Associate Professor
Director, Center for Mental Health Disparities 

Faculty in Residence, Muhammad Ali Institute for Peace and Justice

Office: Room 314, Life Science Building
Phone: (502) 852-3017
Fax: (502) 852-8904
Email: kevin.chapman@louisville.edu

Lab location:  Davidson Hall, 317
Lab phone: 852-7164
Lab website: Center for Mental Health Disparities 

Education

B.S., Psychology, Centre College, 2000

M.S., Clinical Psychology, Eastern Kentucky University, 2002

Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, The University of Louisville, 2006

Research Interests

• Assessment and treatment of anxiety and related disorders in African American adults and children 
• Factor structure of anxiety and related constructs in African American adults and children 
  
• Cultural factors in the etiology and maintenance of fears and phobias 
• Mental health and wellness in historically under-served families (ethnic and cultural minorities; the poor)

Selected Publications

• Chapman, L. K., Petrie, J., Vines, L., & Durrett, E. (2012). The co-occurrence of anxiety disorders in African American parents and their children. Journal of Anxiety Disorders,   26, 65-70.         

• Owen, J. J., Chapman, L. K., Quirk, K., Inch, L. J., France, T., & Bergan, C.  (in press). Processes of change in  relationship education for lower-income African American couples. Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy.

• Chapman, L. K., Vines, L., & Petrie, J.  (2011).  Fear factors: Cross validation of specific phobia domains in a community-based sample of African American adults.  Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 25(4), 539-544.  
• Chapman, L. K., & Steger, M. F. (2010). Race and religion: Differential prediction of anxiety symptoms by religious coping in African American and European American young adults. Depression and Anxiety, 27, 316-322.

• Chapman, L. K., Williams, S. R., Mast, B. T., & Woodruff-Borden, J. (2009). A confirmatory factor analysis of the Beck Anxiety Inventory in African American and European American young adults. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 23, 387-392.

• Chapman, L. K., Kertz, S. J., & Woodruff-Borden, J. (2009). A structural model analysis of psychological distress and perceived control on worry in among African American and European American young adults. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 23, 69-76.  
• Chapman, L. K., & Woodruff-Borden, J. (2009). The impact of family functioning on anxiety symptoms on African American and European American young adults. Personality and Individual Differences, 47, 583-589.
• Chapman, L. K., Kertz, S. J., & Zurlage, M., & Woodruff-Borden, J.  (2008).  A confirmatory factor analysis of specific phobia domains in African American and Caucasian American young adults. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 22 (5), 763-771.
•  Meyer, B., Chapman, L. K., & Weaver, C. (2008). Case studies in Abnormal Behavior (8th ed.).  Boston:  Allyn & Bacon.
• Harvison, K. W., Chapman, L. K., Ballash, N. G., & Woodruff-Borden, J.  (2008). Anxiogenic patterns in mother-child interactions.  Child and Family Behavior Therapy, 30 (2), 137-152.    
• Kertz, S. J., Smith, C. L., Chapman, L. K., & Woodruff-Borden, J.  (2008). Maternal sensitivity and anxiety: Impact on child outcome.  Child and Family Behavior Therapy, 30 (2), 153-171.   

Courses Often Taught

• Diversity, Clinical and Community and Clinical Outreach Skills and Research (PSY 687; Graduate)

• Multicultural Psychology (WR) (PSY 366; Undergraduate)

• Introduction to Clinical Psychology (PSY 582; Undergraduate)