James LePage, PhD

Associate Professor
Psychiatry

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

Office Phone: 214-857-0249

james.lepage@utsouthwestern.edu

Biography

My primary clinical interests are in the areas of program development, depression and serious mental illness, behavior therapy, psychological testing, and vocational rehabilitation. Current research interests include program evaluation, test development, and outcome studies as well as evaluating behavioral technologies at both the individual and unit/program level.

Education

Graduate SchoolUniversity of Houston,Houston, Texas, Psychology (1997)
Graduate SchoolUniversity of Houston,Houston, Texas (1994)
UndergraduateUniversity of Texas at San Antonio (1990)

Research Interests

Evaluating behavioral technologies at both the individual and unit/program
Program evaluation
Test development

Publications

Five-year outcomes following psychiatric consultation to a tertiary care emergency

Lambert, M. T., LePage, J. P., & Schmitt, A. L. , American Journal of Psychiatry , 2003;

A brief Behavioral Activation Treatment for depression: A randomized trial within an inpatient psychiatric hospital

Lejuez, C. W., Hopko, D. R., LePage, J. P., Hopko, S. D., & McNeil, D. W. , Behavior Modification , 2003;

Reducing violence on an acute psychiatric unit using a token economy: A 2-year follow-up

LePage, J. P., DelBen, K., Pollard, S.E., McGhee, M., VanHorn, L., Murphy, J. S., Lewis, P., Aboraya, A. & Mogge, N. L. , Behavioral Interventions , 2003; (18):179-190

The Behavioral Observation System (BOS): A Line Staff Assessment Instrument of Psychopathology

LePage, J. P. & Mogge, N. L. , Journal of Clinical Psychology , 2001; (57):1435-44

The impact of a token economy on injuries and negative events on an acute psychiatric unit

LePage, J. P. , Psychiatric Services , 1999; (50/7):941-944

Honors/Awards

Outstanding Faculty Researcher, Dept of Psychiatry, West Virginia University

(2001)