Jennifer Churg Podell, M.A.

E-mail: jpodell@temple.edu

Lab Web Page: www.childanxiety.org

Bio: Jenny is currently in her 5th year of graduate studies in the Clinical area. She received her B.A. in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and her M.A. in clinical psychology from Temple University. Jenny is a diagnostician and clinician at Temple’s Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic under the supervision of Dr. Philip Kendall. Jenny’s research interests include the role of parents in the maintenance and treatment of anxious youth as well as therapist variables associated with treatment outcome.

Representative presentations and/or publications:

Podell, J.L., & Kendall, P.C. (under review). Parents in family cognitive behavioral therapy for anxious youth: fathers matter.

Podell, J.L., Mychailyszyn, M., Edmunds, J., Puleo, C., & Kendall, P.C. (in press). The Coping Cat program: the FEAR plan comes to life. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice.

Kendall, P.C., Furr, J.M., & Podell, J.L. (in press). Child-focused treatment of anxiety. In A. Kazdin and J. Weisz (Eds.) Evidence-Based Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents, Second Edition. 

Podell, J.L., Martin, E.D., & Kendall, P.C. (2009). Incorporating play in a manual-based treatment for anxious youth. In A. Drewes (Ed.) The Effective Blending of Play Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy: A Convergent Approach. Wiley and Sons.

Tiwari, S., Podell, J., Martin, E., Mychailyszyn, M., Furr, J., & Kendall, P. C. (2008). Experiential avoidance in the parenting of anxious youth: Theory, research, and future directions. Cognition and Emotion, 22, 480-496.