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Although prevalent, death by suicide is a statistically rare event – making it difficult to identify factors that can best predict behavioral risk and inform suicide risk assessment and management. Experimental tests of theories of...
Despite increases in the numbers of children and adolescents seeking and receiving mental health treatment, rates of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs) in youth continue to rise. In the hopes of aiding ongoing efforts to...
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a psychiatric condition that results in considerable functional impairment. One risk and maintaining factor of AUD is hostility, which is characterized by a generally suspicious and cynical view of other...
The official nosology of psychiatric disorders (DSM-5) includes a primarily dimensional operationalization of personality pathology, the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD), in its latest edition. The present study...
Sexual minority individuals experience significant mental health disparities compared to the overall population, including significantly increased risk for suicide. This disparity is partially explained through the interconnected...
Objective: There is substantial variability in early diagnostic features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), suggesting heterogeneity in clinical presentation. The present study aims to identify distinct profiles of social communication...
Recent research using TF analysis has suggested that two processes underlie performance feedback event-related potentials (ERPs): a reward sensitive process in the delta range (delta-reward positivity; 0-3 Hz) and a loss sensitive...
Background: As suicide rates have continued to rise, suicide prevention efforts turned toward identifying factors through which initial onset of suicidal ideation (SI) transitions to attempted suicide. Evidence suggests that when...
The majority of alcohol use occurs in a social context, and emergent research suggests that the use of alcohol in a social context may be central to alcohol’s reinforcing effects; however, the relationship between social context and...
Adolescence is a period of increased risk-taking behaviors including the initiation of alcohol use, which appears mechanistically related to the brain's reward system. Available evidence provides support for both hyposensitivity and...
The purpose of the present study is to examine the utility of the Systematic Observation of Red Flags (SORF; Dow et al., 2016) as a level two screener for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in toddlers when applied to a naturalistic video...
Background: Suicide is a major public health concern. To facilitate treatment and prevention efforts, prior research has focused on the identification of a small set of factors that might differentiate between ideators and attempters....
While eating disorders were historically considered to be mental illnesses primarily affecting White women, it is now understood that eating disorders occur across all racial and ethnic groups. Prior research demonstrates that Body Mass...
Substance use disorders (SUDs) are a prevalent and impairing condition, particularly among trauma exposed individuals. The current proposal aimed to address the critical need for targeted direct SUD prevention in this population by...
The current fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) differentiates individuals with conduct disorder according to the presence vs. absence of “limited...
Cognitive control (‘executive’) processes have been implicated in a broad range of psychological problems including anxiety and externalizing conditions. However, limited research has examined the effects of external stressors (i.e., ...
Deficits in general cognitive functions, measured via reductions in the P300 ERP component, are commonly observed in adults suffering from depression compared to controls. Despite this extensive literature in adult samples, the...
Approximately 10% of U.S. children are diagnosed with ADHD, and the majority of them retain clinical levels of ADHD symptoms as an adult. Among them, comorbidities are often observed, which can negatively impact a broad range of their...
Problematic anger is a phenomenon that is highly relevant to a number of psychological disorders and health outcomes yet remains under-studied and is often misunderstood. Although the field has largely rejected the value of cathartic...
Rumination has been identified as a transdiagnostic risk factor associated with the development and maintenance of multiple psychological symptoms in children and adolescents. Additionally, a growing body of literature has linked...
Recent advancements in multicultural psychology show that racial minorities experience trauma symptoms as a result of stress-inducing racial-based events (Carter, 2007). In response, Evans et al. (2015) proposed using a post-traumatic...
The dual-pathway model (Sonuga-Barke, 2002, 2003) proposes Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) develops along two distinct but interrelated developmental pathways, a cognitive pathway of inhibitory control (IC) deficits and a...
Research has identified clinical perfectionism to be a risk factor for a variety of forms of psychopathology. It is a personality construct characterized by high personal standards, negative self-evaluations, and preference for...
Perfectionism and Interpersonal Theory of Suicide: Thwarted Belongingness and Perceived Burdensomeness as Mediators of Multidimensional Perfectionism and Suicide Ideation
The current study was conducted to investigate the associations among multidimensional perfectionism, suicidal ideation, and the interpersonal theory of suicide. The author's primary purpose was to focus on the mediating effects of the...
Children with ADHD show impairments in set shifting task performance. However, directly training shifting has not improved task performance in this population. We hypothesized that this incongruence may be because the impairments...
Early adulthood is a critical period for the development of alcohol use behavior. Many individuals mature out of drinking in their late 20's, but some continue to drink heavily, which is associated with problematic use later in life. One...
Psychophysiology research pertaining to affective processing has commonly utilized experimental tasks that present pictures of emotional salience in addition to non-emotional content pictures. The most common picture set used in...
Shifting, or cognitive flexibility, is a core executive function (EF) involving the ability to flexibly shift back and forth between tasks or mental sets (Miyake et al., 2012). Meta-analysis suggests that shifting may be impaired in ADHD...
The current study sought to examine the effects of a multi-session computerized interpretation bias modification (IBM) program designed to reduce hostile interpretation biases in individuals with elevated levels of trait anger. Fifty...
Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) has been proposed as an important transdiagnostic variable within various anxiety and mood disorders. It has been suggested that individuals high in IU may interpret ambiguous information in a more...
Tonic Immobility (TI) is a common defensive response in situations involving extreme fear such as physical and sexual assault. Although TI is adaptive in certain circumstances, it has been shown to contribute to increases in negative...
Social media sites, such as Facebook, merge two factors that influence risk for eating disorders: media and peers. Previous work has identified cross-sectional and temporal associations between Facebook use and disordered...
Women are more susceptible to depression than men and depression around the childbearing years has shown to have deleterious birth outcomes. This study investigated the associations between depression and mental health treatment among...
Individuals employed in first responder professions are at risk for the development of psychiatric symptoms. Two of these professions, firefighting and military service, demonstrate a strong overlap of employees. Prior research has...
Discrepancies between parent and teacher ratings of problem behaviors have been reported consistently throughout the literature. This study is built on the Attribution Bias Context Model, which suggests that the differences in the...
Reliance on self-reported screening for suicide risk may be contributing to a lack of progress in suicide prevention, in part, because of limitations related to stigma, ambivalence, and deception in responding. One change to potentially...
Accumulating evidence suggests that individuals with a history of multiple traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are at increased risk for developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) when compared to trauma exposed individuals without a...
Introduction: Social support and loneliness have been identified as important factors in mental and physical health. People with social anxiety disorder (SAD) often report low levels of social support and high levels of loneliness (Alden...
After numerous obstacles and the inability to establish a placement in which to conduct my thesis, I decided to reframe my topic in order to explore the challenges of conducting art therapy research as a graduate student. Previous...
The relation between self-regulation and both academic skills and internalizing symptoms is well-established. However, open questions remain regarding the nature of this relation and about whether similar or different aspects of self...
Executive functions in children are commonly measured using rating scales and performance tests. However, replicated evidence indicates weak/non-significant cross-method associations that suggest divergent rather than convergent validity...
Self-dehumanization, a phenomenon relevant within social psychology, has been somewhat absent from clinical psychology research. Furthermore, measures of self-dehumanization are few, and to our knowledge, no validated and generalizable...
Physical appearance concerns are a prominent feature of several psychiatric disorders including body dysmorphic disorder, eating disorders, and social anxiety disorder, and a growing body of research suggests that appearance concerns may...
Emotional eating, or eating in response to negative emotions, represents a valuable construct of study due to its transdiagnostic nature (Habhab, Sheldon, & Loeb, 2009; Masheb & Grilo, 2006) and associations with obesity (Laitinen, Ek, &...
Increased stress and blunted reward processing are important risk factors and correlates of Major Depressive Disorder. The experience of acute stress has been shown to reduced fMRI correlates of reward processing; however, few studies...
Theories of suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) have long guided treatment and prevention efforts. Meta-analytic investigation into general risk factors, psychopathology, and STB related clinical instruments indicated chance level...
Inhibitory control, the ability to resist of modulate impulses, is hypothesized to reflect an individual difference dimension of inhibition-disinhibition with important clinical implications. Poor impulse control (disinhibition) is a...
The error-related negativity (ERN), a fronto-centrally maximal negative deflection within 100 ms of error commission, reflects individual differences in the sensitivity to making mistakes and has been linked with some anxiety-related...
Risk factors (e.g., anxiety sensitivity, subclinical anxiety) associated with the development of anxiety disorders have been identified; however, the development of preventive interventions targeting these risk factors is in the nascent...
A growing literature exists that examines the efficacy of computerized Interpretation Bias Modification interventions (IBM’s) in altering existing cognitive biases and thereby reducing symptoms associated with various forms of...
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