Bethany Teachman is Faculty Co-Director of TYDE. She heads its Leadership Committee with Nancy Deutsch and serves as Faculty Co-Lead on the following TYDE Committees: Training and Events, External Funding, and Industry Partnerships.
Bethany Teachman is a Professor and the Director of Clinical Training at the University of Virginia in the Department of Psychology. Her lab investigates biased thinking that contributes to the development and maintenance of psychopathology, especially anxiety disorders. She has had continuous funding from the National Institutes of Health and private foundations, and has more than 250 publications, including the books Introduction to clinical psychology: Bridging science and practice and Treatment planning in psychotherapy: Taking the guesswork out of clinical care. Dr. Teachman is Director of the public websites MindTrails (https://mindtrails.virginia.edu/), a web- and app-based research infrastructure that has offered digital interventions to reduce anxious thinking to thousands of visitors around the world, and Project Implicit Health (www.projectimplicithealth.com), an educational website where over a million visitors have assessed their implicit associations tied to mental and physical health topics. Dr. Teachman has been awarded an American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Early Career Award, multiple national mentoring awards, and she is a Fellow of multiple associations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and she received a Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association. Dr. Teachman currently serves on the Board of the Society for Digital Mental Health and she was the inaugural Chair of the Coalition for the Advancement and Application of Psychological Science.
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