Anxiety Disorders Center/Center for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy:
Samantha Morrison, Ph.D.

Samantha Morrison, Ph.D. Staff Psychologist, Anxiety Disorders Center Phone: (860) 545-7685 Fax: (860) 545-7156 Email: Smorrison01@harthosp.org

Dr. Morrison received her Ph.D. in School Psychology from Tulane University and completed her predoctoral internship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, The Kennedy Krieger Institute, In 2008, Dr. Morrison joined the Anxiety Disorders Center and completed her postdoctoral fellowship.

Her research interests include the role that cognitive processes play in the development, maintenance, and treatment of anxiety disorders, as well as examining the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral treatments for anxiety disorders.

Dr. Morrison specializes in the treatment of children and adolescents with anxiety disorders. Her clinical interests include school refusal, separation anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, specific phobias, and panic disorder.

Tolin, D.F. & Morrison, S. (2010). Impulse control disorders. In M.M. Antony & D.H. Barlow
(Eds.), Handbook of Assessment and Treatment Planning for Psychological Disorders. New York: Guilford.

Morrison, S., Hidalgo, D.M., Whiting, S.E., Hannan, S.E., & Tolin, D. F. (2009). Predicting
response to treatment in anxious youth: The impact of parent-child agreement of psychosocial impairment. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, New York.

Gilliam, C. M., Hannan, S. E., Norberg, M. M., Morrison, S., Villavicencio, A., & Dufresne, D.
(2009, November). Group CBT for compulsive hoarding: An effectiveness study. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York.

Mathews, T. & Morrison, S. (2007, March). Attention problems as a mediator between PTSD
and academic performance among children exposed to community violence. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, Massachusetts.

Morrison, S., Overstreet, S., Efreom, Y., & Weeks, C. (2006, March). Moderators of exposure to
community violence outcomes: The school context. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, San Francisco, California.