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  • Professor
Research Areas
  • Clinical

Biography

Dr. Viana is a Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Texas A&M University, a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (by courtesy) at Texas A&M College of Medicine, and a board-certified clinical child and adolescent psychologist (ABCCAP). Dr. Viana received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Clinical Child Psychology from Penn State University and completed his psychology residency training at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC). His program of research focuses on the examination of temperamental and cognitive-affective mechanisms implicated in anxiety and related disorders across both youth and adult populations. The overarching goal of Dr. Viana’s program of research is to advance knowledge regarding the underlying causes of anxiety disorders, to reduce their comorbidity with other problematic outcomes (e.g., alcohol use), and to improve existing treatments. His research has been funded by the University of Mississippi Medical Center, the University of Houston, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Alcohol Use and Alcoholism, the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration, and the Texas Children Mental Health Care Consortium. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in the area of anxiety in both children and adult populations. He is an active member of several professional organizations, including the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and the Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies. Dr. Viana serves as Associate Editor of Child Psychiatry and Human Development and Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, and as Section Editor of Advances in Psychiatry and Behavioral Health. Dr Viana also serves on the editorial board of several journals.

Research Interests

  • Health Disparities
  • Latino Mental Health
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Substance Use
  • Parenting
  • Emotion Socialization

Selected Publications

  • Underline denotes mentored student or trainee.

                    * = corresponding/senior author when not first author.

    • Silva, K., Amarneh, D., & Viana, A. G.* (in press). Acculturative stress among Latino youth: A bioecological framework. In D. Prabhakar (Ed.), Advances in Psychiatry and Behavioral Health (Vol 4.). New York: Elsevier.
    • Trent, E. S., Church, M. J., Viana, A. G., Goodman, W. K., Guzick, A. G., Storch, E. A. (in press). Cognitive behavioral therapy with exposure and response prevention for childhood obsessive-compulsive disorder. In Storch, E. A. & Guzick, A. G. (Eds). Handbook of Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders. Routledge. 
    •  Trent, E. S., Karim, A., & Viana, A. G.* (2023). Alcohol use among Latino adolescents: Current state and directions for future research and practice. In D. Prabhakar (Ed.), Advances in Psychiatry and Behavioral Health (Vol 3., pp. 115-128). New York: Elsevier.
    • Viana, A. G., Trent, E. S., & Silva, K. (2022). Anxiety and depression in Latino populations: Socio-cultural considerations and best practices. In E. L. Garey, & M. J. Zvolensky (Eds), Comprehensive Clinical Psychology (2nd ed). New York: Elsevier.
    • Viana, A. G., Trent, E. S., Conroy, H. E., & Raines, E. M. (2022). Outcome findings and issues in psychotherapy with children and adolescents: Internalizing disorders. In E. A. Storch (Ed)., Comprehensive Clinical Psychology (2nd ed). New York: Elsevier.
    • Silva, K., Viana, A. G.,* Trent, E. S., Raines, E. M., Conroy Busch, H. E., Hernandez Ortiz, J., Cotton, M. R., Zvolensky, M. J., & Storch, E. A. (in press). Social and adaptive functioning deficits in children with anxiety disorders: The buffering effects of effortful control. Cognitive Therapy and Research.
    • Conroy, H.E., Viana, A. G.,* Raines, E.M., Trent, E.S., Silva, K., Zvolensky, M.J., & Storch, E.A. (in press). Maternal punitive responses, safety behaviors, and fear in anxious children. Journal of Child and Family Studies.
    • Long, L. J., Viana, A. G., Zvolensky, M. J., Lu, Q., & Gallagher, M. W. (in press). The influence of hope and optimism on Trajectories of COVID-19 Stress, health anxiety, and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Clinical Psychology.
    • Zvolensky, M. J., Clausen, B. K., Thai, J. M., Redmond, B. Y., Albanese, B., Viana, A. G., & Buitron, V. (in press). COVID-19 worry and smoking processes among Hispanic persons in the United States. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse.
    • Woller, S.J., Boffa, J.W., Viana, A.G., Albanese, B.J., & Vujanovic, A.A. (in press). PTSD Symptoms, Suicidal Ideation, and Suicidal Risk among University Students: The Role of Shame. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.
    • Robison, J. H., Smit, T. Viana, A. G., Derrick, J. L., & Zvolensky, M. J. (in press). Exploring fatigue severity and sensitivity as indirect effects of racial/ethnic discrimination on mental health among racial/ethnic minority adults. Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior
    • Amarneh, D. Y., Lebeaut, A., Viana, A. G., Alfano, C. A., & Vujanovic, A. A. (in press). The role of anxiety sensitivity in the association between childhood maltreatment and sleep disturbance among adults in psychiatric inpatient treatment. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 
    • Zvolensky, M. J., Shepherd, J. M., Clausen, B. K., Garey, L., Kauffman, B. Y., Brown, R. A., Bogiaizian, D., Salazar, P. L., & Viana, A. G. (in press). Anxiety-related constructs and smoking outcome expectancies among Latinx smokers. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.
    • Candelari, A. E., & Viana, A. G.* (in press). Single-session computer-delivered intervention for parental accommodation and overcontrolling behaviors: A pilot study. Evidence-Based Practice in Child & Adolescent Mental Health.
    • Conroy Busch, H.E., Viana, A. G.,* Raines, E. M., Trent, E. S., Zvolensky, M. J., & Storch, E.A. (in press). Fearful temperament, catastrophizing, and internalizing symptoms in clinically anxious youth. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy.
    • Raines, E. M., Viana, A. G.,* Trent, E. S., Conroy, H. E., Silva, K., Zvolensky, M. J., & Storch, E. A. (in press). Effortful control moderates the relation between negative emotionality and child anxiety and depressive symptom severity in children with anxiety disorders. Child Psychiatry and Human Development.
    • McGrew, S. J., Raines, A. M., Viana, A. G., & Vujanovic, A. A. (2023). Posttraumatic stress and alcohol use among Hispanic/Latina survivors of interpersonal trauma: Associations with anxiety sensitivity and distress tolerance. Psychological trauma: theory, research, practice, and policy, 15, 1085-1093.
    • Trent, E. S., Viana, A. G.,* Raines, E. M., Conroy Busch, H. E., Silva, K., Storch, E. A., & Zvolensky, M. J. (2023). Childhood exposure to parental threatening behaviors and anxiety in emerging adulthood: Indirect effects of perceived stress. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 79, 1984-2008.
    • Amarneh, D., Trent, E. S., Zvolensky, M. J., & Viana, A. G.* (2022). The relationship between anxiety sensitivity and PTSD symptom severity among trauma-exposed inpatient adolescents. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 46, 827-837.
    • Zvolensky, M. J., Kauffman, B. Y., Garey, L., Viana, A. G., & Matoska, C. T. (2022). Interoceptive anxiety-related processes: Importance for understanding COVID-19 and future pandemic mental health and addictive behaviors and their comorbidity. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 156, 104-141.