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Judith S. Beck, Ph.D., is the Director of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research in suburban Philadelphia and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania where she teaches psychiatry residents. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982. Dr. Beck directs the three major functions of the Beck Institute: education, clinical care, and research. She currently divides her time between administration, supervision and teaching, clinical work, program development, research and writing. She is a consultant for several NIMH research studies and often presents workshops nationally and internationally on cognitive therapy for depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety and panic disorders, personality disorders and challenging patients. She is the author of the widely adopted textbook, Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond, which has been translated into 12 languages. Her new book, Cognitive Therapy for Challenging Problems: What to Do When the Basics Don't Work will be published by Guilford Press in 2005. An editor of The Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy and a co-author of Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders, she has written numerous articles and chapters on various applications of cognitive therapy. Dr. Beck is a Distinguished Founding Fellow and President Elect of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy.
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