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Chicago | Associate Department Chair and Associate Professor, Clinical Psychology (Psy.D.)

Lyuba Bobova, Ph.D.

Overview

Overview

I specialize at teaching courses that focus on psychological science, including research methods, and statistics. My teaching philosophy is based on creating a professional and structured classroom environment, engaging students in the course topics through active learning, and facilitating application and generalization of skills or knowledge outside of the classroom. Research has shown active learning to be quite effective across topics and disciplines, and active learning is especially central to instruction of research methods and statistics. I prefer to spend most of the classroom time solving problems together to lecturing.

While many students may use statistics outside of class very infrequently, I want all students to become better consumers of survey and other quantitative information and I use real world examples to help generalize classroom lessons to real-life problems. I try to foster intellectual curiosity, skepticism, and professionalism in my courses. Students may subscribe to conflicting theories or have different ideas, but discussions of those differences must always be professional, collaborative, and honest about the quality of evidence that supports them.

My research examines the cognitive and personality risk factors that contribute to onset and maintenance of substance use disorders. More recently, I conducted a research study on training of Non-Native English Speaking students in doctoral psychology programs. I am also interested in promoting and evaluating training in information literacy for graduate students.

At Adler University, I also serve as Associate Department Chair for the Psychology Department (Psy.D. program). I served on variety of university and campus committees and I also offer statistical and research consultation to students, faculty, and staff.

Please email or call me 312.662.4366 if you have questions or would like more information about me.

Education

Education

  • Ph.D., Clinical Science, Indiana University, Bloomington
  • M.S., Applied Statistics, Indiana University, Bloomington
  • B.A., Psychology & Germanic Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
Professional Memberships

Professional Memberships

  • Association for Psychological Science
  • Research Society on Alcoholism
  • Midwestern Psychological Association
  • APA Division 5: Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics
  • APA Division 12 Section 3: Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology
  • APA Division 38: Health Psychology
  • APA Division 50: Addictions
Select Publications

Select Publications

  • Persinger, V. K., Whiteside, D. M., Bobova, L., Saigal, S., Vannucci, M. J., & Basso, M. R. (2018). Using the California Verbal Learning Test, second edition as embedded performance validity measure among individuals with TBI and psychiatric disorders. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 32(6), 1039 – 1053.
  • Wolitzky-Taylor, K., Sewart, A., Vrshek-Schallhorn, S., Zinbarg, R., Mineka, S., Hammen, C., Bobova, L., Adam, E. K. & Craske, M. G. (2017). The effects of childhood and adolescent adversity on substance use disorders and poor health in early adulthood. Journal of youth and adolescence, 46(1), 15-27.
  • Kendall, A. D., Zinbarg, R. E., Bobova, L., Zinbarg, R. E., Mineka, S., Revelle, W., Prenoveau, J., Craske, M. (2016). Measuring Positive Emotion with the Mood and Anxiety Symptom Questionnaire: Psychometric Properties of the Anhedonic Depression Scale. Assessment, 23(1), 86 – 95.
  • Zinbarg, R. E., Mineka, S., Bobova, L., Craske, M., Vrshek-Schallhorn, S., Griffith, J. W., Wolitzky-Taylor, K., Waters, A. M., Sumner, J., Anand, D. (2016). Testing a hierarchical model of neuroticism and its cognitive facets: Latent structure and prospective prediction of first onsets of anxiety and unipolar mood disorders over three years in late adolescence. Clinical Psychological Science, 4(5), 805 – 824.
  • Kendall, A. D., Zinbarg, R. E., Mineka, S., Bobova, L., Prenoveau, J. M., Revelle, W., Craske M. (2015). Prospective Associations of Low Positive Emotionality with First Onsets of Depressive and Anxiety Disorders: Results from a 10-Wave Latent Trait-State Modeling Study. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 124(4), 933 – 943.
  • Wolitzky-Taylor, K. B., Bobova, L., Zinbarg, R. E., Mineka, S., & Craske, M. (2012). Understanding the impact of anxiety and mood disorders on subsequent substance use disorder onset and vice versa: Evidence from a longitudinal investigation. Addictive Behaviors, 37, 982 – 985.
  • Bobova, L., Finn, P. R., Rickert, M. E., & Lucas, J. (2009). Disinhibitory psychopathology and delay discounting in alcohol dependence: personality and cognitive correlates. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 17 (1), 51 – 61.
  • Finn, P. R., Rickert, M. E., Miller, M. A., Lucas, J., Bogg, T., Bobova, L., & Canrell, E. H. (2009). Reduced cognitive ability in alcohol dependence: Examining the role of covarying externalizing psychopathology. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 118 (1), 100 – 116.
  • Finn, P. R., Bobova, L., Wehner, E., Fargo, S., Rickert, M. E. (2005). Alcohol expectancies, conduct disorder and early-onset alcoholism: Negative alcohol expectancies are associated with less drinking in non-impulsive versus impulsive subjects. Addiction, 100 (7), 953 – 962.
  • Vinograd, M., Williams, A., Sun, M., Bobova, L., Wolitzky-Taylor, K. B., Vrshek-Schallhorn, S., Mineka, S., Zinbarg, R. E., Craske, M. G. (2020). Neuroticism and Interpretative Bias as Risk Factors for Anxiety and Depression. Clinical Psychological Science, 8(4), 641 – 656.
Select Presentations

Select Presentations

  • Bobova, L. (2023, January). Restorative justice and peacemaking approaches. Presentation during the annual meeting of the National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology, Santa Fe, NM.
  • Bobova, L. (2022, January). Team teaching in doctoral psychology training. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology, virtual meeting.
  • Bobova, L., (2020, March). The fallacy of statistical significance and the future of inferential statistics. Presentation during Common Hour series at Adler University, Chicago, IL.
  • Bobova, L. (2019, January). Encouraging and empowering faculty and administrators to become more effective instructors, mentors, allies, and advocates for linguistically diverse doctoral students. Workshop presented at the annual meeting of the National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
  • Bobova, L., Murman, P., Martinez Aguilar, N., Skowron, M., Corbin, G., & Jimenez, M. (2018, June). Doctoral training of non-native English speaking psychology and counseling students: Cultural and unique experiences and available support. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology, Toronto, ON.
  • Bobova, L., Jimenez, M., Martinez Aguilar, N., Skowron, M., Murman, P., Patterson, L. T., & Corbin, G. (2018, June). Training and support for faculty working with non-native English speaking doctoral students. Poster presented at the annual Research and Scholarship Symposium at Adler University, Chicago, IL.
  • Bobova, L., Mineka, S., Zinbarg, R., Craske, M. (2016, May). Age of first drink predicts new onsets of substance use disorders: Associations with externalizing versus internalizing traits. Poster presented at the 28th annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.

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