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Overview

Robert J. DeRubeis is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Psychology, with a specialization across several subfields including Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, and Pharmacology.

Their work encompasses a range of topics within mental health research. Key themes include Mental Health Research Topics, Digital Mental Health Interventions, Mental Health Treatment and Access, Treatment of Major Depression, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, and Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications.

DeRubeis has published extensively in notable venues with repeated contributions to Behaviour Research and Therapy, Journal of Affective Disorders, Behavior Therapy, World Psychiatry, and Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

Among recent papers published by or including DeRubeis as co-author are:

  • The promise of machine learning in predicting treatment outcomes in psychiatry (2021, World Psychiatry)
  • Large language models could change the future of behavioral healthcare: a proposal for responsible development and evaluation (2024, npj Mental Health Research)
  • Stratified Care vs Stepped Care for Depression (2021, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • Role of age, gender and marital status in prognosis for adults with depression: An individual patient data meta-analysis (2021, Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences)
  • Promoting Graduate Student Mental Health During COVID-19: Acceptability, Feasibility, and Perceived Utility of an Online Single-Session Intervention (2021, Frontiers in Psychology)

Frequent collaborators in DeRubeis's research include Akash R. Wasil, Zachary D. Cohen, Steven D. Hollon, Edward Watkins, and Glyn Lewis. These co-authorships reflect ongoing partnerships in the study of mental health and therapeutic interventions.

Best Publications

  • Antidepressant Drug Effects and Depression Severity: A Patient-Level Meta-analysis

    Jay C. Fournier;Robert J. DeRubeis;Steven D. Hollon;Sona Dimidjian

  • Update on Empirically Validated Therapies, II

    Dianne L. Chambless;Mary J. Baker;Donald H. Baucom;Larry E. Beutler

  • Cognitive therapy vs medications in the treatment of moderate to severe depression.

    Robert J. DeRubeis;Steven D. Hollon;Jay D. Amsterdam;Richard C. Shelton

  • Cognitive dysfunction in psychiatric disorders: characteristics, causes and the quest for improved therapy

    Mark J. Millan;Yves Agid;Martin Brüne;Edward T. Bullmore

  • Prevention of relapse following cognitive therapy vs medications in moderate to severe depression.

    Steven D. Hollon;Robert J. DeRubeis;Richard C. Shelton;Jay D. Amsterdam

  • Cognitive therapy versus medication for depression: treatment outcomes and neural mechanisms

    Robert J. DeRubeis;Greg J. Siegle;Steven D. Hollon

  • Sudden gains and critical sessions in cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression

    Tony Z. Tang;Robert J. DeRubeis

  • Therapist Adherence/Competence and Treatment Outcome: A Meta-Analytic Review

    Christian A. Webb;Robert J. DeRubeis;Jacques P. Barber

  • Screening, Assessment, and Care of Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in Adults With Cancer: An American Society of Clinical Oncology Guideline Adaptation

    Barbara L. Andersen;Robert J. DeRubeis;Barry S. Berman;Jessie Gruman

  • Empirically supported individual and group psychological treatments for adult mental disorders.

    Robert J. DeRubeis;Paul Crits-Christoph

  • Cognitive Therapy and Pharmacotherapy for Depression: Singly and in Combination

    Steven D. Hollon;Robert J. DeRubeis;Robert J. DeRubeis;Mark D. Evans;Marlin J. Wiemer

  • Medications Versus Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Severely Depressed Outpatients: Mega-Analysis of Four Randomized Comparisons

    Robert J. DeRubeis;Lois A. Gelfand;Tony Z. Tang;Anne D. Simons

  • Differential relapse following cognitive therapy and pharmacotherapy for depression.

    Mark D. Evans;Steven D. Hollon;Steven D. Hollon;Robert J. DeRubeis;Robert J. DeRubeis;Joan M. Piasecki;Joan M. Piasecki

  • Determinants of change in cognitive therapy for depression.

    Robert J. DeRubeis;Michael Feeley

  • How does cognitive therapy work? Cognitive change and symptom change in cognitive therapy and pharmacotherapy for depression

    Robert J. DeRubeis;Mark D. Evans;Steven D. Hollon;Michael J. Garvey

  • The temporal relation of adherence and alliance to symptom change in cognitive therapy for depression.

    Michael Feeley;Robert J. DeRubeis;Lois A. Gelfand

  • A Conceptual and Methodological Analysis of the Nonspecifics Argument

    Robert J. DeRubeis;Melissa A. Brotman;Carly J. Gibbons

  • The prevention of depression and anxiety.

    Martin E. P. Seligman;Peter Schulman;Robert J. DeRubeis;Steven D. Hollon

  • The Personalized Advantage Index: translating research on prediction into individualized treatment recommendations. A demonstration.

    Robert J. DeRubeis;Zachary D. Cohen;Nicholas R. Forand;Jay C. Fournier

  • Sudden gains and critical sessions in cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression.

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  • Prediction of Response to Medication and Cognitive Therapy in the Treatment of Moderate to Severe Depression

    Jay C. Fournier;Robert J. DeRubeis;Richard C. Shelton;Steven D. Hollon

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven D. Hollon
Steven D. Hollon Vanderbilt University
Marcus J.H. Huibers
Marcus J.H. Huibers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Robert Gallop
Robert Gallop West Chester University
Sona Dimidjian
Sona Dimidjian University of Colorado Boulder
Pim Cuijpers
Pim Cuijpers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Frenk Peeters
Frenk Peeters Maastricht University
Aaron T. Beck
Aaron T. Beck University of Pennsylvania
Arnoud Arntz
Arnoud Arntz University of Amsterdam
Jacques P. Barber
Jacques P. Barber Adelphi University
Zindel V. Segal
Zindel V. Segal University of Toronto

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