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Overview

Sheila R. Woody is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with an emphasis on clinical psychology. The subfields where they have made significant contributions include clinical psychology, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and general health professions.

The main topics covered in their work span obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, eating disorders and behaviors, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, homicide, infanticide, and child abuse, impact of technology on adolescents, autism spectrum disorder research, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Christiana Bratiotis, Peter Lenkic, Persephone Larkin, Nichole Fairbrother, and Fanie Collardeau.

Their research outputs have been published in several venues, with multiple papers in the Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Journal of Community Health, Behaviour Research and Therapy, and Health & Social Care in the Community.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Sheila R. Woody are:

  • How well do hoarding research samples represent cases that rise to community attention? (2020) - Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Neurocognitive functioning in hoarding disorder (2021) - Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

Other relevant publications featuring Woody's research include:

  • High Prevalence and Incidence of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Among Women Across Pregnancy and the Postpartum (2021) - The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
  • How can cities tackle hoarding? Examining an intervention program bringing together fire and health authorities in Vancouver (2020) - Health & Social Care in the Community
  • Postpartum Thoughts of Infant-Related Harm and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (2022) - The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • The Dimensional Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (DY-BOCS): an instrument for assessing obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions.

    M C Rosario-Campos;M C Rosario-Campos;E C Miguel;S Quatrano;P Chacon

  • Intersection of Disgust and Fear: Normative and Pathological Views

    Sheila R. Woody;Bethany A. Teachman

  • Automatic processing in spider phobia: implicit fear associations over the course of treatment.

    Bethany A. Teachman;Sheila R. Woody

  • Anxiety sensitivity and depression: how are they related?

    Steven Taylor;William J. Koch;Sheila Woody;Peter McLean

  • Implicit associations for fear-relevant stimuli among individuals with snake and spider fears.

    Bethany A. Teachman;Aiden P. Gregg;Sheila R. Woody

  • Reliability and validity of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale

    Sheila R. Woody;Gail Steketee;Dianne L. Chambless

  • A Multicomponent Behavioral Treatment for Social Phobia: Social Effectiveness Therapy.

    Samuel M. Turner;Deborah C. Beidel;Michele R. Cooley;Sheila R. Woody

  • The relationship between disgust sensitivity and avoidant behavior: studies of clinical and nonclinical samples.

    Sheila R Woody;David F Tolin

  • New mothers' thoughts of harm related to the newborn.

    Nichole Fairbrother;Sheila R. Woody

  • Effects of focus of attention on anxiety levels and social performance of individuals with social phobia

    Unknown

  • Discomfort with space and motion: A possible marker of vestibular dysfunction assessed by the situational characteristics questionnaire

    Rolf G. Jacob;Sheila R. Woody;Duncan B. Clark;Scott O. Lilienfeld

  • Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) as an unsuccessful search for safety

    S. Woody;S. Rachman

  • Therapeutic alliance, group cohesion, and homework compliance during cognitive-behavioral group treatment of social phobia

    Unknown

  • Treatment of obsessions: a randomized controlled trial.

    Maureen L. Whittal;Sheila R. Woody;Peter D. McLean;S.J. Rachman

  • Self-Focused Attention and Social Anxiety in Social Phobics and Normal Controls

    Sheila R. Woody;Benjamin F. Rodriguez

  • OCD cognitions and symptoms in different religious contexts.

    Orçun Yorulmaz;Tülin Gençöz;Sheila Woody

  • Cultural mediators of self-reported social anxiety.

    Janie J. Hong;Sheila R. Woody

  • Disgust as a motivator of avoidance of spiders.

    Sheila R. Woody;Carmen McLean;Tammy Klassen

  • Review of cognitive performance in hoarding disorder

    Sheila R. Woody;Kirstie Kellman-McFarlane;Alison Welsted

  • Stressing the (Other) Three Rs in the Search for Empirically Supported Treatments: Review Procedures, Research Quality, Relevance to Practice and the Public Interest

    John R. Weisz;Kristin M. Hawley;Paul A. Pilkonis;Sheila R. Woody

  • Fear of childbirth and obstetrical events as predictors of postnatal symptoms of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder

    Nichole Fairbrother;Sheila R. Woody

  • Comorbid panic disorder and major depression: implications for cognitive-behavioral therapy.

    Peter D. McLean;Sheila Woody;Steven Taylor;William J. Koch

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven Taylor
Steven Taylor University of British Columbia
David F. Tolin
David F. Tolin Yale University
Bethany A. Teachman
Bethany A. Teachman University of Virginia
Carmen P. McLean
Carmen P. McLean Stanford University
Randy O. Frost
Randy O. Frost Smith College
Stanley Rachman
Stanley Rachman University of British Columbia
Gail Steketee
Gail Steketee Boston University
Charlotte Johnston
Charlotte Johnston University of British Columbia
Scott O. Lilienfeld
Scott O. Lilienfeld Emory University
Samuel M. Turner
Samuel M. Turner University of Maryland, College Park

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