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Kristin von Ranson

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Job Title:

  • Associate Professor

Phone:

  • +1 (403) 220-7085

Office:

  • A 257A

Email:

Degrees:

  • 1998 - Ph.D. Clinical Psychology - University of Minnesota

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Interests:

  • My research interests focus on eating disorders. I am particularly interested in questions related to aetiology, classification, and assessment of eating problems. I use varying methods to elucidate risk, resilience, and maintenance factors for eating disorders in pre-teens, adolescents, and adults and to better characterize the spectrum of eating disturbances. For example, I have investigated associations between eating problems and comorbid psychopathology, including anxiety and substance abuse, in an effort to understand whether these disorders might share aetiological or maintenance factors. I am also interested in the conceptualization of eating disorders as addictions. In another arm of my research program, I study the gap between research recommendations and practitioners' choice of psychotherapies for eating disorders.

    Among the research projects I have underway are studies examining:
    - the ways in which members of Overeaters Anonymous believe OA has helped them
    - longitudinal associations of substance misuse with eating pathology in teenage girls
    - what psychotherapies Alberta psychotherapists use to treat eating disorders
    - associations between binge eating and personality in community women and men

    Graduate students working under my supervision are conducting research related to eating disorders and associated pathology, including obesity. See my lab website ("Eating Behaviours Lab" link above) for details.

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Past Courses:

  • PSYC385 - Abnormal Psychology
  • PSYC671 - Psychological Assess Of Adults
Representative Publications:
Journal Articles - Peer Reviewed
Cassin, SE., von Ranson, K., Hung, K., Brar, J. & Wojtowicz, AE. (2008) Adapted motivational interviewing for women with binge eating disorder: A randomized controlled trial. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 22(3), 417-425
Marmorstein, N. R., von Ranson, K., Iacono, William G. & Malone, Stephen M. (2008) Prospective associations between depressive symptoms and eating pathology among adolescent girls. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 41, 118-123
Cassin, SE. & von Ranson, K. (2008) Cognitive processing of body and appearance words as a function of thin-ideal internalization and schematic activation. Body Image, 5, 271-278
Cassin, SE. & von Ranson, K. (2007) Is binge eating experienced as a behavioral addiction? Appetite, 49(3), 687-690
von Ranson, K., Cassin, SE., Bramfield, TD. & Fung, TS. (2007) Psychometric properties of the Minnesota Eating Behavior Survey in Canadian university women Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science, 39(2), 151-159
Woitowicz, AE. & von Ranson, K. (2007) Word lists for testing cognitive biases towards body shape stimuli among men and women. Behavior Research Methods, 39(1), 151-155
Marmorstein, NR., von Ranson, K., Iacano, WG. & Succop, PA. (2007) Longitudinal associations between externalizing behavior and dysfunctional eating attitudes and behaviors: A community-based study. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 36(1), 87-94
Wojtowicz, A. & von Ranson, K. (2006) Psychometric evaluation of two scales examining muscularity concerns in men and women. Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 7(1), 56-66
Moss, EL. & von Ranson, K. (2006) An experimental investigation of recruitment bias in eating pathology research. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 39, 256-259
von Ranson, K. & Robinson, KE. (2006) Who is providing what type of psychotherapy to eating disorder clients? A survey. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 39(1), 27-34
von Ranson, K., Klump, KL., Iacono, WG. & McGue, M. (2005) The Minnesota Eating Behavior Survey: A brief measure of disordered eating attitudes and behaviors. Eating Behaviors, 6(4), 373-392
Cassin, SE. & von Ranson, K. (2005) Personality and eating disorders: A decade in review. Clinical Psychology Review, 25, 895-916
Cassin, SE. & von Ranson, K. (2005) Word lists for testing cognitive biases in eating disorders. European Eating Disorders Review, 13(3), 216-220
von Ranson, K., McGue, M. & Iacono, WG. (2003) Disordered eating and substance use in an epidemiological sample: II. Associations within families. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 17(3), 193-202
von Ranson, K., Iacono, WG. & McGue, M. (2002) Disordered eating and substance use in an epidemiological sample: I. Associations within individuals. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 31(4), 389-403
Book Chapters/Contributions - Peer Reviewed
von Ranson, K. (2008) Eating disorders and personality. In In S. Wonderlich, J. E. Mitchell, H. Steiger, & M. de Zwaan (Eds.), Annual Review of Eating Disorders: Part 2 – 2008 (84-96), Radcliffe
Conference Papers / Abstracts
von Ranson, K. & Schnitzler, Caroline. (2007) Adding impulsivity and thin-ideal internalization to the cognitive-behavioral model of bulimic symptoms
Cassin, S. E., von Ranson, K., Wojtowicz, A. E., Heng, K. & Brar, J. (2007) The effect of motivational enhancement therapy on binge eating: A one year follow-up.
von Ranson, K., Holub, A. & Hodgins, D. (2007) Prevalence of eating disorders among community-based pathological gamblers.
Wojtowicz, A.E., von Ranson, K., Parsons-Olsson, C. & McMorris, C.A. (2007) Exploring the ethical dilemma of excessive exercise in possible anorexia nervosa: A survey of fitness professionals in Alberta.
Moss, E. L. & von Ranson, K. (2007) Binge eating disorder and alcohol dependence: similarities in negative emotionality and impulsivity.
Cassin, S. E., von Ranson, K., Wojtowicz, A. E., Heng, K. Y. & Brar, J. (2006) Motivating more than behavioral change: Motivational enhancement therapy improves binge eating and associated psychological symptoms.
Root, T. L., Sinton, M. M., Collins, L. M., von Ranson, K., Marmorstein, N. R. & Iacono, W. G. (2006) Using latent transition analysis to examine the relation between disordered eating and the onset of substance use in females during late adolescence.
von Ranson, K., Moss, E. L., Iacono, W. G. & McGue, M. (2006) Disordered eating and substance abuse in teenage girls: A unique association?
Stevenson, A. S., von Ranson, K., Cannon, C. & Shah, W. (2006) Change in disordered eating symptoms amongst cardiac rehabilitation patients participating in a brief psychoeducational group.
Root, T. L., Sinton, M., Collins, L. M., von Ranson, K., Marmorstein, N. R. & Iacono, W. G. (2006) Relation between disordered eating and the onset of substance use in females during late adolescence.
von Ranson, K., Robinson, K. E., Heng, K. Y. W. & Cassin, S. E. (2005) Eating disorders as addictions?: Prevalence of addictions-based psychotherapy for eating disorders.
Cassin, S. E. & von Ranson, K. (2004) The effect of media exposure and eating pathology on attention and memory biases for body and appearance-related words.
Cassin, S. E. & von Ranson, K. (2004) Comorbidity between eating disorders and personality disorders: A meta-analysis comparing interview and self-report.
Robinson, K. E. & von Ranson, K. (2004) A description of professionals treating eating disorders and the treatment techniques they use: A telephone survey.
von Ranson, K., Nosen, E. B. A., Cassin, S. E. & Baxter, A. E. (2004) Personality traits in community women and men with binge eating disorder.
Book Chapters/Contributions - Non-Peer Reviewed
von Ranson, K. & Cassin, SE. (2007) Eating disorders and addiction: Theory and evidence. In In J. S. Rubin (Ed.), Eating Disorders and Weight Loss Research. (1-37), Nova Science Publishers

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