The Columbia University Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CU-CARD)

	Daniel L. Hoffman, PhD PhD in Clinical and School Psychology Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders Download full CV

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Daniel L. Hoffman, Ph.D., is a clinician at the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CUCARD). Dr. Hoffman’s clinical specialty is the treatment of anxiety disorders across the lifespan. He has expertise in traditional behavior therapy and virtual reality exposure therapy. Dr. Hoffman also has experience in behavior activation and cognitive behavioral therapy for the treatment of major depressive disorder. His other clinical interests include couple/marital dissatisfaction and sexual dysfunction.

Dr. Hoffman received his B.A. Cum Laude from Yeshiva University, where he majored in Psychology, and his M.A. and PhD in Clinical and School Psychology from Hofstra University. Dr. Hoffman’s clinical psychology internship at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx included rotations in emergency department diagnostics and individual and group cognitive-behavioral therapy with psychiatric and chemically-dependent inpatients. His school psychology internship with the Child Study Team in Ft. Lee, NJ’s school district involved psychoeducational assessment, functional behavior analysis and behavior intervention planning for children ages kindergarten through high school.

As a provisionally-certified school psychologist, Dr. Hoffman specialized in psychoeducational assessment, functional behavior analysis and behavior intervention planning for children ages kindergarten through high school. He also conducted individual and family therapy for children and adolescents with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), separation anxiety disorder, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), mood disorders and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Dr. Hoffman was a consultant school psychologist in the Deer Park Union Free School District in Suffolk County at the kindergarten through second grade and the high school level.

Dr. Hoffman’s research program focuses on innovative therapies for anxiety disorders. In addition to publications, he has given presentations at international, national, regional and state levels. Dr. Hoffman is a member of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and the American Psychological Association.

Peer Reviewed Publications

Hoffman, D.L. & Schare, M.L. (in press). The Combined Effects of Virtual Reality and Imaginal Exposure Therapies with an Elderly Aviophobic Patient. The American Journal of Integrated Mental Health Care.

Manuscripts in Preparation

Hoffman, D.L., Hoffman, S., & Schare, M.L. (manuscript in preparation). Behavioral And Physiological Correlates Of Within Exposure Session Verbalized Anxiety.

Hoffman, D.L. & Schare, M.L. (manuscript in preparation). Multimodal Prolonged Virtual Reality and Imaginal Exposure for Fear of Flying Symptoms.

Hoffman, D.L. & Schare, M.L. (manuscript in preparation). The Current Status of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: A Critical Review of Empirically Based Treatments.

Poster Presentations

Hoffman, D.L., Schare, M.L., O’Brien, R.M. & Scardapane, J.R. (2009, November). Real-time correlates of behavioral, self-report, and physiological data during massed sessions of virtual reality and imaginal exposure. Poster accepted for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.

Schare, M.L., Torell, K., Hoffman, D.L., & Mansdorf, E. (2009, November). Two-year follow up of treating aviophobia with virtual reality exposure therapy. Poster accepted for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.

Hoffman, D.L., Schare, M.L., Scardapane, J.R. & O’Brien, R.M. (2009, August). Aviophobia self-report measures’ inability to predict overcoming phobic behavior. Poster session accepted for the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Hoffman, D.L. Schare, M.L., Scardapane, J.R., & O’Brien, R.M. (2008, August). Augmenting virtual reality exposure with imaginal exposure to anticipatory anxiety. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Levinthal, C.F., Hoffman, D.L., & Bougioukas, M. (2005, November). Predicting standardized reading test performance with phonological encoding and signal detection theory. Poster session presented at New York Association for School Psychologists, White Plains, NY.

Levinthal, C.F., Hoffman, D.L., & Bougioukas, M. (2004, October). Phonological encoding as a predictor for standardized test reading scores. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the New York Association for School Psychologists, Buffalo, NY.

Waxman, R., Hoffman, D.L., Girnun, R., Penkower, A., Koslowe, M., Edelman, A. (2000, May). Cognitive dysfunction in traumatic brain injury. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Yeshiva University Research Colloquium, New York, NY.

Panel Discussions

Hoffman, D.L. (accepted for presentation 2010, March). Behavioral and Developmental Perspectives on the Onset of Anxiety Disorders during Early Adulthood. In C. Etengoff, (Chair), Exploring Critical Issues of Emerging Adulthood: Religious and Ethnic Identity, Mortality, and Anxiety. Symposium to be presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Brooklyn, NY.

Friedman, H.H., Friedman, L.F., Hoffman, D.L., Helmreich, J., Kass, F. (2007, November). Social responsibility across the curriculum. Panel discussion at the Decision Sciences Institute. Phoenix, Arizona.