Sabrina Darrow, PhD
Associate Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Dr. Darrow's expertise is in clinical behavior analysis and her primary research interests include the clinical utility of assessments, mechanisms of action in psychotherapy, and implementation science.

Dr. Darrow directs the Wavefront program at UCSF. The Wavefront Program provides evidence-based treatment, training, and research to improve emotion regulation for young people impacted by mood, anxiety, suicide, trauma, and OC-related disorders. In this role, she leads the evaluation and research embedded in the Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy clinics. Dr. Darrow is also leading a collaboration with San Francisco County’s Child, Youth and Family System of Care to implement and evaluate Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents in the public mental health system.

Dr. Darrow is also a clinician within the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Program for Adolescents and Young Adults (http://psych.ucsf.edu/DBTprogram) where she works with high risk, multiproblem youth and their families. She also supervises trainees’ clinical work with youth.

Dr. Darrow obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Doctorate in the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Nevada, Reno. She completed her internship at the Southern Arizona Veterans Health Care System and postdoctoral studies, including the T32 Clinical Services Research Training Program, at UCSF.

• Adolescents’ Perceptions of Nicotine Vaping-Related Social Media Content.
  Psychology of Popular Media 2023 Erin A. Vogel, Rhana Hashemi, Danielle E. Ramo, Sabrina M. Darrow, Caitlin Costello, Judith J. Prochaska
• The DIAMOND-KID: Psychometric Properties of a Structured Diagnostic Interview for DSM-5 Anxiety, Mood, and Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders in Children and Adolescents.
  Assessment 2023 Tolin DF, Sain KS, Davis E, Gilliam C, Hannan SE, Springer KS, Stubbing J, George JR, Jean A, Goldblum R, Katz BW, Everhardt K, Darrow S, Ohr EE, Young ME, Serchuk MD
• Effectiveness of the family-based model of dialectical behavior therapy for both suicidal adolescents and young adults in an academic medical center.
  Journal of clinical psychology 2022 Darrow SM, Maliken AC, Piatigorsky A, Stuart BK, Todd N, Yaeger AM, Londahl-Shaller EA
• User Perspectives on Professional Support and Service Use During Psychiatric Medication Discontinuation.
  Community mental health journal 2022 Darrow S, Pelot M, Naeger S, Ostrow L
• A Text Messaging Intervention (StayWell at Home) to Counteract Depression and Anxiety During COVID-19 Social Distancing: Pre-Post Study.
  JMIR mental health 2021 Aguilera A, Hernandez-Ramos R, Haro-Ramos AY, Boone CE, Luo TC, Xu J, Chakraborty B, Karr C, Darrow S, Figueroa CA
• Is Persistent Motor or Vocal Tic Disorder a Milder Form of Tourette Syndrome?
  Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2021 Claudio-Campos K, Stevens D, Koo SW, Valko A, Bienvenu OJ, Budman CB, Cath DC, Darrow S, Geller D, Goes FS, Grados MA, Greenberg BD, Greenberg E, Hirschtritt ME, Illmann C, Ivankovic F, King RA, …
• Youth and Provider Perspectives on Behavior-Tracking Mobile Apps: Qualitative Analysis.
  JMIR mental health 2021 Armstrong CC, Odukoya EJ, Sundaramurthy K, Darrow SM
• Outpatient Interventions in Clinical Behavior Analysis.
  2021 Sabrina M. Darrow, Thomas J. Waltz, Claudia Drossel, Brenton Abadie
• Effects of Social Media on Adolescents' Willingness and Intention to Use E-Cigarettes: An Experimental Investigation.
  Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2021 Vogel EA, Ramo DE, Rubinstein ML, Delucchi KL, Darrow SM, Costello C, Prochaska JJ
• Synaptic processes and immune-related pathways implicated in Tourette syndrome.
  Translational psychiatry 2021 Tsetsos F, Yu D, Sul JH, Huang AY, Illmann C, Osiecki L, Darrow SM, Hirschtritt ME, Greenberg E, Muller-Vahl KR, Stuhrmann M, Dion Y, Rouleau GA, Aschauer H, Stamenkovic M, Schlögelhofer M, Sandor P, …
• A Text Messaging Intervention for Coping With Social Distancing During COVID-19 (StayWell at Home): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.
  JMIR research protocols 2021 Figueroa CA, Hernandez-Ramos R, Boone CE, Gómez-Pathak L, Yip V, Luo T, Sierra V, Xu J, Chakraborty B, Darrow S, Aguilera A
• Experiences with using an idiographic assessment procedure in primary mental health care services for adolescents.
  International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being 2020 Tollefsen TK, Darrow SM, Lohne V, Berg-Nielsen TS
• "Is it us or is it me?": Family experiences of connectedness following a reflecting team intervention.
  Journal of marital and family therapy 2020 Browne DT, Norona J, Busch A, Armstrong K, Crouch S, Ernst T, Darrow S, Smith JA, Ihle EC
• Adolescents' mental health concerns, reported with an idiographic assessment tool.
  BMC psychology 2020 Tollefsen TK, Darrow SM, Neumer SP, Berg-Nielsen TS
• Interrogating the Genetic Determinants of Tourette's Syndrome and Other Tic Disorders Through Genome-Wide Association Studies.
  The American journal of psychiatry 2019 Yu D, Sul JH, Tsetsos F, Nawaz MS, Huang AY, Zelaya I, Illmann C, Osiecki L, Darrow SM, Hirschtritt ME, Greenberg E, Muller-Vahl KR, Stuhrmann M, Dion Y, Rouleau G, Aschauer H, Stamenkovic M, …
• Symmetry and Disinhibition are Heritable Endophenotypes For Tourette Syndrome.
  European Neuropsychopharmacology 2019 Carol Mathews, Sabrina Darrow, Matthew Hirschtritt, Dongmei Yu, Lea Davis, Jeremiah Scharf
• Prevalence and predictors of hair pulling disorder and excoriation disorder in Tourette syndrome.
  European child & adolescent psychiatry 2017 Greenberg E, Tung ES, Gauvin C, Osiecki L, Yang KG, Curley E, Essa A, Illmann C, Sandor P, Dion Y, Lyon GJ, King RA, Darrow S, Hirschtritt ME, Budman CL, Grados M, Pauls DL, Keuthen NJ, Mathews CA, …
• Discontinuing Psychiatric Medications: A Survey of Long-Term Users.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2017 Ostrow L, Jessell L, Hurd M, Darrow SM, Cohen D
• Exploring Types of Family Environments in Youth with Eating Disorders.
  European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association 2017 Darrow SM, Accurso EC, Nauman ER, Goldschmidt AB, Le Grange D
• Genetic and phenotypic overlap of specific obsessive-compulsive and attention-deficit/hyperactive subtypes with Tourette syndrome.
  Psychological medicine 2017 Hirschtritt ME, Darrow SM, Illmann C, Osiecki L, Grados M, Sandor P, Dion Y, King RA, Pauls D, Budman CL, Cath DC, Greenberg E, Lyon GJ, Yu D, McGrath LM, McMahon WM, Lee PC, Delucchi KL, Scharf JM, …
• Autism Spectrum Symptoms in a Tourette's Disorder Sample.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2017 Darrow SM, Grados M, Sandor P, Hirschtritt ME, Illmann C, Osiecki L, Dion Y, King R, Pauls D, Budman CL, Cath DC, Greenberg E, Lyon GJ, McMahon WM, Lee PC, Delucchi KL, Scharf JM, Mathews CA
• 896 Genetic and Phenotypic Overlap of Specific Obsessive-Compulsive Subtypes with Tourette Syndrome.
  Biological Psychiatry 2017 Matthew Hirschtritt, Sabrina M. Darrow, Cornelia Illmann, Lisa Osiecki, Marco Grados, Paul Sandor, Yves Dion, Robert A. King, David Pauls, Cathy L. Budman, Danielle C. Cath, Erica Greenberg, Gholson J…
• Identification of Two Heritable Cross-Disorder Endophenotypes for Tourette Syndrome.
  The American journal of psychiatry 2016 Darrow SM, Hirschtritt ME, Davis LK, Illmann C, Osiecki L, Grados M, Sandor P, Dion Y, King R, Pauls D, Budman CL, Cath DC, Greenberg E, Lyon GJ, Yu D, McGrath LM, McMahon WM, Lee PC, Delucchi KL, …
• The Association Between Psychiatric Disorders and Telomere Length: A Meta-Analysis Involving 14,827 Persons.
  Psychosomatic medicine 2016 Darrow SM, Verhoeven JE, Révész D, Lindqvist D, Penninx BW, Delucchi KL, Wolkowitz OM, Mathews CA
• Social disinhibition is a heritable subphenotype of tics in Tourette syndrome.
  Neurology 2016 Hirschtritt ME, Darrow SM, Illmann C, Osiecki L, Grados M, Sandor P, Dion Y, King RA, Pauls DL, Budman CL, Cath DC, Greenberg E, Lyon GJ, Yu D, McGrath LM, McMahon WM, Lee PC, Delucchi KL, Scharf JM, …
• Web-based phenotyping for Tourette Syndrome: Reliability of common co-morbid diagnoses.
  Psychiatry research 2015 Darrow SM, Illmann C, Gauvin C, Osiecki L, Egan CA, Greenberg E, Eckfield M, Hirschtritt ME, Pauls DL, Batterson JR, Berlin CM, Malaty IA, Woods DW, Scharf JM, Mathews CA
• The role of functional assessment in third wave behavioral interventions: foundations and future directions for a fourth wave.
  Current Opinion in Psychology 2015 Glenn M Callaghan, Sabrina M Darrow
• The Body Image Psychological Inflexibility Scale: development and psychometric properties.
  Psychiatry research 2014 Callaghan GM, Sandoz EK, Darrow SM, Feeney TK
• Where?s the beef?: Reply to Kanter, Holman, and Wilson.
  Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science 2014 Sabrina M. Darrow, William C. Follette
• Clinical Behavior Analysis.
  The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Operant and Classical Conditioning 2014 William C. Follette, Sabrina M. Darrow
• A Behavior Analytic Interpretation of Alexithymia.
  Journal of contextual behavioral science 2014 Darrow SM, Follette WC
• The Functional Idiographic Assessment Template-Questionnaire (FIAT-Q): Initial Psychometric Properties.
  Journal of contextual behavioral science 2014 Darrow SM, Callaghan GC, Bonow JT, Follette WC
• Handbook of Operant and Classical Conditioning. McSweeney, F.K. & Murphy, E.S. (Eds.)
  Clinical Behavior Analysis 2014 Follette, W.C., & Darrow, S.M.
• An Empirical Model of Body Image Disturbance Using Behavioral Principles found in Functional Analytic Psychotherapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
  International journal of behavioral and consultation therapy 2012 Callaghan GM, Duenas JA, Nadeau SE, Darrow SM, Van der Merwe J, Misko J
• An empirical model of body image disturbance using behavioral principles found in functional analytic psychotherapy and acceptance and commitment therapy
  International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy 2012 Callaghan, G.M., Duenas, J.A., Nadeau, S.E., Darrow, S.M., Van der Merwe, J., & Misko, J.
• Equifinality in Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Different Strokes for Different Folks.
  International journal of behavioral and consultation therapy 2012 Darrow SM, Dalto G, Follette WC
• The function and topography of behavior: Things aren’t always as they seem
  European Psychotherapy 2012 Follette, W.C. & Darrow, S.M.
• Starting a functional assessment of depression (FAD): development of a FAD.
  Behavior modification 2011 Darrow SM, Follette WC
• Reviewing risk for individuals with developmental disabilities.
  Clinical psychology review 2010 Darrow SM, Follette WC, Maragakis A, Dykstra T
• Supervision and Therapist Self-Development.
  A Guide to Functional Analytic Psychotherapy 2009 Mavis Tsai, Glenn M. Callaghan, Robert J. Kohlenberg, William C. Follette, Sabrina M. Darrow
• W. T. O’Donohue (Ed.), General principles of cognitive behavior therapy
  Cognitive behavior therapy: A current appraisal 2009 Follette, W. C., Darrow, S. M., & Bonow, J. T.