Adam S Radomsky, PhD
Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Psychology
Core Member, Centre for Clinical Research in Health (CCRH)
Concordia University Research Chair in Anxiety and Related Disorders
| Office: |
L-PY 101-4 Psychology Building, 7141 Sherbrooke W. |
| Phone: | (514) 848-2424 ext. 2202 |
| Email: | Adam.Radomsky@concordia.ca |
| Website(s): |
The Anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorders Laboratory Website CCRH Website |
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Education
PhD (University of British Columbia)
Research interests
I am a Professor of Psychology at Concordia University and Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.
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, and a Core Member of the Centre for Clinical Research in Health (CCRH). 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) 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
Gagné, J.P., & Radomsky,A.S. (2017). Manipulating beliefs about losing control causes checkingbehaviour. Journal ofObsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 15, 34-42. doi.org/10.1016/j.jocrd.2017.08.013
Toffolo, M.B.J., van den Hout, M., Radomsky,A.S., & Engelhard, I.M. (2016). Check, check, double check:Investigating memory deterioration within multiple sessions of repeatedchecking. Journal of Behavior Therapy andExperimental Psychiatry, 53, 59-67. doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2015.09.001
Alcolado, G.M., & Radomsky,A.S. (2016). A novel cognitive intervention for compulsive checking:Targeting maladaptive beliefs about memory. Journalof Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 53, 75-83.doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2015.02.009
Levy, H.C., & Radomsky, A.S.(2016). Are all safety behaviours created equal? A comparison of novel and routinely-usedsafety behaviors in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 45(5), 367-379. doi:10.1080/16506073.2016.1184712
Levy, H.C., & Radomsky, A.S.(2016). It’s the who not the when: An investigation of safety behaviour fadingin exposure to contamination. Journal ofAnxiety Disorders, 39, 21-29. doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2016.02.006
Levy, H.C., & Radomsky, A.S.(2015). Validation of a self-report measure of self-efficacy in contaminationfear: The Contamination Self-Efficacy Scale (CSES). Cognitive Therapy and Research, 39(4), 542-551.doi:10.1007/s10608-015-9678-4
Milosevic, I., Levy, H.C., Alcolado, G.M., & Radomsky, A.S. (2015). The Treatment Acceptability/Adherence Scale:Moving beyond the assessment of treatment effectiveness. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 44(6), 456-469. doi:10.1080/16506073.2015.1053407
Neal, R.L., & Radomsky, A.S.(2015). An experimental investigation of contamination-related reassuranceseeking: Familiar versus unfamiliar others. Journalof Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 49(Part B), 188-194. doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2015.03.014
Senn, J.M., & Radomsky, A.S. (2015). Measuringbeliefs about distraction: Might the function of distraction matter more thandistraction itself? Cognitive Therapy andResearch, 39(6), 826-840. doi: 10.1007/s10608-015-9703-7
Levy, H.C., Senn, J.M., & Radomsky,A.S. (2014). Further support for the acceptability-enhancing roles ofsafety behavior and a cognitive rationale in cognitive-behavior therapy foranxiety disorders. Journal of CognitivePsychotherapy, 28(4), 303-316. doi:10.1891/0889-8391.28.4.303
Radomsky, A.S., Alcolado, G.M., Abramowitz, J., Alonso, P., Belloch, A., Bouvard, M.,Clark, D.A., Coles, M., Doron, G., Fernandez-Alvarez, H., Garcia-Soriano, G.,Ghisi, M., Gomez, B., Inozu, M., Moulding, R., Shams, G., Sica, C., Simos, G.,& Wong, W. (2014). Part 1. You can run but you can’t hide: Intrusivethoughts on 6 continents. Journal ofObsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders, 3(3), 269-279. doi:10.1016/j.jocrd.2013.09.002
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