Barbara Rothbaum is a psychologist at
Emory University School of Medicine
The Emory University School of Medicine is the graduate medical school of Emory University and a component of Emory’s Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center. Before it was established as the Emory School of Medicine in 1915, the school fi ...
in
Atlanta, Georgia
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. She is a professor in the Psychiatry department and a pioneer in the treatment of anxiety-related disorders. Rothbaum is head of the Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program (TARP) at Emory as well as the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program. In the mid-1990s she founded a virtual exposure therapy company called Virtually Better, Inc. This company treats patients with anxiety disorders, addictions, pain, and the like using virtual reality instead of the actual place or scenario. It also allows the therapist to control the environment. She also played a key role in the development of the treatment of
posttraumatic stress disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that can develop because of exposure to a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on ...
(PTSD).
Rothbaum was president of the
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Her term spanned 2004 to 2005.
Bibliography
*Rothbaum, B. and Foa, E.B. (1997) ''Treating the Trauma of Rape: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for PTSD'' (The Guilford Press)
*Rothbaum, B. and Foa, E.B. (1999) ''Reclaiming Your Life After Rape: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy For Posttraumatic Stress Disorder'' (Oxford University Press)
*Rothbaum, B. (editor) (2005) ''Pathological Anxiety : Emotional Processing in Etiology and Treatment'' (The Guilford Press)
*Pine, Daniel, Rothbaum, B.O, and Ressler, K. (editors) (2015) "Primer on anxiety disorders." (Oxford University Press)
*Rothbaum, B. (2020, September 1). Learning Prolonged Exposure for PTSD: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinicians
nline course Psychotherapy Academy. https://psychotherapyacademy.org/courses/prolonged-exposure-therapy-for-ptsd/
See also
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Cycloserine
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Prolonged exposure therapy Prolonged exposure therapy (PE) is a form of behavior therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy designed to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. It is characterized by two main treatment procedures – imaginal and in vivo exposures. Imaginal expo ...
, exposure therapy for
posttraumatic stress disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that can develop because of exposure to a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on ...
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List of persons associated with Emory University
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List of psychologists
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List of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
References
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External links
Virtually Better, IncISTSSEmory UniversityEmory HealthcareTrauma and Anxiety Recovery Program at Emory University
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Living people
American neuroscientists
American women neuroscientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women scientists
Emory University School of Medicine faculty