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Christopher G. Beevers, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Associate Director of Clinical Training
VITA
Email: beevers@psy.utexas.edu
Office: SEA 3.212
Phone: (512) 232-3706 Lab: (512) 475-6817
Fax: (512) 471-5935
Mood Disorders Laboratory
See also Clinical Psychology
Dr. Beevers plans to accept a graduate student into his laboratory in the Fall of 2012.
Christopher Beevers received his doctorate in adult clinical psychology from the University of Miami. His clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship were completed in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University. Dr. Beevers' primary research interest focuses on the cognitive etiology and treatment of major unipolar depression. He believes that understanding normal cognitive processes provides an important foundation for identifying how these processes go awry in clinical depression. His research has examined whether depression vulnerability is associated with negatively biased attention, thought suppression, and poor cognitive change during treatment. Dr. Beevers is particularly interested in the interplay between biology (e.g., variants of the serotonin transporter gene), cognitive risk factors for depression, and reactivity to transient mood states. Finally, he is interested in whether treatments modify putative risk factors for depression.
Selected Representative Publications include:
Beevers, C.G., Lee, H.J., *Wells, T.T., *Ellis, A.J., & Telch, M.J. (2011). Eye gaze bias for emotion stimuli prospectively predicts PTSD and depression symptoms among soldiers deployed in Iraq. The American Journal of Psychiatry
Beevers, C.G., Marti, C.N., Lee, H.J., Stote, D.L., Ferrell, R.E., Hariri, A.R., & Telch, M.J. (2011). Associations between serotonin transporter gene promoter region (5-HTTLPR) polymorphism and gaze bias for emotional information. Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Beevers, C. G., Wells, T. T., Ellis, A. J., & McGeary, J. E. (2009) Association of the serotonin transporter gene promoter region (5-HTTLPR) polymorphism with biased attention for emotional stimuli. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 118, 670-681. PDF
Beevers, C. G., Gibb, B. E., McGeary, J. E., & Miller, I. W. (2007). Serotonin transporter genetic variation and biased attention for emotional word stimuli among psychiatric inpatients. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116, 208 - 212. PDF
Beevers, C. G., *Wells, T. T., & Miller, I. W. (2007). Predicting response to depression treatment: The role of negative cognition. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 75, 422-431.
Beevers, C. G., Rohde, P., Stice, E., & Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (2007). Recovery from major depressive disorder among female adolescents: A prospective test of the scar hypothesis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 75, 888-900.
Beevers, C. G. (2005). Cognitive vulnerability to depression: A dual process model. Clinical Psychology Review, 25, 975-1002. PDF
Beevers, C. G., & Miller, I. W. (2005). Unlinking negative cognition and symptoms of depression: Evidence for the specific effect of cognitive therapy. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73, 68-77. PDF
Beevers, C. G., Keitner, G. I., Ryan, C. E. & Miller, I. W. (2003). Cognitive predictors of symptom return following depression treatment. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 112, 488-496. PDF
