Richard Heimberg
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Richard Heimberg is a researcher, psychotherapist, and current professor at Temple University. Cognitive behaviour group therapy was founded on principles developed by Heimberg at the University of Albany's Centre for Stress and Anxiety Disorders. His focus lies on anxiety disorders, specifically social phobia. He has published more than 250 articles and books on social phobia.
In 1983, he became the first researcher to receive National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) funding to study psychosocial treatments for social phobia after the term first appeared in the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1980.
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Richard G. Heimberg is Professor and the David Kipnis Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Psychology. He also serves as Director of Clinical Training, and Director of the Adult Anxiety Clinic of Temple University. Dr. Heimberg is well known for his efforts to develop cognitive-behavioral treatments for social anxiety and examine their efficacy in comparison to (or in combination with) medication treatments. More recently, he and his colleagues have initiated a program for the study and treatment of generalized anxiety disorder.
Dr. Heimberg has published more than 250 articles and chapters on social anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder, and related topics. He is co-editor or co-author of several books including Social phobia: Diagnosis, assessment, and treatment; Managing social anxiety: A cognitive-behavioral therapy approach; Cognitive-behavioral treatment for social phobia: Basic mechanisms and clinical strategies; Generalized anxiety disorder: Advances in research and practice , and Making cognitive-behavioral therapy work: Clinical process for new practitioners as well as the forthcoming volume Improving outcomes and preventing relapse in cognitive behavioral therapy .
Dr. Heimberg is Past President of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy (AABT). He currently serves as Editor of Behavior Therapy, the flagship journal of AABT, and serves on 8 additional editorial boards. Dr. Heimberg was named one of the four most influential psychological researchers in anxiety in a survey of members of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, and he serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of that association. He is a founding fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and was the inaugural recipient of the Academy's A.T. Beck Award for Significant and Enduring Contribution to Cognitive Therapy. He is also a previous recipient of the Outstanding Research Award of the American Society for Group Work.
