Contact Info
Location
E camodica@owu.edu
Education
B.A., Judson College
M.S., Illinois State University
Ph.D., Ball State University
About
Chris Modica is an Assistant Professor in the psychology department at Ohio Wesleyan University. He is currently a licensed psychologist in Ohio and Indiana and a Health Service Provider in Psychology (HSPP) in Indiana. Clinically he has experience providing outpatient psychotherapy and assessment in private practice, community mental health centers, and university student counseling centers. He also has experience in providing clinical supervision of doctoral students in individual therapy, group therapy, and testing/assessment. Academically, his subspecialty/cognate within his doctoral degree was in research methodology.
Before coming to Ohio Wesleyan University, Dr. Modica was an Assistant Professor at Wright State University within the School of Professional Psychology (Clinical Psychology Psy.D. program) where he taught classes in clinical interviewing, ethics, and statistics. He also has teaching experience at Ball State University at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Dr. Modica’s professional and clinical areas of interest broadly include:
A) Psychopathology and diagnosis (specifically anxiety disorders, OCD, MMPI-2-RF)
B) Psychotherapy
C) Eating disorders and body image
D) Professional psychology ethics
E) Statistics (specifically regression, mediation and moderation, structural equation modeling, and confirmatory factor analysis).
Dr. Modica’s primary areas of research interest are:
A) Sociocultural variables impacting body image, eating, and eating disorders
B) Social media use
C) Sexual objectification and its consequences (e.g., body image, eating concerns)
Publications
(Note, * refers to a current or past OWU student)