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Dr. Sasha Aschenbrand is an Instructor of Clinical Psychology (In Psychiatry) within the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University and a psychologist at the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders. She also previously served as the Study Coordinator for The Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Study (CAMS) at Columbia University-New York State Psychiatric Institute and as a consultant for New York State Office of Mental Health’s Evidence Based Treatment Dissemination Center, a statewide clinician training initiative.
Dr. Aschenbrand received her B.S. with Distinction from Cornell University with a major in Human Development and completed her M.S. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Temple University under the mentorship of Philip C. Kendall, Ph.D. She went on to complete a pre-doctoral internship in Clinical Child Psychology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Dr. Aschenbrand is trained in cognitive behavioral therapy, family therapy, and parent training interventions and has worked with children, adolescents, adults, and families. She specializes in the treatment of anxiety, mood, and disruptive behavior disorders and has a particular interest in parenting as it relates to anxiety disorders in children. Dr. Aschenbrand has provided clinical services in a number of treatment facilities, including the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic of Temple University, the Center for Management of ADHD at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Council for Relationships, and Schneider Children’s Hospital and the Zucker Hillside Hospital of Long Island Jewish Medical Center.
Dr. Aschenbrand’s research broadly focuses on factors involved in the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders in youth, as well as on the assessment and treatment of these disorders. Dr. Aschenbrand has been involved in several NIMH-funded treatment outcome studies examining the efficacy of cognitive behavioral treatments for anxiety disorders. She is specifically interested in parenting and family factors that may be involved in the etiology and maintenance of childhood anxiety disorders. In 2005, she received the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Student Research Award for her dissertation project on this topic.
Dr. Aschenbrand is a member of several professional societies, including the American Psychological Association, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and Division 53 of the American Psychological Association.
Honors and Awards:
2005 Temple University Faculty Commendation for Excellence in Clinical Psychology
2005 Pennsylvania Psychological Foundation Education Award ($1,000)
2005 Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Student Research Award
($750)
2000-2005 Graduate Assistantship and Tuition Scholarship, Temple University
2000 Salutatorian, Class of 2000, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University
1996-2000 Dean’s List, Cornell University
1999, 2000 Robinson Award for Academic Excellence
1999 Gamma Sigma Delta Honor Society
1999 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
1998 Golden Key National Honor Society
1998 Kappa Omicron Nu Honor Society
1998 Psi Chi – National Honor Society in Psychology
Publications:
Peer Reviewed Articles
Choudhury, M.S., Aschenbrand, S.G., & Kendall, P.C. (2007). New frontiers: Computer technology in the assessment and treatment of anxious youth. The Behavior Therapist, 30, 22-25.
Suveg, C., Roblek, T., Robin, J.A., Krain, A., Aschenbrand, S.G.,& Ginsburg, G. (2006). Family considerations when conducting CBT for children with anxiety disorders. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 20, 287-299.
Aschenbrand, S.G., Angelosante, A.G., & Kendall, P.C. (2005). Discriminant validity and clinical utility of the CBCL with anxiety-disordered youth. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 34, 735-746.
Suveg, C., Aschenbrand, S.G ., & Kendall, P.C. (2005). Separation anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and school refusal. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 14, 773-795.
Aschenbrand, S.G ., Kendall, P.C., Webb, A., Safford, S.M., & Flannery-Schroeder, E. (2003). Is childhood separation anxiety disorder a predictor of adult panic disorder and agoraphobia? A seven-year longitudinal study. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 42, 1478-1485.
Book Chapters and Other Publications
Aschenbrand, S.G., & Albano, A.M. (In press). Separation anxiety disorder. In G.P Koocher & A.M LaGreca (Eds), Parent’s guide to emotional first aid: Helping children and adolescents cope with predictable life crises. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Kendall , P.C., Hedtke, K.A., & Aschenbrand, S.G. (2005). Anxiety disorders in adolescence. In D. Wolfe & E. Mash (Eds)., Behavioral and emotional problems in adolescents: Nature, assessment, and treatment. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.
Angelosante, A.G., & Aschenbrand, S.G. (Eds.). (2004). Comorbidity of anxiety and substance use disorders. What do we know? What do we need to know? The child and adolescent anxiety SIG newsletter of AABT, 3(2).
Hedtke, K.A., Kendall, P.C., Aschenbrand, S.G., Puliafico, A.C., & Hughes, A.A. (2003). Cognitive-behavior therapy for children. In T. Ollendick and C. Schroeder (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Pediatric and Child Psychology. New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Kendall, P.C., & Aschenbrand, S.G. (2003). Cognitive-behavioral therapy for separation anxiety disorder. TherapyAdvisor.com [On-line]. Available: http://www.therapyadvisor.com/taDisorder.aspx?disID=25.
Kendall, P.C., Aschenbrand, S.G., & Hudson, J. (2003). Child-focused treatment of anxiety . In A.E. Kazdin & J.R. Weisz (Eds.), Evidence-based psychotherapies for children and adolescents (pp. 81-100). New York, NY: The Guilford Press |
