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Overview

Joanna J. Arch is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research spans several fields, primarily focused on psychology and medicine, with significant contributions to clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, oncology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and general health professions.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes
  • Mindfulness and compassion interventions
  • Cancer survivorship and care
  • Childhood cancer survivors' quality of life
  • COVID-19 and mental health
  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development
  • Palliative care and end-of-life issues

Notable recent publications by Joanna J. Arch include:

  • "Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Processes and Mediation: Challenges and How to Address Them" (2022, Behavior Therapy)
  • "Acceptability, Feasibility, and Efficacy Potential of a Multimodal Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Intervention to Address Psychosocial and Advance Care Planning Needs among Anxious and Depressed Adults with Metastatic Cancer" (2020, Journal of Palliative Medicine)
  • "Randomized trial of acceptance and commitment therapy for anxious cancer survivors in community clinics: Outcomes and moderators." (2021, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology)

Frequent co-authors of Joanna J. Arch include:

  • Joel N. Fishbein
  • Lauren B. Finkelstein
  • Elizabeth Slivjak
  • Emma E. Bright
  • Sarah R. Genung

Joanna J. Arch has published regularly in several venues, with multiple publications in:

  • Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
  • Journal of Palliative Medicine
  • Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • Behavior Therapy
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology

Their body of work demonstrates an interdisciplinary approach crossing psychology and medicine, emphasizing both theoretical and applied research related to mental health, chronic illness, and behavioral interventions.

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms of mindfulness: Emotion regulation following a focused breathing induction

    Joanna J. Arch;Michelle G. Craske

  • Randomized Clinical Trial of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) versus Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Mixed Anxiety Disorders

    Joanna J. Arch;Georg H. Eifert;Carolyn Davies;Jennifer C. Plumb Vilardaga

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: Different Treatments, Similar Mechanisms?

    Joanna J. Arch;Michelle G. Craske

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: A Transdiagnostic Behavioral Intervention for Mental Health and Medical Conditions

    Lilian Dindo;Julia R. Van Liew;Joanna J. Arch

  • Self-compassion training modulates alpha-amylase, heart rate variability, and subjective responses to social evaluative threat in women.

    Joanna J. Arch;Kirk Warren Brown;Derek J. Dean;Lauren N. Landy

  • Longitudinal treatment mediation of traditional cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy for anxiety disorders.

    Joanna J. Arch;Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor;Georg H. Eifert;Michelle G. Craske

  • Heart rate and heart rate variability in panic, social anxiety, obsessive–compulsive, and generalized anxiety disorders at baseline and in response to relaxation and hyperventilation

    Andre Pittig;Joanna J. Arch;Chi W.R. Lam;Michelle G. Craske

  • Moderators and non-specific predictors of treatment outcome for anxiety disorders: A comparison of cognitive behavioral therapy to acceptance and commitment therapy.

    Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor;Joanna J. Arch;David Rosenfield;Michelle G. Craske

  • Neural correlates of focused attention during a brief mindfulness induction

    Janna Dickenson;Elliot T. Berkman;Joanna Arch;Matthew D. Lieberman

  • Laboratory stressors in clinically anxious and non-anxious individuals: The moderating role of mindfulness

    Joanna J. Arch;Michelle G. Craske

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: Three Case Studies Exemplifying a Unified Treatment Protocol

    Georg H. Eifert;John P. Forsyth;Joanna Arch;Emmanuel Espejo

  • First-line Treatment: A Critical Appraisal of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Developments and Alternatives

    Joanna J. Arch;Michelle G. Craske

  • Randomized controlled trial of cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy for social phobia: outcomes and moderators

    Michelle G. Craske;Andrea N. Niles;Lisa J. Burklund;Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor

  • Randomized clinical trial of adapted mindfulness-based stress reduction versus group cognitive behavioral therapy for heterogeneous anxiety disorders.

    Joanna J. Arch;Catherine R. Ayers;Aaron Baker;Erin Almklov

  • Exposure therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder: An optimizing inhibitory learning approach

    Joanna J. Arch;Jonathan Stuart Abramowitz

  • Cognitive Mediators of Treatment for Social Anxiety Disorder: Comparing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

    Andrea N. Niles;Lisa J. Burklund;Joanna J. Arch;Matthew D. Lieberman

  • Considering Meta-Analysis, Meaning, and Metaphor: A Systematic Review and Critical Examination of “Third Wave” Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies

    Sona Dimidjian;Joanna J. Arch;Rebecca L. Schneider;Philip Desormeau

  • Enjoying food without caloric cost: The impact of brief mindfulness on laboratory eating outcomes

    Joanna J. Arch;Kirk Warren Brown;Robert J. Goodman;Matthew D. Della Porta

  • Strategies for Improving Long-Term Outcomes in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Insights From Learning Theory

    Jonathan S. Abramowitz;Joanna J. Arch

  • Pregnancy-specific anxiety: which women are highest and what are the alcohol-related risks?

    Joanna J. Arch

Frequent Co-Authors

Michelle G. Craske
Michelle G. Craske University of California, Los Angeles
Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor
Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor University of California, Los Angeles
Michael P. Twohig
Michael P. Twohig Utah State University
Brett J. Deacon
Brett J. Deacon University of Wollongong
Matthew D. Lieberman
Matthew D. Lieberman University of California, Los Angeles
Annette L. Stanton
Annette L. Stanton University of California, Los Angeles
Sona Dimidjian
Sona Dimidjian University of Colorado Boulder
Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna
Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna University of Arizona
Kirk Warren Brown
Kirk Warren Brown Carnegie Mellon University
Jonathan S. Abramowitz
Jonathan S. Abramowitz University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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