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Bethany Ann Teachman is a scientist known for her research in cognitive behavior development and therapy as well as processes that help advance in the development of maintenance for anxiety disorders. She holds the position of professor as well as Director of Clinical Training and Co-Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Virginia.

Biography
Teachman received her Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of British Columbia in 1996 under the supervision of Larry Walker, Ph.D. and then went on to receive her master's degree and Ph.D. in Psychology from Yale University in 1999 and 2002 both under the supervision of Sheila Woody, Ph.D. Before attending The University of British Columbia Teachman was a student exchange program at The University of Melbourne, Australia from 1994-1995. From 2001-2002 Teachman was a Clinical Psychology Intern at the Massachusetts General Hospital for Cognitive Behavioral therapy. In 2002 Teachman created her Doctoral Thesis at Yale University in which she investigated the automatic processing in spider phobia under the supervision of Shelia Woody, Ph.D. From 2002-2003 Teachman did her Clinical Psychology Postdoctoral Residency through the University of Virginia. She received her license in 2003 through the Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Health Professionals. Teachman has also had many opportunities to discuss her work and ideas with the media.

Awards
Teachman has received many awards for her work over the years. Her first award she had received was in 1996, which was the University of British Columbia Morris Belkin Prize for top Psychology Honors Thesis. From 2000-2001 she received the Jane Olejarczyk Award from the psychology department at Yale University for being a graduate student who contributed significantly to enhance the department. In 2002 she received the Emerson Award from the Massachusetts general hospital for recognizing a manuscript authored by a clinical psychologist and the Anxiety Disorders Association of America Trainee travel Award. In 2004-2005 she was Mead Honored Faculty at the University of Virginia. In 2006-2007 was a part of the University of Teaching Fellowship. In 2007 Teachman received the Early Career Award for Anxiety SIG for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. In 2008 she received the Outstanding Professor Award from the University of Virginia, Psychology Department. In 2012 Teachman received the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology. In 2014 she received the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Outstanding Mentor Award. In 2018 she received the Society for Science of Clinical Psychology Lawerence H. Cohen outstanding Mentor Award. In 2019 she received the American Psychological Association Presidential Citation and the Public Voices Fellowship with the OP-ED project. She also received the Inaugural Psychology Dept. Excellence in Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Award in 2020.

Research
Teachman directs the Program for Anxiety, Cognition, and Treatment at the University of Virginia, which focuses on different cognitive processes and how they can add to a type of maintenance and development in anxiety disorders. Teachman and her team are working with different types of digital technologies that would be able to help overcome obstacles of getting treatment and easily track more anxiety related thoughts and behaviors. Teachman and her team are working with different with different types of anxieties and fears such as spider fearful and contamination fear through cognitive therapy models. Teachman and her lab team created a program called "Mindtrails", which is a website that allows any person to try out the interpretation tests they have created. This program has evolved into mobile apps and has been used in over 80 countries. Other research Teachman and her team have been compiling has been based on Implicit associations tied to psychopathology. In the research they conducted Teachman, and her team discovered that phobic people with associate their own fear with danger more than non-phobic people. Teachman has had opportunities to discuss her work with different media outlets as well. One example of this was when Teachman discussed fear and anxiety with the New York Times. Teachman talked about how fear helps people to adapt to dangers around them to help keep people safe. Another example of Teachman's presence discussing her research in the media would be, when she discussed "doomscrolling" with USA Today. During this interview Teachman discussed how after scrolling for hours people begin to develop more fear with what's going on in the world around them.

Representative publications
Gruber, J., Prinstein, M. J., Clark, L. A., Rottenberg, J., Abramowitz, J. S., Albano, A. M., Aldao, A., Borelli, J. L., Chung, T., Davila, J., Forbes, E. E., Gee, D. G., Hall, G. C. N., Hallion, L. S., Hinshaw, S. P., Hofmann, S. G., Hollon, S. D., Joormann, J., Kazdin, A. E., Klein, D. N., … Weinstock, L. M. (2021). Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action. The American psychologist, 76(3), 409–426. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000707

Rachman, S., Shafran, R., Mitchell, D., Trant, J., & Teachman, B. (1996). How to remain neutral: An experimental analysis of neutralization. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 34(11-12), 889–898. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0005-7967(96)00051-4

Chow P, Fua K, Huang Y, Bonelli W, Xiong H, Barnes L, Teachman B

Chow, P. I., Fua, K., Huang, Y., Bonelli, W., Xiong, H., Barnes, L. E., & Teachman, B. A. (2017). Using Mobile Sensing to Test Clinical Models of Depression, Social Anxiety, State Affect, and Social Isolation Among College Students. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 19(3), e62. https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.6820

Steinman, S. A., & Teachman, B. A. (2010). Modifying interpretations among individuals high in anxiety sensitivity. Journal of anxiety disorders, 24(1), 71–78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2009.08.008

Clerkin, E. M., & Teachman, B. A. (2010). Training implicit social anxiety associations: an experimental intervention. Journal of anxiety disorders, 24(3), 300–308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2010.01.001

Nobles, A. L., Glenn, J. J., Kowsari, K., Teachman, B. A., & Barnes, L. E. (2018). Identification of Imminent Suicide Risk Among Young Adults using Text Messages. ''Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems. CHI Conference, 2018'', 413. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173987

Books
Bernstein, D. A., Teachman, B. A., Olatunji, B. O., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2020). Introduction to clinical psychology: Bridging science and practice (Ninth edition). Cambridge University Press.

Teachman, B. A., Schwartz, M., Gordic, B., & Coyle, B. (2003). Helping your child overcome an eating disorder: What you can do at home. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.

Woody, S., Detweiler-Bedell, J., Teachman, B. A., & O’Hearn, T. (2002). Treatment planning in psychotherapy: Taking the guesswork out of clinical care. New York: Guilford Press.