Articles by Gene Beresin, Khadijah Booth Watkins and Susan Sprich, PhD

Dr. Susan Sprich received her BA in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and her PhD in Clinical Psychology from The University at Albany, State University of New York. She completed her clinical psychology internship training and post-doctoral training at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)/Harvard Medical School. She has been affiliated with MGH since 1994. She has served as the Director of Psychology Training since 2021 and the Clinical Director of Psychology since 2022. She was appointed as the Director of Postgraduate Psychology Education for the MGH Psychiatry Academy in 2015, and is also an Assistant Professor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sprich is co-author of 27 chapters and articles on a range of topics including psychosocial treatments for ADHD in adults and adolescents, trichotillomania, and social anxiety. She is a co-author of Mastering Your Adult ADHD – Therapist Guide and Client Workbook and the first author of Overcoming ADHD in Adolescence—Therapist Guide and Client Workbook, published by Oxford University Press in the 'Treatments That Work' series. She served as a co-editor of the MGH CBT Handbook, published by Springer in 2016 and is currently the lead editor of the second edition of this Handbook. She is currently an Associate Editor of the journal, Cognitive and Behavioral Practice. She teaches and supervises psychology interns and psychiatry residents at Massachusetts General Hospital. She was the recipient of the Emerson Award from MGH for her dissertation research and she was awarded a Scholars in Medicine Fellowship through Harvard Medical School. She was given an award for excellence in mentoring by the psychology interns in 2015, the Behavioral Medicine Service award in 2018 and she won the American Psychological Association Outstanding Contributions to Continuing Professional Development Award in 2021. Dr. Sprich has been involved in research projects focused on ADHD, BDD, OCD and Autism spectrum disorders. Dr. Sprich has extensive clinical experience working with ADHD, anxiety, Trichotillomania, OCD, and other Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders.