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December 2016
Congratulations to Faith Nomamiukor for receiving the Provost’s Undergraduate Research Scholarship for the spring 2017 semester! Faith will be working on the Emotion Regulation and Health Behaviors among Urban Firefighters study.
Congratulations to Jocelyn Abrams for defending her dissertation, “Depressive Symptoms and Distress Tolerance: Associations with Risky Sexual Behaviors”!
A new book, co-edited by Dr. Vujanovic and Dr. Sudie Back, Posttraumatic Stress and Substance Use Disorders: A Comprehensive Clinical Handbook (Routledge), is officially underway. Stay tuned for more information!
The upcoming “Traumatic Stress” issue in Current Opinion in Psychology, co-edited by Dr. Vujanovic and Dr. Paula Schnurr, is wrapping up. Articles can be accessed here: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/current-opinion-in-psychology/recent-articles
November 2016
The annual Trauma and Substance Use Disorders Special Interest Group meeting was held on Thursday, November 10th, 2016. Drs. Carolyn Sartor and Kimberly Werner were our Invited Speakers this year.
The “Posttraumatic Stress and Substance Use” special issue, co-edited by Dr. Vujanovic and colleagues, was published in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. The issue can be accessed here: http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/special/5523007.aspx
Excellent job to all TaSSC members who presented our work at ABCT and ISTSS this year!
Smith, L., Vujanovic, A. A., & Bakhshaie, J. (2016, October). Distress tolerance as predictor of posttraumatic stress and substance use treatment outcomes in inner-city adults. In A. Asnaani (Chair), Under the influence: The co-occurrence of substance use disorders with PTSD and potential mechanisms maintaining their comorbidity. Symposium presented at the 50 th annual Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies convention, New York, NY.
Schuhmann, B. B., Paulus, D., Banks, K., & Vujanovic, A. A. (2016, November). Childhood trauma severity and impulsivity in acute-care psychiatric inpatients: The mediating role of anger. Poster presented at the 32 nd annual convention of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Dallas, TX. View Photo
Amador, C., Paulus, D., Schuhmann, B. B., Smith, L., Bartlett, B., & Vujanovic, A. A. (2016, November). Childhood trauma severity and alcohol use in acute-care psychiatric inpatients: The mediating role of emotion regulation difficulties. Poster presented at the 32 nd annual convention of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Dallas, TX. View Photo
October 2016
Congratulations to Brooke Bartlett for receiving the Cullen Fellowship Travel Grant Award from the University of Houston for her upcoming presentation at ISTSS!
Congratulations to Bailee Schuhmann for receiving the first annual TaSSC Innovations Award for excellence and creativity in research management! Thank you, Bailee, for all that you do for us!
The TaSSC, in collaboration with the newly developed Trauma and Anxiety Center of Houston and with funding support from the Simmons Foundation, is excited to announce an open position for a post-doctoral fellow.
September 2016
Congratulations to Brooke Bartlett and Lia Smith for receiving Travel Awards from the University of Houston Department of Psychology for their upcoming presentations at ISTSS and ABCT, respectively!
In collaboration with Dr. Joy Schmitz and colleagues at UTHealth, Dr. Vujanovic will be working on a new NIDA-funded clinical trial (as Co-I): “Developing Adaptive Interventions for Cocaine Cessation and Relapse Prevention.”
August 2016
Welcome Brooke and Lia! The TaSSC is excited to have you on board as first-year doctoral students!
Dr. Vujanovic was interviewed by the Houston Chronicle regarding PTSD among firefighters.
Bailee Schuhmann presented our collaborative work with the Houston Fire Department (HFD) at the 124 th annual convention of the American Psychological Association (APA)! Bailee presented the following talk at a HFD symposium at APA: “ Examining Main and Interactive Effects of Depression and Posttraumatic Stress in Relation to Alcohol Dependence among Urban Male Firefighters.”
July 2016
Congratulations to Shannon Cheng for accepting the position of Program Co-Manager at the TaSSC!
The renovation of the new TaSSC space is complete!
June 2016
Farewell to Jocelyn Abrams! Best wishes for a fantastic internship year at the Yale School of Medicine!
Farewell to Colleen Martin! Best wishes for a fantastic internship year at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center!
Farewell to Christy Amador! Good luck in your new position as Research Associate in the Anxiety and Health Behaviors Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin!
May 2016
Welcome to our new research assistants, Faith Nomamiukor, Laura Reed, and Gabe San Miguel! We are excited to have you on the TaSSC team!
Congratulations to Colleen Martin for successfully defending her dissertation, “Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Severity and Emotion Regulation in Acute-Care Psychiatric Inpatients: Associations with Suicidality”!
Congratulations and Happy Graduation to Kevin Banks and Raquel Lara!
April 2016
Shannon Cheng will be joining the TaSSC as a Research Assistant, following her graduation from Rice University next month. Welcome Shannon!
Bailee Schuhmann presented her recent work at the first annual University of Houston Department of Psychology Research Day. Thank you for representing the TaSSC!
Schuhmann, B. B., Paulus, D., Banks, K., & Vujanovic, A. A. (2016, April). Childhood trauma severity and impulsivity in acute-care psychiatric inpatients: The mediating role of anger. Poster session presented at the 1st annual University of Houston Department of Psychology Research Day, Houston, TX.
March 2016
The TaSSC is excited to welcome two new first-year clinical psychology doctoral students! Lia Smith and Brooke Bartlett will join us in Fall 2016.
Currently, Lia is a Research Assistant in the Clinical Addictions Research Laboratory at the University of Chicago, and Brooke is a Psychology Research Technician at the National Center for PTSD - Women's Health Sciences Division, VA Boston Healthcare System.
February 2016
Congratulations to Jocelyn Abrams and Colleen Martin for matching with their first-choice internship sites, Yale School of Medicine and Michael E. DeBakey VAMC (Houston), respectively!
On Feburary 6, 2016, Dr. Vujanovic presented “PTSD and Substance Use Disorders: A Clinical Overview” at the Seventh Annual UTHealth Psychiatry Update, entitled “Innovations in Trauma Research and Practice: Exploring PTSD and Related Outcomes Across the Lifespan.”
January 2016
The TaSSC officially opened its doors!
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