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Michelle Goldwin Kaufman, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, RUSH Medical College
Education

Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Illinois at Chicago, Office of Applied Psychological Services, 2017
Internship, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, 2014
PhD, Clinical Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2014
BA, University of Pennsylvania, 2006

Areas of Expertise

Anxiety, worry/repetitive negative thinking, intergenerational effects of stress

Contact Info:

1645 W. Jackson Blvd.
Suite 600
Chicago, IL 60612
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Biography

Michelle Goldwin Kaufman, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry. As a licensed clinical psychologist, Kaufman integrates cognitive behavior therapy with other evidence-based treatments including mindfulness-based, dialectical behavior and compassion-focused therapies. She has experience working with individuals across the lifespan to address a broad range of concerns including anxiety, depression, behavioral health, life transitions, relationship issues and behavior regulation difficulties.

In the past, Kaufman has worked with pediatric patients and their families both in outpatient clinics and as part of a consultation/liaison team. She has been involved in clinical research at the University of Pennsylvania, the Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience in the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at the National Institute of Mental Health, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of Chicago. 

Honors and Activities

2013     St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital National Graduate Student Symposium Participant

2011     Elsie Ramos Memorial Student Poster Award, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies

2002-2006     Benjamin Franklin Scholar, University of Pennsylvania

Publications

1.      Goldwin, M.A., Lee, S., Afzal, K., Drossos, T., & Karnik, N. (2014). The relationship between patient and parent posttraumatic stress in pediatric oncology: A theoretical framework. Children’s Health Care, 43, 1-15.

2.      Goldwin, M.A., Behar, E.B., & Sibrava, N.J. (2013). Concreteness of depressive rumination and trauma recall in individuals with elevated trait rumination and/or posttraumatic stress symptoms. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 37, 680-689.

3.      Goldwin, M.A., & Behar, E.B. (2012). Concreteness of idiographic periods of worry and depressive rumination. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 36, 840-846.

4.       Behar, E., McGowan, S.K., McLaughlin, K.A., Borkovec, T.D., Goldwin, M., & Bjorkquist, O. (2011). Concreteness of positive, negative, and neutral repetitive thinking about the future. Behavior Therapy, 43, 300-312.

5.      Lau, J.Y.F., Nelson, E., Angold, A., Britton, J., Ernst, M., Goldwin, M., Grillon, C., Lissek, S., Shiffrin, N., & Pine, D.S. (2011). Distinct neural signatures of threat learning in adolescents and adults. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 4500-4505.

6.      Beesdo, K., Lau, J., Guyer, A.E., McClure-Tone, E.B., Monk, C.S., Nelson, E.E., Fromm, S.S., Goldwin, M.A., Wittchen, H., Leibenluft, E., Ernst, M., & Pine, D.S. (2009). Common and distinct amygdala-function perturbations in depressed versus anxious adolescents. Archives of General Psychiatry, 66(3), 275-285.

7.      Pine, D.S., Guyer, A. E., Goldwin, M. A., Towbin, K.A., & Leibenluft, E. (2008). Autism-Spectrum-Disorder-scale scores in pediatric mood and anxiety disorders. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 47(6), 652-661.

8.      Lau, J.Y.F., Gregory, A.M., Goldwin, M.A., Pine, D.S., & Eley, T.C. (2007). Assessing gene-environment interactions on anxiety symptom subtypes across childhood and adolescence. Development and Psychopathology, 19(4), 1129-1146.