Division 12/ Section 10 Graduate Student Members Accomplishments

Publications, Presentation, & Posters

2018
PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS

Borelli, J. L., Palmer, A., Vanwoerden, S., & Sharp, C. (in press). Convergence in reports of adolescents’ psychopathology: A focus on disorganized attachment and reflective functioning. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Dreyer-Owens, S. E., Clerkin, E. M.,Edwards, C. B., Teachman, B. A., Steinman, S. A.,(2018). Believing is seeing: Changes in visual perception following treatment for height fear.Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.

Edwards, C. B., Billingsley, A. L., Steinman, S. A. (2018). Anxiety Disorders: Diagnosis and Assessment. In Diagnostic Interviewing 5thEd.Manuscript in preparation.

Edwards, C. B., Portnow, S., Nauder, N., & Teachman, B. A. (2018). Training less threatening interpretations over the Internet: Impact of priming anxious imagery.Cognitive Therapy and Research.

Edwards, C. B.,Randall, C. L., McNeil, D. W. (2018). Development and Validation of an Oral Health Values Scale. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. Manuscript under review.

Furr, J.M., Sanchez, A.L., Hong, N., & Comer, J.S. (in press). Exposure therapy for childhood selective mutism: principles, practices, and procedures. In Peris, T.S., Storch, E.A, & McGuire, J. (Eds.) A Clinicians’ Guide to Exposure Therapy with Children and Adolescents. New York, NY: Elsevier.

Goetter, E.M., Frumkin, M.R., Palitz, S., Swee, M.B., Baker, A., But, E., & Simon, N.M. (In Press). Barriers to mental health treatment among individuals with social anxiety disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. Psychological Science.

Hill, R., Penner, F., Vanwoerden, S., Mellick, W., Kazimi, I., & Sharp, C. (in press) Interpersonal Trust and Suicide Ideation Among Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients: An Indirect Effect via Perceived Burdensomeness. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior.

Hong, N., Feinberg, L., Comer, J.S., & Bagner, D. (in press). Internet-delivered Parent-Child Interaction Therapy for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: rationale, considerations, and lessons learned. In McNeil, C.B., Quetsch, L.B., & Anderson, C.M. (Eds.) Handbook of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy for Children on the Autism Spectrum. New York: Springer.

Hong, N., Poznanski, B., Furr, J.M., & Comer, J.S. (2018, February). Therapeutic alliance across videoconferencing- and clinic-based treatment formats for early child obsessive-compulsive disorder. Poster session presented at the Miami International Child & Adolescent Mental Health Conference, Miami, FL.

Kaplan, S.C., Swee, M.B., Heimberg, R.G. (2018). Psychological treatments for social anxiety disorder. In O. Braddick (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Mitchell, R. L., Siruckova, A., Server, R. W., Reale-Caldwell, A., Rum, R., & Schoenberg, M. R. (October, 2018). The relationship between frontal lobe impairment, mood, and perceived quality of life in epilepsy. Poster accepted for presentation at the 2018 meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology (NAN), New Orleans, LA.

Steinman, S. A., Billingsley, A. L.,Edwards, C. B., Snider, M. H., & Hallion, L. S. (2018). Anxiety and OCD. InPsychopathology: Foundations for a Contemporary Understanding 5thEd.Routledge. Manuscript in preparation.

Swee, M.B., Dryman, M.T., & Heimberg, R.G.. (In press). Cognitive-behavioral therapy for social anxiety disorder. In G. Todd & R. Branch (Eds.), Evidence-based treatment for anxiety disorders and depression: A cognitive behavior therapy compendium. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Swee, M.B., Kaplan, S.C., & Heimberg, R.G. (2018). Assertive behavior and assertion training as important foci in a clinical context: The case of social anxiety disorder. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 25(1), e12222.

Vanwoerden, S., Steinberg, L., Coffman, A. D., Paulus, D. J., Morey L. C., & Sharp, C. (2018). Evaluation of the PAI-A anxiety and depression scales: Evidence of construct validity. Journal of Personality Assessment, 100(3), 313-320.

Venta, A., Ha, C., Vanwoerden, S., Newlin, E., Strathearn, L., & Sharp, C. (in press). Paradoxical intranasal oxytocin effects on trust in inpatient and community adolescents. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.

2017
GRANTS

No grant number available (PI: Vanwoerden) 1/1/2017-12/29/2017

American Psychological Foundation Division 49 $1,000

Group-based Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS) to Address Problems in Emotion Regulations in Adolescents.

This project examines the effectiveness of an emotion regulation based group intervention for adolescents with interpersonal reactivity and emotion dysregulation and their parents.

1F31MH113291-01 (PI: Vanwoerden) 09/01/2017-09/01/2020

National Institute of Mental Health $102,660

The Development and Validation of an Observational Coding System for Real-Time Parent-Adolescent Mentalizing

This project develops and test a real-time observational coding system for parent-adolescent mentalizing.

PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS

Baker, A.W., Keshaviah, A., Goetter, E.M., Bui, E., Swee, M., Rosencrans, P., Simon, N.M. (2017). Examining the role of anxiety sensitivity in sleep dysfunction across anxiety disorders. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 15(3), 216-227.

Bravo, E.I., del Busto, C., Feinberg. L.K, Hong, N., Furr, J.M., and Pruden, S.M. (2017, November). Can children with selective mutism efficiently identify emotions?: an eyetracking study utilizing NimStims.Poster session presented at The International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Conference, Washington, D.C.

Coluccio, M., Chowdhury, N., Alexopoulos, G.S., Victoria, L.W., Stein, A.T., Pimontel, M., Illieva, I., & Gunning, F.M. (2017, April) Impact of Anxiety Symptoms on Decision Making Performance in Elderly Adults with Depression.Poster Presented at Anxiety and Depression Association of America Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Cusin, C., Ionescu, D.F., Pavone K.J., Akeju O., Cassano, P., Taylor, N., Eikermann, M., Durham K., Swee, M.B., Chang, T., Dording, C., Soskin, D., Kelley, J., Mischoulon D., Brown, E.N., Fava M. (2017). Ketamine augmentation for outpatients with treatment-resistant depression: preliminary evidence for two-step intravenous dose escalation. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 51(1), 55-64.

Feinberg, L.K., Hong, N., Bravo, E.I., del Busto, C., Pruden, S., & Furr, J.M. (2017, October). Assessment of parent-child interactions and language environment among children with selective mutism. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Selective Mutism Association, Boston, MA.

Frost, K.M., Hong, N., & Lord, C. (2017). Correlates of adaptive functioning in minimally verbal children with autism spectrum disorder. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 122(1), 1-10.

Furr, J.M., Pruden, S., del Busto, C., Feinberg, L., Hong, N., Bravo, E., & Yeguez, C. (2017, October). Language processing efficiency in children with selective mutism.Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Selective Mutism Association, Boston, MA.

Ginsberg, R., Morrison, S., Hong, N., & Puliafico, A. (2017, February). Group-based cognitive behavioral therapy for school refusal in adolescents. Poster session presented at the Miami International Child & Adolescent Mental Health Conference, Miami, FL.

Hong, N.(2017, November). Cultural considerations in context: working with Latino youth with internalizing disorders. Symposium chaired at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, San Diego, CA.

Hong, N., Godovich, S., Espel, H., & Rodriguez, T. (2017). Building understanding and improving measurement in community clinical settings. Newsletter of the Dissemination and Implementation Science Special Interest Group of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, 8(1), 6.

Hong, N., Feinberg, L.K., Bravo, E.I., Yeguez, C., del Busto, C., Pruden, S.M., & Furr, J.M. (2017, October). Overcoming obstacles to cognitive assessment of children with selective mutism (SM).Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Selective Mutism Association, Boston, MA.

Jardin, C., Sharp, C., Garey, L., Vanwoerden, S., Crist, N., Elhai, J. D., & Zvolensky, M. J. (2017). Compelled to risk: Does sexual compulsivity explain the connection between borderline personality traits and risky sexual behaviors. Journal of Personality Disorders, 31(6): 738-752.

Mellick, W., Vanwoerden, S., & Sharp, C. (2017). Experiential avoidance in the vulnerability to depression among adolescent females. Journal of Affective Disorders, 208: 497-502.

Moriarity, D.P., Swee, M.B., Ellman, L.M., Olino, T., McArthur, B.A., Coe, C., Abramson, L., & Alloy, L.B. (2017). Immunological correlates of a 5- factor model of internalizing symptoms. Poster to be presented at the 29th Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual Convention; Boston, MA. May 25-28, 2017.

Rizvi, S.L., Hughes, C.D., Oliveira, P., & Hittman, A. (2017). Can Trainees Effectively Deliver Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder? Outcomes from a Training Clinic. Journal of Clinical Psychology. Advance online publication. doi:10.1002/jclp.22467.

Simmons, A. R.(2017, April). Learning like a lion instead of a lemming [Web article]. Retrieved from: http://www.societyforpsychotherapy.org/learning-like-lion

Stein, A.T.,Papini, S., Otto, M.W., & Smits, J.A.J. (2017, November) Reducing Experiential Avoidance: The Role of Prescriptive Exercise.Poster to be presented at the 51st annual convention for the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

Vanwoerden, S., Kalpakci, A., & Sharp, C. (2017). The relations between inadequate parent-child boundaries and borderline personality disorder in adolescence. Psychiatry Research, 257: 462-471.(Won first place at the 2018 Graduate Research and Scholarship Projects at the University of Houston)

Venta, A., Hatkevich, C., Mellick, W., Vanwoerden, S., & Sharp, C. (2017). Social cognition mediates the relation between attachment schemas and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 9(1): 88-95.

Wright, C. D., McNeil, D. W., Edwards, C. B.,Crout, R. J., Neiswanger, K., Shaffer, J. R., & Marazita, M. L. (2017). Periodontal status and quality of life: Impact of fear of pain and dental fear. Pain Research and Management.

Zike, I., Xu, T., & Hong, N., & Veenstra-VanderWeele, J. (2017). Rodent models of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: evaluating validity to interpret emerging neurobiology. Neuroscience, 345, 256-273.

2016
PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS

Beard, C., Stein, A. T., Hearon, B. A., Lee, J., Hsu, K. J., & Björgvinsson, T. (2016). Predictors of Depression Treatment Response in an Intensive CBT Partial Hospital. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 72(4), 297-310.

Carson-Wong, A., Hughes, C. D., & Rizvi, S. L. (2016). The effect of therapist use of validation strategies on change in client emotion in individual DBT treatment sessions. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/per0000229

Cooperman, N.A., Rizvi, S.L., Hughes, C.D., & Williams, J. (2016, October). Piloting a DBT skills training-based smoking cessation intervention among opiate dependent women in methadone treatment. Poster presented at the annual meeting for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. New York, NY.

Fehling K.B., Hughes C.D., Lim N., Borges A.M., Plasencia M., Selby E.A. (2016). Examining Sexual Identity's Impact on Risk for Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Adults. Poster presented at the 51st Annual Conference of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), San Diego, CA, November 16-19, 2017.

Grzadzinski, R., Dufek, S., Carberry, C., Hamo, A., Frost, K., Heyman, M., Dick, C., Manevich, S., Hong, N., Pickles, A., & Lord, C. (2016, May). Preliminary reliability and validity of the Brief Observation of Social Comunication Change (BOSCC). Talk presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Baltimore, MD.

Grzadzinski, R., Dick, C., Hong, N., & Lord, C. (2016, May). Measuring the generalization of skills in response to treatment in minimally verbal children with ASD (A preliminary study).Poster session presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Baltimore, MD.

Horenstein, A., Potter, C., Swee, M.B., Heimberg, R. (2016). Examining socially prescribed and other-oriented perfectionism as predictors of anger in social anxiety disorder.Poster to be presented at the 50thannual convention for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT); New York, NY. October 27-30, 2016.

Hoptman, M.J., Alexopoulos, G.S., Stein, A.T., Victoria, L.W., Pollari, C.D., & Gunning, F.G. (2016, May) Network Homogeneity Correlates of Rumination and Treatment Response in Late-Life Depression. Poster Presented a Society of Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

Horenstein, A., Potter, C., Swee, M.B., Mennin, D., Fresco, D., Heimberg, R. (2016). Psychometrics of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale: Convergent validity and sensitivity to treatment.Poster accepted for presentation at the 2016 annual convention for the Anxiety and Depression Association of American (ADAA); Philadelphia, PA, March31st-April 3, 2016.

Hughes, C.D., & Rizvi, S.L. (2016, October). Biases in affective forecasting and retrospective recollection as a function of Borderline Personality Disorder symptoms.Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. New York, NY.

Ionescu D.F., Shelton, R., Baer, L., Meade, K.H., Swee, M.B., Fava, M., Papakostas, G.I. (2016). Ziprasidone augmentation for anxious depression. International Clinical Psychopharmacology, 31(6), 341-346.

Ionescu D.F., Swee, M.B., Pavone, K.J., Taylor, N., Akeju, O., Baer, L., Nyer, M., Cassano, P., Mischoulon, D., Alpert, J.E., Brown, E.N., Nock, M.K., Fava, M., Cusin, C. (2016). Rapid and sustained reductions in chronic suicidal ideation following repeated doses of intravenous ketamine. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 77(6), 719-725.

Kalpakci, A., Vanwoerden, S., Elhai, J., & Sharp, C. (2016). The independent contributions of emotion dysregulation and hypermentalization on the ‘double dissociation’ of affective and cognitive empathy in female adolescent inpatients with BPD. Journal of Personality disorders, 30(2), 242-260.

Madan, A., Sharp, C., Newlin, E., Vanwoerden, S., & Fowler, J. C. (2016). Adolescents are less satisfied with inpatient psychiatric care than their parents: does it matter? Journal for Healthcare Quality, 34(4): e19-e28.

Moshier, S. J., Landau, A. J., Hearon, B. A., Stein, A. T., Greathouse, L., Smits, J. A., & Otto, M. W. (2016). The development of a novel measure to assess motives for compensatory eating in response to exercise: The CEMQ. Behavioral Medicine, 42(2), 93-104.

Paulus, D. J., Vanwoerden, S., Norton, P. J., & Sharp, C. (2016). Emotion dysregulation, psychological inflexibility, and shame as explanatory factors between neuroticism and depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 190, 376-385.

Paulus, D. J., Vanwoerden, S., Norton, P. J., & Sharp, C. (2016). From neuroticism to anxiety: Examining unique contributions of three transdiagnostic vulnerability factors. Personality and Individual Differences, 94, 38-43.

Pimontel, M. A., Alexopoulos, G.S., Stein, A.T., Victoria, L., Hoptman, M.K., Pollari, C.D., & Gunning, F.M. (2016, February). Cortical predictors of persistence of apathy in late-life depression. Poster presented at the annual conference of the International Neuropsychological Society, Boston, MA.

Rizvi, S. L., Hughes, C. D., & Thomas, M. C. (2016). The DBT Coach mobile application as an adjunct to treatment for suicidal and self-injuring individuals with borderline personality disorder: A preliminary evaluation and challenges to client utilization. Psychological Services, 13(4), 380.

Rizvi, S.L., Hughes, C.D., Oliveira, P., & Hittman, A. (2016, April). Implementation of a Dialectical Behavior Therapy clinic for Borderline Personality Disorder in a training setting: Procedures and outcomes. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders. New York, NY.

Sharp, C., Venta, A.,Vanwoerden, S.,Schramm, A., Ha, C., Newlin, E., Reddy, R., & Fonagy, P. (2016). First empirical evaluation of the link between attachment, social cognition and borderline features in adolescents. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 64, 4-11.

Simmons, A. R.(2016). The importance of learning to give and receive critical feedback. Psychotherapy Bulletin, 51(4).

Stein, A.T. (Chair), Marino, P., Hsu, K., McGovern, A.R., Morgan, T., & Wilkins, V. Adaptation and dissemination of evidence-based psychotherapies for use in acute psychiatric care. (2016, May). Workshop presented at the 169thAPA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

Stein, A. T., Hearon, B. A., Beard, C., Hsu, K. J., & Björgvinsson, T. (2016). Properties of the dialectical behavior therapy ways of coping checklist in a diagnostically diverse partial hospital sample. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 72(1), 49-57.

Swee, M.B., Dryman, M.T., Horenstein, A., Mennin, D., Fresco, D., Heimberg, R. (2016). Intolerance of uncertainty mediates the relationship between depression and quality of life in individuals with generalized anxiety disorder. Poster to be presented at the 50th annual convention for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT); New York, NY. October 27-30, 2016.

Swee, M.B., Horenstein, A., Mennin, D., Fresco, D., Heimberg, R. (2016). A psychometric evaluation of the GAD-7 and GAD-2 in individuals with generalized anxiety disorder. Poster accepted for presentation at the 2016 annual convention for the Anxiety and Depression Association of American (ADAA); Philadelphia, PA, March31st-April 3, 2016.

Vanwoerden, S., Reuter, T., Sharp, C. (2016). Exploring the clinical utility of the DSM-5 conduct disorder specifier of ‘with limited prosocial emotions’ in an adolescent inpatient sample. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 69: 116-131

Victoria, L.W., Alexopoulos, G.S., Stein, A.T., Pollari, C.D., Avari, J.N., Hoptman, M.J., & Gunning, F.M. (2016, May) Hypoconnectivity in the anterior cingulate cortex predicts poor treatment response in late-life depression.Poster Presentation: Society of Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting, May 2016.

2015
PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS

Carson-Wong, A., Hughes, C.D.,Rizvi, S.L. (2015, November). The effect of therapist use of validation strategies on change in client emotion in individual DBT treatment sessions. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of The International Society for the Improvement and Teaching of Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Chicago, IL.

Hong, N., Frost, K.M., & Lord, C. (2015, March). Social adaptive functioning and autism symptoms in minimally verbal children with autism spectrum disorder.Poster session presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Philadelphia, PA.

Hughes, C.D.,Gunthert, K., Wenze, S., & German, R. (2015). The subscale specificity of the affective control scale: Ecological validity and predictive validity of feared emotions. Motivation and Emotion, 39(6), 984-992.

Ionescu, D.F., Swee, M.B., Pavone, K.J., Taylor, N., Akeju, O., Baer, L., Nyer, M., Cassano, P., Mischoulon, D., Alpert, J.E., Brown, E., Nock, M.K., Fava, M., Cusin, C. (2015). Rapid and Sustained Reductions in Current Suicidal Ideation Following Repeated Doses of Intravenous Ketamine. Poster winner of Psychiatry Departmental award and accepted for presentation at the Massachusetts General Hospital’s (MGH) 13thannual Clinical Research Day; Boston, MA.

Papakostas G.I., Fava, M., Baer, L., Swee, M.B., Jaeger, A., Bobo, W.V., Shelton, R.C. (2015). Ziprasidone augmentation of escitalopram for major depressive disorder: efficacy results from a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 172(12), 1251-1258.

Rizvi, S.L., Hughes, C.D., Thomas, M. (2015, November). A therapist at your fingertips: Is the mobile app DBT Coach an efficacious form of skills coaching for individuals with BPD and suicidal behavior? In Melanie Harned (Chair), Using innovative technologies to enhance the evidence-based practice of psychology. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Chicago, IL.

Rizvi, S.L., Hughes, C.D., Oliveira, P., & Hittman, A. (2015, November). Can DBT be successfully implemented in a psychology training clinic? Results from the DBT clinic at Rutgers University.In Melanie Harned (Chair), Implementation and sustainability of Dialectical Behavior Therapy in diverse community settings. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Chicago, IL.

Sharp, C., Vanwoerden, S., Van Baardewijk, Y., Tackett, J. L., & Stegge, H. (2015). Callous-Unemotional Traits Are Associated with Deficits in Recognizing Complex Emotions in Preadolescent Children. Journal of Personality Disorders, 29(3): 347-359.

Sharp, C. &Vanwoerden, S. (2015). Hypermentalizing in borderline personality disorder: A model and some data. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 14(1), 33-45.

Swee, M.B., Kaplan, S.C., & Heimberg, R.G. (In Press). Assertive behavior and assertion training as important foci in a clinical context: The case of social anxiety disorder. Clinical Psychology and Practice.

Vanwoerden, S., Kalpakci, A., & Sharp, C. (2015). Experiential avoidance mediates the link between maternal attachment style and theory of mind. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 57: 117-124.