publications.

For an overview of my training and research, see here.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  1. Schiller, C. E., Prim J., Bauer A. E., Lux L., Lundegard L., Kang M., Hellberg S. N., Thompson K., Webber, T., Teklezghi A., Petee, N., Gaffney, K., Hodgins, G., Rahman F., Steinsiek, N., Modi, A., & Gaynes B. (In Press). Efficacy of virtual care for depressive disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis. JMIR mental health.
  2. Hopkins, T. & Hellberg, S. N. (In Press). Assessing and Treating PTSD from Obstetrical and Neonatal Traumas: A Case Series. Journal for prenatal & perinatal psychology & health, 36 (2), 28-41.
  3. Hellberg, S. N., Abramowitz, J. S., Ojalehto, H. J., Butcher, M. W., Buchholz, J. L., & Riemann, B. C. (2022). Co-occurring depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder: A dimensional network approach. Journal of affective disorders, 317, 417–426. org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.08.101
  4. Gates, K. M., & Hellberg, S. N. (2022). Commentary: Person-specific, multivariate, and dynamic analytic approaches to actualize ACBS task force recommendations for contextual behavioral science. Journal of contextual behavioral science, 25, 35–43. org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2022.06.002
  5. Buchholz, J. L., Abramowitz, J. S., Hellberg, S. N., Ojalehto, H. J., & Twohig, M. P. (In Press). Different Psychological Processes of Change with Traditional and ACT-Enhanced ERP for OCD. Journal of cognitive psychotherapy: An international quarterly.
  6. Hellberg, S. N., Buchholz, J. L., Ojalehto, H. J., Butcher M. W., Riemann, B. C., & Abramowitz, J. S. (2022). Prevalence and correlates of suicidality in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, doi.org/10.1016/j.jocrd.2022.100711
  7. Buchholz, J. L., Blakey, S. M., Hellberg, S. N., Massing-Schaffer, M., Reuman, L., Ojalehto, H. J., Friedman, J., & Abramowitz, J. S. (2022). Expectancy violation during exposure therapy: A pilot randomized controlled trial. Journal of behavioral and cognitive therapy, 32 (1), 13-24. org/10.1016/j.jbct.2021.12.004
  8. Buchholz, J. L., Ojalehto, H. J., Maddox, B. B., Hellberg, S. N., Wislocki, K., Abramowitz, J. S., Davidson, C. A., Cattie, J. E., & Becker-Haimes, E. M. (2022). Treatment of co-occurring obsessive-compulsive and psychotic symptoms: A systematic review. Journal of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, doi.org/10.1016/j.jocrd.2021.100704
  9. Ojalehto, H. J., Abramowitz, J. S., Hellberg, S. N., Butcher, M. W., & Buchholz, J. L. (2021). Predicting COVID-19-Related Anxiety: The Role of Obsessive-Compulsive Symptom Dimensions, Anxiety Sensitivity, and Body Vigilance. Journal of anxiety disorders, doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2021.102460
  10. Ojalehto, H. J., Hellberg, S. N., Butcher, M. W., Buchholz, J. L., Timpano, K. R., & Abramowitz, J. S. (2021). The misinterpretation of intrusions and experiential avoidance as prospective predictors of postpartum obsessive-compulsive symptoms in first-time parents. Journal of contextual behavioral science, 20, 137-143. org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2021.04.003
  11. Baker A. W., Hellberg S. N., Jacoby R. J., Losiewicz O. M., Orr S. P., Marques L., Simon N. M. (2020) A Pilot Study of Attention Bias Modification Augmentation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Panic Disorder: Clinical and Psychophysiological Outcomes. Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry, 68. org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2020.101568
  12. Ojalehto H. J., Abramowitz J. S., Hellberg S. N., Buchholz, J. B., & Twohig M. P. (2020). Adherence to exposure and response prevention as a predictor of improvement in obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions and maintenance factors. Journal of anxiety disorders, 72. org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102210
  13. Ross R. A., Hoeppner S. S., Hellberg S. N., O’Day E. B., Rosencrans P. L., Ressler K. J., May V., & Simon N. M. (2020). Circulating PACAP peptide and PAC1R genotype as possible transdiagnostic biomarkers for anxiety disorders in women: a preliminary study. Neuropsychopharmacology, 45(7), 1125-1133. org/10.1038/s41386-020-0604-4
  14. Simon, N. M., Hoeppner, S. S., Lubin, R. E., Robinaugh, D. J., Malgaroli, M., Norman, S. B., Acierno, R., Goetter, E. M., Hellberg, S. N., Charney, M. E., Bui, E., Baker, A. W., Smith, E., Kim, H. M., & Rauch, S. (2020). Understanding the impact of complicated grief on combat related posttraumatic stress disorder, guilt, suicide, and functional impairment in a clinical trial of post-9/11 service members and veterans. Depression and anxiety, 37(1), 63–72. org/10.1002/da.22911
  15. Hellberg, S. N., Buchholz, J. L., Twohig, M. P., & Abramowitz, J. S. (2020). Not just thinking but believing: Obsessive beliefs and domains of cognitive fusion in the prediction of OCD symptom dimensions. Clinical psychology & psychotherapy, 27(1), 69–78. org/10.1002/cpp.2409
  16. Hellberg, S. N., Buchholz, J. L., & Abramowitz, J. S. (2019). Insomnia and obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions: The mediating role of anxiety and depression. Journal of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, 23. org/10.1016/j.jocrd.2019.100482
  17. Bui, E., Hellberg, S. N., Hoeppner, S. S., Rosencrans, P., Young, A., Ross, R. A., Hoge, E., & Simon, N. M. (2019). Circulating levels of oxytocin may be elevated in complicated grief: a pilot study. European journal of psychotraumatology, 10(1). org/10.1080/20008198.2019.1646603
  18. Hellberg, S. N., Ladis, I. E., & Shepherd, C. B. (2019). Pilot study of a personality-based approach to assessing eating disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder symptom risk in college men and women. Journal of American college health, 67(8), 801–816. org/10.1080/07448481.2018.1515745
  19. Hellberg, S. N., Russell, T. I., & Robinson, M. (2019). Cued for risk: Evidence for an incentive sensitization framework to explain the interplay between stress and anxiety, substance abuse, and reward uncertainty in disordered gambling behavior. Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 19(3), 737–758. org/10.3758/s13415-018-00662-3
  20. Charney, M. E., Hellberg, S. N., Bui, E., & Simon, N. M. (2018). Evidenced-Based Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Updated Review of Validated Psychotherapeutic and Pharmacological Approaches. Harvard review of psychiatry, 26(3), 99–115. org/10.1097/HRP.0000000000000186
  21. Simon, N. M., O’Day, E. B., Hellberg, S. N., Hoeppner, S. S., Charney, M. E., Robinaugh, D. J., Bui, E., Goetter, E. M., Baker, A. W., Rogers, A. H., Nadal-Vicens, M., Venners, M. R., Kim, H. M., & Rauch, S. (2018). The loss of a fellow service member: Complicated grief in post-9/11 service members and veterans with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of neuroscience research, 96(1), 5–15. org/10.1002/jnr.24094
  22. Hellberg, S. N., Levit, J. D., & Robinson, M. (2018). Under the influence: Effects of adolescent ethanol exposure and anxiety on motivation for uncertain gambling-like cues in male and female rats. Behavioural brain research, 337, 17–33. org/10.1016/j.bbr.2017.09.036

Book Chapters

  1. Hopkins T. A. & Hellberg S. N. (2021). Trauma and PTSD in the Perinatal Period. In L. Cox, Women’s Mood Disorders: A Clinician’s Guide to Perinatal Psychiatry.
  2. Hellberg S. N., Buchholz J. L., Ojalehto H. J., & Abramowitz J. S. (2021). Inhibitory learning approaches in exposure and response prevention. In E. A. Storch, D. McKay, & J. S. Abramowitz, Complexities in Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders: Advances in Conceptualization & Treatment. Oxford, England, UK: Oxford University Press.
  3. Buchholz J. L., Abramowitz J. S, Hellberg S. N., & Ojalehto H. J. (2021). Couple-based cognitive behavioral therapy. In E. A. Storch, D. McKay, & J. S. Abramowitz, Complexities in Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders: Advances in Conceptualization & Treatment. Oxford, England, UK: Oxford University Press.
  4. Buchholz, J. L., Hellberg S. N., & Abramowitz, J. S. (2020). Phenomenology of perinatal obsessive-compulsive disorder. In. J. Payne & L. Osborne (eds). Biomarkers of postpartum psychiatric disorders (pp. 79-93). London: Academic Press/Elsevier.
  5. Abramowitz, J. S. & Hellberg, S. N. (2020). Scrupulosity. In. E. Storch, D. McKay, & J.S. Abramowitz (eds). Advanced casebook of obsessive-compulsive disorder (pp. 71-88). London: Elsevier.
  6. Hellberg S. N., Jacoby R. J., & Wilhelm S. (2019). From OCD spectrum to anxiety disorders. In E. Bui, A. Baker, & M. Charney, Clinical handbook for anxiety disorders: From theory to practice. Boston, MA: Springer Nature.