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Amit Bernstein, Ph.D.
Director, The International Research Collaborative on Anxiety
Positions
Senior Lecturer
Clinical Psychology Program
Department of Psychology
University of Haifa
Contact Information
Department of Psychology
University of Haifa
Mount CarmelHaifa, Israel 31905
abernstein@psy.haifa.ac.il
Phone: 04-824-3659
Fax: 04-824-0966
Education and Training
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008
Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine &
Center for Health Care Evaluation at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System
Doctor of Philosophy, Clinical Psychology (APA-Accredited), 2007
The University of Vermont
Clinical Psychology Internship (APA-Accredited), 2007
Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, 1998
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Professional Affiliations
Association for Psychological Science (APS)
American Psychological Association (APA)
APA Division 12 - Society of Clinical Psychology
APA Division 12 Section III - Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP)
Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA)
Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT)
The Society For a Scientific and Applied Clinical Psychology in Israel (Ofakim)
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Amit Bernstein received a B.A. in psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology as a NIH Research Service Award Fellow at the University of Vermont. Dr. Bernstein completed an APA-accredited pre-doctoral clinical psychology internship at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care System, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine and the Center for Health Care Evaluation at the VA Palo Alto. He is now a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Haifa, in Israel, and the Director of the International Research Collaborative on Anxiety. Dr. Bernstein's research interests include: the etiology and maintenance of anxiety psychopathology (PTSD, panic), anxiety and substance use comorbidity, trans-diagnostic risk and protective factors and processes, experimental psychopathology, behavioral and cognitive-behavioral intervention and prevention, and cross-national and cross-cultural research. Dr. Bernstein has taught a variety of courses related to psychopathology, assessment, treatment and clinical research. He is currently teaching graduate courses on Child/Adolescent and Adult Behavior and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, and a research seminar on vulnerability, anxiety and addiction. Finally, Dr. Bernstein is committed to empirically-supported psychotherapy, mainly behavioral and cognitive-behavioral (CBT) treatment and preventive approaches, such as acceptance-based behavior therapies. His clinical internship training focused on evidence-based treatment for posttraumatic stress and comorbid disorders, substance use-psychopathology comorbidity, personality disorders, and chronic mental illness.
Representative Publications
Mechanisms Underlying Anxiety and Related Psychopathology
Bernstein, A., Zvolensky, M. J., Marshall, E. C., & Schmidt, N. B. (in press). Laboratory test of a novel structural model of anxiety sensitivity and panic vulnerability. Behavior Therapy.
Bernstein, A., Zvolensky, M. J., Vujanovic, A. A., & Moos, R. (in press). Integrating Anxiety sensitivity, distress tolerance, and discomfort intolerance: A hierarchical model of affect sensitivity and tolerance. Behavior Therapy.
Vujanovic, A. A., Zvolensky, M. J., & Bernstein, A. (2008). Posttraumatic stress and panic psychopathology: Clinical import, research advances, and future directions [Introduction to the special issue]. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 2, 63-65.
Zvolensky, M. J., Schmidt, N. B., Bernstein, A., & Keough, M. E. (2006). Risk factor research and prevention programs for anxiety disorders: A translational research framework. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44, 1219-1239.
Anxiety and Substance Abuse
Zvolensky, M. J., & Bernstein, A. (2005). Cigarette smoking and panic psychopathology. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 301-305.
Bernstein, A., Trafton, J., Ilgen, M., & Zvolensky, M. J. (2008). An evaluation of the role of smoking context on a biobehavioral index of distress tolerance. Addictive Behaviors, 33, 1409-1415.
Zvolensky, M. J., Bernstein, A., Marshall, E. C. (2008). Anxiety vulnerability factors and disorders and tobacco and marijuana use and disorders: Emerging theory and research explicating their relations [Introduction to the special series]. Addictive Behaviors, 33, 1383-1384.
Curriculum Vitae
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