Education & Training

PhD, Clinical Psychology
Florida State University , (Expected 2008)

Clinical Psychology Internship ,
Division of Substance Abuse, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (2007-2008)

M.S. in Clinical Psychology
Florida State University, 2005

M.A. in Clinical Psychology
Columbia University , 2002

B.A. in Psychology
Kenyon College , 1997

Biographical Sketch

Anxiety and substance use independently result in great personal and societal costs and their combination is particularly pernicious. Thus, although she has conducted research investigating the nature and treatment of numerous types of psychopathology, Julia Buckner's primary focus is to understand the nature and treatment of addiction and anxiety. She therefore conducts translational research, using basic science to inform the treatment and prevention of these conditions. Specifically, she has developed a program of research that has thus far focused on three primary domains: (1) delineation of causal and maintaining relations between anxiety and addictive behaviors, (2) investigation of mechanisms underlying these relations (including psychosocial, intrapersonal, cognitive, cultural, developmental, and biological variables), and (3) development and evaluation of empirically-informed treatment and prevention protocols for substance use and/or anxiety disorders. She is currently a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the FSU and a predoctoral clinical psychology fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine, Division of Substance Abuse/Clinical & Prevention Research Unit.

Representative Work

Buckner, J.D., Schmidt, N.B., Lang, A.R., Small, J., Schlauch, R.C., & Lewinsohn, P.M. (in press). Specificity of social anxiety disorder as a risk factor for alcohol and cannabis dependence. Journal of Psychiatric Research.

Buckner, J.D., Cromer, K.R., Zvolensky, M.J. Sachs-Ericsson, N., & Schmidt, N.B. (in press). Implications of comorbid alcohol dependence among individuals with social anxiety disorder. Depression and Anxiety.

Buckner, J.D ., Castro, Y., Holm-Denoma, J., & Joiner, T.E. (2007). Mental Health Care for People of Diverse Backgrounds within an Empirically Informed Framework. Oxford : Radcliffe Publishing.

Buckner, J.D., Keough , M.E. , & Schmidt, N.B. (2007). Problematic cannabis and alcohol use among young adults: The roles of depression and discomfort and distress intolerance. Addictive Behaviors, 32, 1957-1963 .

Buckner, J.D., Schmidt, N.B., Bobadilla, L., & Taylor, J. (2006). Social anxiety and problematic cannabis use: Evaluating the moderating role of stress reactivity and perceived coping. B ehaviour Research and Therapy, 44 1007-1015 .

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