The Science and Treatment of Psychological Disorders, with eBook Access Code

About the Author

Ann M. Kring is Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. She received her B.S. from Ball State University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her internship in clinical psychology was completed at Bellevue Hospital and Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center, both in New York. From 1991 to 1998, she taught at Vanderbilt University. She joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in 1999, served two terms as Director of the Clinical Science Program and Psychology Clinic, and was Chair of the Psychology Department from 2015 to 2020. She received a Distinguished Teaching Award from UC Berkeley in 2008. She was elected President of the Society for Research in Psychopathology and President of the Society for Affective Science. She is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Psychological Science.

She was given a Young Investigator Award by the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) and the Joseph Zubin Memorial Fund Award in recognition of her research on schizophrenia. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Experimental Psychologists, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Her research has been supported by grants from the Scottish Rite Schizophrenia Research Program, NARSAD, and the National Institute of Mental Health. She is co-editor (with Denise Sloan) of Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology (Guilford Press) and co-author (with Janelle Caponigro, Erica Lee, and Sheri Johnson) of Bipolar Disorder for the Newly Diagnosed (New Harbinger Press). She is also the author of more than 130 articles and book chapters. Her current research focuses on emotion and psychopathology, with a specific interest in the emotional features, negative symptoms, and social factors of schizophrenia. As part of a follow-up study of children whose mothers were enrolled in a study in the early 1960s, she is also studying how early development might influence clinical, cognitive, social, and neural outcomes in late middle age.

Sheri L. Johnson is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. She received her B.A. from Salem College and her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. She completed an internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University, and she was a clinical assistant professor at Brown from 1993 to 1995. From 1995 to 2008, she taught in the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami, where she was recognized three times with the Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award. In 1993, she received a Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD). She is an associate editor for Psychological Bulletin and a consulting editor for Clinical Psychological Science and Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. She has served as President of the Society for Research in Psychopathology and is a fellow of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and the Association for Psychological Science.

Her work has been funded by NARSAD, the National Cancer Institute, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the Wellcome Trust. She has authored over 300 publications, and her findings have been published in leading journals such as Biological Psychiatry, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, and American Journal of Psychiatry. She is co-editor or co-author of six books, including Psychological Treatment of Bipolar Disorder (Guilford Press), Bipolar Disorder for the Newly Diagnosed (New Harbinger Press), Bipolar Disorder: Advances in Psychotherapy Evidence-Based Practice (Hogrefe Publishing), and Emotion and Psychopathology (American Psychological Association). Her work focuses on bipolar disorder, emotion, emotion-related disorders, and impulsivity.