Faculty & Staff
Scott Safford, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-5303
Phone: (541) 737-9234
Fax: (541) 737-3547
Email: scott.safford@oregonstate.edu
Background
- He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Temple University in 2002.
- His clinical training was quite diverse, working with inpatient and outpatient populations of children, adults (primary focus), and geriatric individuals, with supervision from cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, and humanistic orientations. His general area of research is the comorbidity of depression and anxiety and factors that lead to these disorders.
- His recent work has focused on cognitive styles, attachment styles, and negative life events in depression and anxiety in young adults, as well as looking at childhood anxiety and its relationship to later depression.
Areas of Interest
- Continued investigation of cognitive and attachment styles
- Exploring working memory in depression and anxiety
- Examining depression and anxiety in older adults
Brief Vita
Publications: Articles
- Alloy, L.B., Abramson, L.Y., Safford, S.M., & Gibb, B.E. (2006). The Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression (CVD) Project: Current findings and future directions. In L.B. Alloy & J.H. Riskind (Eds.) Cognitive Vulnerability to Emotional Disorders. Erlbaum: New York. pp 33-61.
- Alloy, L.B., Flannery-Schroeder, E., Safford, S., Floyd, T., & Abramson, L.Y. (1999). Lifetime comorbidity in 17-24 year olds with bipolar spectrum disorders. Bipolar Disorders, 1, 22.
- 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 prospective study. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 42, 1478-1485.
- Flannery-Schroeder, E., Suveg, C., Safford, S., Kendall, P.C., & Webb, A. (2004). Comorbid externalising disorders and child anxiety treatment outcomes. Behaviour Change, 21, 14-25.
- Kendall, P.C., Safford, S.M., Flannery-Schroeder, E., & Webb, A. (2004). Child anxiety treatment: Outcomes and impact on substance use and depression 7.5 years later. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 72, 276-287.
- Safford, S.M., Alloy, L.B., Crossfield, A.G., Morocco, A.C, & Wang, J.C. (2004). The relationship of cognitive style and attachment style to depression and anxiety in young adults. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 18, 25-41.
- Safford, S.M., Kendall, P.C., Flannery-Schroeder, E., Webb, A., & Sommer, H. (2005). A longitudinal look at parent-child diagnostic agreement in youth treated for anxiety disorders. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology,34, 747-757.
- Safford, S.M. & Worthington, J.E. (1999). Computer anxiety in individuals with serious mental illness. Computers in Human Behavior, 15, 735-745.
- Traughber, D., Gibson, L., & Safford, S. (2004). A review of the new APA guidelines for psychologists working with older adults. The Idaho Psychologist, Summer, 2,4.
