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Julia Babcock

Dr Babcock

Professor
Director of Clinical Training
Co-Director of the Center for Couples Therapy
Clinical Psychology
Ph.D., University of Washington

 

231D Heyne Building
713-743-8621
JBabcock@UH.EDU

Dr. Babcock will be reviewing graduate student applications for the 2027-2028 academic year. Application deadline is Dec 1, 2026. Please see Student Admissions, Outcomes, and Other Data for details.

Research Interests

  • Domestic Violence
  • Couples' Interaction
  • Couples’ Therapy
  • Efficacy of Interventions with Domestic Violence
  • Emotions and Emotional Regulation
  • Battered Women Who Kill

Google Scholar Page

Teaching

  • PSYC 6303: Interventions I: Foundations in Empirically Supported Treatments
  • PSYC 4321: Abnormal Psychology
  • PSYC 6392: Clinical Supervision

Selected Publications

Babcock, J. C., Gallagher, M.W., Richardson, A. L., Godfrey, D. A., Reeves, V. E., & D'Souza, J. M. (2024). Which battering interventions work? An updated meta-analytic review of intimate partner violence treatment outcome research. Clinical Psychology Review, 11, 102437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2024.102437.

Babcock, J. C., Kini, S., Godfrey, D. A., & Rodriguez, L. (2024). Differential treatment response of proactive and reactive partner abusive men: Results from a laboratory proximal change experiment. Psychosocial Intervention / Intervención Psicosocial. 33(1), 43-54. https://doi.org/10.5093/pi2024a2

Pollard, D., Babcock, J. C., & Cantos, A. L. (2022). Physical intimate partner violence concordance rates in couples: Does CTS2 item order matter? Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605221141864

Armenti, N. A., & Babcock, J. C. (2021). Borderline personality features, anger, and intimate partner violence: An experimental manipulation of rejection. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(5-6), NP3104–NP3129. https://doi: 10.1177/0886260518771686

Babcock, J. C. & Potthoff, A. L. (2021). Effects of angry rumination and distraction in intimate partner violent men. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36 (23-24) NP12708–NP12729. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260519897336

Godfrey, D. A., Kehoe, C. M., Bennett, V. E., Bastardas-Albero, A., & Babcock, J. C. (2021). Validating measures of emotional abuse with behavioral observations during interpersonal conflict. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407520951854

Godfrey, D. A., & Babcock, J. C. (2020). Facial affect recognition moderates the relation between autonomic nervous system reactivity and aggression during dyadic conflict. Psychophysiology, e13588. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13588

Babcock, J. C. & Michonski, J. D. (2019). Sensitivity to facial affect in personality disordered batterers:  Expression recognition and physiological responses. Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, 11(3), 213-224. doi: 10.1108/JACPR-12-2018-0396

Babcock, J. C., Snead, A. L., Bennett, V. E., & Armenti, N. A. (2019). Distinguishing subtypes of mutual violence in the context of self-defense: Classifying types of partner violent couples using a modified Conflict Tactics Scale. Journal of Family Violence, 34, 687–696. doi:10.1007/s10896-018-0012-2

Sommer, J., Iyican, S., & Babcock, J. (2019). The relation between contempt, anger, and intimate partner violence: A dyadic approach. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 34(15), 3059–3079. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260516665107

Trahan, L. H. & Babcock, J. C. (2019). The emotional reactivity of intimate partner violent men with Borderline or Antisocial Personality Disorder: Results from an interpersonal conflict task. Journal of Family Violence, 34(7), 645-654. doi: 0.1007/s10896-019-00069-9 

Armenti, N. A., & Babcock, J. C. (2018). Psychophysiological reactivity profiles of partner-violent men with borderline or psychopathic personality features: The role of empathy. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 62(11), 3337–3354. doi: 10.1177/0306624X17740029

Babcock, J. C. Armenti, N., & Warford, P. (2017). The trials and tribulations of testing couples-based interventions for intimate partner violence. Partner Abuse, 8, 110-121. doi:10.1891/1946-6560.8.1.110

Babcock, J. C. Armenti, N., Cannon, C. Lauve-Moon, K, Buttell, F… (2016). Domestic violence perpetrator programs: A proposal for evidence-based standards in the United States. Partner Abuse, 7, 2-107.

Babcock, J. C., Gottman, J. M., Ryan, K. D., & Gottman, J. S. (2013). A component analysis of a brief psycho‐educational couples' workshop: One‐year follow‐up results. Journal of Family Therapy, 35(3), 252-280. doi:10.1111/1467-6427.12017

Babcock, J. C., Graham, K., Canady, B., & Ross, J. M. (2011). A proximal change experiment testing two communication exercises with intimate partner violent men.  Behavior Therapy, 42, 336-347. doi: 0.1016/j.beth.2010.08.010 (Voted one of the “Best of 2011 Violence Research” articles by Psychology of Violence.)

Babcock, J. C., Green, C. E., & Webb, S. A. (2008). Decoding deficits of batterers during presentation of facial affect slides. Journal of Family Violence, 23(5), 295-302. doi: 10.1007/s10896-008-9151-1

Babcock, J. C., Green, C. E., Webb, S. A., & Yerington, T. P.  (2005). Psychophysiological profiles of batterers: Autonomic emotional reactivity as it predicts the antisocial spectrum of behavior among intimate partner abusers. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 11(3), 445-455. doi:10.1037/0021-843X.114.3.444

Babcock, J. C., Green, C. E., Webb, S. A., & Graham, K. H. (2004). A Second Failure to Replicate the Gottman et al. (1995) Typology of Men Who Abuse Intimate Partners...and Possible Reasons Why".  Journal of Family Psychology, 18, 396-400. doi:10.1037/0893-3200.18.2.396

Babcock, J. C., Green, C. E., & Robie, C. (2004). Does batterers’ treatment work?: A meta-analytic review of domestic violence treatment outcome research. Clinical Psychology Review, 23(8), 1023-1053. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2002.07.001

Babcock, J. C., Jacobson, N. S., Gottman, J. M., & Yerington, T. P. (2000). Attachment, emotional regulation, and the function of marital violence: Differences between secure, preoccupied and dismissing violent and nonviolent husbands. Journal of Family Violence, 15, 391-409.

Waltz, J., Babcock, J. C., Jacobson, N. S. & Gottman, J. M. (2000).  Testing a typology of batterers. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 68, 658-669. doi: 10.1037/0022-006X.68.4.658 (Published note: First and second authors contributed equally to this article.)

Babcock, J. C., Waltz, J., Jacobson, N. S. & Gottman, J. M. (1993).  Power and violence:  The relationship between communication patterns, power discrepancies and domestic violence. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 61(1), 40-50. doi: 10.1037//0022-006x.61.1.40