Dina Gordon, M.A.

 

E-mail: dina.gordon@temple.edu

Lab Webpage: http://www.temple.edu/phobia

Bio: Dina is currently in her fourth year of graduate studies, working with Dr. Richard Heimberg at the Adult Anxiety Clinic of Temple (AACT). She received her B.A. in psychology from Boston University and her M.A. in psychology from Temple University. Dina is broadly interested in factors related to the etiology, maintenance, and treatment of anxiety disorders. Her research has focused on the reliability and validity of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) features, along with the assessment of GAD in adults. Dina’s current research interests focus on the development and outcome assessment of interventions for dental anxiety, and on the role of emotion regulation as a moderator of treatment outcome.

Representative presentations and/or publications:

Gordon, D., & Heimberg, R.G. (2011). Reliability and validity of DSM-IV generalized anxiety disorder features. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 25, 813-821.

Gordon, D., Heimberg, R. G., Fresco, D. M., & Mennin, D. S. (2011, November). Psychometric evaluation of the GAD-7 in a treatment-seeking sample with a principal diagnosis of GAD. Poster accepted for presentation at the 45^th annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Toronto, Canada.

Otto, M. W., Weitzman, M. L., Gordon, D., Pollack, M. H., Simon, N. M., & Orr, S. P. (2010, November). Fear conditioning in anxious and depressed patients. In J. M. Prenoveau & D. Hermans (Chairs), Individual differences in fear learning: From the laboratory to the real world. Symposium presented at the 44^th annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, San Francisco, CA.

Gordon, D., Morrison, A.S., & Heimberg, R. G. (2009, November). Percentage of the day patients with generalized anxiety disorder feel worried: Relationships to indicators of clinical functioning. Poster presented at the 43rd annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.

Gordon, D., Orr, S. P., Pollack, M. H., Simon, N. M., LeBeau, R. T., & Otto, M. W. (2008, November). Differential and Simple Conditioning: Learning Fear and Learning Safety in Anxious, Depressed, and Healthy Individuals. Poster presented at the 42nd annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Orlando, FL.

Squires, L., McHugh, R. K., Gutner, C. A., Gordon, D., & Otto, M. W. (2007, November). Overgeneral autobiographical memory, avoidant coping, and emotional intolerance among patients with chronic substance dependence. In E. C. Marshall & M. J. Zvolensky (Chairs), How can basic research inform clinical perspectives on substance use and anxiety comorbidity? Symposium presented at the 41^st annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.