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About Dr. McGowanDr. McGowan graduated with a B.A. in psychology with Honors from Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She completed her pre-doctoral clinical internship at the Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology where she was a Teaching Fellow in Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and a Clinical Fellow in Psychology within the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the UCSD/San Diego VA Postdoctoral Residency Program in the Anxiety and Behavioral Sleep Medicine specialization track. After her fellowship, Dr. McGowan joined the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare system as a psychologist and researcher.
Dr. McGowan is a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. |
Selected Publications |
McGowan, S.K., Behar, E., & Luhmann, M. (in press). Examining the relationship between worry and sleep: A daily process approach, Behavior Therapy.
McGowan, S.K., Espejo, E., Balliett, N., & Werdowatz, E. (2016). Effects of transdiagnostic CBT for anxiety on insomnia symptoms, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 45, 163-175. McGowan, S.K. & Behar, E. (2013). A preliminary investigation of stimulus control training for worry: Effects on anxiety and insomnia. Behavior Modification, 37,90-112. |
