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Gail Steketee is affiliated with Boston University in the United States and focuses primarily on psychology, with a specialized emphasis on clinical psychology. Their work spans 28 publications within psychology, including 22 in clinical psychology, alongside contributions to experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, sociology and political science, and general health professions.

The main topics explored by Steketee include obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, resilience and mental health, autism spectrum disorder research, eating disorders and behaviors, body image and dysmorphia studies, as well as evolutionary psychology and human behavior. These areas reflect a broad engagement with mental health and behavioral science.

Steketee has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed journals. Frequent venues for their publications include Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Cognitive Therapy and Research, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, and Journal of Psychiatric Research.

  • How well do hoarding research samples represent cases that rise to community attention?, 2020, Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Mechanisms of Change in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Body Dysmorphic Disorder, 2020, Cognitive Therapy and Research
  • A transdiagnostic perspective of constructs underlying obsessive-compulsive and related disorders: An international Delphi consensus study, 2020, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
  • Early response to cognitive behavioral therapy for body dysmorphic disorder as a predictor of outcomes, 2022, Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • A network analysis of hoarding symptoms, Saving and acquiring motives, and comorbidity, 2020, Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

In addition to articles, Steketee has authored a book titled Hoarding, published in 2020 by Oxford University Press.

Collaborative work is also a significant aspect of Steketee's career. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Christiana Bratiotis
  • Randy O. Frost
  • David F. Tolin
  • Abigail M. Ross
  • Ellen R. DeVoe

Best Publications

  • Behavioral/cognitive conceptualizations of post-traumatic stress disorder

    Edna B. Foa;Gail Steketee;Barbara Olasov Rothbaum

  • Cognitive assessment of obsessive-compulsive disorder

    Randy Frost;Gail Steketee;Nader Amir;Martine Bouvard

  • Measurement of compulsive hoarding: saving inventory-revised

    Randy O. Frost;Gail Steketee;Jessica Grisham

  • Comorbidity in hoarding disorder

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

  • Psychometric validation of the obsessive belief questionnaire and interpretation of intrusions inventory - Part 2: Factor analyses and testing of a brief version

    Gail Steketee;Randy Frost;Sunil Bhar;Martine Bouvard

  • Development and initial validation of the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire and the Interpretation of Intrusions Inventory.

    M Freeston;G Steketee;R Frost;N Amir

  • Psychometric validation of the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire and the Interpretation of Intrusions Inventory: Part I

    Gail Steketee;Randy Frost;Sunil Bhar;Martine Bouvard

  • Compulsive hoarding: Current status of the research

    Gail Steketee;Randy Frost

  • The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale: interview versus self-report.

    Gail Steketee;Randy Frost;Karen Bogart

  • Psychiatric complications during flooding therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Roger K. Pitman;Bruce Altman;Evan Greenwald;Ronald E. Longpre

  • Perfectionism in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder patients

    Randy O. Frost;Gail Steketee

  • The economic and social burden of compulsive hoarding.

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

  • Hoarding: a community health problem.

    Randy O. Frost;Gail Steketee;Lauren Williams

  • Cognitive aspects of compulsive hoarding

    Gail Steketee;Randy O. Frost;Michael Kyrios

  • Cognitive approaches to obsessions and compulsions : theory, assessment, and treatment

    Randy O. Frost;Gail Steketee

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

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

  • 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

  • Success and failure in the behavioral treatment of obsessive-compulsives.

    Edna B. Foa;Jonathan B. Grayson;Gail S. Steketee;Harvey G. Doppelt

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

    Dianne L. Chambless;Gail Steketee

  • Obsessions and compulsions: by STANLEY J. RACHMAN and RAY J. HODGSON Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1980, 437 pp.

    Gail S. Steketee

Frequent Co-Authors

Randy O. Frost
Randy O. Frost Smith College
David F. Tolin
David F. Tolin Yale University
Edna B. Foa
Edna B. Foa University of Pennsylvania
Sabine Wilhelm
Sabine Wilhelm Harvard University
Dianne L. Chambless
Dianne L. Chambless University of Pennsylvania
Katharine A. Phillips
Katharine A. Phillips Cornell University
Michael Kyrios
Michael Kyrios Flinders University
Jessica R. Grisham
Jessica R. Grisham University of New South Wales
Timothy A. Brown
Timothy A. Brown Boston University
Claudio Sica
Claudio Sica University of Florence

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