Rate My Professor Mark Boschen

Dr Mark Boschen is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at Griffith University's School of Applied Psychology, located on the Gold Coast campus. Holding a PhD, he has served as a tenured academic at the university since 2010, where he lectures and convenes courses including Abnormal Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Lifespan Psychopathology and Therapy 1 (7152PSY). His academic career focuses on advancing clinical psychology through teaching and research supervision, contributing to the training of future psychologists in psychopathology and therapeutic interventions.

Boschen's research specializations encompass anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), with investigations into cognitive-behavioral therapy processes, fear and anxiety pathways, relapse prevention, treatment-resistant OCD, specific phobias such as emetophobia, compulsive checking behaviors, post-event processing in social anxiety, and adjunct technologies in psychotherapy. Key publications include 'Pathways of fear and anxiety in dentistry: A review' (Carter, Carter, Boschen, AlShwaimi, & George, 2014), cited 357 times; 'The use of mobile telephones as adjuncts to cognitive behavioral psychotherapy' (Boschen & Casey, 2008), cited 224 times; 'Deteriorating memory confidence, responsibility perceptions and repeated checking: Comparisons in OCD and control samples' (Boschen & Vuksanovic, 2007), cited 195 times; 'Relapse of successfully treated anxiety and fear: Theoretical issues and recommendations for clinical practice' (Boschen, Neumann, & Waters, 2009), cited 190 times; 'Intolerance of uncertainty mediates the relationship between responsibility beliefs and compulsive checking' (Lind & Boschen, 2009), cited 152 times; and 'A randomised, double-blind, sham-controlled trial of deep brain stimulation of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis for treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder' (Mosley et al., 2021), cited 113 times. His scholarship, with over 2,500 citations across 94 publications, has shaped understandings of psychotherapeutic processes, behavioral interventions for disgust and contamination fears, and decision-making in clinical settings. Boschen serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences and collaborates on projects exploring psychological factors in health practitioners' cognitive processing and general practitioners' treatment decisions for mental health conditions.