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David Dunkley

David Dunkley, PhD

Psychosocial aspects of disease

Anxiety, Coping, Depression, Emotion regulation, Perfectionism, Self-criticism, Stress
  • Senior Investigator, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research
  • Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University
  • Associate Member, Department of Psychology, McGill University

Contact details

(514) 340-8222 ext. 25176
david.dunkley@mcgill.ca

Snapshot

David Dunkley is an internationally recognized scientist in the field of cognitive-personality vulnerability to psychopathology. His research examines stress, coping, and emotion regulation processes that might explain why personal standards (PS) and self-criticism (SC) dimensions of perfectionism are instigating and/or maintaining factors of depressive symptoms in nonclinical community adults and depressed patients. His recent research has tested a single-session explanatory feedback intervention, derived from the Perfectionism Coping Processes Model.

Major Research Activities

The primary goal of David Dunkley’s research has been to examine the mechanisms through which perfectionism is a cognitive-personality vulnerability factor to depression. His research examines stress, coping, and emotion regulation processes that might explain why personal standards (PS) and self-criticism (SC) dimensions of perfectionism are instigating and/or maintaining factors of depressive symptoms in nonclinical community adults and depressed patients. His recent research has tested a single-session explanatory feedback intervention, derived from the Perfectionism Coping Processes Model. The findings of his research have highlighted influential instigating and maintaining processes and contribute to identifying specific targets for prevention efforts and improvement of existing clinical interventions for depressed patients.

Recent Publications and References