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Sona Dimidjian is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a concentration on clinical psychology and related subfields such as social psychology, education, public health, environmental and occupational health, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics including maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, digital mental health interventions, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, mental health research topics broadly, mental health treatment and access, mindfulness and compassion interventions, and eating disorders and behaviors.

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • Effect of Pain Reprocessing Therapy vs Placebo and Usual Care for Patients With Chronic Back Pain, 2021, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Outcomes of Online Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Patients With Residual Depressive Symptoms, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Design and Development of a Digital Program for Training Non-specialist Health Workers to Deliver an Evidence-Based Psychological Treatment for Depression in Primary Care in India, 2020, Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science
  • Digital training for non-specialist health workers to deliver a brief psychological treatment for depression in India: Protocol for a three-arm randomized controlled trial, 2021, Contemporary Clinical Trials
  • Scaling Up Maternal Mental healthcare by Increasing access to Treatment (SUMMIT) through non-specialist providers and telemedicine: a study protocol for a non-inferiority randomized controlled trial, 2021, Trials

Frequent co-authors working with Sona Dimidjian include:

  • Rachel Vanderkruik
  • Robert Gallop
  • Zindel V. Segal
  • Joseph J. Lévy
  • Leah Teeters

Their research has been published in several prominent venues where they have multiple publications, including:

  • JAMA Psychiatry
  • Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science
  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
  • Journal of Affective Disorders

Best Publications

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

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

  • Randomized trial of behavioral activation, cognitive therapy, and antidepressant medication in the acute treatment of adults with major depression.

    Sona Dimidjian;Steven D. Hollon;Keith S. Dobson;Karen B. Schmaling

  • Behavioral Activation Treatment for Depression: Returning to Contextual Roots

    Neil S. Jacobson;Christopher R. Martell;Sona Dimidjian

  • The origins and current status of behavioral activation treatments for depression.

    Sona Dimidjian;Manuel Barrera;Christopher Martell;Ricardo F. Muñoz

  • Randomized trial of behavioral activation, cognitive therapy, and antidepressant medication in the prevention of relapse and recurrence in major depression.

    Keith S. Dobson;Steven D. Hollon;Sona Dimidjian;Karen B. Schmaling

  • The Healthy Activity Program (HAP), a lay counsellor-delivered brief psychological treatment for severe depression, in primary care in India: a randomised controlled trial

    Vikram Patel;Benedict Weobong;Helen A Weiss;Arpita Anand

  • Defining an Agenda for Future Research on the Clinical Application of Mindfulness Practice

    Sona Dimidjian;Marsha M. Linehan

  • Prospects for a clinical science of mindfulness-based intervention.

    Sona Dimidjian;Zindel V. Segal

  • How would we know if psychotherapy were harmful

    Sona Dimidjian;Steven D. Hollon

  • Treatment preference, engagement, and clinical improvement in pharmacotherapy versus psychotherapy for depression.

    Bethany M. Kwan;Sona Dimidjian;Shireen L. Rizvi

  • Staying well during pregnancy and the postpartum: A pilot randomized trial of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for the prevention of depressive relapse/recurrence.

    Sona Dimidjian;Sherryl H. Goodman;Jennifer N. Felder;Robert Gallop

  • Effect of Pain Reprocessing Therapy vs Placebo and Usual Care for Patients With Chronic Back Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Yoni K Ashar;Yoni K Ashar;Alan Gordon;Howard Schubiner;Howard Schubiner;Christie Uipi

  • Empathic Care and Distress: Predictive Brain Markers and Dissociable Brain Systems.

    Yoni K. Ashar;Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna;Sona Dimidjian;Tor D. Wager

  • Baseline Depression Severity as Moderator of Depression Outcomes Between Cognitive Behavioral Therapy vs Pharmacotherapy: An Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis.

    Erica S. Weitz;Steven D. Hollon;Jos Twisk;Annemieke van Straten

  • Two Aspects of the Therapeutic Alliance: Differential Relations with Depressive Symptom Change.

    Christian A. Webb;Robert J. DeRubeis;Jay D. Amsterdam;Richard C. Shelton

  • A penny for your thoughts: dimensions of self-generated thought content and relationships with individual differences in emotional wellbeing

    Jessica R Andrews-Hanna;Roselinde Henderson Kaiser;Amy E.J. Turner;Andrew Reineberg

  • Extreme nonresponse in cognitive therapy: Can behavioral activation succeed where cognitive therapy fails?

    Sandra J. Coffman;Christopher R. Martell;Sona Dimidjian;Robert Gallop

  • The Healthy Activity Program lay counsellor delivered treatment for severe depression in India: systematic development and randomised evaluation.

    Neerja Chowdhary;Arpita Anand;Sona Dimidjian;Sachin Shinde

  • Response styles among patients with minor depression and dysthymia in primary care.

    Karen B. Schmaling;Sona Dimidjian;Wayne Katon;Mark Sullivan

  • Behavioral activation for depression.

    Sona Dimidjian;Christopher R. Martell;Michael E. Addis;Ruth Herman-Dunn

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven D. Hollon
Steven D. Hollon Vanderbilt University
Zindel V. Segal
Zindel V. Segal University of Toronto
Sherryl H. Goodman
Sherryl H. Goodman Emory University
Robert J. DeRubeis
Robert J. DeRubeis University of Pennsylvania
Robert Gallop
Robert Gallop West Chester University
Christopher G. Fairburn
Christopher G. Fairburn University of Oxford
Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna
Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna University of Arizona
Robin B. Jarrett
Robin B. Jarrett The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Pim Cuijpers
Pim Cuijpers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Richard Velleman
Richard Velleman University of Bath

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