The Sage Encyclopedia of Mood and Anxiety Disorders

Dara G. Friedman-Wheeler, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, Research Psychologist at the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, adjunct faculty at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy, and former Professor at Goucher College. She has experience working with mood and anxiety disorders, suicidality, chronic pain, and substance use disorders. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, co-authored the book Being the Change: A Guide for Advocates and Activists on Staying Healthy, Inspired, and Driven with Dr. Jamie S. Bodenlos, and served as Associate Editor for the SAGE Encyclopedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology. She co-authored the entry “CBT and Anti-Racism: Healing Racism through CBT” with Dr. Norman Cotterell on the Beck Institute blog. Her interests are in coping, expectancies, culturally-informed empirically supported treatments, and in centering equity and justice.Amy Wenzel, Ph.D., ABPP, splits her time between scholarship, clinical practice, training and supervision. She is owner and director of the Main Line Center for Evidence-Based Psychotherapy in Bryn Mawr, PA, adjunct faculty at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and a trainer-consultant with the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies. She is author or editor of over 25 books and treatment manuals, many geared toward cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) or perinatal psychology, and over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. She has served on the faculties of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, the University of North Dakota, and the American College of Norway. She has been featured in numerous therapy demonstration videos published by the American Psychological Association. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (now Brain and Behavior Research Foundation). She is on the editorial boards of Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, and the Journal of Rational Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy. Her current research interests are on the therapeutic relationship as a facilitator and agent of change in CBT and CBT for menopausal distress.