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David Klemanski, Psy.D.

(2006, University of Hartford)

Associate Research Scientist and Lecturer,
Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry,

Yale University
 
Director,
Yale Anxiety and Mood Services

Research Interests

My research interests have broadly focused on delineating psychopathological components of anxiety relevant to classification of specific anxiety disorders and identification of common comorbid conditions. More recently, the focus of my research has centered on individual differences in emotion regulation strategies and treatment outcome among generalized anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and selected personality disorders. By delineating differential regulatory processes associated with various emotional experiences, this research may contribute to clarification of the diagnostic overlap among these disorders.

I am currently involved in four primary research activities. These include 1) management of the experience sampling study for the Regulation of Emotion and Anxiety Disorders Lab; 2) collaboration with faculty colleagues in the Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive Neuroscience Division of the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder on a project evaluating the efficacy of propranolol in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); 3) collaboration on a study with the Yale Depression and Cognition Program (Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, Ph.D., Director) on a treatment protocol adapting a new cognitive behavioral therapy intervention as a preventative intervention for adolescent girls with emotion regulation deficits; and 4) an investigation of the augmenting effects of N-acetylcysteine to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for the treatment of self-injurious behavior associated with borderline personality disorder and comorbid PTSD in collaboration with the Yale Anxiety Research Clinic.