Assistant Professor of Psychology

Office: Beatty Hall, Room 222C
Telephone: 410-617-5240
Email: JMPrenoveau@loyola.edu

Education:

• B.S. (Chemical Engineering),
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• M.A. (Clinical Psychology),
  University of California at Los Angeles
• Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology with minor in
  Measurement Psychology), University of California
  at Los Angeles

Scholarly Interests:

I am broadly interested in the etiology, phenomenology, and treatment of disorders of anxiety and fear. Specifically, I employ experimental fear conditioning paradigms to explore factors that contribute to the etiology and maintenance of fear/anxiety as well as to explore mechanisms involved in the extinction of conditioned fear. These studies utilize physiological, behavioral, and self-report indices. I also study the measurement, phenotypic structure, and temporal stability of anxiety and mood symptomatology using structural equation modeling with cross-sectional and longitudinal observational data.

Representative Publications:

Prenoveau, J. M., Zinbarg, R., Craske, M. G., Mineka, S., Griffith, J. W., Epstein, A. M.
       (in press). Testing a hierarchical model of anxiety and depression in adolescents: A tri-level
       model. Journal of Anxiety Disorders.

Prenoveau, J. M., Craske, M. G. (in press). Panic Disorder. In M. A. Reinecke & S. G. Hofmann
       (Eds.), Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy with Adults: A Guide for Assessment,
       Conceptualization, and Intervention. Cambridge University Press.

Prenoveau, J. M., Zinbarg, R., Craske, M. G., Mineka, S., Griffith, J. W., Rose, R. D. (2009).
       Evaluating the invariance and validity of the structure of dysfunctional attitudes in an
       adolescent population. Assessment, 16, 258-273. doi:10.1177/1073191108324519

Craske, M. G., Rauch, S. L., Ursano, R., Prenoveau, J. M., Pine, D. S., & Zinbarg, R. E. (2009).
       What is an anxiety disorder? Depression and Anxiety, 26, 1066-1085. doi:10.1002/da.20633

Acheson, D. T., Forsyth, J. P., Prenoveau, J. M., Bouton, M. E. (2007). Interoceptive fear
       conditioning as a learning model of panic disorder: An experimental evaluation using
       20% CO2-enriched air in a non-clinical sample. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45,
       2280-2294. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2007.04.008

Prenoveau, J. M., Forsyth, J. P., Kelly, M. M., Barrios, V. (2006). Repeated exposure to
       20% CO2 challenge and risk for developing panic attacks: A controlled 6 and 12-month
       follow-up in a nonclinical sample. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 20, 1158-1167. 
       doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2006.03.004

Course Offerings:

PY291: Research Methods I
PY292: Research Methods II
PY601: Psychodiagnostics I
PY620: Theories of Counseling & Psychotherapy
PY621: Principles and Practices of Psychotherapy
PY832: Research Methods in Clinical Psychology I