33 Facts About Jonathan Abramowitz

Jonathan Stuart Abramowitz was born on June 11,1969 and is an American clinical psychologist and professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jonathan Abramowitz is an expert on obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety disorders whose work is highly cited.

Jonathan Abramowitz maintains a research lab and currently serves as the director of the UNC-CH Clinical Psychology PhD Program.

Jonathan Abramowitz completed both a predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Treatment and Study of Anxiety at the University of Pennsylvania.

Jonathan Abramowitz was a staff psychologist and associate professor at the Mayo Clinic from 2000 until 2006.

Jonathan Abramowitz moved to North Carolina in the summer of 2006.

Jonathan Abramowitz's research focuses on the development and evaluation of cognitive-behavioral treatments for OCD and other anxiety-related problems, as well as on understanding the nature and psychopathology of these problems.

Jonathan Abramowitz is the author of approximately 300 publications, including more than 10 books and over 250 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters.

Jonathan Abramowitz has worked extensively as a book and journal editor.

Jonathan Abramowitz has given invited lectures around the world and served in numerous editorial and advisory roles for scientific journals and organizations.

Jonathan Abramowitz is board certified by the American Board of Behavioral Psychology and is a licensed psychologist in North Carolina.

Treatment of OCD and anxiety: A major focus of Jonathan Abramowitz's research is the treatment of OCD.

Jonathan Abramowitz has investigated factors that predict good and poor outcomes.

Jonathan Abramowitz has helped to develop an OCD treatment program combining ERP with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

Jonathan Abramowitz has helped to develop couple-based ERP programs for OCD and Body Dysmorphic Disorder.

Nature and symptoms of OCD: Jonathan Abramowitz's research focuses on trying to understand the complex symptomatology of OCD.

Jonathan Abramowitz has contributed to the re-conceptualization of hoarding as separate from OCD.

Jonathan Abramowitz has argued that OCD symptoms lie on a continuum with normal everyday experiences, and that one's learning history influence the frequency, intensity, and duration of OCD symptoms.

Jonathan Abramowitz has criticized the DSM-5's re-classification of OCD as separate from the anxiety disorders and as overlapping with conditions such as Hair Pulling Disorder and Skin Picking Disorder.

Jonathan Abramowitz is generally critical of biomedical models which view problems such as OCD and anxiety as brain diseases or genetic disorders.

Jonathan Abramowitz conducts cross-sectional, experimental, and prospective research that has helped to clarify and advance this conceptual model.

Jonathan Abramowitz's work focuses on cognitive biases such as anxiety sensitivity, thought-action fusion, intolerance of uncertainty, and attentional biases that factor in the persistence of OCD and irrational fear.

Jonathan Abramowitz's work has demonstrated that cognitive factors prospectively predict the escalation of intrusive thoughts into obsessions.

Scrupulosity: Jonathan Abramowitz has conducted studies on, and developed a cognitive-behavioral model of, scrupulosity.

Jonathan Abramowitz developed the Penn Inventory of Scrupulosity to measure this phenomenon.

Prevention of postpartum OCD: Jonathan Abramowitz developed and evaluated a prevention program for OCD symptoms in new parents.

Cross-cultural factors: Jonathan Abramowitz has conducted research on cultural, religious, and racial differences in the expression of anxiety and OCD symptoms and related phenomena.

Jonathan Abramowitz is part of a multi-national collaborative effort studying the nature of intrusive obsessional thoughts in cultures and countries around the world.

Jonathan Abramowitz is a Fellow and past president of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and serves on the International OCD Foundation Scientific and Clinical Advisory Board.

Jonathan Abramowitz has served on the Editorial Boards of several scientific journals and as associate editor of Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy and associate editor of Behaviour Research and Therapy.

Jonathan Abramowitz is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders.

Jonathan Abramowitz was invited by colleagues in Norway to help train and supervise 30 OCD treatment teams in that country.

Jonathan Abramowitz has twice been appointed as associate chair of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, a position he held from 2007 to 2017.