{"id":3965,"date":"2017-10-10T11:58:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T15:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/?post_type=profile&p=3965"},"modified":"2026-06-06T16:11:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T20:11:03","slug":"timothy-a-brown-psyd","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/profile\/timothy-a-brown-psyd\/","title":{"rendered":"Timothy A. Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is the Department’s tribute<\/a> to Professor Brown upon his retirement.<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Timothy Brown\u2019s academic work is extensive and can be summarized as investigating the nature of emotional disorders, their classification, their comorbidity, and the impact of these distinctions on treatment. He is known for elucidating the role of negative affectivity as accounting for the much of the shared variance among emotional disorder symptoms.<\/p>\n

In pursuing this work, Professor Tim Brown has been PI of a particularly longstanding NIMH RO1 dedicated to improving the understanding of anxiety and depression classification, comorbidity, expression, and longitudinal course.<\/p>\n

Professor Brown is especially well published and well known for this work. He has a Google H index of 87, representing 75,338 citations of his work. Accordingly, it is no surprise was a member of the DSM-IV and DSM-5 anxiety disorders workgroups and has been involved in the development, refinement, and\/or validation of dozens of assessment tools commonly used in studies of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) outcome. He is the author of the Anxiety Disorder Interview Schedule (ADIS), a gold-standard research instrument for the differential diagnosis of anxiety and related disorders. Tim also has conducted psychometric studies of numerous self-report questionnaires to determine appropriateness of use in clinical samples (e.g., Penn State Worry Questionnaire, Anxiety Sensitivity Index, Depression Anxiety and Stress Scales).<\/p>\n

Attention to his psychometric work provides an excellent segue to underscoring Professor Tim Brown\u2019s statistical skills and scholarly work. He has written extensively on best practices for statistical analysis in applied clinical research, including a highly cited book on confirmatory factor analysis:<\/p>\n

Brown, T.A. (2015). Confirmatory factor analysis for applied research (2nd ed.). New York: Guilford Press. Citation count: 16,617<\/p>\n

He has been a statistical co-investigator on over 25 federally funded projects, including many randomized controlled trials of CBT.<\/p>\n

Given his expertise in research design and statistics, it is no surprise that Tim also has had a major impact on the field through his role as a journal editor. He was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology for 14 years, and of Behavior Therapy for four years. He also has served as the Statistical Editor for Behaviour Research and Therapy since 2016. In these roles, has shaped the science of thousands of empirical studies of emotional disorder psychopathology and their cognitive behavioral treatments.<\/p>\n

Tim\u2019s accomplishments were recently lauded by his 2021 outstanding researcher award from his primary professional affiliation, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT).<\/p>\n

The PBS department recognizes Professor Tim Brown\u2019s profound accomplishments and his international reputation in his area of study. We wish him all the best in his retirement.<\/p>\n

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The following is Professor Brown’s original faculty profile.<\/em><\/p>\n

Director of Research and Research Administration:<\/strong>\u00a0Center for Anxiety & Related Disorders<\/a><\/p>\n

Author: Confirmatory Factor Analysis for Applied Research<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Professional Site<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Biographical Sketch<\/h3>\n

Dr. Brown received his PsyD from the Virginia Consortium for Professional Psychology. Dr. Brown teaches the first and second required multivariate statistics courses (Psych 711: multiple and logistic regression, survival analysis, multilevel models; Psych 712: statistical analysis with latent variables including structural equation and latent growth models). Dr. Brown is the Associate Editor of Journal of Abnormal Psychology, and is on several editorial boards including Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Behaviour Research and Therapy, and Behavior Therapy.<\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/h3>\n
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  • Relation of temperament, personality, and the psychopathology of anxiety\/mood disorders<\/li>\n
  • Environmental and genetic risk factors for the etiology and course of anxiety\/mood disorders<\/li>\n
  • Classification of anxiety and mood disorders<\/li>\n
  • Statistical analysis (e.g., latent variable modeling), research methodology, psychometrics<\/li>\n
  • Experimental psychopathology research on conceptual models of anxiety\/mood disorders<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":13845,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13845"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6967,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3965\/revisions\/6967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}