Department of Psychology - Julia Babcock, Ph.D.

My research interests center around couples’ relationships, couples therapy, and domestic violence. I am specifically interested in the role of emotion in functional as well as violent relationships. My students and I have built a psychophysiology and observational lab in which to use multi-methods assess emotional reactions during interpersonal situations. We assess autonomic responding and code facial affect displayed during couples’ naturalistic conflict discussions and experimental tasks. We are identifying how violent and non-violent couples differ in the way that they respond to emotional stimuli and regulate their emotions. Recently, we received a grant from NIMH to assess psychophysiological reactivity during interpersonal tasks as it differentiates borderline from antisocial/psychopathic personality features. Our research team also collaborates with police, courts, treatment providers, and victims’ advocates to evaluate coordinated community interventions to domestic violence. We also frequently train treatment providers on the research on intimate partner violence. The ultimate goal of our research is to develop new interventions that might improve the efficacy of domestic violence treatment programs.

Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Couples Therapy		Julia Babcock, Ph.D.
Doctorate:	University of Washington
Undergraduate:	University of California at Berkeley
My research interests center around couples’ relationships, couples therapy, and domestic violence. I am specifically interested in the role of emotion in functional as well as violent relationships. My students and I have built a psychophysiology and observational lab in which to use multi-methods assess emotional reactions during interpersonal situations. We assess autonomic responding and code facial affect displayed during couples’ naturalistic conflict discussions and experimental tasks. We are identifying how violent and non-violent couples differ in the way that they respond to emotional stimuli and regulate their emotions. Recently, we received a grant from NIMH to assess psychophysiological reactivity during interpersonal tasks as it differentiates borderline from antisocial/psychopathic personality features. Our research team also collaborates with police, courts, treatment providers, and victims’ advocates to evaluate coordinated community interventions to domestic violence. We also frequently train treatment providers on the research on intimate partner violence. The ultimate goal of our research is to develop new interventions that might improve the efficacy of domestic violence treatment programs.
Research Interests Domestic Violence Couples' Interaction Marital Therapy Efficacy of Interventions with Domestic Violence Emotions and Emotional Regulation Teaching PSYC 6303: Interventions I: Foundations in Empirically Supported Treatments PSYC 4321: Abnormal Psychology PSYC 7380: Marriage and Marital Therapy

E-mail: JBabcock@UH.EDU

Selected Publications

Babcock, J. C., Green, C. E., Webb, S. A., & Yerington, T. P. (in press). Psychophysiological profiles of batterers: Autonomic emotional reactivity as it predicts the antisocial spectrum of behavior among intimate partner abusers. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. Babcock, J. C., Canady, B, Senior, A. C., & Eckhardt, C. I. (2005). Applying the Transtheoretical Model to Female and Male Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence: Gender Differences in Stages and Processes of Change. Violence and Victims, 20, 235-251. Babcock, J. C., Green, C. E., & Robie, C. (2004). Does batterers’ treatment work?: A meta-analytic review of domestic violence treatment outcome research. Clinical Psychology Review, 23, 1023-1053. Babcock, J. C., Costa, D. M., Green, C. E., & Eckhardt, C. I. (2004). What situations induce intimate partner violence?: A reliability and validity study of the Proximal Antecedents to Violent Episodes (PAVE) scale. Journal of Family Psychology, 18(3), 433–442. Babcock, J. C., Green, C. E., Webb, S. A., & Graham, K. H. (2004). A Second Failure to Replicate the Gottman et al. (1995) Typology of Men Who Abuse Intimate Partners...and Possible Reasons Why". Journal of Family Psychology, 18, 396-400. Babcock, J. C., Miller, S. A., & Siard, C. (2003). Towards a typology of abusive women: Differences between partner-only and generally violent women in the use of violence. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 27, 153-161. Babcock, J. C., Jacobson, N. S., Gottman, J. M., & Yerington, T. P. (2000). Attachment, emotional regulation, and the function of marital violence: Differences between secure, preoccupied and dismissing violent and nonviolent husbands. Journal of Family Violence, 15, 391-409. Babcock, J. C. & LaTaillade, J. (2000). Evaluating interventions for men who batter. In J. Vincent & E. Jouriles (Eds). Domestic violence: Guidelines for research-informed practice. (pp. 37-77). Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Waltz, J., Babcock, J. C., Jacobson, N. S. & Gottman, J. M. (2000). Testing a typology of batterers. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 68, 658-669. (Published note: First and second authors contributed equally to this article.) Babcock, J. C. & Steiner, R., (1999). The relationship between treatment, incarceration, and recidivism of battering: A program evaluation of Seattle’s coordinated community response to domestic violence. Journal of Family Psychology, 13, 46-59. Babcock, J. C., Waltz, J., Jacobson, N. S. & Gottman, J. M. (1993). Power and violence: The relationship between communication patterns, power discrepancies and domestic violence. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 61(1), 40-50.




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