Professor

Director of Clinical Training

 
Office: Room 357, Life Science Building
Phone: (502) 852-6070
Fax: (502) 852-8904
Email: j.woodruff-borden@louisville.edu

Lab location: Life Sciences Building

Lab phone: (502) 852-7164

Lab website: Healthy Parents – Healthy Kids Research Lab

Education

B.A., Wake Forest University, 1982

Ph.D., Virginia Tech, 1988

Post Doctoral, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1988-89

Research Interest

• Anxiety disorders
• Familial linkage of anxiety
• Phenomenology of anxiety
• Mental health in underserved populations

Selected Publications

Ballash, N. G., Leyfer, O., Buckley, A., & Woodruff-Borden, J.  (2006).  Parental control

in the etiology of anxiety.  Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 9, 113-

133.

Leyfer, O. T., Woodruff-Borden, J., Klein-Tasman, B., Fricke, J., & Mervis, C. B. 

(2006).  Prevalence of psychiatric disorders in 4-16-year olds with Williams

syndrome.  American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B (Neuropsychiatric

Genetics), 114B, 615-622.

Buckley, A., & Woodruff-Borden, J.  (2006).  Parental modeling of coping: Relation to

child anxiety.   Child and Family Behavior Therapy, 28, 59-80.

Newton, T. L., Buckley, A. F., Zurlage, M. M., Mitchell, C. K., Shaw, M. A., &

            Woodruff-Borden, J.  (2008).  Lack of a close confidant: Prevalence and

correlates in a   medically underserved primary care sample.  Psychology, Health,

and Medicine,13, 185-192.

Kertz, S. J., Smith, C. L., Chapman, L. K., & Woodruff-Borden, J.  (in press). Maternal

sensitivity: Impacts on child outcome.  Child and Family Behavior Therapy.

Harvison, K. W., Chapman, L. K., Ballash, N. G., & Woodruff-Borden, J.  (in press). 

Anxiogenic patterns of mother-child interaction during a mildly stressful task. 

Child and Family Behavior Therapy.

Courses Often Taught

Psyc 685  Clinical Psychology Practicum

Psyc 687  Anxiety Disorders