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Adam S. Radomsky, PhD

Professor, Psychology
Core Member, Centre for Clinical Research in Health (CCRH)

Considering graduate students for 2024 admission - see laboratory website


Adam S. Radomsky, PhD

Education

PhD (University of British Columbia)

Research interests

I am a Professor of Psychology at Concordia University, and a member of the Clinical Psychology Faculty within the Department.  I joined Concordia in 2001 after the completion of my Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of British Columbia and a fellowship at Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital. I am the Director of the Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders Laboratory, a Core Member of the Centre for Clinical Research in Health (CCRH), and I am a former Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.  My research investigates cognitive, behavioural and emotional aspects of OCD and a number of other anxiety disorders, as well as ways to enhance the effectiveness and acceptability of cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) for anxiety disorders and related problems.


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Awards and Impact

I am a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association (2014) and of the Canadian Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies (CACBT; 2015).  I was the Founding President of CACBT (2010), and have received several institutional, national and international awards for my work. These include the Concordia University Faculty of Arts and Science Mid-Career Award for Distinguished Scholarship (2012), the Canadian Psychological Association's President's New Researcher Award (2007), being named a Beck Institute Scholar (2005-06) and receiving a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) New Investigator Award (2004-09). I have published a number of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters related to my work on cognition, behaviour and the anxiety disorders, and am a frequent invited speaker at national and international conferences. My research is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and has previously been funded by les Fonds de recherche du Québec – santé,  the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). I am also a member of L'Ordre des Psychologues du Quebec, am CACBT-ACTCC Certified in Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy and am a Diplomate of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. In my clinical practice, I specialize in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) for adult OCD and other anxiety disorders.


Selected publications

Selected publications

Krause, S., & Radomsky, A.S.(2021).  “Was I asking for it?” Anexperimental investigation of perceived responsibility, mental contaminationand workplace sexual harassment. Journalof Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 71, 101633.

Radomsky, A.S., Neal, R.L., Parrish, C.L., Lavoie, S.L., & Schell, S.E.  (2021). The Covert and Overt ReassuranceSeeking Inventory (CORSI): Development, validation, and psychometricanalyses.  Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 49, 3-20. doi.org/10.1017/S1352465820000703

Gagné, J-.P., Radomsky, A.S.  (2020). Beliefs about losing control,obsessions, and caution: An experimental investigation.  BehaviourResearch and Therapy, 126, 103574. doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2020.103574

Kelly-Turner, K., & Radomsky,A.S., (2020). The fear of losing control in social anxiety: An experimentalapproach. Cognitive Therapy and Research,44, 834-845. doi.org/10.1007/s10608-020-10104-5

Neal, R.L., & Radomsky, A.S.(2020). What do you really need? Self- and partner-reported interventionpreferences within cognitive-behavioural therapy for reassurance seekingbehaviour. Behavioural and CognitivePsychotherapy, 48(1), 25-37. doi.org/10.1017/S135246581900050X

Radomsky, A.S., & *Gagné, J.-P. (2020). The development and validation of theBeliefs about Losing Control Inventory (BALCI). Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 49(2), 97-112. doi.org/10.1080/16506073.2019.1614978

Radomsky, A.S., *Giraldo-O’Meara, M., Wong, S.F., M., Dugas, M.J., Gelfand, L.A.,Rachman, S., Schell, S., Senn, J.M., Shafran, R., & Whittal, M.L.  (2020). Cognitive therapy for compulsivechecking in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A pilot trial.  PsychiatryResearch, 286, 112850. doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.112850

Radomsky, A.S., Wong, S.F., Giraldo-O’Meara, M., Dugas, M.J., Gelfand, L.A., Myhr, G.,Schell, S., Senn, J.M., Shafran, R., & Whittal, M.L.  (2020). When it’s at: An examination of when cognitive change occurs duringcognitive therapy for compulsive checking in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of Behavior Therapy and ExperimentalPsychiatry, 67, 101442. doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2018.12.003



News & Press Releases

Concordia News

Cognitive science and OCD

Concordia news

The fear of losing control

Radio Canada International Interview

Memory, anxiety, doubt and OCD

Concordia news

How to calm an anxious mind

Concordia News in the Montreal Gazette

New Modes of Therapy


Public Lectures & Podcasts

A second Walrus Talk

https://youtu.be/QcgSHsxqF2M

Walrus Talk

Practice makes anxiety

Thinking out loud

Are you sure? Confidence, Anxiety & Doubt

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