Christopher Georgiadis

Research Areas

Christopher Georgiadis is a doctoral student in the Clinical Science Program in Child and Adolescent Psychology. Chris is broadly interested in improving the delivery of evidence-based treatments in both specialty and community-mental health settings. Specifically, Chris is interested in identifying and evaluating therapist strategies to better tailor treatments based on patient preference, identity, and circumstantial factors.

Publications

Georgiadis, C., Peris, T. S., & Comer, J. S. (2020). Implementing Strategic Flexibility in the Delivery of Youth Mental Health Care: A Tailoring Framework for Thoughtful Clinical Practice. Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 5(3), 215-232.

Georgiadis, C., Schreck, M., Gervasio, M., Kemp, J., Freeman, J., Garcia, A., & Case, B. (2020). Disgust propensity and sensitivity in childhood anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder: Two constructs differentially related to obsessional content. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 76, 102294.

Schreck, M., Georgiadis, C., Garcia, A., Benito, K., Case, B., Herren, J., ... & Freeman, J. (2020). Core Motivations of Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Role of Harm Avoidance and Incompleteness. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 1-9.

Benito, K. G., Herren, J., Freeman, J. B., Garcia, A. M., Block, P., Cantor, E., Georgiadis, C... & Frank, H. (2020). Improving Delivery Behaviors during Exposure for Pediatric OCD: A Multiple Baseline Training Trial with Community Therapists. Behavior Therapy. 

Poznanski, B., Silva, K., Conroy, K., Georgiadis, C., & Comer, J. S. (2020). Expanding the Reach of Evidence-Based Psychotherapy Through Remote Technologies. In Handbook of Evidence-Based Therapies for Children and Adolescents (pp. 369-380). Springer, Cham.

Freeman, J., Benito, K., Herren, J., Kemp, J., Sung, J., Georgiadis, C., ... & Garcia, A. (2018). Evidence base update of psychosocial treatments for pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: Evaluating, improving, and transporting what works. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent

Selected Presentations

Georgiadis, C., Bry, L., Bagner, D.M., Comer, J.S. (November, 2020). Examining the link between caregiver perceptual barriers and perceived helpfulness of youth mental health treatment modalities. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Philadelphia, PA.

Georgiadis, C., Bose, D., Wolenski, R., Hong, N., Pettit, J., Comer J.S. (November, 2020). Patient-centered responsiveness within evidence-based care for child internalizing problems: An empirical evaluation of treatment protocols. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Philadelphia, PA.

Georgiadis C., Bry L., Bagner D., Comer J. (April, 2020) Moving beyond structural barriers: Considering perceptual barriers associated with negative parental attitudes about child mental health technologies. Poster presented at the Annual Research and Policy Conference on Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult Behavioral Health. Tampa, Florida.

Georgiadis C., Sung J., Arora A., Kemp J., Freeman J., Garcia A., Case B. (April, 2018). Change in OCD Severity in a Sample of Youth with Comorbid Autism Spectrum Disorder in a Specialized OCD Program. To be presented at the annual meeting of the Anxiety and Depression Association of American Conference. Washington D.C.

Georgiadis C., Kemp J., Arora A., Sung J., Freeman J., Garcia A., Case B. (November, 2017). Changes in Disgust Propensity and Sensitivity in Youth with Contamination-based Obsessions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Child and Adolescent Anxiety Special Interest Group. San Diego, California. 

Georgiadis C., Schreck M., Kemp J., Freeman J., Garcia A. & Case B. (October, 2017). The Disgust Propensity and Sensitivity Scale-Revised: Psychometric Properties in a Sample of Youth with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Anxiety. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Washington D.C.

Georgiadis C., Jessani Z., Ramanathan A., Kemp J., Schreck M., Freeman J., Garcia A. & Case B. (April, 2017). Elevated Depression and Impairment in Youth with Sexual Obsessions.Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Anxiety and Depression Association of American Conference. San Francisco, California. 

Sung J., Georgiadis C., Arora A., Kemp J., Freeman J., Garcia A., & Case B. (April, 2018). What does parent-child disagreement tell us about impairment and parental accommodation? To be presented at the annual meeting of the Anxiety and Depression Association of American Conference. Washington D.C

Arora A., Georgiadis C., Sung J., Kemp J., Freeman J., Garcia A., & Case B. (April, 2018). Assessing the Relationship Between Parental Quality of Life Ratings and Family Accommodation in an OCD Partial Hospitalization Setting. To be presented at the annual meeting of the Anxiety and Depression Association of American Conference. Washington D.C.

Education

• FIU Clinical Science Program; Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Comer
• BA, Psychology; New York University (2016)
• MS, Clinical Science; Florida International University (2018)