Deborah C. Beidel Clinical Psychology

Professor, Clinical Ph.D. Program Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology), University of Pittsburgh, 1986 Office: Main Campus (Orlando) Psychology Bldg. Rm. 357 Email: dbeidel@mail.ucf.edu Website: UCF Anxiety Disorders Clinic Associate Editor, Journal of Anxiety Disorders Editorial Board, Behavior Modification Member, NIMH Institutional Review Group, Children and Families Intervention Group View Full Curriculum Vita

• Beidel, D. C., & Turner, S. M. (2007). Shy children, phobic adults: The nature and treatment of social anxiety disorder (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Books.
• Beidel, D. C., Turner, S. M., Sallee, F. R., Ammerman, R. T., Crosby, L. A., &, Pathak, S. (2007). SET-C vs. Fluoxetine in the treatment of childhood social phobia. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 46, 1622-1632.
• Beidel, D. C., Turner, S. M., Young, B. J., Ammerman, R. T., Sallee, R. F., & Crosby, L. (2007). Psychopathology of adolescent social phobia. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 29, 47-54.
• Rao, P. A., Beidel, D. C., Turner, S. M., Ammerman, R. T., Crosby, L. E., & Sallee, F. R. (2007). Social anxiety disorder in childhood and adolescence: Descriptive psychopathology. Behavior Research and Therapy, 45, 1181-1191.
• Roberson-Nay, R., Strong, D. R., Nay, W. T., Beidel, D. C., & Turner, S. M. (2007). Development of an abbreviated Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory (SPAI) using Item Response Theory: The SPAI-23. Psychological Assessment, 19, 133-145.

January, 2009: Deborah C. Beidel was appointed as an Advisor to the Childhood Anxiety Disorders Workgroup for the upcoming revision of the American Psychiatirc Associatins's "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fifth Edition."

Dr. Beidel joined the faculty at UCF in 2007 as professor and director of the doctoral program in clinical psychology. Dr. Beidel received her Ph.D. in 1986 from the University of Pittsburgh and completed her internship and post-doctoral clinical research fellowship at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh. She was a member of the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, the Medical University of South Carolina, the University of Maryland, and Penn State College of Medicine. She was the 1990 recipient of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy's New Researcher Award, the 1995 recipient of the Distinguished Educator Award from the Association of Medical School Psychologists, and the 2007 recipient of the APA Division 12 Samuel M. Turner Clinical Research Award. Dr. Beidel holds the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) Diplomate in Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Psychology and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a past-president of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology.

She is a past Chair of the American Psychological Association's Committee on Accreditation. She serves on the editorial board of a number of scientific journals. Her academic, research, and clinical interests focus on child and adult anxiety disorders, including their etiology, psychopathology and behavioral treatment. Her research is characterized by a developmental focus, and includes high risk and longitudinal designs, psychophysiological assessment, treatment outcome and treatment development. She is the recipient of NIMH grants addressing the development and efficacy of behavioral interventions for adults and children with anxiety disorders.

UCF Anxiety Disorders Clinic

The UCF Anxiety Disorders Clinic is clinical research center dedicated to the study and treatment of anxiety disorders in children, adolescents, and adults. Part of the Department of Psychology at the University of Central Florida, its research activities are diverse; including studies designed to elucidated the phenomenology of anxiety, developmental course, etiology, treatment development and evaluation, methodology development and evaluation, and the systematic examination of theories of maladaptive anxiety. The Anxiety Disorders Clinic serves as an educational and consultative resource for anxiety disorders in the Central Florida area, and maintains liaison with other major anxiety disorders centers nationally and internationally. Currently the Anxiety Disorders Clinic is engaged in collaborative efforts with researchers in Brazil, Norway and Spain.

The Anxiety Disorders Clinic combines research and clinical activities, using a scientist-practitioner model. Thus, many of the studies involve patients who are being treated for an anxiety disorder. Although involved in the study of biological factors in anxiety and pharmacological treatments, The Anxiety Disorders Clinic specializes in the behavioral treatment of anxiety disorders including social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, specific phobia, separation anxiety disorder, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder.

The Anxiety Disorders Clinic serves as a major research and clinical training site for graduate students and seeks to attract both predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows from across the United States as well as from abroad. Although housed within the Department of Psychology, the Anxiety Disorders Clinic seeks to develop relationships with other programs where there are prospects for mutually rewarding collaborative efforts in training.