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Heather Thompson-Brenner

Heather Thompson-Brenner

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Psychology

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Overview

Heather Thompson-Brenner is affiliated with Boston University in the United States and has a focused research profile in the field of psychology, particularly clinical psychology. Their work primarily addresses eating disorders and related behavioral health issues.

Their research spans several subfields including clinical psychology, sociology and political science, applied psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and pharmacy. The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Obesity and Health Practices
  • Humor Studies and Applications

Thompson-Brenner has published extensively in a range of academic journals. Frequent venues for their publications include:

  • International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • European Eating Disorders Review
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Thompson-Brenner include:

  • "The impact of comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder on eating disorder treatment outcomes: Investigating the unified treatment model," 2021, International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • "Prediction of eating disorder treatment response trajectories via machine learning does not improve performance versus a simpler regression approach," 2021, International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • "The Renfrew Unified Treatment for Eating Disorders and Comorbidity: Long-Term Effects of an Evidence-Based Practice Implementation in Residential Treatment," 2021, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • "Latent trajectories of eating disorder treatment response among female patients in residential care," 2020, International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • "Clinical moderators and predictors of cognitive-behavioral therapy by guided-self-help versus therapist-led for binge-eating disorder: Analysis of aggregated clinical trials," 2021, International Journal of Eating Disorders

In addition to articles, Thompson-Brenner has contributed to book publications through Oxford University Press. These include titles such as "The Renfrew Unified Treatment for Eating Disorders and Comorbidity" published in 2021.

Their frequent collaborators reflect ongoing partnerships in the field and include:

  • James F. Boswell
  • Hallie Espel-Huynh
  • Gayle Brooks
  • Dee Ross Franklin
  • Melanie Smith

Best Publications

  • The empirical status of empirically supported psychotherapies: assumptions, findings, and reporting in controlled clinical trials.

    Drew Westen;Catherine M. Novotny;Heather Thompson-Brenner

  • Diagnostic Crossover in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa: Implications for DSM-V

    Kamryn T. Eddy;David J. Dorer;Debra L. Franko;B.S. Kavita Tahilani

  • A meta-analysis of the relation between therapeutic alliance and treatment outcome in eating disorders

    Tiffany A. Graves;Nassim Tabri;Heather Thompson-Brenner;Debra L. Franko

  • Eating disorder pathology among overweight treatment-seeking youth: clinical correlates and cross-sectional risk modeling.

    Kamryn T. Eddy;Marian Tanofsky-Kraff;Heather Thompson-Brenner;David B. Herzog

  • Personality subtypes in eating disorders: validation of a classification in a naturalistic sample.

    Heather Thompson-Brenner;Drew Westen

  • Genes, Environment, and Time: The Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging (VETSA)

    William S. Kremen;Heather Thompson-Brenner;Yat Ming J Leung;Michael D. Grant

  • Clinician Reactions to Patients With Eating Disorders: A Review of the Literature

    Heather Thompson-Brenner;Dana A. Satir;Debra L. Franko;David B. Herzog

  • Countertransference reactions to adolescents with eating disorders: relationships to clinician and patient factors.

    Dana A. Satir;Heather Thompson-Brenner;Christina Lynn Boisseau;Michele A. Crisafulli

  • Racial/Ethnic Differences in Adults in Randomized Clinical Trials of Binge Eating Disorder

    Debra L. Franko;Heather Thompson-Brenner;Douglas R. Thompson;Christina Lynn Boisseau

  • A Multidimensional Meta-Analysis of Psychotherapy for Bulimia Nervosa

    Heather Thompson‐Brenner;Samantha Glass;Drew Westen

  • Behavioral and cognitive impulsivity in obsessive-compulsive disorder and eating disorders.

    Christina Lynn Boisseau;Christina Lynn Boisseau;Heather Thompson-Brenner;Catherine Caldwell-Harris;Elizabeth Pratt

  • Personality subtypes in adolescents with eating disorders: validation of a classification approach

    Heather Thompson-Brenner;Kamryn T. Eddy;Dana A. Satir;Christina L. Boisseau

  • A personality classification system for eating disorders: a longitudinal study.

    Heather Thompson-Brenner;Kamryn T. Eddy;Debra L. Franko;David J. Dorer

  • Race/ethnicity, education, and treatment parameters as moderators and predictors of outcome in binge eating disorder.

    Heather Thompson-Brenner;Debra L. Franko;Douglas R. Thompson;Carlos M. Grilo

  • A naturalistic study of psychotherapy for bulimia nervosa, part 1: comorbidity and therapeutic outcome.

    Heather Thompson-Brenner;Drew Westen

  • Personality and eating disorders

    D. Westen;H. Thompson-Brenner;J. Peart;S. Wonderlich

  • Using technology within the treatment of eating disorders: a clinical practice review.

    Rebecca M. Shingleton;Lauren K. Richards;Heather Thompson-Brenner

  • EBP ≠ EST: Reply to Crits-Christoph et al. (2005) and Weisz et al. (2005).

    Drew Westen;Catherine M. Novotny;Heather Thompson-Brenner

  • Stigmatization of Anorexia Nervosa: Characteristics and Response to Intervention

    Michele A. Crisafulli;Heather Thompson-Brenner;Debra L. Franko;Kamryn T. Eddy

  • Implementation of transdiagnostic treatment for emotional disorders in residential eating disorder programs: A preliminary pre-post evaluation.

    Heather Thompson-Brenner;James F Boswell;Hallie Espel-Huynh;Gayle Brooks

  • A naturalistic study of psychotherapy for bulimia nervosa, part 2: therapeutic interventions in the community.

    Heather Thompson-Brenner;Drew Westen

Frequent Co-Authors

Kamryn T. Eddy
Kamryn T. Eddy Harvard University
Drew Westen
Drew Westen Emory University
Michael R. Lowe
Michael R. Lowe Drexel University
David H. Barlow
David H. Barlow Boston University
Adrienne S. Juarascio
Adrienne S. Juarascio Drexel University
William S. Kremen
William S. Kremen University of California, San Diego
Rachel F. Rodgers
Rachel F. Rodgers Northeastern University
Carol E. Franz
Carol E. Franz University of California, San Diego
Michael J. Lyons
Michael J. Lyons Boston University
Kristen C. Jacobson
Kristen C. Jacobson University of Chicago

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