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Carolyn Black Becker

Carolyn Black Becker

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Psychology

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Overview

Carolyn Black Becker is affiliated with Trinity University in the United States. Their research primarily spans psychology, health professions, and medicine, with a notable emphasis on clinical psychology, pharmacy, general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, and social psychology.

The central focus of Becker's scholarly work includes eating disorders and behaviors, obesity and health practices, body image and dysmorphia studies, food security and health in diverse populations, obesity, physical activity, and diet, as well as humor studies and applications and nutrition, health, and food behavior.

Becker has contributed to multiple research articles published in various academic journals. Some of the recent papers include:

  • Food Insecurity and Eating Disorders: a Review of Emerging Evidence, 2020, Current Psychiatry Reports
  • Food insecurity & dietary restraint in a diverse urban population, 2020, Eating Disorders
  • Mental health and quality of life in postmenopausal women as a function of retrospective menopause symptom severity, 2022, Menopause The Journal of The North American Menopause Society
  • Adapting the body project to a non-western culture: a dissonance-based eating disorders prevention program for Saudi women, 2021, Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity
  • An exploratory examination of internalized weight stigma in a sample living with food insecurity, 2021, Body Image

Becker frequently publishes in journals such as Body Image, Journal of Eating Disorders, Eating Disorders, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy.

  • Body Image
  • Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Eating Disorders
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy

Their research collaborations include recurring partnerships with coauthors like Lisa Smith Kilpela, Savannah C. Hooper, Victoria B. Marshall, Keesha M. Middlemass, and Francesca Gomez.

  • Lisa Smith Kilpela
  • Savannah C. Hooper
  • Victoria B. Marshall
  • Keesha M. Middlemass
  • Francesca Gomez

Best Publications

  • A survey of psychologists’ attitudes towards and utilization of exposure therapy for PTSD

    Carolyn Black Becker;Claudia Zayfert;Emily Anderson

  • Eating disorder prevention: current evidence-base and future directions.

    Eric Stice;Carolyn Black Becker;Sonja Yokum

  • Exposure utilization and completion of cognitive behavioral therapy for PTSD in a "real world" clinical practice.

    Claudia Zayfert;Jason C. DeViva;Jason C. DeViva;Carolyn B. Becker;Julie L. Pike

  • Peer-facilitated eating disorder prevention: A randomized effectiveness trial of cognitive dissonance and media advocacy.

    Carolyn Black Becker;Lisa M. Smith;Anna C. Ciao

  • Integrating DBT-based techniques and concepts to facilitate exposure treatment for PTSD.

    Carolyn Black Becker;Claudia Zayfert

  • Dissonance-based Interventions for the Prevention of Eating Disorders: Using Persuasion Principles to Promote Health

    Eric Stice;Eric Stice;Heather Shaw;Carolyn Black Becker;Paul Rohde

  • Food insecurity and eating disorder pathology

    Carolyn Black Becker;Keesha Middlemass;Brigitte Taylor;Clara Johnson

  • Can we reduce eating disorder risk factors in female college athletes? A randomized exploratory investigation of two peer-led interventions.

    Carolyn Black Becker;Leda McDaniel;Stephanie Bull;Marc Powell

  • Food Insecurity and Eating Disorders: a Review of Emerging Evidence.

    Vivienne M. Hazzard;Katie A. Loth;Laura Hooper;Carolyn Black Becker

  • Reducing eating disorder risk factors in sorority members: A randomized trial *

    Carolyn Black Becker;Lisa M. Smith;Anna C. Ciao

  • Effectiveness of peer-led eating disorders prevention: A replication trial.

    Carolyn Black Becker;Stephanie Bull;Katherine Schaumberg;Adele Cauble

  • An analog study of patient preferences for exposure versus alternative treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Carolyn Black Becker;Ellen Darius;Katherine Schaumberg

  • Moving from efficacy to effectiveness trials in prevention research.

    Erica Marchand;Eric Stice;Paul Rohde;Carolyn Black Becker

  • Peer-facilitated cognitive dissonance versus healthy weight eating disorders prevention: A randomized comparison.

    Carolyn Black Becker;Chantale Wilson;Allison Williams;Mackenzie Kelly

  • From efficacy to effectiveness to broad implementation: Evolution of the Body Project.

    Carolyn B. Becker;Eric Stice

  • Shared risk factors for mood-, eating-, and weight-related health outcomes.

    Andrea B. Goldschmidt;Melanie Wall;Tse Hwei J Choo;Carolyn Becker

  • Preventing eating disorders.

    Heather Shaw;Eric Stice;Carolyn Black Becker

  • Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for PTSD: A Case Formulation Approach

    Claudia Zayfert;Carolyn Black Becker

  • Body image in adult women: moving beyond the younger years

    Lisa Smith Kilpela;Carolyn Black Becker;Nicole Wesley;Tiffany Stewart

  • I’m not just fat, I’m old: has the study of body image overlooked “old talk”?

    Carolyn Black Becker;Phillippa C Diedrichs;Glen Jankowski;Chelsey Werchan

  • Use of empirically supported interventions for psychopathology: can the participatory approach move us beyond the research-to-practice gap?

    Carolyn Black Becker;Eric Stice;Heather Shaw;Susan Woda

Frequent Co-Authors

Glenn Waller
Glenn Waller University of Sheffield
Eric Stice
Eric Stice Stanford University
Tom Hildebrandt
Tom Hildebrandt Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Marisol Perez
Marisol Perez Arizona State University
Heather Shaw
Heather Shaw Stanford University
Paul Rohde
Paul Rohde Oregon Research Institute
Phillippa C. Diedrichs
Phillippa C. Diedrichs University of the West of England
Kelsie T. Forbush
Kelsie T. Forbush University of Kansas
Janet Treasure
Janet Treasure King's College London
Dianne Neumark-Sztainer
Dianne Neumark-Sztainer University of Minnesota

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