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Faculty
-- Clinical Program Area
John
P. Forsyth, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Director of Clinical Training
Office: Social Sciences 314
Phone: (518) 442-4862
Fax: (518) 442-4867
EMail: forsyth@albany.edu
Lab: Anxiety
Disorders Research Program
Curriculum
Vitae (pdf format)
Also Check out:
Act-for-Anxiety-Disorders.Com
AcceptanceandMindfulness.Com |
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Research Areas of Interest
My research interests focus on experiential and psychological processes
that account for the etiology, maintenance, and treatment of fear and anxiety-related
disorders. In particular we are interested in elucidating processes that may
yield disordered experiences of fear and anxiety, namely emotion
regulation and dysregulation processes. A good deal of this work is focusing
on third wave behavior therapy
topics such
as
experiential
avoidance,
nonacceptance, acceptance, mindfulness, cognitive defusion/fusion, and values.
This work is set within a translational research context, wherein
we seek to integrate
philosophical/theoretical
levels of
analysis
with experimental psychopathology and applied psychopathology research domains.
Specific areas of interest follow. |
 Experimental
Psychopathology of Fear and Anxiety
Emotion
Regulation and Dysregulation (e.g., experiential
avoidance)
Pavlovian
Conditioning and Verbal "Cognitive" Relational
Processes
Behavioral
and Psychophysiological Assessment
Third
Generation Behavior Therapies (e.g., ACT
for Anxiety Disorders )
Acceptance
and Mindfulness-Based Treatments for Anxiety Disorders
Process-Oriented
Treatment Development
Theoretical
and Philosophical Issues in Behavior Analysis
and Therapy |
Education
1997 Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, West Virginia
University
1994 M.A., Clinical Psychology, West Virginia University
1987 B.A., Psychology, Providence College |
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