Douglas S. Mennin, Ph.D.

About

Dr. Douglas Mennin obtained his Ph.D. in Psychology (Clinical) from Temple University in 2001. Since that time, he has held faculty positions at New York University, Yale University, and Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY). Currently, he serves on the faculty at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he directs the Regulation of Emotion in Anxiety and Depression (READ) Lab. He also serves as the Director of Clinical Training (DCT) for the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program at Teachers College. Over more than two decades, he has focused his research program on utilizing an affect science perspective to understand and treat chronic anxiety and mood conditions with a particular focus on  distress and negative self-referential processing (NSRP; e.g., worry, rumination, self-criticism), in order to expand our knowledge of their etiology, development, and maintenance across the lifespan.

He has published extensively on these topics and has served on the editorial board of multiple journals including the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Consulting Psychology, and Brain and Behavior. He also formerly served as Chair of the Scientific Council of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) and has been a member of executive boards of the APA Division of Clinical Psychology and the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology As an expert on these conditions, he has often been sought out to consult in various media and events.

Given the refractory nature of these conditions, with approximately one-third to one-half remaining symptomatic even after treatment (Borkovec & Whisman, 1996), he and his collaborator, Dr. David Fresco at the University of Michigan, have worked extensively on developing an emotion regulation perspective to the treatment of chronic distress and NSRP and have translated these ideas into an integrative yet mechanism-based approach called Emotion Regulation Therapy (ERT; Mennin & Fresco, 2023). To date, the efficacy of ERT has been demonstrated in several open and randomized clinical trials.

For more information about Emotion Regulation Therapy, go to EmotionRegulationTherapy.com

For professional inquiries, go to NYCStressAnxiety.com

For Dr. Mennin's page on the Teachers College Psychology Department website, click here.