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Gretchen J. Diefenbach

Gretchen J. Diefenbach

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Psychology

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43
Citations
5783
World Ranking
7356
National Ranking
3965

Overview

Gretchen J. Diefenbach is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on clinical and cognitive aspects of mental health.

Their research spans several main fields including:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Within these areas, Diefenbach has worked on subfields such as:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health

The main topics addressed in their work cover:

  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Diefenbach's frequent coauthors include:

  • David F. Tolin
  • Michal Assaf
  • Hannah C. Levy
  • M. David Rudd
  • Kayla A. Lord

They have published regularly in several venues, notably:

  • Cognitive Therapy and Research
  • Archives of Suicide Research
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Translational Psychiatry

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Diefenbach include:

  • Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicidal Inpatients, 2024, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Psychophysiological assessment of stress reactivity and recovery in anxiety disorders, 2021, Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • Cortical and subcortical brain structure in generalized anxiety disorder: findings from 28 research sites in the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group, 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • Mega-analysis methods in ENIGMA: The experience of the generalized anxiety disorder working group, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • The dose-response curve in cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders, 2020, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Best Publications

  • 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

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

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

  • Affective correlates of trichotillomania.

    G.J Diefenbach;S Mouton-Odum;M.A Stanley

  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy for medication nonresponders with obsessive-compulsive disorder: a wait-list-controlled open trial.

    David F. Tolin;Nicholas Maltby;Gretchen J. Diefenbach;Scott E. Hannan

  • Trichotillomania: impact on psychosocial functioning and quality of life.

    Gretchen J. Diefenbach;David F. Tolin;Scott Hannan;Johanna Crocetto

  • Defining response in clinical trials for obsessive-compulsive disorder: a signal detection analysis of the Yale-Brown obsessive compulsive scale.

    David F. Tolin;Jonathan Stuart Abramowitz;Gretchen J. Diefenbach

  • Trichotillomania: a challenge to research and practice.

    Gretchen J Diefenbach;David Reitman;Donald A Williamson

  • A randomized controlled trial of self-directed versus therapist-directed cognitive-behavioral therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder patients with prior medication trials.

    David F. Tolin;Scott Hannan;Nicholas Maltby;Gretchen J. Diefenbach

  • Assessment of Trichotillomania: A Psychometric Evaluation of Hair-Pulling Scales

    Gretchen J. Diefenbach;David F. Tolin;Johanna Crocetto;Nicholas Maltby

  • Emotion regulation and trichotillomania: a comparison of clinical and nonclinical hair pulling.

    Gretchen J. Diefenbach;David F. Tolin;Suzanne Meunier;Patrick Worhunsky

  • Pediatric Trichotillomania: Descriptive Psychopathology and an Open Trial of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

    David F. Tolin;Martin E. Franklin;Gretchen J. Diefenbach;Emily Anderson

  • Stepped care versus standard cognitive-behavioral therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder: a preliminary study of efficacy and costs.

    David F. Tolin;Gretchen J. Diefenbach;Christina M. Gilliam

  • Measuring Change in OCD: Sensitivity of the Obsessive- Compulsive Inventory-Revised.

    Jonathan S. Abramowitz;David F. Tolin;Gretchen J. Diefenbach

  • Worry content reported by older adults with and without generalized anxiety disorder.

    G. J. Diefenbach;M. A. Stanley;J. G. Beck

  • The trichotillomania scale for children: development and validation.

    David F. Tolin;Gretchen J. Diefenbach;Christopher A. Flessner;Martin E. Franklin

  • Cognitive–Behavior Therapy for Late-Life Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Primary Care: Preliminary Findings

    Melinda A. Stanley;Derek R. Hopko;Gretchen J. Diefenbach;Stacey L. Bourland

  • Changes in quality of life following cognitive-behavioral therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder

    Gretchen J. Diefenbach;Jonathan S. Abramowitz;Jonathan S. Abramowitz;Melissa M. Norberg;David F. Tolin

  • Cognitive Control in Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Relation of Inhibition Impairments to Worry and Anxiety Severity

    Lauren S. Hallion;Lauren S. Hallion;David F. Tolin;David F. Tolin;Michal Assaf;Michal Assaf;John Goethe;John Goethe

  • Quality of life and anxiety and depressive disorder comorbidity.

    Melissa M. Norberg;Gretchen J. Diefenbach;David F. Tolin

  • Assessment of shame and guilt in a psychiatric sample: a comparison of two measures

    Patricia M Averill;Gretchen J Diefenbach;Melinda A Stanley;Joy K Breckenridge

  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for generalised anxiety disorder: a pilot randomised, double-blind, sham-controlled trial.

    Gretchen J. Diefenbach;Laura B. Bragdon;Luis Zertuche;Christopher J. Hyatt

Frequent Co-Authors

David F. Tolin
David F. Tolin Yale 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
Derek R. Hopko
Derek R. Hopko University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Mark E. Kunik
Mark E. Kunik Baylor College of Medicine
J. Gayle Beck
J. Gayle Beck University of Memphis
Gail Steketee
Gail Steketee Boston University
Jonathan S. Abramowitz
Jonathan S. Abramowitz University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Randy O. Frost
Randy O. Frost Smith College
Martin E. Franklin
Martin E. Franklin University of Pennsylvania

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