Rachel E. Bender, B.A.

E-mail: rachel.bender@temple.edu

Bio: Rachel is currently in her second year of graduate studies. She received her B.A. in psychology from Harvard University. Rachel works with Dr. Lauren Alloy and is broadly interested in factors related to the etiology, course, and treatment of mood disorders (i.e., unipolar depression and bipolar disorder). She is especially interested in the interaction between psychosocial stress and affective symptoms, as well as in the comorbidity between mood and substance use disorders.

Representative presentations and/or publications:

Benson, T., Muchowski, P., Bender, R.E., & Weiss, R. (in press).  Treatment of co-occurring substance use and bipolar disorder.  In E. V. Nuñes, G. Hennessy, & J. Selzer (Eds.), Substance dependence and co-occurring psychiatric disorders: Best practices for diagnosis and treatment.

Kolodziej, M.K., Griffin, M.L., Bender, R.E., & Weiss, R.D.  (2008).  Assessment of depressive symptom severity among patients with co-occurring bipolar disorder and substance dependence.  Journal of Affective Disorders, 106(1-2), 83-89.

Bender, R.E., Griffin, M.L., Gallop, B. G., & Weiss, R.D. (2007).  Assessing negative consequences in patients with substance use and bipolar disorders: Psychometric properties of the Short Inventory of Problems (SIP).  American Journal on Addictions, 16(6), 503-509.