2024

November 2024

• Congratulations once more to graduate student Shelby McGrew! Shelby was one of two recipients of the Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memorial Award for Research from TAMU! This honor is accompanied by a $500 monetary award. 

• Congratulations to Shelby McGrew! Shelby was recently awarded the O'Neill Addiction Science Education Award from the Texas Research Society on Alcoholism ($3,000)! This award recognizes a medical, dental, postdoctoral or graduate student who has demonstrated excellence in educating the public, health professionals (e.g., medical faculty and students), treatment professionals, and other non-scientists about the latest addiction science research.  

• Congratulations to Kayla Hall on presenting her research posters "Differences In Alcohol Go/No-Go Task Performance In A Community Sample of Light Versus Heavy Drinkers" and " Drinking to Cope Explains the Relationship Between Urgency and Alcohol Use in Community Adults with Poorer Distress Regulation and Probable PTSD" at the 2024 58th annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Conference in Philadelphia, PA. 

  • Hall, K., Stanley, K., Rambo, S., & Vujanovic, A. A. (2024, November). Differences in Alcohol Go/No-Go Task Performance in a Community Sample of Light Versus Heavy Drinkers.  

  • Hall, K., Quiroga, J., Tull, M. T., & Vujanovic, A. A. (2024, November). Drinking to Cope Explains the Relationship Between Urgency and Alcohol Use in Community Adults with Poorer Distress Regulation and Probable PTSD. 

• Congratulations to Savannah Woller on two first-author publications! 

  • Woller, S.J., Boffa, J.W., Viana, A.G., Albanese, B.J., & Vujanovic, A.A. (2024). PTSD Symptoms, Suicidal Ideation, and Suicidal Risk among University Students: The     Role of Shame. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. 

  • Woller, S.J., McGrew, S.J., Hall,  K.E., Vitus, D., Leonard, S.J., Lebeaut, A., Albanese, B.J., & Vujanovic, A.A, (2024). Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms and           Suicide Risk among Hispanic/Latinx University Students: Examining Perceived Burdensomeness and Thwarted Belongingness. Traumatology. 

October 2024

• Dr. Anka Vujanovic was invited to host a virtual Cognitive Processing Therapy training for Ukrainian Psychologists in Ukraine. Research Coordinator, Fiorela Ruiz, and Research Assistant, Oluwasemilore Ojerinde, were invited to help prepare the training material and facilitate a section of the training.

August 2024

• Congratulations to Savannah Woller for receiving her Master's degree (M.S.) from Texas A&M University! 

• Congratulations to Maya Zegel!! Maya successfully defended her dissertation project titled "Daily State-Like Distress Tolerance and Alcohol Use Motivation among Hazardous Drinkers with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder."

• Congratulations to Shelby McGrew on another first-author publication!

  • • • McGrew, S. J., Zegel, M., Lebeaut, A., Schwartz, R. M., Gonzalez, A., & Vujanovic, A. A. (2024). Distress Tolerance among Firefighters: Examining Main and Interactive Effects of Resilience and Mindful Attention. Cognitive Therapy & Research.

June 2024

• Congratulations to Sam Leonard!! Sam successfully defended his dissertation project titled "Associations of Insecure Adult Attachment Style, Trauma-Related Social Cognition, and Emotion Regulation Difficulties with PTSD Symptom Severity among First Responders Who Served During Hurricane Harvey."

• Congratulations to Shelby McGrew on another first-author publication!

  • • • McGrew, S. J., Thai, J. M., Woller, S. J., Smit, T., Rogers, A. H., Vujanovic, A. A., & Zvolensky, M. J. (2024). Posttraumatic Stress and Opioid Use and Pain among Individuals with Probable Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Self-Reported Chronic Pain: The Role of Health Literacy. Substance Use & Misuse.

• Shelby was invited by the Rape Treatment Center/Stuart House UCLA Health to present her research!

  • • • McGrew, S. J. (2024, June). Posttraumatic Stress and Alcohol Use among Hispanic/Latina Survivors of Interpersonal Trauma: Examining Transdiagnostic Cognitive-Affective Factors. Invited presentation conducted at the Rape Treatment Center/Stuart House, University of California Los Angeles Health (Virtual).

May 2024

• Congratulations to Saoirse Noelle, Anushka Parag, and Kasey Stanley for representing the TaSSC team and presenting at the ABCT Student Research Symposium! 

  • • • Noelle, S.K., Woller, S.J., & Vujanovic, A.A. (2024, May) Impulsivity and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms among College Students: Examining the Role of Mindfulness. (2024, May). Poster presented at the 2nd annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Student Special Interest Group [virtual]. 

      • Parag, A., Woller, S.J., & Vujanovic, A.A. (2024, May). Examining Cognitive-Affective Correlates of Interpersonal Trauma among Diverse Trauma-Exposed College Students. Poster presented at the 2nd annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Student Special Interest Group [virtual].

      • Stanley, K., Hall, K., & Vujanovic, A.A. (2024, May). The Role of Drinking Motives in the Relationship Between Urgency and Alcohol Use in an Adult Community Sample. Poster presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Annual Student Research Symposium [virtual].

• Congratulations to Dr. Antoine Lebeaut for formally graduating from the University of Houston with a clinical psychology doctoral (Ph.D.) degree! 

• Congratulations to Shelby McGrew for receiving her Master's degree (M.S.) from Texas A&M University!

April 2024

• Congratulations to Antoine Lebeaut!! Antoine successfully defended his dissertation project, entitled "An Integrated Personalized Feedback Intervention for Hazardous Drinkers with Elevated Anxiety Sensitivity and Subclinical PTSD." This project was funded by a NIAAA F31 Fellowship with additional funding support from the National Register of Health Service Psychologists. 

• The PATH Project has officially launched recruitment!! 

• The TAMU and MUSC teams met in Charleston to discuss study start-up and to receive training in Cognitive Processing Therapy from Dr. Deb Kaysen. So grateful for this awesome collaboration and the opportunity to work with such a brilliant group! 

March 2024

• Congratulations to Kayla Hall!! Kayla was awarded the Aviles-Johnson Fellowship to support her doctoral studies at Texas A&M University for up to five years.

• Welcome to Kayla Hall and Aniqua Salwa!! Kayla and Aniqua will be joining our team as clinical psychology doctoral students starting in the Fall 2024 semester. We are grateful to have you both on board!! 

• Congratulations to Antoine Lebeaut!! Antoine accepted a postdoctoral position at the University of Washington. We are very excited to see all you will do next!

February 2024

• Congratulations to Nate Healy! Nate matched for pre-doctoral clinical psychology internship at the VA Long Beach Healthcare System. So happy for you!!

• Congratulations to Sam Leonard! Sam matched for pre-doctoral clinical psychology internship at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. So happy for you!!

• Welcome to Kasey Stanley!! Kasey joined us as a full-time Research Assistant, after graduating from Texas A&M University with a degree in psychology. We are very excited to have you on the team!

January 2024

• Congratulations to Savannah Woller!! Savannah successfully defended her Master's thesis, entitled "PTSD Symptoms, Suicidal Ideation, and Suicidal Behaviors among University Students: The Mediating Role of Shame."

• Congratulations to Maya Zegel!! Maya accepted a postdoctoral position with the Advanced Fellowship in Addiction Treatment at the VA Boston Healthcare System. We are very excited to see all you will do next!