Research Department Faculty and Staff
Vickie Bhatia, Assistant Research Administrator
Vickie Bhatia is the Assistant Research Administrator at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. She graduated from Northwestern University in 2008 with a B.A. in Psychology and Business Institutions. Vickie's research interest focuses on the interpersonal and cognitive factors of the etiology and treatment of depression in adolescents and young adults. At The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Vickie manages the research laboratory and works on the Psychotherapy Change Project and the Depression, Anxiety, and Couples Study.
Danielle Black, PhD, Assistant Director, Anxiety Research Program
Dr. Danielle Black is the Assistant Director of the Anxiety Research Program at The Family Institute and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University. Dr. Black received her doctorate from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2006, and she completed her clinical internship at the University of Wisconsin, Department of how these behaviors predict treatment outcome for GAD.
Anthony Chambers, PhD
C. Emily Durbin, PhD, Kovler Scholar
Dr. Emily Durbin is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University and the Kovler Scholar at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Stony Brook University in 2002.
Dr. Durbin's research program is broadly focused on understanding the development of mood disorders across the lifespan. In particular, her lab focuses on investigating the following issues: (1) how temperament traits related to emotionality are related to risk for depression; (2) the interplay between temperament traits in both parents and children and important aspects of family relationships; and (3) how normal developmental trajectories of emotion and temperament can be used to understand early markers of risk for depression.
Lynne Knobloch-Fedders, PhD, Assistant Director for Research
Dr. Lynne Knobloch-Fedders is the Assistant Director of Research at The Family Institute at Northwestern University and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology and theology from Marquette University in 1996, received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 2001 from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and completed the John J.B. Morgan Postgraduate Fellowship at The Family Institute at Northwestern University in 2003, specializing in couple and family therapy and applied clinical research.
Dr. Knobloch-Fedders conducts research in two related areas. Her primary focus is on the development of her program of research, Depression, Anxiety, and Relationship Distress in Couples. In this work, she studies the ways in which couples' interpersonal behavior is associated with depression, anxiety, and relationship distress, and how these factors predict treatment response in couple psychotherapy. She also collaborates on the Psychotherapy Change Project, with a particular interest in understanding how relationships between therapists and patients are associated with treatment response in individual, couple, and family psychotherapy. She is also member of the editorial board of the journal Family Process.
In 2004, Dr. Knobloch-Fedders received the Randy Gerson Memorial Research Award from the American Psychology Foundation to support her research investigating the associations between interpersonal behavior, relationship distress, and depression in couples.
Tara Latta, Research Administrator
Jay Lebow, PhD
Dr. Jay Lebow's research has centered on the interface of research and practice, the evaluation of psychotherapy outcome, and the effectiveness of mental health treatment and of couple and family therapy. He currently is Clinical Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University.
A graduate of Northwestern University's PhD program in Psychology, he served as Director of Program Evaluation for the DuPage County Health Department's Mental Health Division and subsequently for the Institute of Psychiatry at Northwestern Medical School early in his career. During this time he conducted projects in health and mental health program evaluation and authored a number of highly influential papers focused on mental health program evaluation and more specifically consumer assessments of mental health treatment including a paper on this subject for Psychological Bulletin.
After moving to the Family Institute in 1982, he served for several years as Director of Research. He also has served as the Chair of the Research Committee for the American Family Therapy Academy and President of the Society of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association. While at the Family Institute at Northwestern University he has authored a number of important reviews of treatments for couples and families including a chapter for the Annual Review of Psychology reviewing the research on family therapy, two decade reviews for the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy on couple therapy and research on couple therapy, a clinical update for the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists about evidence-based couple therapy, an article for The Journal of Family Psychology on relational diagnosis, and overviews of couple and family therapy research for Corsini's Encyclopedia of Psychology, The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion; the American Psychiatric Association's Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatments, and the journal In Session. He also has provided an overview of evidence-based psychotherapies for the widely-used physician web resource Up to Date.
Dr. Lebow has edited three volumes dealing with the practice of psychotherapy and is co-author of Common Factors in Couple and Family Therapy. He also has edited Family Psychology: The Art of the Science with William Pinsof. His interest in the interface between research and practice in psychotherapy is reflected in a regular column he writes in the Psychotherapy Networker and his latest book, Research for the Psychotherapist. Dr. Lebow also has collaborated with The Family Institute's Psychotherapy Change Project over the last ten years.
Megan Mayberry, PhD, Madigan Family Postgraduate Fellow
Megan Mayberry, PhD is the Madigan Family Postgraduate Fellow at the Family Institute at Northwestern University, completing a two-year postdoctoral program of advanced training in marital and family therapy and applied clinical research. Dr. Mayberry received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and completed her M.S. & Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Mayberry has presented and published studies focusing on adolescents and families. She has studied the impact of communities and schools on adolescent development, as well as how community factors interact with parental and peer factors when examining adolescent risk behavior. Dr. Mayberry has also collaborated on projects examining adolescent racial identity development and bullying within middle and high schools.
At The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Dr. Mayberry has contributed to the Psychotherapy Change Project, a long-term research program that aims to understand how people change in therapy and what factors facilitate this change. Dr. Mayberry works both on the Systemic Therapy Inventory of Change, which is a system for tracking client change and providing feedback to therapists during psychotherapy, and the Integrative Therapy Session Report, which is a system for tracking therapist intervention. Additionally, Dr. Mayberry has developed a study to assess the effectiveness of a Multifamily Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training Group, which is currently being conducted at The Family Institute.
William Pinsof, PhD, President
Kate Stroud, PhD, John J.B. Morgan Postgraduate Fellow
Dr. Kate Stroud is the John J.B. Morgan Postdoctoral Fellow at The Family Institute at Northwestern University, completing a two-year program of advanced clinical and research training. Dr. Stroud received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Stony Brook University, and completed her internship at the UW-Madison Department of Psychiatry.
Dr. Stroud's research examines the role of stress in first onsets and recurrences of depression. She is particularly interested in examining how the role of stress changes across the course of the disorder, with particular attention to identifying the underlying mechanisms and the influence of comorbid anxiety. In addition, her research investigates interpersonal factors in the development of depression. Her work in this area focuses on romantic relationships and parent-child relationships in adolescence. She has published several research articles on these topics as well as presented her work at national conferences.
Richard Zinbarg, PhD, Patricia M. Nielsen Research Chair
Richard E. Zinbarg, PhD, received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Northwestern University in 1989, completed his internship at the Medical College of Pennsylvania with Dr. Edna Foa, and spent three years as a post-doctoral fellow with Dr. David Barlow (at the time at The State University of New York at Albany). He has published almost 80 articles and chapters in the areas of anxiety disorders, clinical research methodology and measurement theory. Currently, he is Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the Psychology Department of Northwestern University. He is also the Patricia M. Nielsen Research Chair and Director of the Anxiety and Panic Treatment Program at The Family Institute at Northwestern University.
Dr. Zinbarg has served as the director of the Oregon Program for Anxiety Study and Treatment, project director for the DSM-IV Mixed Anxiety Depression field trial, a member of the DSM-IV Text Revision Mixed Anxiety Depression Subcommittee and is currently serving as an advisor to the DSM-V Task Force. He was an Associate Editor for the British Journal of Clinical Psychology and is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. His research interests focus on understanding the structure of anxiety and depression, risk factors for the development of anxiety and depressive disorders, clinical research methodology, developing more effective treatments for the anxiety disorders with a particular focus on generalized anxiety disorder, and basic measurement theory and techniques. Dr. Zinbarg's theoretical orientation is primarily cognitive-behavioral though his clinical work has also been influenced by motivational interviewing and related work on common factors of psychotherapy. Most recently, through his collaboration with colleagues at The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Dr. Zinbarg has also begun to incorporate systemic approaches to the understanding and treatment of anxiety disorders.
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