Carolyn Becker, PhD, FAED
Developer and Author, Reflections

Dr. Carolyn Becker currently serves as the Scientific and Clinical Director of Reflections, and is also the lead author and developer of the program. In partnership with Tri Delta, Dr. Becker has focused her research and clinical work on developing, implementing and disseminating this evidence-based program. With more than 14 years of experience in cognitive-behavioral treatment for eating disorders, Dr. Becker has also published numerous journal articles on Reflections and its results. Currently, Dr. Becker serves as an Associate Professor of psychology at Trinity University.  In 2009 Dr. Becker was the recipient of the Lori Irving Award for Excellence in Eating Disorders Prevention and Awareness.  She along with Tri Delta, also received the Research-Practice Partnership award from the Academy of Eating Disorders.
Dr. Becker received her BA in psychology, sociology, and anthropology from Swarthmore College. She subsequently obtained her MS and PhD in clinical psychology at Rutgers University. Her pre-doctoral clinical internship was completed in behavioral medicine at Brown University, and her post-doctoral fellowship at Dartmouth Medical School. She also is a Fellow of the Academy of Eating Disorders and a member of the Eating Disorder Research Society.

OTHER RESEARCHERS:

Eric Stice, PhD
Co-Author, Reflections

Dr. Eric Stice is currently a tenured research professor at The University of Texas at Austin and a senior scientist at the Oregon Research Institute. He is the lead author of The Body Project, an eating disorders prevention program that targets high school and college students, giving young women an opportunity to explore the costs of pursuing the thin-ideal espoused by the mass media.  Based on more than 16 years of research, the program has been shown to reduce the risk of developing eating disorders by 61% among Body Project participants, with sustained results as long as three years after the completion of the program.  To date, more than 1000 adolescent and young women have completed The Body Project.  Tri Delta’s Reflections program is closely aligned with the project, and is an outgrowth of this successful program.

A leader in the field of cognitive dissonance based eating disorder prevention, Dr. Stice completed his undergraduate training at the University of Oregon, graduate training at Arizona State University and postdoctoral training at Stanford University. His current research focuses on the etiology and prevention of eating disorders, depression and adolescent problem behavior.

Katherine Presnell,  PhD
Co-author, The Body Project

Dr. Presnell received her degree in clinical psychology from The University of Texas at Austin in 2005 and completed a clinical internship in health psychology at Duke University Medical Center, specializing in the treatment of eating disorders and obesity. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas, and Director of the Weight and Eating Disorders Research Program at SMU. Her program of research focuses on identifying risk factors for eating disorders and obesity, and the application of this research to the development of prevention programs that reduce risk for these disorders and facilitate long-term healthy weight management.

She co-authored the facilitator manual and participant workbook for The Body Project: Promoting Body Acceptance and Preventing Eating Disorders, a dissonance-based eating disorder prevention program. Tri Delta’s Reflections program is closely aligned with The Body Project and is an outgrowth of this successful program.  Recently, Dr. Presnell has begun investigating methods of dissemination as a means of increasing the availability of effective, empirically-supported interventions to reduce the incidence of public health problems, such as eating disorders and obesity. She is currently evaluating whether the Reflections program is more effective when delivered over two sessions or four sessions, which will help guide efforts for the widespread implementation of this program. Dr. Presnell has published numerous scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, and her research has been recognized by several organizations, including the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

Alan Duffy, MS
Collaborator and Researcher, Reflections
Junior Faculty, Body Image Academy

Alan Duffy is currently a Health Educator in the Student Health center and an Adjunct Faculty member in the School of Education, Teaching, and Healthy at American University in Washington, DC.  He has been conducting research and applied work in eating disorders prevention since 2004.  Alan has worked closely with Dr. Carolyn Becker on expansion of the Reflections program since 2007.  Alan previously helped to build a large campus program at Auburn University in Alabama.  He assisted in expansion of the program to Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Xi Delta, and Delta Gamma chapters at Auburn.  He also expanded the program to Tri Delta’s Phi Theta chapter at Auburn, and worked with Pi Beta Phi Fraternity Headquarters to pilot the program with their Alabama Gamma chapter.   Since the fall of 2008 Alan has developed a campus panhellenic model of the Reflections program at American University among all sorority chapters with the assistance of the Panhellenic Association.  He has recently begun a chapter based program with the Gamma Delta chapter of Sigma Delta Tau.  Alan is also conducting research on peer leader adaptation from presenting the Reflections program to presenting The Body Project.  Alan received his BA from the University of Sussex, Brighton, England and his MS from Auburn University in Alabama.  He is a member of the Academy for Eating Disorders and an active lobbyist with the Eating Disorders Coalition on Capitol Hill.

Lisa Smith
Collaborator and Researcher, Reflections
Junior Faculty, Body Image Academy

Lisa Smith is a graduate student in the Emory University clinical psychology doctoral program. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity University in 2004. While at Trinity University, she spent two years collaborating on the development of Reflections: Body Image Program. As part of her work, she co-developed with Dr. Becker the peer-led approach currently utilized in Reflections. Lisa has co-authored four publications on the program and co-authored five associated conference presentations. She entered Emory’s doctoral program after spending three years working in psychiatric research at Mount Sinai Medical School and at Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute and received her M.A. from Emory in 2008. Currently, she is co-leading expansion of Reflections within the Emory University sorority system and has consulted on sorority peer-leader training at Auburn University.

Rebecca Greif
Junior Faculty, Body Image Academy

Rebecca Greif is a clinical psychology doctoral student at Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology.  She received her BA in psychology from Duke University in 2004 and worked at the Mount Sinai Eating and Weight Disorders program prior to the commencement of graduate school.  Rebecca is interested in the dissemination and implementation of empirically supported interventions, particularly with regard to eating disorders.  Currently, Rebecca is coordinating the Reflections program on the Rutgers University campus.  She was awarded the Academy for Eating Disorders Early Career Investigator Travel Fellowship in 2009.