Faculty
Ata GHADERI
Visiting Scholar (Honorary)
Sino Building 340
ataghaderi@cuhk.edu.hk
3943 6009
2603 5019
Brief Introduction
Ata Ghaderi is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet (KI), Stockholm, Sweden. He obtained his PhD from Uppsala University (2001), Sweden, and was a post doc fellow at University of Nevada, Reno (2002), Stanford University (2003), and University of Texas at Austin (2004). He served as a senior lecturer until 2009 at Uppsala University, and then a Professor of Psychology (2010-2012), and since 2013 a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Karolinska Institutet. His research is mainly clinical in nature, but also translational and experimental.
He is currently (Fall semester of 2024) on a teaching sabbatical at CUHK funded by STINT (The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education).
Research Interests
My research is within clinical psychology with a major focus on the emergence, prevention and treatment of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. My studies extend to prevention of obesity, and treatment of body dissatisfaction, including translational and transdiagnostic approaches. Another line of research has been the early detection, prevention and treatment of conduct disorders in children, mainly through parent training. This work has recently been extended to prevention of anxiety disorders in children.
Teaching Areas
- PSYC3700- Abnormal Psychology
Publications
D’Adamo, L., Ghaderi, A., Rohde, P., Gau, J.M., Shaw, H., & Stice, E. (2023). Evaluating whether a peer-led dissonance-based eating disorder prevention program prevents onset of each eating disorder type. Psychological Medicine, 53(15): 7214-7221, http://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291723000739
Eklund, M., Kiristis, C., Livheim, F., & Ghaderi, A. (2023). ACT-based Self-Help for Perceived Stress and its Mental Health Implications without Therapist Support: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 27, 98-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2023.01.003
Ghaderi, A., & Welch, E. (2022). Perception of the Non-Dominant Hand as Larger after Non-Judgmental Focus on its Details. Scientific Reports, 12:15670, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19919-6
Ghaderi, A., Zha, C., Welch, E., Holmes, E. (2022). Imagery rescripting for reducing body image dissatisfaction: A randomized controlled trial. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 46, 721-734, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-022-10295-z
Ghaderi, A., Stice, E., Andersson, A., Enö Persson, J., & Allzén, E. (2020). A Randomised Controlled Trial of the Effectiveness of Virtually Delivered Body Project (vBP) Groups to Prevent Eating Disorders. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 88(7), 643–656. http://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000506
