A5065176501- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Sleep and related disorders
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Mind wandering and attention
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
Florida State University
2023-2025
University of California, San Francisco
2022-2023
San Francisco VA Health Care System
2022-2023
Measurement invariance across diverse groups, though crucial for determining the generalizability of a measure, has not yet been tested in many assessments suicidal thoughts. The present study assessed measurement and psychometric properties one such assessment, Depressive Symptom Inventory-Suicidality Subscale, multiple identity dimensions large data set (
Gaudiani et al. (2022) presented terminal anorexia nervosa (T-AN) as a potential new specifier to the (AN) diagnosis, with criteria including (a) AN (b) age > 30 years, (c) previously participated in high-quality care, and (d) clear, consistent determination by patient decision-making capacity that additional treatment would be futile, knowing death will result. This study's purpose was empirically examine subgroup of participants who met first three T-AN-and smaller subset also proxy index...
Across three nationally representative surveys (N = 9.2 million), U.S. adults reported increasingly poor mental health between 1993 and 2020. In the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, days rose from 3 to 4 per month, 3.55 6.02 month among young ages 18 25. Twice as many spent half or more of their in 2018-20 compared 1993-99. Nearly all increase occurred before COVID-19 pandemic began National Health Interview 30% prime-age (ages 26 49) moderate high distress 2017-18 1997-99....
Several studies have identified therapist cultural humility as an important predictor of client psychotherapy outcomes, yet most been conducted cross-sectionally, retrospectively, and/or with inconsistent assessment other related therapy process constructs. Here, we bridge this gap by examining early treatment ratings humility, multicultural competence, working alliance, and client-centered approaches prospective predictors functioning in active community clinic. Fifty participants (56%...
Suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) are a serious public health problem in the United States of particular concern among active-duty service members veterans. Research indicates hyperarousal, through its relevance across other disorder constructs correlations with risk factors, may confer suicide this population. Investigation hyperarousal's connection STBs factors relevant to military mental be illuminating.
Summary Nightmares are a core feature of posttraumatic stress disorder, poorly understood, and associated with serious negative outcomes. Their biology has been difficult to study, the feasibility capturing them in naturalistic home environment poor. This said, published research dominant scientific model focused on nightmares as manifestation noradrenergic hyperarousal during rapid eye movement sleep. The current study used at‐home, participant‐applied devices measure nightmare physiology...
Feelings of entrapment-posited to arise when attempts escape from defeating or humiliating circumstances are blocked-may confer increased risk for psychopathology and suicidal thoughts behaviors (STB), particularly among minoritized individuals who often have more frequent exposure such experiences. Including entrapment in empirical models may aid research efforts further exploring its role minority mental health. The Entrapment Scale Short-Form (E-SF), a brief version the 16-item Scale, is...
Despite the Heterosexist Harassment, Rejection, and Discrimination Scale (HHRDS) being a routinely used measure of discrimination, there is no current consensus regarding its fundamental psychometric properties. This study sought to: (a) test dimensionality scale using classical theory approach, (b), if lacking clear multidimensional structure, use an item response approach to develop concise unidimensional examine differential functioning across various identity factors. In sample sexual...
Self-dehumanization, a phenomenon relevant to social psychology, has been somewhat absent from clinical psychology research. Furthermore, measures of self-dehumanization are few, and our knowledge, no validated generalizable self-report measure exists. To address this gap, we present Self-Dehumanization Scale (SDS). This work incorporates evidence three studies examining the reliability, validity, factor structure SDS in an undergraduate sample, clinically community sample with at least one...
The Perceived Invalidation of Emotions Scale (PIES), developed to measure emotional invalidation, could aid research efforts on various internalizing disorders and minority mental health. A prerequisite for its use includes psychometric evaluation in diverse samples; thus, the current study aimed evaluate properties PIES a combined sample minoritized adults ( N = 876). Results supported unidimensional structure that was invariant across two samples, race/ethnicity, gender, sexual...
Suicidal ideation and suicidal behaviors are major public health concerns in the United States difficult to treat predict. Risk factors that incrementally informative needed improve prediction inform prevention of thoughts behaviors. Uncontrollability ideation, one parameter is such candidate.In current study, we assessed predictive power uncontrollability over above overall for future a large sample active-duty service members. A total 1044 military members completed baseline assessments,...
We lack knowledge about the short-term predictors of suicide attempts (SAs) among treatment-seeking individuals. The current study evaluated whether (a) interpersonal difficulties, hopelessness, and affective states are associated with an increased risk SAs on same next day; (b) these daily interconnected differently over time inpatients who attempt compared to those do not. In total, 110 psychiatric attempted during their stay at a hospital self-reported suicidal ideation, negative affect,...
Abstract Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a trauma-induced debilitating condition, with symptoms that revolve around declarative memory of severe stressor. How does the brain process and emotional information stressors in PTSD? We evaluated role NREM sleep spindles this after exposure to laboratory stress, cohort human subjects different levels PTSD symptoms. Subjects performed two visits: 1) visit which involved negatively-valent images morning 2) control visit. In both visits had...
Abstract Introduction Observational research demonstrates a strong association between nightmares, insomnia, and sleep apnea in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), supportive of the notion “complex disturbance”. Relations disturbances PTSD are often bi-directional disturbed affects non-sleep outcomes. We aimed to examine relationships respiratory events, CPAP use, insomnia trauma-exposed frequent nightmares. Methods Three weeks app-based daily diaries weekly severity index...