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Selected Publications


Renna, M. E., Quintero, J. M., Soffer, A., Pino, M., Ader, L., Fresco, D. M., & Mennin, D.S. (in press). Emotion Regulation Therapy for generalized anxiety and depression in a diverse sample of young adults. Behavior Therapy.

Renna, M. E., Seeley, S. H., Etkin, A., Heimberg, R. G., Fresco, D. M., & Mennin, D. S. (in press). Increased attention flexibility from Emotion Regulation Therapy for generalized anxiety disorder. Cognitive Therapy and Research.

Renna, M.E., Chin, S., Seeley, S.H., Fresco, D.M., Heimberg, R.G., Mennin, D.S. (in press). The use of the mirror tracing persistence task as a measure of distress tolerance in generalized anxiety disorder. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy.

O’Toole, M. S., Mennin, D. S., & Fresco, D. M. (in press). Emotion Regulation Therapy: An experiential approach to chronic anxiety and recurring depression. In N. Thoma & D. McKay (Eds.), Experiential Techniques in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Empirical Evidence and Practical Application. New York: Guilford.

Fresco, D. M., Roy, A. K., Adelsberg, S., Seeley, S., García-Lesy, E., Liston, C., & Mennin, D. S. (2017). Distinct functional connectivities predict clinical response with Emotion Regulation Therapy. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (Research Topic, Can't Get You Out of My Head: Brain-Body Interactions in Perseverative Cognition), 11, Article 86, 1-13.

Renna, M. E., Quintero, J. M., Mennin, D. S., & Fresco, D.M. (2017). Emotion Regulation Therapy: A mechanism-targeted treatment for disorders of distress. Frontiers in Psychology (Research Topic on Emotion Science, Advances in Emotion Regulation: from neuroscience to psychotherapy), 8, Article 98, 1-14.

O’Toole, M. S., Zachariae, R., Renna, M., Mennin, D. S., & Applebaum, A. (2017). Cognitive behavioral therapies for informal caregivers of patients with cancer and cancer survivors: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Psycho-Oncology, 26, 428-437.

Plate, A. J., Aldao, A., Quintero, J. M., & Mennin, D. S. (2016). Interactions between reappraisal and emotional nonacceptance in psychopathology: Examining disability and depression symptoms in generalized anxiety disorder. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 40, 733-746.

Wichelns, G. A., Renna, M. E., & Mennin, D. S. (2016). Preliminary validation of subjective anchor scales for worry and rumination. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 40, 645–660.

Seeley, S. H., Mennin, D.S., Aldao, A., McLaughlin, K. A., Rottenberg, J., & Fresco, D. M. (2016). Impact of comorbid depressive disorders on subjective and physiological responses to emotion in generalized anxiety disorder. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 40,290-303.

Mennin, D. S., Fresco, D. M., Heimberg, R. G., & Ritter, M. (2015). An open trial of Emotion Regulation Therapy for generalized anxiety disorder and co-occurring depression. Depression & Anxiety, 32, 614-623.

Mennin, D. S., & Fresco, D. M. (2015). Advancing emotion regulation perspectives on psychopathology: The challenge of distress disorders (Commentary on Gross, 2015). Psychological Inquiry, 26, 80-92. 

Seeley, S. H., Garcia, E., & Mennin, D. S. (2015). Recent advances in laboratory assessment of emotion regulation. Current Opinions in Psychology, 3, 58-63.

Andreescu  C., Mennin, D. S., Tudorascu, D., Sheu, L. K., Walker, S., Banihashemi, L., & Aizenstein, H. (2015). The many faces of anxiety - neurobiological correlates of anxiety phenotypes. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 234, 96-105

Kerns, C., Mennin, D. S., Farach, F., & Nocera, C. (2014). Emotion regulation deficits in generalized anxiety disorder: Further evidence using objective abilities-based assessment. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 36, 115-123.

Moore, M. T., Fresco, D. M., Mennin, D. S., Heimberg, R. G., & Hambrick, J. (2014). Changes in explanatory flexibility among individuals with generalized anxiety disorder in an emotion evocation challenge. Cognitive Therapy and Research.

Mennin, D. S., & Fresco, D. M. (2014). Emotion Regulation Therapy (pp. 469-490). In J.J. Gross (Ed.), Handbook of Emotion Regulation (Second Edition). New York: Guilford Press.

Aldao, A., & Mennin, D. S. (2014). Emotion theory and emotion regulation in anxiety disorders. In T. Ehring & P. Emmelkamp (Eds.), The Wiley Handbook of Anxiety Disorders, 12, 191-200. New York: Wiley.

Clen, S. L., Mennin, D. S., & Fresco, D. M. (2013). Emotion regulation strategies. In S. G. Hofmann, D. Dozois, J. A. Smits, & W. Rief (Eds.), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Complete Reference Guide, 5, 86-106. New York: Wiley.

Mennin, D. S., Ellard, K. K., Fresco, D. M., & Gross, J. J. (2013). United we stand: Emphasizing commonalities across cognitive-behavioral therapies. Behavior Therapy, 44, 234-248.

Mennin, D. S., & Fresco, D. M. (2013). What, me worry and ruminate about DSM-V and RDoC?: The importance of targeting negative self-referential processing. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 20, 258-267.

Proudfit, G. H., Inzlicht, M., & Mennin, D. S. (2013). Anxiety and error monitoring: O emotion, where art thou? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, Article 636, 1-4.

Mankus, A. M., *Aldao, A., *Kerns, C., *Wright, E. M., & Mennin, D. S. (2013). Mindfulness and heart rate variability in individuals with high and low generalized anxiety symptoms. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 51, 386-391.

Gruber, J., Kogan, A., Mennin, D. S., & Murray, G. (2013). Real-world emotion? An experience-sampling approach to emotion disturbance and regulation in bipolar disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

Aldao, A., & Mennin, D. S. (2012). Paradoxical physiological effects of implementing adaptive emotion regulation strategies in generalized anxiety disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 50, 122-130.

Mennin, D. S., Ellard, K. K., Fresco, D. M., & Gross, J. J. (2013). United we stand: Emphasizing commonalities across cognitive-behavioral therapies. Behavior Therapy, 44, 234-248.

Mennin, D. S., & Fresco, D. M. (2013). What, me worry and ruminate about DSM-V and RDoC?: The importance of targeting negative self-referential processing. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 20, 258–267.

Fresco, D. M., Mennin, D. S., & Heimberg, R. G. (2013). Emotion Regulation Therapy for generalized anxiety disorder. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 20, 282-300.

Aldao, A., Mennin, D. S., & McLaughlin, K. A. (2013). Differentiating worry and rumination: Evidence from context-dependent heart rate variability. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 37, 613-619.

Cooper, S. E., Miranda, R., & Mennin, D. S. (2013). Behavioral indicators of emotion avoidance and subsequent worry in generalized anxiety disorder and depression. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 5, 566-583.

Mennin, D. S., & Fresco, D. M. (2013). Emotion Regulation Therapy. In J.J. Gross (Ed.), Handbook of Emotion Regulation (Second Edition). New York: Guilford Press.

Mankus, A. M., Aldao, A., Kerns, C., Wright, E. M., & Mennin, D. S. (2013). Mindfulness and heart rate variability in individuals with high and low generalized anxiety symptoms. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 51, 386-391.

Tsypes, A., Aldao, A., & Mennin, D. S. (2013). The relationship between sleep difficulty and emotion dysregulation in generalized anxiety disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 27, 197-203.

O’Toole, M. S., Hougaard, E., & Mennin, D. S. (2013). Social anxiety and emotion knowledge: A meta-analysis. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 27, 98-108.

Klemanski, D. H., Mennin, D. S., Borelli, J. L., Morrissey, P. M., & Aikins, D. E. (2012). Emotion-related regulatory difficulties and psychopathological correlates in active-duty Iraq war soldiers with and without posttraumatic stress disorder. Depression & Anxiety, 7, 621-628.

Aldao, A., & Mennin, D. S. (2012). Paradoxical physiological effects of implementing adaptive emotion regulation strategies in generalized anxiety disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 50, 122-130.

McLaughlin, K. A., Hatzenbuehler, M. L., Mennin, D. S., & Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (2011). Emotion dysregulation and adolescent psychopathology: A prospective study. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 49, 544-554.

Turk, C. L., & Mennin, D. S. (2011). Phenomenology of generalized anxiety disorder. Psychiatric Annals, 41, 71-76.

Aldao, A., Mennin, D. S., Linardatos, E., & Fresco, D. M. (2010). Differential patterns of physical symptoms and subjective processes in generalized anxiety disorder and unipolar depression. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 24, 250-259. 

Mennin, D. S., *McLaughlin, K. A, & *Flanagan, T. (2009). Emotion regulation deficits in generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and their co-occurrence. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 23, 866-871.

Armey, M., Fresco, D. M., Moore, M. T., Mennin, D. S., Turk, C. L., & Heimberg, R. G., Kecmanovic, J., & Alloy, L.B. (2009). Brooding and pondering: Isolating the active ingredients of depressive rumination with exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. Assessment, 16, 315-327.

Roemer, L., Lee, J. K., Salters-Pedneault, K., Erisman, S. M., Orsillo, S. M., & Mennin, D. S. (2009). Mindfulness and emotion regulation difficulties in generalized anxiety disorder: Preliminary evidence for independent and overlapping contributions. Behavior Therapy, 40, 142-154.

Farach, F. J., Mennin, D. S., *Smith, R. L., & *Mandelbaum, M. (2008). The impact of pretrauma analogue GAD and posttraumatic emotional reactivity following exposure to the September 11 terrorist attacks: A longitudinal study. Behavior Therapy, 39, 262-276.

Mennin, D. S., Heimberg, R. G., Fresco, D. M., & Ritter, M. (2008). Is generalized anxiety disorder an anxiety or mood disorder? Considering multiple factors as we ponder the fate of GAD. Depression and Anxiety, 25, 289-299. 

Fales, C. L., Barch, D.M., Burgess, G. C., Schaefer, A., Mennin, D. S., Gray, J. R., & Braver, T. S. (2008). Anxiety and cognitive efficiency: Differential modulation of transient and sustained neural activity during a working memory task. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 239-253.

Ruzek, J. I., Walser, R. D., Naugle, A. E., Litz, B., Mennin, D. S., Polusny, M. A., Ronell, D. M., Ruggiero, K. J., Yehuda, R., & Scotti, J. R. (2008). Cognitive-behavioral psychology: Implications for disaster and terrorism response. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 23, 397-410.

Mennin, D. S., Holaway, R., Fresco, D. M., Moore, M. T. & Heimberg, R. G. (2007). Delineating components of emotion and its dysregulation in anxiety and mood psychopathology. Behavior Therapy, 38, 284-302. 

Mennin, D. S., & *Farach, F. J. (2007). Emotion and evolving treatments for adult psychopathology [Target Article]. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 14, 329-352. 

McLaughlin, K. A., Mennin, D. S., & *Farach, F. J. (2007). The contributory role of worry in emotion generation and dysregulation in generalized anxiety disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, 1735-1752. 

Miranda, R. & Mennin, D. S. (2007). Depression, generalized anxiety disorder, and certainty in pessimistic predictions about the future. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 31, 71-82.

Henning, E. R., Turk, C. L., Mennin, D. S., Fresco, D. M., & Heimberg, R. G. (2007). Impairment and quality of life in individuals with generalized anxiety disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 24, 342-349.

Mennin, D.S. (2006). Emotion Regulation Therapy: An integrative approach to treatment resistant anxiety disorders. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 36, 95-105. 

Mennin, D.S., Heimberg, R.G., Turk, C.L., & Fresco, D.M. (2005). Preliminary evidence for an emotion regulation deficit model of generalized anxiety disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 43, 1281-1310.