Vita
Bradford C. Richards, Ph.D., ABPP
1 San Rafael Avenue NE
Albuquerque, NM 87122
(505) 823-1600
Education
7/1994-6/1996 Clinical Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
9/1989-1/1996 Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Graduate Faculty, The New School for Social Research
5/1986-8/1987 M.A. in General and Experimental Psychology, Southern Methodist University
9/1981-5/1986 B.A. in Psychology, Southern Methodist University
New Mexico License in Psychology, 2003, #0855
New York State License in Psychology, 1998, # 013335
National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology, #50353
Academy of Cognitive Therapy, certification in cognitive therapy
Diplomate, American Board of Professional Psychology, American Board of Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology #6682
Professional Experience
10/2004-Pres. Director, The Cognitive Behavioral Institute of Albuquerque, LLC
Direct, manage, and supervise a multi-specialty group practice of Cognitive Behavioral psychotherapy. Provide outpatient cognitive behavior therapy to adults, and provide supervision to fellows and trainees of the institute.
9/2003-10/2004 Psychologist, Presbyterian Medical Group, Albuquerque, NM
Provided outpatient cognitive behavior therapy, psychological assessment, neuropsychological testing, and inpatient consultation to a wide variety of patients served by Presbyterian and Kaseman Hospitals. Provided clinical supervision to psychotherapists employed by Presbyterian Healthcare Services.
1/1998-6/2002 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
Taught three doctoral-level courses in the Ph.D. program of the Department of Professional Psychology and Family Therapy. Principles of Learning and Behavior Modification covered basic research and applied techniques involved in behavioral modification and therapy. Theories of Cognition covered basic research and theory in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Practicum Supervision guided doctoral candidates in their initial psychotherapeutic work.
6/1999-4/2003 Director, Cognitive Behavioral Associates, New York, NY
Provided outpatient cognitive behavior therapy for mood, anxiety, substance abuse, personality and behavioral disorders. Areas of specialization included behavioral medicine, relapse prevention, stress management, and in-vivo behavioral techniques.
5/1997-6/1999 Staff Psychologist, American Institute for Cognitive Therapy, New York, NY
Provided outpatient cognitive behavior therapy for mood, anxiety, and personality disorders. Areas of specialization included impulse control problems, relapse prevention in bipolar and unipolar depressive disorders, and health-related anxiety.
Training Experience
7/1995-6/1996 Fellowship in Clinical Psychology, Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Provided cognitive behavior therapy to inpatients, outpatients, and partial hospital patients suffering from mood, anxiety, personality, and psychotic disorders. Received training and supervision in behavioral medicine and general cognitive behavioral technique. Responsibilities included development and administration of group therapy programs for anxiety disorders, design, implementation, and supervision of home-based behavior therapy programs for OCD, and provision of cognitive behavior therapy to patients with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in a long-term rehabilitation program.
7/1994-6/1995 Internship in Clinical Psychology, Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Administered inpatient, outpatient, and partial hospital cases and provided long term and short term cognitive behavior therapy to patients suffering from a wide variety of disorders. Received training and supervision in cognitive behavior therapy for alcohol and substance abuse, bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression, OCD, and severe personality disorders.
9/1993-6/1994 Externship in Clinical Psychology, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY
Provided individual cognitive behavior therapy to adult outpatients suffering from a wide variety of anxiety, mood, character, and medical disorders. This half-time externship provided training in Barlow’s behavioral treatments for anxiety and panic, Beck’s cognitive treatments for depression, Linehan’s dialectical behavior therapy for personality disorders, and general interpersonal psychotherapeutic technique as applied to cognitive behavior therapy.
9/1992-6/1993 Externship in Clinical Psychology, Harlem Hospital, New York, NY
Provided individual psychotherapy and diagnostic assessments to inpatients, outpatients, and day hospital patients in a half-time externship. Received supervision in psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral therapies, and gained experience in the administration, scoring and interpretation of neuropsychological assessments using the Halstead-Reitan approach.
Other Professional Experience in Psychology
9/1987-10/1988 Family Counselor, Casa De Los Amigos, Dallas, Texas
Provided counseling and therapy to families of adolescent residents of a short-term emergency shelter. This half-time job also included individual casework. An average caseload consisted of approximately 4 families and 4 individual cases.
6/1987-7/1989 Psychological Associate, Clinical Neuropsychology Laboratory, Parkland Memorial Hospital, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
Full-time responsibilities included clinical neuropsychological assessment of hospitalized brain-injured patients. Population included psychiatric inpatients, patients undergoing surgical treatment for epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease patients receiving experimental transplantation surgery, and geriatric patients undergoing evaluation for Alzheimer’s disease and cerebrovascular dementia. Administered approximately 70 full neuropsychological batteries, including WAIS-R, Wechsler Memory Scale, the complete Halstead-Reitan series, and other instruments.
Graduate Assistantships
10/1989-5/1994 Research Assistant, Cognitive Science Laboratory, New School for Social Research
Responsible for the design, planning, implementation, analysis and write-up of research projects in cognitive neuroscience, with a specialization in human amnesia stemming from medial temporal lobe damage. Gained extensive experience in computer programming, statistical analysis, structural modeling, and interpretation of neuroscientific data.
9/1986-5/1987 Teaching Assistant, Physiological Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Responsible for conducting lab sessions and grading examinations in a graduate course on brain structures and functions.
Awards and Honors
1990 University Fellow, New School for Social Research
This merit scholarship covered all tuition expenses.
1986 Psi Chi, National Honorary Society in Psychology, Southern Methodist University.
1996 – present American Psychological Association, member
1996 – present Association for Psychological Science, member
1997 – present Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, member
1997 – present International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy, member
2002 – present National Association of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists, member, certified in CBT
2004 – present Academy of Cognitive Therapy, member and certified affiliate
2005 – present New Mexico Psychological Association, member
Ethics Committee (2006)
Chair, Ethics Committee (2007)
Board of Directors, Representative-at-Large (2008 - 2009)
2009 - present Fellow, American Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology
2002 – present Violinist, The New Mexico Philharmonic, tenured
2004 – present Music Director, The Orchestra of the Duke, a baroque orchestra on period instruments
Panel Discussion Chair, Reconsolidation of Amygdala-Based Fear Memories: A Newly Discovered Mechanism and its Implications for Exposure. With Stefan Hofmann and Michael Otto. 46th Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, National Harbor, MD, November, 2012
Symposium Chair. Cognitive Vulnerability to Bipolar Disorder: Converging Advances. With Sheri Johnson, Charles Carver, Lori Eisner, Warren Mansell, and Robert Leahy. 43rd Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY, November 2009.
Symposium Chair: Processes in Cognitive Psychotherapy, Sixth International Congress of Cognitive Psychotherapy, Rome, Italy, June 2008.
Symposium paper presentation, The Yerkes-Dodson Law After 100 Years: It's Not Dead Yet. Sixth International Congress of Cognitive Psychotherapy, Rome, Italy, June 2008.
National Geographic Documentary, Phobia, presenting state-of-the-art cognitive behavioral methodology for the treatment of phobic anxiety disorders. Produced by Pangolin Pictures for National Geographic, this documentary featuring Dr. Richards’ treatments aired on the National Geographic Channel in December 2002.
Grand Rounds, Graystone Park State Psychiatric Hospital, Graystone Park, New Jersey: Maximizing Gain and Minimizing Pain, at Least Intermittently: Behavioral and Cognitive Problem Solving Approaches. July 19, 2001.
Publications
Richards, B.C. (2011). Review: Treatment Resistant Anxiety Disorders, by Sookman, D. & Leahy, R. (Editors). Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Book Reviews, 7, 1.
Richards, B.C. (2007). Review: Protecting the Self: Defense Mechanisms in Action, by P. Cramer. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Book Reviews, 3, 11.
Richards, B.C. (2003). Review: Acute Stress Disorder: A Handbook of Theory, Assessment, and Treatment, by R. Bryant & A. Harvey. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 17, 3, 282-283.
Richards, B.C. (2000). Review: Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression, by R. Ingram, J. Miranda, & Z. Segal. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 14, 3, 69-72.
Richards, B.C. (1996). Implicit and explicit memory biases across anxiety states: Implicit facilitation interacts with explicit avoidance of threat. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: the Sciences & Engineering. 57(2-B), August 1996, 1480.
Phelps, E.A., Hirst, W., Piers, C., Hartman, S., Richards, B., & Volpe, B. (1992). The absence of contextual interference in the mnemonic performance of amnesics. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 18, 746.
Pennebaker, J.W., Czajka, J.A., Cropanzano, R., & Richards, B.C. (1990). Levels of thinking. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 16, 4, 743-757.