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Christopher Beevers is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Dell Medical School and in the Department of Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts. He serves as the director of the Institute of Mental Health Research. He received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Miami in 2002. Beevers completed a clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Human Behavior at Brown University. His primary research interest focuses on the cognitive etiology and treatment of major unipolar depression. He believes that understanding normal cognitive processes provides an important foundation for identifying processes that go awry in clinical depression. Beevers is interested in using experimental psychopathology methods to understand how treatments work and translating these methods into effective interventions for depression-related psychopathology, including anhedonia and negative affect. His current projects employ behavioral, eye tracking, and EEG methodologies to measure cognitive bias, combined with smartphone methods to assess negative affect in natural environments.
Department: Department of Social Work. Note: GRE is not required for the PhD program.