Educational background

B.S., Pennsylvania State University

Biosketch

I am a second year clinical psychology doctoral student and a site coordinator for the NIH-funded project “Behavior Therapy for Childhood Chronic Tic Disorders.” My interests are in the behavioral treatment and mechanisms of obsessive-compulsive spectrum and impulse control disorders.

Representative publications and presentations

Publications

Huppert, J.D. & Walther, M. R. (2007). Generalized Anxiety Disorder. In Hersen, M., & Thomas, J.C., Eds. Handbook of Clinical Interviewing with Adults. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Huppert, J. D., Walther, M. R., Hajcak, G., Yadin, E., Foa, E. B., Simpson, B. S., & Liebowitz, M. R. (2007). The OCI-R: Validation of the subscales in a clinical sample. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 21, 394-406.

Woods, D. W., Conelea, C. A., & Walther, M. R. (2007). Barriers to dissemination: Exploring the criticisms of behavior therapy for tics. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 14, 279-282.

Woods, D. W., Flessner, C. F., Franklin, M. F., Wetterneck, C. T., Walther, M. R., Anderson, E. R., & Cardona, D. (2006). Understanding and treating trichotillomania: what we know and what we don’t know. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 29, 487-501.

Presentations

Conelea, C. A., Walther, M. R., Woods, D. W., Bauer, C. C., Biwer, L., & Meyer, K. (2007, November). Impact of a cognitive defusion exercise on stroop performance. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Philadelphia, PA.

Hembree, E. A., Walther, M. R., & Foa, E. B. (2005, November). Are the match/mismatch between preferred and assigned treatment and quality of therapeutic alliance associated with dropout from treatment for chronic PTSD? In Cahill, S. P. (Chair), Understanding dropouts from treatment for PTSD. Symposium presented at the 39^th Annual Convention for the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Washington D.C.

Walther, M. R., Flessner, C. A., Conelea, C. A., & Woods, D. W. (2007, November). The Milwaukee Inventory for the Dimensions of Adult Skin Picking (MIDAS): A self-report measure. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavior and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.

Walther, M. R., Huppert, J. D., Hajcak, G., Yadin, E., Foa, E. B., Simpson, B. H., & Liebowitz, M. R. (2005, November). Obsessive-compulsive inventory revised: a validation of the clinical population of patients with OCD. Poster presented at the 39^th Annual Convention for the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Washington D.C.

Woods, D. W., Conelea, C. A., & Walther, M. R. (2007, March). Barriers to Behavior Therapy for Tics: Exploring Clinical Beliefs About Treatment. Symposium talk presented at the annual meeting of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, St. Louis, MO.

Woods, D., Flessner, C., Franklin, M., Keuthen, N., Stein, D., Goodwin, R., Walther, M., & TLC SAB. (2006, March). Chronic hairpulling in adults:  Phenomenology, functional impact, and treatment utilization. Symposium presented at the 2006 Annual Conference of the Trich Learning Center, Los Angeles, CA.

Woods, D. W., Himle, M. B., Conelea, C. A., & Walther, M. R. (2007, November). In M. T. Hynan and J. C. Levine (Chairs), Reverse translation: How a data-based clinic led to a program of basic research. Symposium to be conducted at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Philadelphia, PA.