconstructed Hamilton scales. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 175, 474 479.
   Rholes, W. S., Riskind, J. H., and Lane, J. (1987). Emotional states and memory biases: Effects of cognitive priming and mood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 91 99.
   Beck, A. T., Brown, G., Steer, R. A., Eidelson, J. I., and Riskind, J. H. (1987). Development of the Cognition Checklist. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 96, 179 183.
   Steer, R. A., Beck, A. T., Riskind, J. H., and Brown, G. (1987). Relationships between the Beck Depression Inventory and the Hamilton Psychiatric Rating Scale for Depression in depressed patients. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 9, 327 339.
   Steer, R. A., Beck, A. T., Riskind, J. H., and Brown, G. (1986). Differentiation of depressive disorders from generalized anxiety by the Beck Depression Inventory. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 42, 475 478.
   Riskind, J. H., Beck, A. T., and Steer, R. A. (1985). Cognitive behavioral therapy in geriatric depression: Comment on Steuer, et al. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 53, 944 945.
   Riskind, J. H., and Rholes, W. S. (1985). The cognitive model of depression and mood induction procedures: A reply to Clark (1985). Behavior and Therapy Research, 23, 663 666.
   Riskind, J. H., and Rholes, W. S. (1985). The Velten Mood Induction Procedure and cognitive manipulation: Our response to Clark. Behavior and Therapy Research, 23, 671 673.
   Rholes, W. S., Riskind, J. H., and Neville, B. (1985). The relationship of cognitions and hopelessness to depression and anxiety. Social Cognition, 3, 36 50.
   Riskind, J. H. (1984). They stoop to conquer: Guiding and self regulatory functions of physical posture after success and failure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 47, 479 493.
   Riskind, J. H., and Rholes, W. S. (1984). Cognitive accessibility and the capacity of cognitions to predict future depression: A theoretical note. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 8, 1 12.
   Riskind, J. H., and Steer, R. (1984). Do maladaptive attitudes "cause" depression: misconceptions of cognitive theory (letter to editor). Archives of General Psychiatry, 41, 1111 1112.
   Riskind, J. H. (1983). Nonverbal expressions and the accessibility of life experience memories: A congruence hypothesis. Social Cognition, 2, 52 68.

BOOKS 

  Alloy, L.B., & Riskind, J.H. (2005) ((Eds), Cognitive vulnerability to emotional disorders.  New Jersey:  Lawrence Erlbaum.
   Alloy, L.B., Riskind, J. H. , & Manos, M. (2004).  Abnormal Psychology, 9th edition, McGraw Hill.

 

 
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