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December 2022
Congratulations to Shelby McGrew! Shelby has received a NIMH Diversity Research Supplement to support her training and her work on the project entitled "Mobile Health to Monitor Risk for COVID-19 and Improve Mental Health During the Pandemic" (MPIs: Businelle, Zvolensky).
November 2022
Congratulations to Ashley Lubben! Ashley is an undergraduate research assistant with the TaSSC and has accepted a summer research internship with Carrollton Springs Changes in Plano, TX. She will work in their Help for Heroes® program, which provides mental health care for active duty and retired military personnel, veterans, first responders, and other high-risk frontline professionals. We could not be prouder, Ashley!
Our team presented at the annual International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies conference:
Healy, N. A., Zegel, M., Phan, U., & Vujanovic, A. A. (2022, November). Trauma load and suicide among firefighters: Examining distress overtolerance and social disconnectedness. Poster presented at the 38th annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Atlanta, GA.
McGrew, S. J., Raines, A. M., Viana, A. G., & Vujanovic, A. A. (2022, November). Posttraumatic Stress, Alcohol Use, and Alcohol Use Motives among Latina Survivors of Interpersonal Trauma: Examining Anxiety Sensitivity and Distress Tolerance as Parallel Mediators. Poster presented at the 38th annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Atlanta, GA.
McGrew, S. J., Schwartz, R. M., Gonzalez, A. & Vujanovic, A. A. (2022, November). Tolerating distress and bouncing back among firefighters: Understanding associations with mindful attention and optimism. In N. Weiss (Chair), Responses to positive experiences in a trauma context as novel transdiagnostic mechanisms underlying both risk and resilience. Symposium presented at the 38th annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Atlanta, GA.
Our team presented at the annual Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies conference:
Lebeaut, A., Zegel, M., Leonard, S. J., Healy, N. A., Anderson-Fletcher, E. A., & Vujanovic, A. A. (2022, November). COVID-19-related medical vulnerability and mental health outcomes among U.S. first responders. In Lebeaut, A. and Zegel, M. (Chairs). Helping the frontline: Addressing first responder needs and behavioral health outcomes. Symposium accepted for presentation at the 56th annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.
Leonard, S. J., McGrew, S. J., Lebeaut, A., & Vujanovic, A. A. (2022, November). PTSD symptom severity and alcohol use among firefighters: Associations with emotion regulation difficulties. Poster accepted for presentation at the 56th annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.
Zegel, M., Lebeaut, A., McGrew, S. J., Anderson-Fletcher, E. A., & Vujanovic, A.A. (2022, November). Resilience and distress tolerance among firefighters: Associations with anxiety and depression symptoms. In A. Lebeaut & M. Zegel (Chairs). Helping the frontline: Addressing first responder needs and behavioral health outcomes. Symposium accepted for presentation at the 56th annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.
October 2022
Congratulations to Shelby McGrew! Shelby has been selected to receive a Student Travel Award ($800) from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. This award will go to supporting her attendance at the annual conference, where she will be conducting two presentations as first-author!
August 2022
Dr. Vujanovic presented at the 13th annual Psychiatry Update Conference hosted by the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, TX. Her presentation was entitled “Posttraumatic stress and alcohol use: Interventions for firefighters.”
Dr. Vujanovic was an invited panelist for the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health. The conference was titled “Public Response to Human Trafficking: A Look-Back and a Step Forward.” Her presentation was entitled “Applying telemental health services for adults experiencing human trafficking.”
Congratulations to Antoine Lebeaut! Antoine has been featured as Student of the Month in the most recent edition of the ISTSS Student Section newsletter. Way to go, Antoine!
Congratulations to Shelby McGrew! Shelby successfully defended her M.A. thesis, entitled “Posttraumatic Stress, Alcohol Use, and Alcohol Use Motives among Latina Survivors of Interpersonal Trauma: Examining Anxiety Sensitivity and Distress Tolerance as Parallel Mediators.”
June 2022
Maya Zegel presented at the 45th Annual Research Society on Alcoholism Meeting:
o Zegel, M., Lebeaut, A., Raines, A. M., & Vujanovic, A. A. (2022, June). Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and drinking motives among college students and firefighters: The role of distress overtolerance. Poster accepted for presentation at the 45th annual Research Society on Alcoholism meeting, Orlando, FL.
Congratulations to Breeana White! Breeana has accepted a full-time Research Coordinator position with the Baylor College of Medicine Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center. This is well-deserved and we are all so proud of you, you will continue to do great!
Congratulations to Aniqua Salwa! Aniqua has accepted a full-time Project Coordinator position with the Research on Emotion, Substance Treatment Outcomes, and Racial Equity (RESTORE) Laboratory at the University of Houston. This is well-deserved and we are all so proud of you, you will continue to do great!
May 2022
Our team attended the Cypress Creek Fire Department's Open House for the grand opening of the new Station 25. Our team enjoyed the pleasure of meeting command staff and participating in the event's activities!
Congratulations to Carrington Slaughter! Carrington has been accepted into the Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program at the University of St. Thomas. We are so proud of you, we know you will do great!
Congratulations to Shelby McGrew! Shelby has been selected to receive the First Year Research Award from the Clinical Psychology program the University of Houston.
Congratulations to Maya Zegel! Maya has been selected to receive the Translational Mechanisms of Behavior Change Science Satellite Travel Award. This award will go to supporting her attendance at the 45th Annual Rsearch Society on Alcoholism Scientific Meeting.
April 2022
Congratulations to Shelby McGrew! Shelby has been elected as the upcoming Student Co-Chair of the Trauma and Substance Use Disorders Special Interest Group for the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Shelby will assume this role after our very own Antoine Lebeaut has done a fantastic job serving in this position for two years!
Congratulations to Shelby McGrew! Shelby has been selected to receive the Cullen Graduate Student Success Fellowship.
Congratulations to Maya Zegel! Maya has been selected to receive the Student Merit Award from the Research Society on Alcoholism to support her attendance at the annual meeting in June.
March 2022
Congratulations to Shelby McGrew! She successfully proposed her M.A. thesis, entitled “Posttraumatic Stress, Alcohol Use, and Alcohol Use Motives among Latina Survivors of Interpersonal Trauma: Examining Anxiety Sensitivity and Distress Tolerance as Parallel Mediators.”
Congratulations to Jana Bittar! Jana has been accepted into Texas A&M's Master of Science in Psychological Sciences program, with a concentration in Industrial-Organizational Psychology. We are so proud of you, you will do great!
February 2022
Welcome to Savannah Woller! Savannah will be joining our team as a first-year clinical psychology doctoral student in Fall 2022. Savannah is presently a Research Assistant and Clinic Coordinator at the Anxiety and Behavioral Health Clinic at Florida State University. We are all very excited to have you on board, Savannah!
Antoine Lebeaut presented at the meeting of the 15th Annual Teaching Conference at the University of Houston:
Lebeaut, A., & Vujanovic, A. A. (2022). The vision continues: Anti-racism, social justice, and trauma informed pedagogy. Invited panel presentation conducted for the 15th Annual Teaching Conference, University of Houston, Houston, TX.
Congratulations to Antoine Lebeaut! Antoine was selected to receive the Cullen Graduate Student Success Fellowship (CGSSF) from the Graduate School at the University of Houston. This $500 award will support his dissertation project.
January 2022
We would like to thank Dr. Amit Berstein, the Director of the Observing Minds Lab and the Moments of Refuge Project at the University of Haifa, for taking the time to present and discuss his recent work regarding the East African asylum-seeker community in Israel, as well as the development and study of Mindfulness-Based Trauma Recovery for Refugees (MBTR-R), a trauma-sensitive and socioculturally-adapted mindfulness- and compassion-based intervention for refugees.
Congratulations to Antoine Lebeaut! Antoine has published another first-author paper:
Lebeaut, A., Zegel, M., Healy, N. A., Rogers, A. H., Buser, S. J., & Vujanovic, A. A. (in press). PTSD symptom severity, pain, and pain-related disability among trauma-exposed firefighters: The moderating role of mindfulness. Mindfulness.
Congratulations to Maya Zegel! Maya has published another first-author paper:
Zegel, M., McGrew, S. J., Wardle, M. C., & Vujanovic, A. A. (in press). The main and interactive effects of distress tolerance and reward function on posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms among firefighters. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.
Congratulations to Shelby McGrew! Shelby has published another first-author paper:
McGrew, S. J., Caulfield, N. M., Boffa, J. W., Houtsma, C., Capron, D. W., Vujanovic, A. A., Franklin, C. L., & Raines, A. M. (in press). The role of distress intolerance in suicidality among MST survivors. Traumatology.
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