
Professional Education Programs
Gail S Steketee
Profile
Dr. Gail Steketee is Dean and Professor at Boston University’s School of Social Work. She received her master’s and her doctorate from Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work. She has conducted numerous research studies on the psychopathology and treatment of anxiety and related problems. This work includes NIMH-funded research projects on familial factors that influence treatment outcomes, and on the development and testing of cognitive and behavioral interventions for OCD, for body dysmorphic disorder, and most recently and most extensively, compulsive hoarding problems. She has published over 180 articles and chapters and 8 books including Cognitive Approaches to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (Guilford Press); Compulsive Hoarding and Acquiring (Oxford Press). Four more books are under contract including an edited volume on OC spectrum conditions (Oxford Press), a co-authored book (with Dr. Christiana Bratiotis and Dr. Cristina Sorrentino) on hoarding and human services (also with Oxford) and a co-authored book with Dr. Randy Frost for the public likely entitled Stuff: Hoarding and the Meaning of Things with Harcourt. She frequently gives lectures and workshops on hoarding, OCD, and related topics to professional and public audiences.