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Department of Psychology

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Geoffrey L. Thorpe (207) 581-2743 Geoffrey.Thorpe@umit.maine.edu

Research Interests: Anxiety disorders, questionnaire assessment of dysfunctional self-statements, topics in forensic clinical psychology.

Teaching Interests: Undergraduate: abnormal psychology.
Graduate: seminar in psychotherapy; behavior therapy; ethics and professional problems; clinical supervision.

Sample Publications:

Thorpe, G. L., & Olson, S. L. (1997). Behavior therapy: Concepts, procedures, and applications (2nd. ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Thorpe, G. L. (2001). Agoraphobia. In H. S. Friedman (Ed.), The disorders: Specialty articles from the Encyclopedia of Mental Health (pp. 1-13). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Thorpe, G. L., Righthand, S., & Kubik, E. K. (2001). Dimensions of burnout in professionals working with sex offenders. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 13, 197-203.

Thorpe, G. L., Walter, M. I., Kingery, L. R, & Nay, W. T. (2001). The Common Beliefs Survey - III and the Situational Self-Statement and Affective State Inventory: Test-retest reliability, internal consistency, and further psychometric considerations. Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, 19, 89-103.

Walter, M. I., Thorpe, G. L., & Kingery, L. R. (2001). The Common Beliefs Survey-III, the Situational Self-Statement and Affective State Inventory and their relationship to authoritarianism and social dominance orientation. Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, 19, 105-118.

Lawson, D. J., Thorpe, G. L., Kingery, L. R., Sigmon, S. T., & Beauchamp, E. A. (2004). Responding to questions about thoughts attenuates responses to questions about feelings: Further exploration of the Situational Self-Statement and Affective State Inventory. Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, 22, 59- 70.

Nay, W. T., Thorpe, G. L., Roberson-Nay, R., Hecker, J. E., & Sigmon, S. T. (2004). Attentional bias to threat and emotional response to biological challenge. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 18, 609-627.

Hecker, J. E., & Thorpe, G. L. (2005). Introduction to clinical psychology: Science, practice, and ethics. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Thorpe, G. L., McMillan, E., Owings, L. R., & Dawson, R. (in press). Behavior therapy and termination. In W. T. O’Donohue & M. A. Cucciare (Eds.), A clinician’s guide to the termination of psychotherapy. New York: Routledge.

Thorpe, G. L., McMillan, E., Sigmon, S. T., Owings, L. R., Dawson, R., & Bouman, P. (in press). Latent trait modeling with the Common Beliefs Survey: Using item response theory to evaluate an irrational beliefs inventory. Journal of Rational- Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy.

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