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About Dr. Forsyth
Biographical Sketch
JOHN P. FORSYTH is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology
at the University at Albany, SUNY, Faculty Director of the
Anxiety Disorders Research Program (ADRP), and is a Clinical Scientist
affiliated with the Center for Stress
and Anxiety Disorders, Albany, NY. He received his B.A. in psychology from Providence College,
and his M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from West
Virginia University. He did his pre-doctoral internship
training at the University of
Mississippi Medical Center/Jackson VAMC Consortium,
where he served as Chief Psychology Resident within the
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. He has
received several national and international awards for his
scholarly work in the area of behavior analysis and therapy,
anxiety disorders, and experimental psychopathology. In 2000 he
received the B. F. Skinner New Researcher Award from
Division 25 of the American Psychological Association for
innovative and important behavioral research by a new investigator.
In 1999, he was the recipient of the Dissertation Award from
the Society for a Science for Clinical Psychology for excellence in research.
In 1996 he was awarded the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the
Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy. Upon completion of
his graduate training, West Virginia University recognized his
scholarly contributions to behavioral science with the Don Hake Award.
He is Associate Editor of Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry and
the Behavior Therapist, and serves of the editorial boards of the Journal of
Anxiety Disorders, and the Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy. He functioned
as a contributing Editor of a two-part special anniversary issue of the journal
Behavior Therapy titled Thirty Years of Behavior Therapy: Promises Kept, Promises
Unfulfilled (vol 28, 3; 28, 4).
He has authored and co-authored over 30 articles, several book chapters,
and numerous papers at professional meetings spanning experimental psychopathology,
language, cognition, and emotional dysregulation (i.e., acceptance and change),
basic and applied work on the nature of normal and pathological fear in the anxiety
disorders, Pavlovian fear conditioning, clinical science and practice, assessment,
managed care, and behavior theory and philosophy of science. Dr. Forsyth's current
NIMH supported research focuses on elucidating the causes of attentional bias for
threat as observed in persons suffering from anxiety-related disorders, experimental
psychopathology research examining the role of panic attacks in phobic etiology, and
elucidating the clinical processes that move one from a normal to a disordered experience
of anxiety and fear. He routinely teaches Abnormal Psychology (undergraduate level),
Introduction to Clinical Psychology: The Scientist-Practitioner (graduate level),
and provides clinical supervision at the University at Albany's Psychological Services
Center. John spends his free time hiking, camping, telemark skiing, and fly fishing
(not all at the same time) in the Adirondacks, playing guitar and Irish fiddle, and
enjoys quality time with his three young children (Claire, Aidan, and Margaret) and
his wife Celine. Click here for a full PDF version of his CV.
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