James P. McCullough Jr.

Professor of psychology and psychiatry

Contact information

Phone: (804) 740-7646
E-mail: jmccull@vcu.edu

Education

Ph.D. (1970), University of Georgia

Program affiliation

Clinical Psychology

Research and clinical interests

I am training and supervising psychotherapists in VCU's Clinical Psychology Training Program, in the United States and abroad to treat the chronically depressed patient. I've also served as Principal Investigator in four multi-site studies enrolling over 2,200 chronically depressed outpatients. My therapy model, the Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy, has been used in the last two national studies. My major interests involve psychotherapy research with CBASP and secondly, I conduct diagnostic research with the DSM-IV unipolar mood disorders. My colleagues and I hope to simplify the diagnostic nomenclature for the unipolar disorder disorders in DSM-V.

Selected publications

McCullough Jr., J. P. (2000). Treatment for chronic depression: Cognitive behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy. New York, NY: Guilford Press.

Keller, M. B., McCullough Jr., J. P., Klein, D. N., Arnow, B. A., Dunner, D. L., Gelenberg, A. J., et al. (2000). A comparison of nefazodone, the cognitive behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy, and their combination for the treatment of chronic depression. The New England Journal of Medicine, 342, 1462-1470.

McCullough Jr., J. P. (2001). Skills training manual for diagnosing and treating chronic depression: Cognitive behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy. New York, NY: Guilford Press.

McCullough Jr., J. P. (2003). Patient’s Manual for CBASP. New York, NY: Guilford Press.

McCullough Jr., J. P. (2006). Using disciplined personal involvement to treat chronic depression: Cognitive behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy. New York, NY: Springer Press.

Recent/current courses taught at VCU

• Teaching Clinical Practicum for the “Adult Track” Clinical Psychology, graduate level