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Relationship OCD (ROCD)

Have a look at the recently developed Relationship Obsessive Compulsive Inventory (ROCI)

Relationship OCD (ROCD)

Have a look our recently published paper: "Tainted Love: Exploring Relationship-Centered Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms"

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CONTACT:
    Department of Psychology
    Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya
    P.O.Box 167    
    Herzliya, 46150,
    Israel
    tel: 09 9602850
    email: gdoron@idc.ac.il or gdoron1@gmail.com

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Relationship centered obsessive compulsive phenomena and relationship OCD (ROCD).
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) from a cognitive-behavioural, treatment and neuropsychological perspectives.
  • Attachment theory and its application to clinical practice.
  • Self concept and its role in psychopathological processes.
  • Vulnerability and resilience in psychopathology.
  • Intergroup Relations and Dehumanization
  • Implicit Conditioning

POSITION AND QUALIFICATIONS:
  • 2010           Member of Multinational Research Consortium on Internal Fear (RCIF; www.intrusivefear.com).
  • 2009           Senior Lecturer, New School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center of Herzliya (IDC).
  • 2008           Board of Directors, Midgam Project (Midgam.com) – Largest private Israeli self awareness internet website.
  • 2008           Registered CBT specialist – Israeli Association of Behaviour and Cognitive Psychotherapies (ITA).
  • 2008           Lecturer, New School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Centre of Herzelia.
  • 2007           Registered Psychologist in Israel (Pincas Psychologim).
  • 2007           Research Fellow, New School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Centre of Herzelia
  • 2006           Full member of Australian Psychological Society (APS).
  • 2006           Full member of the APS College of Clinical Psychologists.
  • 2001-2006   Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - University of Melbourne.
  • 2001-2006   MPsych (Clinical Psychology) - University of Melbourne.
  • 2004           Registered Psychologist with the Psychologists Registration Board of Victoria.
  • 2000           Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) at the University of Melbourne - First class honors.
  • 1998           Bachelor of Psychology at the Hebrew University, Israel -  Magna Cum Laude.

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS:
  • 2010-2014   Recipient of US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF; Co PIs: Saguy, T., & ‎Dovidio, J; $152,000)
  • 2010           Interdisciplinary Centre of Herzelia (IDC) outstanding researcher award
  • 2009-2013   Recipient of Israel Science Foundation Grant (ISF; $137,000)
  • 2009-2010   Recipient of New School of Psychology Research Grant - Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya
  • 2007-2011   Recipient of the Marie Curie Reintegration Grant - European Union (MCRIG; € 100,000)
  • 2007-2010   Recipient of Returning Researcher Postdoctoral Fellowship – Israeli Integration Ministry ($15,000) .
  • 2007-2008   Recipient of New School of Psychology Research Grant - Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya
  • 2003           Melbourne Abroad Postgraduate Traveling Scholarship.
  • 2003           Conference Grant (University of Melbourne).
  • 2003           Special Conference Support Grant (School of Behavioural Science, University of Melbourne).
  • 2002-2006   Australian Postgraduate Award 2002 (APA).
  • 2000-2001   Postgraduate scholarship awarded by the Israeli government.
  • 1997-1998   Undergraduate scholarship awarded by the Israeli government
EDITORIAL BOARD:
  • 2011-        Journal of Obsessive Compulsive Related Disorders (JOCRD)

PUBLICATIONS:
  1. Doron, G., & Kyrios, M. (2005). Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A review of possible specific internal representations within a broader cognitive theory. Clinical Psychology Review, 25, 415-432.
  2. Doron, G., Kyrios, M., & Moulding, R. (2007). Sensitive domains of self-concept in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Further evidence for a multidimensional model of OCD. Journal of Anxiety Disorders , 21, 433-444.
  3. Doron, G., Kyrios, M, Moulding, R., Nedeljkovic, M., & Bhar, S. (2007). “We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are”: A multidimensional world-view model of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 23,221-235.
  4. Moulding, R., Kyrios, M., & Doron, G. (2007). Appraisals and obsessive-compulsive behaviours in specific situations: The relative influence of appraisals of control, responsibility and threat. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, 1693-1702.
  5. Moulding, R., Kyrios, M., Doron, G., & Nedeljkovic, M. (2007). Autogenous and reactive obsessions: A confirmatory factor analysis and examination of their relationship to obsessive compulsive symptoms and beliefs. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 21, 677-690.
  6. Kyrios, M., Nedeljkovic, M., Moulding, R., & Doron, G. (2007). Problems of employees with personality disorders: The exemplar of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. In J. Langan-Fox, C. Cooper., & R. Klimoski (Eds), Research Companion to the Dysfunctional Workplace: Management Challenges and Symptoms, New Horizons Management Series.
  7. Doron, G., Moulding, R., Kyrios, M., & Nedeljkovic, M. (2008). Sensitivity of self-beliefs in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Depression and Anxiety, 25, 874–884.
  8. Moulding, R., Doron, G., Kyrios, M., & Nedeljkovic, M. (2008). Desire for control, sense of control and obsessive-compulsive checking: An extension to a clinical sample. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 22, 1472–1479.
  9. Doron, G., Moulding, R., Kyrios, M., Nedeljkovic, M., & Mikulincer (2009). Adult attachment insecurities are related to obsessive compulsive phenomena. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 28, 1025-1052.
  10. Nedeljkovic, M., Moulding, R., Kyrios, M., & Doron, G. (2009). The relationship of cognitive confidence to OCD symptoms.
    11. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 23,463-468.
  11. Moulding, R., Doron, G., Kyrios, M., & Nedeljkovic, M. (2009). Mediated and direct effects of control beliefs on obsessive compulsive symptoms. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 41, 84-92.
  12. Nedeljkovic, M., Kyrios, M., Moulding, R., Doron, G., Wainwright, K., Pantelis, C., Purcell, R., & Maruff, P. (2009). Differences in neuropsychological performance between subtypes of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 43, 216-226.
  13. Doron, G., & Moulding, R. (2009). Cognitive behavioral treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder: A broader framework. Israel Journal of Psychiatry and related sciences, 46, 257-264.
  14. Eindor, T., Mikulincer, M., Doron, G., & Shaver, P.(2010). The attachment paradox: How can so many of us (the insecure ones) have nothing but disadvantages? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5, 123-141.
  15. Ein-dor, T., Doron, G., Solomon. Z, Mikulincer. M, & Shaver. P (2010). Together in pain: attachment-related dyadic processes and posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 57, 317-327.
  16. Loughnan, Leidner, Doron, Haslam, Kashima, Tong, & Yeung (2010). Universal biases in self-perception: Better and more human than average. British Journal of Social Psychology, 49, 627-636.
  17. Ben Harush, O., & Doron, G. (2011). Treatment of Adults with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). In Marom & Gilboa-Schectman. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adults: An integrative approach. Probook, Israel (in Hebrew).
  18. Nedeljkovic, M., Kyrios, M., Moulding, R., & Doron, G. (2011). Neuropsychological predictors of symptom change in patients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder following cognitive-behavioural therapy. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 4, 8-20.
  19. Moulding, R., Anglim, J., Nedeljkovic, M., Doron, G., Kyrios, M., & Ayalon, A. (2011). The Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire (OBQ):Examination in non-clinical samples and development of a short version, Assessment, 18, 357-374.
  20. Guttmann-Steinmetz, S. Crowell, J. A., Doron. G., & Mikulincer. M. (2011). Associations between mothers’ and children’s secure base scripts in ADHD and community cohorts. Attachment and Human Development, 13 (6), 597-610.
  21. Nedeljkovic, M., Moulding, R., Foroughi, E., Kyrios, M., & Doron, G. (2011). Cultural issues in understanding and treating obsessive compulsive and spectrum disorders. Invited Chapter for G. Steketee (Ed.). Oxford Handbook of Obsessive Compulsive and Spectrum Disorders (pp.469-520). UK: Oxford University Press.
  22. Doron, G., Sar-El., D., Mikulincer, M., & Kyrios, M. (2012). When Moral Concerns Become a Psychological Disorder: The Case of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. In M. Mikulincer & P.R., Shaver (Eds.). Social Psychology of Morality: Exploring the Causes of Good and Evil (pp. 293—310). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  23. Doron, G., Derby, D., Szepsenwol. O., & Talmor. D. (2012). Tainted Love: exploring relationship-centered obsessive compulsive symptoms in two non-clinical cohorts. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders,1, 16-24.
  24. Doron, G; Sar-El, D. Mikulincer, M. (2012). Threats to Moral Self-perceptions trigger obsessive compulsive contamination-related behavioral tendencies. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 43, 884-890.
  25. Doron, G., Talmor, D., Szepsenwol, O., & Derby, S. D. (2012). Relationship centered obsessive compulsive symptoms, Psicoterapia cognitiva e comportamentale,18, 79-90.
  26. Doron, G; Moulding, R., Nedeljkovic, M., Kyrios, M., Mikulincer. M., & Sar-El. (2012). Adult attachment insecurities are associated with obsessive compulsive disorder. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 85, 163–178.
  27. Doron, G; Sar-El, D. Mikulincer, M., & Talmor, D. (in press). Experimentally-enhanced attachment security influences obsessive compulsive related washing tendencies in a non-clinical sample. E-Journal of Applied Psychology.

Ad Hoc Reviewer (Journals/Books)
  • Australian Psychologist
  • Behaviour Research And Therapy (BRAT)
  • Clinical Psychology Review
  • Emotion
  • Journal of Clinical Psychology
  • Journal of Obsessive Compulsive Related Disorders (JOCRD)
  • Psychiatry Research
  • Psychology and Psychotherapy
  • Personality and Individual Differences (PAID)
  • Depression and Anxiety
  • Cognitive Neuropsychiatry (CNS)
  • International Journal of Cognitive Therapy
  • Israel Journal of Psychiatry (IJP)
  • Yonsei Medical Journal (YMJ)
  • Guilford Press
Ad Hoc Reviewer (Grants)
  • The Israel Science Foundation (ISF) 
  •  U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
  1. Doron, G., Szepsenwol, O. Derby, S. D., & Talmor, D (2012). Relationship-related obsessive compulsive phenomena (ROCD): Is it worth a systematic investigation? European Association for. Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (EACBT), 2nd SIG meeting on OCD, Assisi, Italy. 
  2. Doron, G., Szepsenwol, O. Derby, S. D., & Talmor, D (2012). Relationship-related obsessive compulsive phenomena (ROCD): What we know and what we don’t know. Research Consortium on Intrusive Fear (RCIF), Montreal, Canada. 
  3. Lavy, S., & Doron, G. (2010). Intrusiveness in Romantic Relationships and Psychological Disorders.Paper presented at the International Association of Relationship Research (IARR), Herzelia, Israel.
  4. Doron, G., Mikulincer, M., & Sar-El, D. (2010). Self Sensitivity and Attachment insecurity: Experimental Manipulations. Paper presented at the 6th World Congress of Behavioural & Cognitive Therapies, Boston, USA.
  5. Doron, G., Sar-El., D., & Mikulincer, M. (2010). When Moral Concerns Become a Psychological Disorder: The Case of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Paper presented at the third Herzliya symposium on social psychology of morality: exploring the causes of good and evil, Herzliya, Israel.
  6. Moulding, R., Anglim, J., Nedeljkovic, M., Doron, G., Kyrios, M., & Ayalon, A. (2009). A re-examination of the structure of the obsessive beliefs questionnaire (OBQ). Paper presented at the 32nd National Conference of the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapies, Perth, Australia.
  7. Doron, G. , Moulding, R. , Kyrios, M. & Nedeljkovic (2008). The relationship between OCD and attachment related internal representation of self and others. Paper presented at the 6th International Congress of Cognitive Psychotherapy Rome (Italy).
  8. Doron, G., Moulding, R., Nedeljkovic, M., Kyrios, M., Ayalon  A (2008). Sensitivity of self structure and OCD symptoms in a student sample. Paper presented at the 6th International Congress of Cognitive Psychotherapy Rome (Italy).
  9. Nedeljkovic, M., Kyrios, M. Doron, G. & Moulding, R (2008). Self-ambivalence and thought suppression. Paper presented at the 6th International Congress of Cognitive Psychotherapy Rome (Italy).
  10. Doron, G., Kyrios, M, Moulding, R., Nedeljkovic, M., & Bhar, S. (2007). “We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are”: A multidimensional world-view model of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Paper presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Convention (ABCT). 
  11. Doron, G., Moulding, R., Kyrios, M., & Nedeljkovic, M. (2007). The relevance of dysfunctional self perceptions and maladaptive cognitions relating to perfectionism for obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Paper presented at the Vth World Congress of Behavioural & Cognitive Therapies, Barcelona, Spain.
  12. Kyrios, M., Hordern, C., Nedeljkovic, M., Bhar, S., Moulding, R., & Doron, G. (2007). Cognitive, symptomatic and functional changes following cognitive-behavior therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Paper presented at the Vth World Congress of Behavioural & Cognitive Therapies, Barcelona, Spain. 
  13. Kyrios, M., Hordern, C., Nedeljkovic, M., Bhar, S., Moulding, R., & Doron, G. (2007). Prediction of outcome following cognitive-behavior therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Paper presented at the Vth World Congress of Behavioural & Cognitive Therapies, Barcelona, Spain.
  14. Doron, G., Kyrios, M., & Moulding, R.(2006). Sensitive Domains of Self-Concept in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): Specificity of self construct in OCD. Paper presented at the XXXVIth Annual Congress of the European Association for Behaviour and Cognitive Therapies, Paris, France.
  15. Doron, G., Kyrios, M., & Moulding, R.(2006). Modeling the relationship between adult attachment representations and vulnerability to obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Paper presented at the XXXVIth Annual Congress of the European Association for Behaviour and Cognitive Therapies, Paris, France.
  16. Moulding, R., Kyrios, M., Doron, G.(2006). The Role of Control Beliefs in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Paper to be presented at the XXXVIthParis, France. Annual Congress of the European Association for Behaviour and Cognitive Therapies,
  17. Moulding, R., Kyrios, M., Doron, G.(2006). Further evidence for a two-factor model of obsessions. Paper presented at the XXXVIth Annual Congress of the European Association for Behaviour and Cognitive Therapies, Paris, France.
  18. Nedeljkovic, M., Kyrios, M., Doron, G., & Ahern, C.(2006). The nature of intrusive-thought content in relation to self and appraisal processes in obsessive compulsive disorder. Paper presented at the XXXVIth Annual Congress of the European Association for Behaviour and Cognitive Therapies, Paris, France.
  19. Doron, G., & Kyrios, M.  (2005). Perceptions of self and the world in OCD. Paper presented at the XXXVth Annual Congress of the European Association for Behaviour and Cognitive Therapies, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  20. Doron, G., & Kyrios, M.  (2005). Self and World View in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): Assessing a Multidimensional World View Model of OCD. Paper presented at the 28th National Conference of the Australian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies, Melbourne, Australia.
  21. Doron, G., & Kyrios, M. (2004). Attachment and obsessive compulsive disorder: Internal representations and vulnerability to obsessive compulsive symptoms. A poster symposium presentation at the 18th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD), Ghent, Belgium.
  22. Kyrios, M., Bhar, S., Doron, G., & Nedeljkovic, M (2001). Experimental study of thought suppression, obsessionality and ambivalent self-identity. Poster presentation at the IIIrd World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, Vancouver, Canada



 Attachment insecurities
 General OCD model by Doron and colleagues
 OCD and control beliefs
 Other papers by Doron and colleagues
 Relationship OCD (ROCD) and relationship centered OC symptoms papers by Doron and colleagues
 Self perceptions and OCD relatated papers by Doron and colleagues