Current projects

Qualitative investigation of nature engagement and connection to nature

Daily engagement in lifestyle behaviors

Secondary analysis examining lifestyle behaviors and mental health

Publications

Anderson, A. R. (2022). The great outdoors: Engaging with nature for mental health. Department of Veterans Affairs South Central MIRECC, Houston, TX. https://www.mirecc.va.gov/visn16/the-great-outdoors.asp

Anderson, A. R., Kurz, A. S., Szabo, Y. Z, McGuire, A. P., & Frankfurt, S. B. (In Press). Exploring the longitudinal clustering of lifestyle behaviors, social determinants of health, and depression. Journal of Health Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053211072685

Fowers, B. J., Lane, A. A., Abbamonte, J. M., Lang, S. F., Cokelet, B., Anderson, A. R. & Cioffi, K., (In Press). Does trait interpersonal fairness moderate a situational influence on fairness behavior. Personality and Individual Differences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111615

Szabo, Y. Z., Frankfurt, S., Kurz, A. S., Anderson, A., & McGuire, A. P. (2021). Resilience predicts posttraumatic cognitions after a trauma reminder task and subsequent positive emotion induction among veterans with PTSD. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001143

Hayden, C. L., Szabo, Y. Z., Anderson, A. R., Frankfurt, S. B., & McGuire, A. P. (2021). Social Interaction Within a Trauma-Exposed Population During the Early Phase of COVID-19. Journal of Loss and Trauma https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2020.1856608

McGuire, A. P., Hayden, C., Frankfurt, S. B., Kurz, A. S., Anderson, A. R., Howard, B. A. N., & Szabo, Y. Z. (2021). Social engagement early in the U.S. COVID-19 Crisis: Exploring social support and prosocial behavior between those with and without depression or anxiety in an online sample. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 39(10), 923–953. https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2020.39.10.923

Anderson, A. R. (2020b). Enjoying nature, exercise, social interaction, and affect: A daily diary study. Journal of Health Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105320977642

Anderson, A. R. (2020a). Is a better planned day a healthier day? A daily diary study. Psychology & Health, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2020.1841763

Anderson, A. R., & Fowers, B. J. (2020b). Lifestyle behaviors, psychological distress, and well-being: A daily diary study. Social Science & Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113263

Anderson, A. R., & Fowers, B. J. (2020a). An exploratory study of friendship characteristics and their relations with hedonic and eudaimonic well-being. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 37(1), 260–280. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407519861152

Anderson, A. R., Horigian, V. E., Muir, J., & Szapocznik, J. (2019). Brief strategic family therapy: A systematic approach to addressing emerging clinical challenges across 40 years of model development. APA handbook of contemporary family psychology: Family therapy and training, Vol. 3 (pp. 123–138). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000101-008

Fowers, B. J., & Anderson, A. R. (2018). Aristotelian philia, contemporary friendship, and some resources for studying close relationships. In T. Harrison & D. I. Walker (Eds.), The Theory and Practice of Virtue Education. Routledge.

Fowers, B. J., Anderson, A. R., & Lang, S. F. (2018). On properly characterizing moral agency. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X1700067X

Horigian, V. E., Anderson, A. R., & Szapocznik, J. (2016b). Family-based treatments for adolescent substance use. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 25(4), 603–628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chc.2016.06.001

Horigian, V. E., Anderson, A. R., & Szapocznik, J. (2016a). taking brief strategic family therapy from bench to trench: Evidence generation across translational phases. Family Process, 55(3), 529–542. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12233

Anderson, A. R., Denny, S. K., & Szapocznik, J. (n.d.). Brief Strategic Family Therapy. In J. Lebow, A. L. Chambers, & D. C. Breunlin (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer.

Fowers, B. J., Anderson, A. R., Lefevor, G. T., & Lang, S. (2015). Beyond harms: exploring the individual and shared goods of psychotherapy. The Counseling Psychologist, 43(3), 380–392. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011000014568202