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Overview

Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans across the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a particular focus on experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, social psychology, applied psychology, and pharmacology.

The main topics covered in their work include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Additional areas of focus involve mental health research topics, mental health treatment and access, digital mental health interventions, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, and cannabis and cannabinoid research.

Frequent co-authors working with Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor are Michelle G. Craske, Elisabeth Akeman, Martin P. Paulus, Christopher R. Martell, and Robin L. Aupperle.

They have a significant publication record in several venues. The most frequent publication venues include the Journal of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Trials, Clinical Psychological Science, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, and the Journal of Affective Disorders.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor are:

  • Neuroticism and Interpretive Bias as Risk Factors for Anxiety and Depression, 2020, Clinical Psychological Science
  • Five-year prospective neuroticism-stress effects on major depressive episodes: Primarily additive effects of the general neuroticism factor and stress, 2020, Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  • Depression Severity and Depression Stigma Among Students, 2020, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
  • Protocol for a randomized controlled trial examining multilevel prediction of response to behavioral activation and exposure-based therapy for generalized anxiety disorder, 2020, Trials
  • A Novel and Integrated Digitally Supported System of Care for Depression and Anxiety: Findings From an Open Trial, 2023, JMIR Mental Health

Best Publications

  • Anxiety disorders in older adults: a comprehensive review†

    Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor;Natalie Castriotta;Eric J. Lenze;Melinda A. Stanley

  • Anxiety sensitivity and the anxiety disorders: A meta-analytic review and synthesis.

    Bunmi O. Olatunji;Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor

  • Psychological approaches in the treatment of specific phobias: a meta-analysis.

    Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor;Jonathan D. Horowitz;Mark B. Powers;Michael J. Telch

  • Prevalence and correlates of dating violence in a national sample of adolescents.

    Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor;Kenneth J. Ruggiero;Carla Kmett Danielson;Heidi S. Resnick

  • Is Reporting of Rape on the Rise? A Comparison of Women With Reported Versus Unreported Rape Experiences in the National Women’s Study-Replication

    Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor;Heidi S. Resnick;Jenna L. McCauley;Ananda B. Amstadter

  • Specificity of Rumination in Anxiety and Depression: A Multimodal Meta‐Analysis

    Bunmi O. Olatunji;Kristin Naragon-Gainey;Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor

  • 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

  • A cognitive-behavioral treatment for irritable bowel syndrome using interoceptive exposure to visceral sensations

    Michelle G. Craske;Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor;Jennifer Labus;Stephen Wu

  • 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

  • Diagnostic overlap of generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder in a primary care sample.

    D B A Tomislav Zbozinek;Raphael D. Rose;Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor;Cathy Sherbourne

  • 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

  • Reporting Rape in a National Sample of College Women

    Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor;Heidi S. Resnick;Ananda B. Amstadter;Jenna L. McCauley

  • Longitudinal investigation of the impact of anxiety and mood disorders in adolescence on subsequent substance use disorder onset and vice versa.

    Kate Wolitzky-Taylor;Lyuba Bobova;Richard E. Zinbarg;Susan Mineka

  • Differential habituation of fear and disgust during repeated exposure to threat-relevant stimuli in contamination-based OCD: an analogue study

    Bunmi O. Olatunji;Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor;Jeffrey Willems;Jeffrey M. Lohr

  • Elevated responding to safe conditions as a specific risk factor for anxiety versus depressive disorders: evidence from a longitudinal investigation.

    Michelle G. Craske;Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor;Susan Mineka;Richard Zinbarg

  • Chronic and episodic interpersonal stress as statistically unique predictors of depression in two samples of emerging adults.

    Suzanne Vrshek-Schallhorn;Catherine B. Stroud;Susan Mineka;Constance Hammen

  • Worry and the anxiety disorders: A meta-analytic synthesis of specificity to GAD

    Bunmi O. Olatunji;Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor;Craig N. Sawchuk;Bethany G. Ciesielski

  • The Emotional Stroop Task and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: a Meta-Analysis

    Josh M. Cisler;Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor;Thomas G. Adams;Kimberly A. Babson

  • Measurement of anxious traits: a contemporary review and synthesis

    Lisa S Elwood;Kate Wolitzky-Taylor;Bunmi O Olatunji

  • The state of personalized treatment for anxiety disorders: A systematic review of treatment moderators.

    Rebecca L. Schneider;Joanna J. Arch;Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor

  • Testing a Hierarchical Model of Neuroticism and Its Cognitive Facets: Latent Structure and Prospective Prediction of First Onsets of Anxiety and Unipolar Mood Disorders During 3 Years in Late Adolescence

    Richard E. Zinbarg;Susan Mineka;Lyuba Bobova;Michelle G. Craske

Frequent Co-Authors

Michelle G. Craske
Michelle G. Craske University of California, Los Angeles
Susan Mineka
Susan Mineka Northwestern University
Richard E. Zinbarg
Richard E. Zinbarg Northwestern University
Bunmi O. Olatunji
Bunmi O. Olatunji Vanderbilt University
Joanna J. Arch
Joanna J. Arch University of Colorado Boulder
Michael J. Telch
Michael J. Telch The University of Texas at Austin
Emma K. Adam
Emma K. Adam Northwestern University
Constance Hammen
Constance Hammen University of California, Los Angeles
Heidi S. Resnick
Heidi S. Resnick Medical University of South Carolina
Dean G. Kilpatrick
Dean G. Kilpatrick Medical University of South Carolina

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