Benjamin Buck, PhD

Personal Statement

My research is focused on (1) developing innovative mHealth assessments and interventions for schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and cross-diagnostic persecutory ideation, as well as (2) “engagement mHealth,” or the development of mobile health interventions that increase the likelihood that underserved populations present to and receive evidence-based treatment, with a particular focus on young adults at risk for psychosis and their families. My research is supported by a NARSAD Young Investigator Award from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation and multiple grants from NIMH including a K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award.

Prior to my faculty position at UW, I was an Advanced Fellow in VA Health Services Research and Development and the Department of Health Services at UW. I completed my clinical psychology internship at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System, where I was awarded the APA Division 18 Outstanding VA Trainee Award. Prior to internship, I completed my undergraduate and doctoral training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Throughout my training, I have been dedicated to services for individual with serious mental illness, with experience in an inpatient state hospital, VA psychosocial rehabilitation, intensive outpatient and dual-diagnosis clinics, and in coordinated specialty care for young people with early psychosis.

In addition to my program of research and clinical work, I am committed to clinical supervision and training. I currently lead the development of one of the first clinical training sequences designed for frontline clinicians integrating mHealth into community mental health. I was the first-ever graduate student to win UNC’s David Galinsky Award, an honor recognizing excellence in clinical supervision that had previously only ever been won by faculty. I am currently active in providing supervision in CBT to third-year psychiatry residents at UW.

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Recent Publications

Restoring Trust for People With Psychosis Through Psychotherapy.
(2024 Apr 1)
J Nerv Ment Dis 212(4): 228-234
Ridenour JM, Hamm JA, Wiesepape CN, Buck B

Identifying mechanisms of persecutory ideation maintenance with smartphone technology: Examining threat importance, certainty, rumination, and behavior change.
(2024 Mar)
Psychiatry Res 333(): 115751
Buck B, Tauscher JS, Whiting E, Wang W, Campbell AT, Ben-Zeev D

User-Centered Development of Bolster, an mHealth Intervention for Early Psychosis Caregivers: Needs Assessment, Prototyping, and Field Trial.
(2023 Nov 30)
JMIR Ment Health 10(): e50522
Buck B, Wingerson M, Whiting E, Snyder J, Monroe-DeVita M, Ben-Zeev D

Cost of Implementing mHealth in Community Mental Health Settings: External Versus Internal Facilitation.
(2023 Oct 26)
Psychiatr Serv
Levin CE, Tauscher J, Meller S, Brian RM, Buck BE, Ben-Zeev D

Using Smartphones to Identify Momentary Characteristics of Persecutory Ideation Associated With Functional Disability.
(2023 Jan)
Schizophr Bull Open 4(1): sgad021
Buck B, Wingerson M, Tauscher JS, Enkema M, Wang W, Campbell AT, Ben-Zeev D

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