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.

Awards and Impact

I am a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association (2014), of its Section on Clinical Psychology (2022), 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 being a member of Concordia University's Provost's Circle of Distinction (2023), a 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 has been funded by all three federal granting agencies (the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)), by les Fonds de recherche du Québec – santé. 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 anxiety disorders.

Selected publications

Kelly-Turner, K., & Radomsky, A.S. (2024). At the mercy of myself:A thematic analysis of beliefs about losing control. Psychology andPsychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 97, 271-287. doi.org/10.1111/papt.12515

Kelly-Turner, K., & Radomsky,A.S. (2022).  Always saying the wrongthing: Negative beliefs about losing control cause symptoms of social anxiety. CognitiveTherapy and Research, 46, 1137-1149. doi.org/10.1007/s10608-022-10325-w

Radomsky, A.S. (2022). The fear of losing control. Journal ofBehavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 77, 101768. doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101768

Radomsky, A.S., Alcolado, G.M., Dugas, M.J., & Lavoie, S.L.  (2022). Responsibility, probability, and severity of harm: An experimentalinvestigation of cognitive factors associated with checking-related OCD. BehaviourResearch & Therapy, 150, 104034. doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2022.104034

Gagné, J.-P., Radomsky, A.S.,& O’Connor, R.M. (2021).  Manipulatingalcohol expectancies in social anxiety: A focus on beliefs about losing control.Cognitive Therapy and Research, 45(1), 61-73.doi.org/10.1007/s10608-020-10165-6

Krause, S., & Radomsky, A.S. (2021).  “Was I asking for it?” An experimentalinvestigation of perceived responsibility, mental contamination and workplacesexual harassment. Journal of BehaviorTherapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 71, 101633

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

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

A second Walrus Talk

https://youtu.be/QcgSHsxqF2M

Walrus Talk

Practice makes anxiety

Thinking out loud

Are you sure? Confidence, Anxiety & Doubt