Timothy J. Strauman

About

Professor Timothy J. Strauman's work is grounded in the premise that mental health and well-being are fundamentally shaped by self-regulation—how individuals pursue goals, respond to challenges, and adapt over time. His research integrates clinical psychology, affective neuroscience, and behavioral science to characterize the psychological and neurobiological systems that support self-regulation, and to understand how disruptions in these systems contribute to vulnerability to depression and related conditions. Across a program of experimental, clinical, and neuroimaging research, his work has examined self-regulation as a multi-level system, including its cognitive and motivational mechanisms, its development through socialization, and its links to affective and immunological processes. This work has also informed the development and evaluation of novel interventions targeting self-regulatory dysfunction. More recently, his work has focused on translating this science of self-regulation into scalable approaches to intervention and prevention, including the development of new models of treatment that target regulatory processes across disorders and efforts to extend effective self-regulation skills beyond traditional clinical settings into everyday contexts. His broader aim is to build integrated, system-level approaches to mental health that can improve outcomes at population scale.

Research topics

• Psychology
• Clinical psychology
• Medicine
• Political Science
• Social psychology
• Psychiatry
• Medical education
• Applied psychology
• Engineering
• Public relations

Selected publications

• Comparing integrative <scp>cognitive‐affective</scp> therapy and guided self‐help <scp>cognitive‐behavioral</scp> therapy to treat <scp>binge‐eating</scp> disorder using standard and naturalistic momentary outcome measures: A randomized controlled trial

  International Journal of Eating Disorders · 2020 · 90 citations

  OBJECTIVE: Innovative treatments and outcome measures are needed for binge-eating disorder (BED). This randomized controlled trial compared Integrative Cognitive-Affective Therapy (ICAT-BED), an individual psychotherapy targeting momentary behavioral and emotional precipitants of binge eating, with an established cognitive-behavioral guided self-help (CBTgsh) treatment using standard and ecological momentary assessment (EMA) outcome measures. METHOD: A total of 112 participants were randomized t…

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• Regulatory focus and the p factor: Evidence for self-regulatory dysfunction as a transdiagnostic feature of general psychopathology

  Journal of Psychiatric Research · 2021 · 33 citations

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• Training the Next Generation of Clinical Psychological Scientists: A Data-Driven Call to Action

  Annual Review of Clinical Psychology · 2022 · 28 citations

  The central goal of clinical psychology is to reduce the suffering caused by mental health conditions. Anxiety, mood, psychosis, substance use, personality, and other mental disorders impose an immense burden on global public health and the economy. Tackling this burden will require the development and dissemination of intervention strategies that are more effective, sustainable, and equitable. Clinical psychology is uniquely poised to serve as a transdisciplinary hub for this work. But rising t…

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• The Use of Ontologies to Accelerate the Behavioral Sciences: Promises and Challenges

  Current Directions in Psychological Science · 2023-07-17 · 25 citations

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  Behavioral scientists produce a vast amount of research every year yet struggle to produce cumulative knowledge that is easily translated in applied settings. This article summarizes a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine consensus report on the development and use of ontologies to accelerate the behavioral sciences. The report examines key challenges in the behavioral and psychological sciences motivating an evaluation of ontology use and development in the behavioral scien…

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• Network-level dynamics underlying a combined rTMS and psychotherapy treatment for major depressive disorder: An exploratory network analysis

  International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology · 2023-03-04 · 11 citations

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  Background: Despite the growing use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) as a treatment for depression, there is a limited understanding of the mechanisms of action and how potential treatment-related brain changes help to characterize treatment response. To address this gap in understanding we investigated the effects of an approach combining rTMS with simultaneous psychotherapy on global functional connectivity. Method: We compared task-related functional connectomes based on…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R21MH052281

  NIH · $422k · 2000

• Pilot Research Project Core

  NIH · $13.4M · 2008–2026

• NIH Grant R01MH059106

  NIH · $958k · 2004

Frequent coauthors

• James A. Blumenthal

  Duke University

  40 shared

• Kari M. Eddington

  University of North Carolina at Greensboro

  39 shared

• Andrew Sherwood

  Duke Medical Center

  38 shared

• Michael A. Babyak

  Duke Medical Center

  36 shared

• Gregory G. Kolden

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

  34 shared

• Angela Z. Vieth

  23 shared

• Heather S. Lett

  University of California, Irvine

  22 shared

• Clive J. Robins

  20 shared

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