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Phone: (212) 246-5719 Email: aschenbs@childpsych.columbia.edu Sasha Aschenbrand is a clinician at the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders and also serves as the Study Coordinator for The Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Study (CAMS) at Columbia University-New York State Psychiatric Institute. She received her B.S. with Distinction from Cornell University and went on to receive her M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Temple University under the mentorship of Philip C. Kendall, Ph.D. Dr. Aschenbrand’s clinical and research training has focused on the assessment and treatment of children, adolescents, and adults with anxiety and mood disorders and she has provided therapy in individual, group, and family formats. She has extensive training in cognitive-behavioral therapy and family therapy and is also trained in dialectical behavior therapy. Dr. Aschenbrand has provided clinical services in a number of treatment facilities, including the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic of Temple University, the Center for Management of ADHD at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Council for Relationships, and Schneider Children’s Hospital and the Zucker Hillside Hospital of Long Island Jewish Medical Center.Dr. Aschenbrand’s research broadly focuses on factors involved in the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders in youth, as well as on the assessment and treatment of these disorders. Dr. Aschenbrand has been involved in several NIMH-funded treatment outcome studies examining the efficacy of cognitive behavioral treatments for anxiety disorders. She is specifically interested in parenting and family factors that may be involved in the etiology and maintenance of childhood anxiety disorders. In 2005, she received the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Student Research Award for her dissertation project on this topic. Dr. Aschenbrand is a member of several professional societies, including the American Psychological Association, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and Division 53 of the American Psychological Association. Honors and Awards 2005 Temple University Faculty Commendation for Excellence in Clinical Psychology 2005 Pennsylvania Psychological Foundation Education Award 2005 Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Student Research Award 2000-2005 Graduate Assistantship and Tuition Scholarship 2000 Salutatorian, Class of 2000, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University 1999, 2000 Robinson Award for Academic Excellence 1999 Gamma Sigma Delta Honor Society 1999 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society 1998 Kappa Omicron Nu Honor Society 1998 Golden Key National Honor Society 1998 Psi Chi – National Honor Society in Psychology 1996-2000 Dean’s List, Cornell University Publications: Peer Reviewed Articles Suveg, C., Roblek, T., Robin, J.A., Krain, A., Aschenbrand, S.G., & Ginsburg, G. (2006). Family considerations when conducting CBT for children with anxiety disorders. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 20, 287-299. Aschenbrand, S.G., Angelosante, A.G., & Kendall, P.C. (2005). Discriminant validity and clinical utility of the CBCL with anxiety-disordered youth. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 34, 735-746. Suveg, C., Aschenbrand, S.G ., & Kendall, P.C. (2005). Separation anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and school refusal. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 14, 773-795. Aschenbrand, S.G ., Kendall, P.C., Webb, A., Safford, S.M., & Flannery-Schroeder, E. (2003). Is childhood separation anxiety disorder a predictor of adult panic disorder and agoraphobia? A seven-year longitudinal study. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 42, 1478-1485. Book Chapters and Other Publications Choudhury, M.S., Aschenbrand, S.G., & Kendall, P.C. (2007). New frontiers: Computer technology in the assessment and treatment of anxious youth. The Behavior Therapist, 30, 22-25. Kendall , P.C., Hedtke, K.A., & Aschenbrand, S.G. (2005). Anxiety disorders in adolescence. In D. Wolfe & E. Mash (Eds)., Behavioral and emotional problems in adolescents: Nature, assessment, and treatment. New York, NY: The Guilford Press. Angelosante, A.G., & Aschenbrand, S.G. (Eds.). (2004). Comorbidity of anxiety and substance use disorders. What do we know? What do we need to know? The child and adolescent anxiety SIG newsletter of AABT, 3(2). Hedtke, K.A., Kendall, P.C., Aschenbrand, S.G., Puliafico, A.C., & Hughes, A.A. (2003). Cognitive-behavior therapy for children. In T. Ollendick and C. Schroeder (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Pediatric and Child Psychology. New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. Kendall, P.C., & Aschenbrand, S.G. (2003). Cognitive-behavioral therapy for separation anxiety disorder. TherapyAdvisor.com [On-line]. Available: http://www.therapyadvisor.com/taDisorder.aspx?disID=25. Kendall, P.C., Aschenbrand, S.G., & Hudson, J. (2003). Child-focused treatment of anxiety . In A.E. Kazdin & J.R. Weisz (Eds.), Evidence-based psychotherapies for children and adolescents (pp. 81-100). New York, NY: The Guilford Press. |
