Katharine E. Daniel

Katharine E. Daniel

Assistant Professor

Center for Behavioral Health and Technology / University of Virginia

About

More people need mental health care than can be supported by available providers alone; I am committed to increasing access to personalized mental health care through developing and equitably disseminating effective digital mental health interventions. My research uses mobile phone technology and intensive time series methods to investigate the real-world effects of anxiety and emotion dysregulation with a particular focus on helping individuals navigate the complex emotional challenges of living with cancer. I hope that by better understanding the ways in which emotion regulation efforts go awry in peoples’ day-to-day lives, we will be better positioned to develop personalized and scalable mHealth interventions to help more people improve their quality of life and health.

I am also committed to promoting EDI initiatives and improving training in health service psychology programs. Check out some of my work in these spaces through my affiliations with CUDCP, CCTC, and UVA’s International Family Medicine Clinic.

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Interests
  • Emotion Regulation
  • Affect Dynamics
  • Social Anxiety Disorder
  • mHealth Interventions
  • Intensive Longitudinal Methods
Education
  • Pre-Doctoral Internship, 2023-2024

    Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Cognitive Behavioral Scientist Track

  • PhD in Clinical Psychology, 2024

    University of Virginia

  • MA in Clinical Psychology, 2019

    University of Virginia

  • BA in Psychology, 2015

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research Affiliations

Selected Publications

(2024). Stability and spread: Transition metrics that are robust to time interval misspecification. In Journal of Behavioral Data Science.

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(2024). Trait social anxiety moderates the relationship between emotion-regulation strategy switching and state anxiety in daily life. In Clinical Psychological Science.

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(2023). Associations between context and affect within the daily lives of cancer caregivers. In Supportive Care in Cancer.

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(2023). Investigating psychiatric symptoms as predictors of the reasons people do not regulate their emotions in daily life. In Emotion.

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(2023). Emotion regulation diversity in social anxiety. In Clinical Psychological Science.

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(2022). Stability and spread: A novel method for quantifying transitions within multivariate binary timeseries data. In Behavior Research Methods.

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(2022). Cognitive bias modification for interpretations: Using passive mobile sensing to detect intervention effects in daily life. In Anxiety, Stress, & Coping.

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(2020). Emotion malleability beliefs and emotion experience and regulation in the daily lives of people with high trait social anxiety. In Cognitive Therapy & Research.

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(2019). Do I really feel better? The effectiveness of emotion regulation strategies depends on how effectiveness is measured. In Depression & Anxiety.

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