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Overview

Derek R. Hopko is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on psychology, mathematics, and medicine.

Their work is associated with several main fields of study, including:

  • Psychology
  • Mathematics
  • Medicine

Within these broad fields, Hopko's subfields of study include:

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Pharmacology

The major topics covered in their publications reflect interests in education, mental health, and cognitive processes. These topics include:

  • Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
  • Mathematics Education and Pedagogy
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Treatment of Major Depression

Derek R. Hopko's recent published work includes:

  • On the cognitive consequences of mathematics anxiety, 2021, Psychology Press eBooks

Frequent collaborators in their research efforts are:

  • Alexandra L. Rose
  • Carl W. Lejuez
  • Jessica F. Magidson
  • Mark H. Ashcraft
  • Elizabeth Kirk

The primary publication venue for their recent work is Psychology Press eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Contemporary behavioral activation treatments for depression: procedures, principles, and progress.

    Derek R. Hopko;C.W. Lejuez;Kenneth J. Ruggiero;Georg H. Eifert

  • The Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS): Construction, Validity, and Reliability

    Derek R. Hopko;Rajan Mahadevan;Robert L. Bare;Melissa K. Hunt

  • A Brief Behavioral Activation Treatment for Depression: Treatment Manual

    Carl W. Lejuez;Derek R. Hopko;Sandra D. Hopko

  • Ten year revision of the brief behavioral activation treatment for depression: revised treatment manual.

    C. W. Lejuez;Derek R. Hopko;Ron E. Acierno;Stacey B. Daughters

  • A brief behavioral activation treatment for depression. A randomized pilot trial within an inpatient psychiatric hospital.

    Derek R. Hopko;C. W. Lejuez;James P. Lepage;Sandra D. Hopko

  • Cognitive-behavioral treatment of late-life generalized anxiety disorder.

    Melinda A. Stanley;J. Gayle Beck;Diane M. Novy;Patricia M. Averill

  • Construct Validity of the Balloon Analog Risk Task (BART) Associations With Psychopathy and Impulsivity

    Melissa K. Hunt;Derek R. Hopko;Robert Bare;C. W. Lejuez

  • Assessing worry in older adults: confirmatory factor analysis of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire and psychometric properties of an abbreviated model.

    Derek R. Hopko;Melinda A. Stanley;Deborah L. Reas;Julie Loebach Wetherell

  • Randomized controlled trial of behavioral activation smoking cessation treatment for smokers with elevated depressive symptoms.

    Laura MacPherson;Matthew T. Tull;Alexis K. Matusiewicz;Samantha Rodman

  • Mathematics Anxiety and Working Memory: Support for the Existence of a Deficient Inhibition Mechanism

    Derek R. Hopko;Mark H. Ashcraft;James Gute;Kenneth J. Ruggiero

  • Brief behavioral activation and problem-solving therapy for depressed breast cancer patients: randomized trial.

    Derek R. Hopko;Maria E. A. Armento;Sarah M. C. Robertson;Marlena M. Ryba

  • COPD education and cognitive behavioral therapy group treatment for clinically significant symptoms of depression and anxiety in COPD patients: a randomized controlled trial.

    M. E. Kunik;C. Veazey;J. A. Cully;J. Souchek

  • A brief behavioral activation treatment for depression

    C.W. Lejuez;Derek R. Hopko;James P. LePage;Sandra D. Hopko

  • Behavioral Activation for Moderately Depressed University Students: Randomized Controlled Trial

    Michael Gawrysiak;Christopher Nicholas;Derek R. Hopko

  • Effectiveness of a Brief Behavioral Treatment for Inner-City Illicit Drug Users With Elevated Depressive Symptoms: The Life Enhancement Treatment for Substance Use (LETS Act!)

    Stacey B. Daughters;Ashley R. Braun;Marsha N. Sargeant;Elizabeth K. Reynolds

  • Behavioral theory of depression: Reinforcement as a mediating variable between avoidance and depression

    John P. Carvalho;Derek R. Hopko

  • The Environmental Reward Observation Scale (EROS): development, validity, and reliability.

    Maria E.A. Armento;Derek R. Hopko

  • Confirmatory Factor Analysis Of The Math Anxiety Rating Scale–Revised

    Derek R. Hopko

  • Construct Validity of the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART): Relationship with MDMA Use by Inner-City Drug Users in Residential Treatment

    Derek R. Hopko;C. W. Lejuez;Stacey B. Daughters;Will M. Aklin

  • Effects of Emotion on Pain Reports, Tolerance and Physiology

    Leslie E Carter;Daniel W McNeil;Kevin E Vowles;John T Sorrell

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl W. Lejuez
Carl W. Lejuez Stony Brook University
Melinda A. Stanley
Melinda A. Stanley Baylor College of Medicine
Diane M. Novy
Diane M. Novy The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Gretchen J. Diefenbach
Gretchen J. Diefenbach Yale University
Mark E. Kunik
Mark E. Kunik Baylor College of Medicine
Daniel W. McNeil
Daniel W. McNeil West Virginia University
Jessica F. Magidson
Jessica F. Magidson University of Maryland, College Park
J. Gayle Beck
J. Gayle Beck University of Memphis
Mark H. Ashcraft
Mark H. Ashcraft University of Nevada, Las Vegas
James K. McNulty
James K. McNulty Florida State University

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