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Overview

Abbe Garcia is affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and neuroscience, with a significant concentration in clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Additional subfields of study include developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, as well as psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's main topics of study encompass obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, autism spectrum disorder research, and behavioral and psychological studies. Further topics include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, eating disorders and behaviors, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, and body image and dysmorphia studies.

The publication record features notable papers such as:

  • Therapist Behavior During Exposure Tasks Predicts Habituation and Clinical Outcome in Three Randomized Controlled Trials for Pediatric OCD (2020, Behavior Therapy)
  • Disgust propensity and sensitivity in childhood anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder: Two constructs differentially related to obsessional content (2020, Journal of Anxiety Disorders)
  • Improving Delivery Behaviors During Exposure for Pediatric OCD: A Multiple Baseline Training Trial With Community Therapists (2020, Behavior Therapy)
  • Core Motivations of Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Role of Harm Avoidance and Incompleteness (2020, Child Psychiatry & Human Development)
  • A Neurocognitive Comparison of Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Trichotillomania (Hair Pulling Disorder) (2020, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Abbe Garcia include:

  • Jennifer B. Freeman
  • Kristen Benito
  • Brady G. Case
  • Elyse Stewart
  • Christopher Georgiadis

Abbe Garcia's publications often appear in specific venues such as:

  • Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
  • Behavior Therapy
  • Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
  • Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Best Publications

  • Predictors and moderators of treatment outcome in the Pediatric Obsessive Compulsive Treatment Study (POTS I)

    Abbe Marrs Garcia;Jeffrey J. Sapyta;Phoebe S. Moore;Jennifer B. Freeman

  • Cognitive Behavior Therapy Augmentation of Pharmacotherapy in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Pediatric OCD Treatment Study II (POTS II) Randomized Controlled Trial

    Martin E. Franklin;Jeffrey Sapyta;Jennifer B. Freeman;Muniya Khanna

  • Early childhood OCD: preliminary findings from a family-based cognitive-behavioral approach.

    Jennifer B. Freeman;Abbe M. Garcia;Lisa Coyne;Chelsea Ale

  • Tics moderate treatment outcome with sertraline but not cognitive-behavior therapy in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    John S. March;Martin E. Franklin;Henrietta Leonard;Abbe Garcia

  • Family-Based Treatment of Early Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder The Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Treatment Study for Young Children (POTS Jr)—A Randomized Clinical Trial

    Jennifer Freeman;Jeffrey Sapyta;Abbe Garcia;Scott Compton

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    Henrietta L. Leonard;Chelsea M. Ale;Jennifer B. Freeman;Abbe M. Garcia

  • Evidence base update for psychosocial treatments for pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Jennifer Freeman;Abbe Garcia;Hannah Frank;Kristen Benito

  • Predictors of Parental Accommodation in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Findings from the Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Treatment Study (POTS) Trial

    Christopher A. Flessner;Jennifer B. Freeman;Jeffrey Sapyta;Abbe Garcia

  • Juvenile-onset OCD: clinical features in children, adolescents and adults.

    Maria C. Mancebo;Abbe M. Garcia;Anthony Pinto;Anthony Pinto;Jennifer B. Freeman

  • Internet-delivered, family-based treatment for early-onset OCD: a preliminary case series.

    Jonathan S. Comer;Jami M. Furr;Christine E. Cooper-Vince;Caroline E. Kerns

  • Internet-delivered, family-based treatment for early-onset OCD: A pilot randomized trial

    Jonathan S. Comer;Jami M. Furr;Caroline E. Kerns;Elizabeth Miguel

  • Cognitive behavioral treatment for young children with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Jennifer B. Freeman;Molly L. Choate-Summers;Phoebe S. Moore;Abbe M. Garcia

  • Family-based treatment of early-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Jennifer B. Freeman;Abbe M. Garcia;Christina Fucci;Mai Karitani

  • Examining the Psychometric Properties of the Family Accommodation Scale-Parent-Report (FAS-PR).

    Christopher A. Flessner;Jeffrey Sapyta;Abbe Garcia;Jennifer B. Freeman

  • Phenomenology of Early Childhood Onset Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

    Abbe M. Garcia;Jennifer B. Freeman;Michael B. Himle;Noah C. Berman

  • Development of the pediatric accommodation scale: reliability and validity of clinician- and parent-report measures.

    Kristen G. Benito;Nicole E. Caporino;Hannah E. Frank;Krishnapriya Ramanujam

  • The impact of neuropsychological functioning on treatment outcome in pediatric obsessive–compulsive disorder

    Christopher A. Flessner;Amy Allgair;Abbe Garcia;Jennifer Freeman

  • Evidence Base Update of Psychosocial Treatments for Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Evaluating, Improving, and Transporting What Works.

    Jennifer Freeman;Kristen Benito;Jennifer Herren;Joshua Kemp

  • Maternal and Child Expressed Emotion as Predictors of Treatment Response in Pediatric Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder

    Amy Przeworski;Lori A. Zoellner;Martin E. Franklin;Abbe Garcia

  • The Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Treatment Study II: rationale, design and methods

    Jennifer B Freeman;Molly L Choate-Summers;Abbe M Garcia;Phoebe S Moore

  • Tic-related obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): phenomenology and treatment outcome in the Pediatric OCD Treatment Study II.

    Christine A. Conelea;Michael R. Walther;Jennifer B. Freeman;Abbe M. Garcia

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin E. Franklin
Martin E. Franklin University of Pennsylvania
John S. March
John S. March Duke University
Christine A. Conelea
Christine A. Conelea University of Minnesota
Edna B. Foa
Edna B. Foa University of Pennsylvania
Christopher A. Flessner
Christopher A. Flessner Brown University
Jonathan S. Comer
Jonathan S. Comer Florida International University
Scott N. Compton
Scott N. Compton Duke University
Eric A. Storch
Eric A. Storch Baylor College of Medicine
Daniel P. Dickstein
Daniel P. Dickstein Harvard Medical School
Philip C. Kendall
Philip C. Kendall Temple University

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