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Dianne L. Chambless is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Psychology, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Social Psychology. Their scholarly work explores various aspects of child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, psychotherapy techniques and applications, attachment and relationship dynamics, mental health research topics, personality disorders and psychopathology, and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders.

Recent publications by Chambless include:

  • Processes of therapeutic change: Results from the Cornell-Penn Study of Psychotherapies for Panic Disorder (2020, Journal of Counseling Psychology)
  • Predictors and moderators of treatment dropout in cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic therapies for panic disorder (2020, Psychotherapy Research)
  • Patient, therapist, and relational antecedents of hostile resistance in cognitive-behavioral therapy for panic disorder: A qualitative investigation (2021, Psychotherapy)
  • How does hostile resistance interfere with the benefits of cognitive-behavioral therapy for panic disorder? The role of therapist adherence and working alliance (2022, Psychotherapy Research)
  • Testing Clinical Intuitions About Barriers to Improvement in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Panic Disorder (2020, Behavior Therapy)

The scientist has frequently published in venues such as Psychotherapy Research, Journal of Counseling Psychology, Behavior Therapy, Psychotherapy, and Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.

Frequent co-authors in Chambless's work include:

  • Jacques P. Barber
  • Barbara Milrod
  • Nili Solomonov
  • Kevin S. McCarthy
  • Rachel A. Schwartz

The thematic focus of their research emphasizes child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development along with anxiety and treatment modalities. Clinical psychology is the predominant lens through which they study cognitive and behavioral therapeutic processes, particularly as applied to panic disorder. The research also addresses therapist and patient dynamics, treatment adherence, and factors influencing therapy outcomes.

Best Publications

  • Defining Empirically Supported Therapies

    Dianne L. Chambless;Steven D. Hollon

  • Empirically Supported Psychological Interventions: Controversies and Evidence

    Dianne L. Chambless;Thomas H. Ollendick

  • Update on Empirically Validated Therapies, II

    Dianne L. Chambless;Mary J. Baker;Donald H. Baucom;Larry E. Beutler

  • Assessment of fear of fear in agoraphobics: the body sensations questionnaire and the agoraphobic cognitions questionnaire

    D L Chambless;G C Caputo;P Bright;R Gallagher

  • Reliability and validity of the beck anxiety inventory

    Thomas Fydrich;Deborah J. Dowdall;Dianne L. Chambless

  • The Mobility Inventory for Agoraphobia

    D L Chambless;G C Caputo;S E Jasin;E J Gracely

  • A reanalysis of agoraphobia.

    Alan J. Goldstein;Dianne L. Chambless

  • Cognitive–behavioral therapy for adult anxiety disorders in clinical practice: A meta-analysis of effectiveness studies.

    Rebecca E. Stewart;Dianne L. Chambless

  • Cognitive behavioral versus exposure only treatment for social phobia: A meta-analysis

    Ulrike Feske;Dianne L. Chambless

  • Training in and Dissemination of Empirically-Validated Psychological Treatments: Report and Recommendations

    Dianne L. Chambless

  • More information from fewer questions: the factor structure and item properties of the original and brief fear of negative evaluation scale.

    Thomas L. Rodebaugh;Carol M. Woods;David M. Thissen;Richard G. Heimberg

  • Cognitive therapy of anxiety disorders.

    Dianne L. Chambless;Martha M. Gillis

  • Are emotions frightening? An extension of the fear of fear construct

    K.Elaine Williams;Dianne L. Chambless;Anthony Ahrens

  • Predictors of Response to Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy for Social Phobia

    Dianne L. Chambless;Giao Q. Tran;Carol R. Glass

  • Cognitive therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder

    Patricia van Oppen;Arnoud Arntz

  • Expressed emotion and behavior therapy outcome: a prospective study with obsessive-compulsive and agoraphobic outpatients.

    Dianne L. Chambless;Gail Steketee

  • Pronouns in Marital Interaction What Do “You” and “I” Say About Marital Health?

    Rachel A. Simmons;Peter C. Gordon;Dianne L. Chambless

  • Specificity of treatment effects: cognitive therapy and relaxation for generalized anxiety and panic disorders.

    Jedidiah Siev;Dianne L. Chambless

  • Reliability and validity of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale

    Sheila R. Woody;Gail Steketee;Dianne L. Chambless

  • Fear of fear and the anxiety disorders.

    Dianne L. Chambless;Edward J. Gracely

  • INTERVENTIONS: Controversies and Evidence

    Dianne L. Chambless;Thomas H. Ollendick

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacques P. Barber
Jacques P. Barber Adelphi University
Gail Steketee
Gail Steketee Boston University
Thomas L. Rodebaugh
Thomas L. Rodebaugh Washington University in St. Louis
Thomas Fydrich
Thomas Fydrich Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Jonathan D. Huppert
Jonathan D. Huppert Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Alyson K. Zalta
Alyson K. Zalta University of California, Irvine
Babette Renneberg
Babette Renneberg Freie Universität Berlin
Robert Gallop
Robert Gallop West Chester University
Steven D. Hollon
Steven D. Hollon Vanderbilt University
Paul Crits-Christoph
Paul Crits-Christoph University of Pennsylvania

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