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Sarah R O'Rourke

Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
90600, Durham, NC 27708
2608 Erwin Rd. Lakeview Pavilion, Suite 300, Durham, NC 27705

Selected Publications


Anxiety Symptoms and Disorders in College Students With ADHD.

Journal Article J Atten Disord · October 2020 Objective: This study examined anxiety symptoms and disorders in college students with ADHD. Method: Forty-six college students with ADHD and a matched group of students without ADHD participated. Participants completed self-report measures of anxiety symp ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for College Students With ADHD: Temporal Stability of Improvements in Functioning Following Active Treatment.

Journal Article J Atten Disord · April 2020 Objective: This study examined the extent to which college students with ADHD continued to benefit from a cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) program beyond the active phase of treatment. Method: In successive cohorts over a 4-year period, a total of 88 col ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Emotional and Behavioral Impact of Delivering Bad News to Virtual versus Real Standardized Patients: A Pilot Study.

Journal Article Teach Learn Med · 2020 Phenomenon: Virtual standardized patients (vSPs) are becoming increasingly common in medical education, though one limitation of vSPs is the artificiality of computer-based simulators. Past research on the use of vSPs has not clearly established whether le ... Full text Link to item Cite

Third-wave cognitive behavioral therapies for the treatment of anxiety among children and adolescents

Chapter · March 28, 2019 This is the first reference to examine anxiety diagnoses in accordance with the latest edition of the DSM-5, including childhood onset disorders, such as Separation Anxiety Disorder, Selective Mutism, Specific Phobia, Social Anxiety ... ... Cite

Therapist-Reported Features of Exposure Tasks That Predict Differential Treatment Outcomes for Youth With Anxiety.

Journal Article J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry · December 2017 OBJECTIVE: Exposure tasks are recognized widely as a key component of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for child and adolescent anxiety. However, little research has examined specific exposure characteristics that predict outcomes for youth with anxiety ... Full text Link to item Cite

Facilitating understanding and management of children and adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Chapter · September 1, 2017 Chapters are organized around one or more detailed case examples that demonstrate how to build rapport with children and families; plan effective, age-appropriate treatment; and deliver evidence-based interventions using a variety of ... ... Cite

Alcohol-Related Blackouts, Negative Alcohol-Related Consequences, and Motivations for Drinking Reported by Newly Matriculating Transgender College Students.

Journal Article Alcohol Clin Exp Res · May 2017 BACKGROUND: Many transgender college students struggle with identity formation and other emotional, social, and developmental challenges associated with emerging adulthood. A potential maladaptive coping strategy employed by such students is heavy drinking ... Full text Link to item Cite