Doug Snyder
  • APA Fellow
  • Professor
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Research Areas
  • Clinical

Biography

Office Hours: Fridays 1-4

Accepting Students for 2024-2025?: No

Professional Links: Lab Website

Research Interests

  • Assessment and interventions with couples and families
  • Psychotherapy process and outcome research
  • Objective personality assessment and test development

 

Dr. Snyder’s research emphasizes the assessment, treatment, and prevention of couple relationship distress. Assessment research has centered on the Marital Satisfaction Inventory, a multidimensional measure of relationship accord now published in several languages and used worldwide. Dr. Snyder’s treatment research emphasizes approaches to tailoring therapy to specific partner and relationship characteristics, integrating strengths of cognitive, behavioral, emotion-focused, and insight-oriented interventions. Dr. Snyder’s specific clinical and research interests focus on treating difficult couples with emotional, behavioral, and health problems that complicate relationship distress.

Affiliated Research Cluster

Personality Processes. Objective personality assessment; clinical assessment of couples and families.

Selected Publications

    • Lebow, J. L., & Snyder, D. K. (2022). Couple therapy in the 2020s: Current status and emerging developments. Family Process, 61, 1359-1385.
    • Lebow, J., & Snyder, D. K. (2023). Clinical handbook of couple therapy (6th ed.). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
    • Snyder, D. K., Gordon, K. C., & Baucom, D. H. (2023).  Getting past the affair: A program to help you cope, heal, and move on – together or apart (2nd ed.).  New York, NY: Guilford Press.
    • Snyder, D. K., & Lebow, J. (2024). What happens in couple therapy: A casebook on effective practice. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
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