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Diana Rancourt

Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training

CONTACT

Office: PCD 4124
Phone: 813/974-0375
Email

LINKS

• Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

• Postdoctoral Fellow, NIMH T32 in Child Mental Health, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University (2012-2014)
• Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2012)
• Clinical Internship, University of California, San Diego/San Diego VA (2011-2012)
• M.A., Clinical Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2007)
• B.A., Amherst College (2002)

RESEARCH

Research Interests

1. Interoceptive awareness of hunger and satiety cues (e.g., food craving, self-reported hunger/satiety, blood glucose fluctuations) as a transdiagnostic mechanism of eating disorders and obesity.
2. The intersection of individual factors and the social context on health risk behaviors, with particular focus on weight-related behaviors.
3. Understanding the risk factors for and consequence of food and alcohol disturbance (FAD).

Research Summary

I have a longstanding interest in adolescents’ and young adults’ health behaviors, with a particular focus on weight-related behaviors (e.g., dieting, uncontrolled eating, muscle-gaining behaviors). My research spans the eating disorder and obesity literature and investigates psychosocial influences on adolescents' and young adults' weight-related behaviors across healthy and pediatric populations (e.g., type 1 diabetes, eating disorder, bariatric surgery). In particular, I am interested in investigating how interoceptive awareness of hunger and satiety cues and food craving may predict disordered eating behaviors, how peers and the social context may be helpful or harmful in terms of health risk behaviors, and understanding more about the risk factors for and consequences of food and alcohol disturbance (FAD). My methodological and statistical approaches are multi-faceted, theoretically-based, and dependent on the particular question being asked. I use cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys, ecological momentary assessment, observational and mixed-methods approaches, as well as experimental designs to investigate research questions of interest.

SPECIALTY AREA

Clinical

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