Philip C. Kendall, Ph.D., ABPP

Dr. Kendall is the author of The Coping Cat, the most studied and proven psychotherapeutic treatment for child anxiety. Together with Dr. Khanna, he developed Camp Cope-A-Lot, Child Anxiety Tales, and CBT4CBT. He is a Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology at Temple University, where he is also the Director of the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic.

A pioneer and leader in his field, Dr. Kendall is active as a researcher, scholar, and clinician, and his accomplishments are numerous: 800+ publications and 35+ years of uninterrupted grant support from various agencies, including NIMH, NICHD, and the MacArthur Foundation. His treatment programs have been translated into dozens of languages. He is widely cited, and among an elite handful of the most frequently cited individuals in all of the social and medical sciences. His current h-index is 166, having been cited in over 100,000 publications.

His accomplishments also include serving as Honorary Visiting Expert in Psychiatry and CBT at the Ministry of Health in Singapore, Distinguished Visiting Professor at Lackland Air Force Base at Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, Visiting Professor at the Universidad Peruana in Lima, Peru, Arthur B. Richard Visiting Professor in Child Psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine, and Guest Lecturer at the Institute for Studies in Learning Disabilities at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Kendall was twice a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, once as a Summer Fellow and again on sabbatical from the University of Minnesota.

In 2025, he was awarded the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology. He has been president of the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (Division 53) of APA as well as President of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy (AABT, now ABCT).