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  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

David F. Tolin is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the field of psychology, contributing extensively to clinical and experimental psychology. Their work intersects disciplines such as cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, and social psychology.

Their research spans several subfields including clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and psychiatry and mental health. Key topics addressed in their publications include obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Additional research interests involve autism spectrum disorder, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, eating disorders and behaviors, mental health, and suicide and self-harm studies.

David F. Tolin has contributed to multiple well-regarded academic journals. Frequently publishing in the following venues:

  • Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
  • Clinical Psychology Science and Practice
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Exposure therapy for PTSD: A meta-analysis" (2021), Clinical Psychology Review
  • "An overview of the first 5 years of the ENIGMA obsessive-compulsive disorder working group: The power of worldwide collaboration" (2020), Human Brain Mapping
  • "Biofeedback and Neurofeedback for Anxiety Disorders: A Quantitative and Qualitative Systematic Review" (2020), Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
  • "OUP accepted manuscript" (2020), Brain
  • "Structural neuroimaging biomarkers for obsessive-compulsive disorder in the ENIGMA-OCD consortium: medication matters" (2020), Translational Psychiatry

The scientist has collaborated frequently with others in the field. Their most common co-authors include:

  • Hannah C. Levy
  • Gretchen J. Diefenbach
  • Michael C. Stevens
  • Blaise L. Worden
  • Kayla A. Lord

David F. Tolin was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2011, reflecting a level of professional distinction within the psychological community.

Best Publications

  • Sex differences in trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder: A quantitative review of 25 years of research.

    David F. Tolin;Edna B. Foa

  • The Posttraumatic Cognitions Inventory (PTCI): Development and validation.

    E B Foa;D F Tolin;A Ehlers;D M Clark

  • Quality of life in the anxiety disorders: A meta-analytic review

    Bunmi O. Olatunji;Josh M. Cisler;David F. Tolin

  • The Disgust Scale: Item Analysis, Factor Structure, and Suggestions for Refinement.

    Bunmi O. Olatunji;Nathan L. Williams;David F. Tolin;Jonathan Stuart Abramowitz

  • Paradoxical effects of thought suppression: a meta-analysis of controlled studies

    Jonathan S Abramowitz;David F Tolin;Gordon P Street

  • Is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy More Effective Than Other Therapies? A Meta-Analytic Review

    David F. Tolin

  • Comorbidity in hoarding disorder

    Randy O. Frost;Gail Steketee;David F. Tolin

  • Comparison of the PTSD Symptom Scale-Interview Version and the Clinician-Administered PTSD scale.

    Edna B. Foa;David F. Tolin

  • A meta-analysis of D-cycloserine and the facilitation of fear extinction and exposure therapy

    Melissa M. Norberg;John H. Krystal;David F. Tolin

  • Intolerance of uncertainty in obsessive-compulsive disorder

    David F. Tolin;Jonathan Stuart Abramowitz;Bartholomew D. Brigidi;Edna B. Foa

  • The Dimensional Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (DY-BOCS): an instrument for assessing obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions.

    M C Rosario-Campos;M C Rosario-Campos;E C Miguel;S Quatrano;P Chacon

  • The economic and social burden of compulsive hoarding.

    David F. Tolin;David F. Tolin;Randy O. Frost;Gail Steketee;Krista D. Gray

  • Augmentation of behavior therapy with D-cycloserine for obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Sabine Wilhelm;Ulrike Buhlmann;David F. Tolin;Suzanne A. Meunier

  • Psychometric Properties of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) and Its Short Forms in Adults With Emotional Disorders.

    Lauren S. Hallion;Shari A. Steinman;David F. Tolin;David F. Tolin;Gretchen J. Diefenbach;Gretchen J. Diefenbach

  • A brief interview for assessing compulsive hoarding: The Hoarding Rating Scale-Interview

    David F. Tolin;Randy O. Frost;Gail Steketee

  • A large sample empirical typology of male spouse abusers and its relationship to dimensions of abuse.

    L. Kevin Hamberger;Jeffrey M. Lohr;Dennis Bonge;David F. Tolin

  • Development and Validation of the Clutter Image Rating

    Randy O. Frost;Gail Steketee;David F. Tolin;Stefanie Renaud

  • Refining the diagnostic boundaries of compulsive hoarding: A critical review

    Alberto Pertusa;Randy O. Frost;Miguel A. Fullana;Miguel A. Fullana;Jack Samuels

  • Dysfunctional action monitoring hyperactivates frontal–striatal circuits in obsessive–compulsive disorder: an event-related fMRI study

    Nicholas Maltby;David F. Tolin;David F. Tolin;Patrick D. Worhunsky;Timothy M. O'Keefe

  • Religious obsessions and compulsions in a non-clinical sample: the Penn Inventory of Scrupulosity (PIOS).

    Jonathan S Abramowitz;Jonathan D. Huppert;Adam B Cohen;David F Tolin

  • Memory and memory confidence in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    David F. Tolin;Jonathan Stuart Abramowitz;Bartholomew D. Brigidi;Nader Amir

Frequent Co-Authors

Gretchen J. Diefenbach
Gretchen J. Diefenbach Yale University
Gail Steketee
Gail Steketee Boston University
Randy O. Frost
Randy O. Frost Smith College
Bethany M. Wootton
Bethany M. Wootton University of Technology Sydney
Jonathan S. Abramowitz
Jonathan S. Abramowitz University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michael C. Stevens
Michael C. Stevens Yale University
Martin E. Franklin
Martin E. Franklin University of Pennsylvania
Bunmi O. Olatunji
Bunmi O. Olatunji Vanderbilt University
David Mataix-Cols
David Mataix-Cols Karolinska Institute
Edna B. Foa
Edna B. Foa University of Pennsylvania

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