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David A. F. Haaga, Ph.D.

Professor and Director of the James J. Gray Psychotherapy Training Clinic

• Smoking Cessation Treatment

E-mail: dhaaga@american.edu
Phone: (202) 885-1718
Office: Asbury building, room 317A

Education:

B.A. Harvard College 1983
Ph.D. University of Southern California 1988

Current Research Interests:

• cognitive assessment
• cognitive behavior therapy
• cigarette smoking and depression

Representative Publications:

Solomon, A., Haaga, D. A. F., Brody, C., Kirk, L. & Friedman, D.G. (1998). Priming irrational beliefs in recovered depressed people. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 107, 440-449.

Thorndike, F. P., Friedman-Wheeler, D. G., & Haaga, D. A. F. (2006). Effect of cognitive behavior therapy on smokers' compensatory coping skills. Addictive Behaviors, 31, 1705-1710.

Haaga, D. A. F., Yarmus, M., Hubbard, S., Brody, C., Solomon, A., Kirk, L., & Chamberlain, J. (2002). Mood dependency of self-rated attachment style. CognitiveTherapy and Research, 26, 57-71.

Rabois, D., & Haaga, D. A. F. (2003). The influence of cognitive coping and mood on smokers' self-efficacy and temptation. Addictive Behaviors, 28, 561-573.

Haaga, D. A. F., Thorndike, F. P., Friedman-Wheeler, D. G., Pearlman, M. Y., & Wernicke, R. A. (2004). Cognitive coping skills and depression vulnerability among cigarette smokers. Addictive Behaviors, 29, 1109-1122.

Friedman-Wheeler, D. G., Haaga, D. A. F., Gunthert, K. C., Ahrens, A. H., & McIntosh, E. (2008). Depression, neuroticism, and expectancies for engagement and disengagement coping among cigarette smokers. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 32, 105-115.

for more details, see full CV

Supervised Student Dissertations and Theses:

DISSERTATIONS

2008 Deborah Glasofer Self-efficacy in adolescent girls at risk for overweight during an obesity prevention program

2004 Frances Thorndike Effect of cognitive behavioral therapy on
smokers' cognitive coping skills

2004 Dara Friedman-Wheeler Depression and expectancies for the
effectivneess of specific negative affect regulation strategies

THESES

2007 Melissa Tanner The effects of Transcendental Meditation on mindfulness

2005 Emily Bauman Patterns and correlates of emotion-focused and
problem-focused coping in battered women over time

2004 Amy Nguyen Portella Seasonal, premenstrual, and depressive symptoms
and their cognitive correlates.

2001 Frances Thorndike: Specificity of Nicotine Dependence in Adult Smokers with PTSD Symptoms: Does Depression Proneness Explain the Full Story?

Editorial Service

Current member, editorial boards, Addictive Behaviors, Clinical Psychology: Science & Practice, and Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, Behavior Therapy, Clinical Psychology Review, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, The Open Addiction Journal

Associate Editor, Cognitive Therapy and Research (1994-1996)
Associate Editor, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
(1997--2000)

Guest Editor, Annual Review of Addictions Treatment and Research (1997)

Editor, Behavior Therapy (2002-2005).

Membership:

Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, http://www.aabt.org/ (associate program chair
1998, Program Chair 1999, Chair, Awards and Recognition Committee 2008-2011 )

Montgomery County Road Runners Club (Board of Directors 2005-2007; Vice President 2006-2007) http://www.mcrrc.org/