James Fauerbach

Associate Professor
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Johns Hopkins University
United States of America

Biography

James A. Fauerbach, Ph.D. has been a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences since 1991. He is chief psychologist on the burn trauma services at the Johns Hopkins Hospital (pediatrics) and the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (adults), and Director of Cognitive Behavioral Training in the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. His research, focusing on the role of emotion and psychopathology in illness and injury, has been supported by federal and private agencies.

Research Intrest

His interests among those with major burn injuries include the etiology, natural history, prevention and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder and body image dissatisfaction

List of Publications

Ziegelstein, R.C., Fauerbach, J.A., Stevens, S., Romanelli, J., M.D., Richter, D.P., Bush, D. Depressed patients are less likely to follow recommendations to reduce cardiac risk during recovery from a myocardial infarction. Archives of Internal Medicine 2000; 160:1818-1823.

Fauerbach, J.A., Richter, L., Lawrence, J.W. Regulating acute posttrauma distress. Journal of Burn Care & Rehabilitation 2002; 23: 249-257. Post-Myocardial Infarction Depression:

Fauerbach, J., Lawrence, J., Schmidt, C., Munster, A, Costa, P. Personality predictors of injury-related PTSD. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 2000; 188:510 - 517.

Fauerbach, J., Heinberg, L., Lawrence, J., Munster, A., Palombo, D., Richter, D. The effect of early body image dissatisfaction on subsequent psychological and physical adjustment following disfiguring injury. Psychosomatic Medicine 2000; 62: 576 - 582.

Fauerbach, J.A., Heinberg, L., Lawrence, J.W., Bryant, A.G., Richter, L., Spence, R.J. Coping with body image changes following a disfiguring burn injury. Health Psychology 2002; 21:115 - 121

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