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.

Students under my supervision are denoted by an asterisk*

Radomsky, A.S., *O’Meara, M., *Levy, H.C., Wong, S.F., *Krause, S.,*Lavoie, S., Thordarson, D., & Rachman, S. (in press). The Vancouver Obsessional Compulsive Inventory-2 (VOCI-2). Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy. doi.org/10.1017/S1352465826101325

*Fridgen, C.P.E.A., & Radomsky, A.S. (2025). Reappraising beliefs about losing control: An experimental investigation. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 87, 102004. doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.102004

*Kelly-Turner, K., & Radomsky, A.S. (2025). Update andValidation of the Beliefs about Losing Control Inventory-II (BALCI-II): Apsychometric investigation. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 54(4), 427-440.doi.org/10.1080/16506073.2024.2410833

*Krause, S., & Radomsky, A.S. (2025). Development and psychometric evaluation of the Violation Appraisal Measure (VAM). Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 54(1), 115-136. doi.org/10.1080/16506073.2024.2395823

*Sandstrom, A., & Radomsky, A.S. (2025). A cognitive intervention for negative beliefs about losing control: impact on other cognitive domains and OCD symptoms. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 46, 100966. doi.org/10.1016/j.jocrd.2025.100966

*Sandstrom, A., & Radomsky, A.S. (2025). Further analyses of appraisals of losing control and other OCD-related cognitions: Aquasi-experimental investigation. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 86, 101998. doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.101998

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

*Krause, S., & Radomsky, A.S. (2024). “Things that shouldn’t be”: A qualitative investigation of violation-related appraisals in individuals with trauma histories and/or OCD. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 52, 463-477. doi.org/10.1017/S1352465824000201

Radomsky, A.S., *Ouellet-Courtois, C., *Golden,E., *Senn, J.M., & *Parrish, C.L., (2024). Putting things right: An experimental investigation of memory biases related to symmetry, ordering and arranging behaviour. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 82, 101914. doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2023.101914

*Sandstrom, A., *Krause, S., *Ouellet-Courtois, C., *Kelly-Turner, K.,& Radomsky, A.S. (2024). What’s control got to do with it? A systematic review of control beliefs in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Clinical Psychology Review, 107, 102372.

*Sandstrom, A., & Radomsky, A.S. (2024).  Beliefs about losing control and other OCD-related cognitions: An experimental investigation. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 82, 101919. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2023.101919

*Alcolado, G.M., & Radomsky, A.S. (2023). The Beliefs about Memory Inventory (BAMI) and its ability to predict compulsive checking. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 47, 140-154. doi.org/10.1007/s10608-022-10340-x

*Krause, S., & Radomsky, A.S. (2023). An experimental investigation of moral self-violation and mental contamination. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 47, 823-833. doi.org/10.1007/s10608-023-10388-3

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

Radomsky, A.S. (2022). The fear of losing control. Journal of Behavior 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 experimental investigation of cognitive factors associated with checking-related OCD. Behaviour Research & Therapy, 150, 104034. doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2022.104034

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