Rate My Professor Jennifer Bolden

Jennifer Bolden is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Central Florida in 2012. Bolden joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor in Psychology in January 2018 and advanced to the rank of Associate Professor. She is a core member of the Clinical Psychology training faculty, accepts graduate students, and supervises clinical work at the UT Psychological Clinic. Her research program investigates the role of attention in the development and maintenance of internalizing disorders such as anxiety and depression, with a focus on attention biases and cognitive behavioral interventions to modify them. Additional research interests encompass attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), working memory, intraindividual variability, and associations with hazardous drinking behaviors and learning strategies among youth and college students. Keywords associated with her work include developmental aspects of these psychological processes.

Bolden has produced 19 publications cited over 1,386 times. Key works include "Associations Among Attention Problems, Learning Strategies, and Hazardous Drinking Behavior in a College Student Sample: A Pilot Study" (2019, Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment), "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for a Young Woman of Asian Heritage with Social Anxiety Disorder" (2019, Clinical Case Studies), "Use of the C.A.T. Project for a Socially Anxious Teenager: A Case Study in Clinical Supervision" (2019, Clinical Case Studies), "Zen and the Art of Dating: Mindfulness, Differentiation of Self, and Satisfaction in Dating Relationships" (2015, Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice), and "Working Memory and Intraindividual Variability as Neurocognitive Indicators in ADHD: Examining Competing Model Predictions" (2014, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology). She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Attention Disorders and Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment. Bolden teaches undergraduate and graduate courses and is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Family Health and Well-Being.