Education & Training

Ph.D., Clinical Psychology,
Florida State University
Expected Date of Completion: 2013

M.S., Clinical Psychology,
Florida State University, 2010

B.A. in Psychology,
Northwestern University, 2007

Biographical Sketch

Melissa graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology in 2007. She is pursuing a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Florida State University. Her primary research interests lie in understanding cognitive factors that contribute to the etiology and maintenance of anxiety psychopathology, particularly social anxiety disorder. She is working on several research projects including examination of post-event processing in social anxiety.

Representative Work

Mitchell, M. A., & Schmidt, N. B. (in preparation). The role of social comparison on self-appraisal in social anxiety.

Keough, M. E., Riccardi, C. J., Timpano, K. R., Mitchell, M. A., & Schmidt, N. B. (2010). Anxiety symptomatology: The association with distress tolerance and anxiety sensitivity. Behavior Therapy. doi 10.1016/j.beth.2010.04.002

Schmidt, N. B., Richey, J. A., Funk, A., & Mitchell, M. A. (2010). Cold pressor “augmentation” does not differentially improve treatment response for spider phobia. Cognitive Therapy and Research. doi: 10.1007/s10608-010-9310-6

Schmidt, N. B., Keough, M. E., Mitchell, M.A., Reynolds, E. K., MacPherson, L., Zvolensky, M. J., & Lejuez, C. (2010). Anxiety sensitivity: Prospective prediction of anxiety among early adolescents. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 24, 503-508.

Schmidt, N. B., Mitchell, M. A., & Richey, J. A. (2008). Anxiety sensitivity as an incremental predictor of later anxiety symptoms and syndromes. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 49, 407-412.

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