Sarah Woods, Ph.D.
Director of Behavioral Health
Associate Professor

Graduate School

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry (2007), Marriage and Family Therapy

Graduate School

Florida State University (2012), Marriage and Family Therapy

Featured Publications

Linking family and intimate partner relationships to chronic pain: An application of the biobehavioral family model.

Signs TL, Woods SB, Fam Syst Health 2020 Jan

Discrimination, family emotional climate, and African American health: An application of the BBFM.

Priest JB, McNeil Smith S, Woods SB, Roberson PNE, J Fam Psychol 2020 Jan

Family emotional climate and health: Testing conveyance of effects via psychobiological mediators

Woods SB, Roberson PNE, Priest JB Personal Relationships 2020

The development and validation of the FACES-IV-SF

Priest JB, Parker EO, Hiefner A, Woods SB, Roberson PNE J Marital Fam Ther 2020

Family versus intimate partners: Estimating who matters more for health in a 20-year longitudinal study.

Woods SB, Priest JB, Roberson PNE, J Fam Psychol 2019 Nov

The Critical Need to Recognize That Families Matter for Adult Health: A Systematic Review of the Literature.

Woods SB, Bridges K, Carpenter EN, Fam Process 2019 Nov

Close relationships as a contributor to chronic pain pathogenesis: Predicting pain etiology and persistence.

Woods SB, Priest JB, Kuhn V, Signs T, Soc Sci Med 2019 Sep 237 112452

Implementing integrated behavioral health: Testing associations between shared clinical time and space and provider referrals.

Hiefner AR, Woods SB, Fam Syst Health 2019 Jun

Goal setting in couple and family therapy

Woods, S B Encyclopedia of couple and family therapy 2019

Biopsychosocial theories

Woods, SB APA handbooks in psychology series. APA handbook of contemporary family psychology: Vol. 1. Foundations, methods, and contemporary issues across the lifespan 2019 75-92

 Featured Books

Case Studies in Couple and Family Therapy: Through the Lens of Early Career Professionals

Connie Cornwell, Sarah Woods (Ed.) (2020). Routledge

• Excellence in the Media
  American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (2017)
• Special Recognition Award
  Texas Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (2017)
• Dissertation Award
  American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (2013)