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Russell M. Marks is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, specializing in clinical psychology. He earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of South Dakota and completed his predoctoral residency at the VA Maryland Health Care System/University of Maryland School of Medicine Consortium. Dr. Marks has also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University, where he received specialized training in Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), Prolonged Exposure therapy (PE), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), focusing on evidence-based behavioral interventions for trauma and stressor-related disorders. His clinical work centers on the assessment and treatment of PTSD. Research interests include the pathoplastic relationships between personality and psychopathology, examining both general and specific etiologies such as substance use disorders and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health behaviors. Additionally, Dr. Marks investigates psychometric issues relevant to the study of process-based interventions such as mindfulness. He is a member of the Association for Cognitive Behavioral Therapies and the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, having co-founded the Process-Based Therapy Special Interest Group (PBT-SIG).
Department: Department of Economics