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David A. F. Haaga, Ph.D.

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


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.

Haaga, D.A.F., & Stiles, W.B. (2000). Randomized clinical trials in psychotherapy research: Methodology, design, and evaluation. In C.R. Snyder & R.E. Ingram (Eds.), Handbook of Psychological Change: Psychotherapy Processes and Practices for the 21st Century (pp. 14-39). New York: Wiley.

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.

Haaga, D. A. F., Hall, S. M., & Haas, A. (2005). Participant factors in substance use disorders. In L. E. Beutler & L. G. Castonguay (Eds.),
Principles of change in psychotherapy: Integrating technical, relational, client, and therapist factors. Oxford: Oxford University Press.


Supervised Student Dissertations and Theses:

DISSERTATIONS

2001 Cindy Brody: The Relationship Between Cigarette Smoking and Depression Vulnerability: Effects of the Serotonin Transporter Gene

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

1998 Michelle Yarmus: Effect of Mood on Perception of Adult Attachment

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

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

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


Editorial Service

Current member, editorial boards, Addictive Behaviors, Clinical
Psychology: Science & Practice
, and Journal of Rational-Emotive &
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy.

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 Advancement of Behavior Therapy (associate program chair
1998, Program Chair 1999)



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