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Welcome Johanna E. Hidalgo as our newest graduate student at CREST! We are so excited to have you on our team!

We have a new paper in press! Examining associations between impulsivity, opioid use disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder: The additive relation between disorders

We have a new paper in press! Addressing the Disparity in Refugee Mental Health Services: a Pilot Study of a Traumatic Stress Intervention Utilizing a Language-Free mHealth Application

We have a new pre-print! Doomscrolling during COVID-19: The negative association between daily social and traditional media consumption and mental health symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic

Congratulations to Erin O'Donnell for receiving a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship to work with us over the summer!

Congratulations to Julia Kim for receiving an APLE award to support her honor's thesis!

Congratulations to Julia Kim for receiving Seelig Fellowship for the Summer!

Dr. Price is featured by the Georgia State University Graduate News Letter

Congratulations to Dr. Price! He was appointed as the George W. Albee Green & Gold Professor of Psychological Science

Check the featured work of CREST Alumnus, Julie Connor

Join us at ISTSS 2020 Virtually this year! We will be leading a Pre-Meeting Institute on Network Analyses in R!

Congratulations to Alison Legrand on receiving the UVM graduate student research grant!

Congratulations to Zoe Brier on her receipt of the ISTSS Student COVID Research Award!

Congratulations to Alison Legrand for receiving the Mariellen Fischer Dissertation Award!

Congratulations to Annabel Diestel on receiving a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship to conduct a network analysis!

8.6.20: Congratulations to Zoe Brier on her conference symposium presentation at ISTSS 2020: Wont You Be My Neighbor?: Network Symptoms Communities Within PTSD, GAD, and Depression in Large Community Cohort of Trauma-Exposed Individuals!

8.6.20: Congratulations to Zoe Brier, Alison Legrand, and Cassie van Stolk-Cooke on their poster presentations to ISTSS 2020!

8.5.20: Join us at ISTSS 2020 Virtually this year! We will be leading a Pre-Meeting Institute on How to Conduct Network Analyses in R!

8.1.20: Congratulations on our new publication: Validation of Smartphone Based Heart Rate Tracking for Remote Treatment of Panic Attacks

7.31.20: Congratulations to Alison Legrand on receiving the UVM graduate student research grant!

7.15.20: Congratulations to Zoe Brier on her receipt of the ISTSS Student COVID Research Award!

5.21.20: Congratulations to Cassie for matching at her internship at the Palo Alto VA! We will miss you Cassie!

5.20.20: Congratulations to Alison Legrand for receiving the Mariellen Fischer Dissertation Award!

5.13.20: Congratulations on our new publication: Hybrid type 1 randomized controlled trial of a tablet-based application to improve quality of care in child mental health treatment

5.10.20:Congratulations on our new publication: Method to convert an 8-item PCL-5 score to a total PCL-5 score: A scaled equation analysis

5.5.20: Congratulations to Cassie on defending her dissertation!

5.1.20: Congratulations to Annabel Diestel on receiving a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship to conduct a network analysis!

4.28.20: Congratulations to Alison Legrand on proposing her dissertation!

4.20.20: Congratulations to us on our poster presentation at the Organization on Human Brain Mapping: Machine learning prediction of childhood maltreatment using multimodal neuroimaging data

4.18.20: Congratulations on our new publication: Emotionally Valenced Stimuli Impact Response Inhibition in Those with Substance Use Disorder and Co-Occurring Anxiety and Depression Symptoms

3.10.20: Congratulations on our new publication: Investigation of optimal dose of early intervention to prevent posttraumatic stress disorder: A multi-arm randomized trial of 1 and 3 sessions of modified Prolonged Exposure

2.20.20: Congratulations on our new publication: The short-term dynamics of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms during the acute posttrauma period

2.15.20: Congratulations to Zoe on defending her Masters Thesis!

1.13.20: Congratulations on our new publication: Predicting Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Risk: A Machine Learning Approach

12.13.19: The Burlington Free Press wrote a piece about our recent study on the development of PTSD: Article Here

12.12.19: Check out Dr. Price in his media presentation to WCAX about our recent paper on how PTSD symptoms develop after a trauma

11.22.19: Congratulations to Cassie on her poster presentation at ABCT: Through The Looking Glass: Posttraumatic Social Support from the Perspective of the Support Provider

11.15.19: Congratulations to Ally on her poster presentation at ISTSS: The Moderational Effect of Sexual Assault on the Relations Between Social Support, Gratitude, and PTSD

11.15.19: Congratulations to Zoe on her poster presentation at ISTSS: Conversion of the Abbreviated PCL-5 to the Full PCL-5 Using Genetic Programming

11.15.19: Congratulations to Cassie on her poster presentation at ISTSS: Conditional Love: Examination of Posttrauma Social Support Provision from the Perspective of Concerned Significant Others

10.3.19: Congratulations to Cassie on proposing her Dissertation!
Spring & Summer of 2019

4.19.19: Congratulations to Cassie on her winning the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award!

1.28.19: Congratulations to Zoe on proposing her Masters Thesis!

1.2.19: Congratulations on our new paper: The Symptoms at the Center: Examining the Comorbidity of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Depression with Network Analysis.

12.12.18: Congratulations on our new paper: An examination of social support and PTSD treatment response during Prolonged Exposure.

11.22.18: Congratulations on our new paper: A Longitudinal Examination of Interpersonal Violence Exposure, Concern for Loved Ones During a Disaster, and Web-Based Intervention Effects on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder among Adolescent Victims of the Spring 2011 Tornadoes.

11.15.18: Congratulations on our new paper: Implementing Assessments via Mobile During the Acute Posttrauma Period: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Strategies to Improve Response Rates.

9.25.18: Congratulations on our new paper: Crowdsourcing trauma: Psychopathology in a trauma-exposed sample recruited via Mechanical Turk

8.30.18: Welcome to our new undergraduate research assistants!

7.29.18: Check out our amazing paper published by Katherine van Stolk-Cooke and our team: Crowdsourcing Trauma: Psychopathology in a Trauma‐Exposed Sample Recruited via Mechanical Turk

7.26.18: Congrats on our new publication with colleagues from MUSC: An Examination of Social Support and PTSD Treatment Response During Prolonged Exposure

7.25:18: Check out our new paper: The impact of co-occurring opioid misuse and PTSD on response inhibition

7.20.18: Congrats on our new publication! Heterogeneity in the Strength of the Relation Between Social Support and Post-Trauma Psychopathology

7.18.18: Congrats on our new publication with colleagues from MUSC: Suicidal ideation among adolescents following natural disaster: The role of prior interpersonal violence

7.15.18: Check out our new publication on mHealth solutions for early intervention: mHealth solutions for early interventions after trauma: improvements and considerations for assessment and intervention throughout the acute post-trauma period

7.11.18: Participate in the BRITE (Brain Resilience in Trauma Exposure) Study!

5.18.18: Congratulations to all the UVM graduates this year. We wish you all the best and much continued success!

5.1.18: Congratulations to Rebecca Mirhashem on the receipt of the Donald G. Forgays Outstanding Senior Award in Psychological Science!

5.1.18: Congratulations to Julie Connor on the receipt of the Bruce S. Kapp award in Neuroscience!

4.30.18: Congratulations on our new publication with colleagues at the Medical University of South Carolina: Prior interpersonal violence exposure and experiences during and after a disaster as predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression among adolescent victims of the spring 2011 tornadoes.

4.9.18: Congratulations to Ally Legrand on the successful proposal of her 2nd Year Project!

3.21.18: Congratulations to lab alum Holley C. Allen for her acceptance to a clinical psychology PhD program!

3.26.18: Congratulations to Cassie van Stolk-Cooke on a successful defense of her 2nd Year Project!

3.26.18: Congratulations to Julie Connor on a successful defense of her Honor's Thesis!

3.9.18: Congratulations to Rebecca Mirhashem on a successful defense of her Honor's Thesis!

3.4.18: Congratulations to Dr. Price on the funding of a grant from the UVM Dean's Office to evaluate Mindfulness Mediation as an intervention for PTSD. Stay tuned for more details!

3.4.18: Congratulations to Bethany Harris on her receipt of an APLE award to conduct a study on how the timing of trauma exposure may influence PTSD development.

12.26.14: Congratulations to Dr. Price, who is now Nationally Certified in TF-CBT.

12.7.14: Congratulations on our new paper! Bounce Back Now! Protocol of a Population-Based Randomized Controlled Trial to Examine the Efficacy of a Web-based Intervention with Disaster-Affected Families.

11.20.14: Check out Hannah Ward, featured in the 2015 Undergraduate Student Research Profile!

11.15.14: Congratulations on the acceptance of our symposium presentation at ADAA - see you in Miami in April 2015: Investigation of Therapist Perceptions of Mobile Applications in Treatment: A Qualitative Study. In C. Gunter (Chair) Lessons learned and collaborations formed from the career development leadership program: Examining multilevel influences on mental healthcare.

11.9.14: Congratulations to Maggie Evans and Sara Brennan on presenting at ISTSS 2014!

11.1.14: Congratulations on our new publication: Examination of prior experience with telehealth and comfort with telehealth technology as a moderator of treatment response for PTSD and depression in Veterans

9.22.14: Congratulations on our new publication: Early intervention following trauma may mitigate genetic risk for PTSD in civilians: a pilot prospective emergency department study

8.31.14: Congratulations to Sara Brennan on being selected as a finalist for the ISTSS Student Poster Competition!

8.22.14: Congratulations on our new publication: Stereotype confirmation concerns predict dropout from cognitive behavioral therapy for social anxiety disorder

8.21.14: Hydrocortisone as an adjunct to Prolonged Exposure (ISTSS Blog)

8.5.14: Tell me where it hurts: A longitudinal examination of PTSD symptoms and pain (ISTSS Blog)

12.15.17: Thank you all for a wonderful semester! Have a great winter break and we will see you in the Spring.
11.12.17: Congratulations to our collaborators at MUSC on their receipt of the grant: Improving the quality of care in child mental health service settings. We are excited to be a collaborating site on this project.

11.8.17: We were excited to present our work at this year's ISTSS meeting. Check out some photos of our presentations here!

10.31.17: Congratulations to Rebecca Mirhashem on her receipt of the Office of Undergraduate Research Travel Award!

10.30.17: Dr. Price contributed to an article in Modern Healthcare about the opioid crisis.

8.1.17: Check out Dr. Price's contribution to this article in VT Kids about traumatic grief.

7.24.17: Congratulations on our new paper! Prior interpersonal violence exposure and experiences during and after a disaster as predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression among adolescent victims of the spring 2011 tornadoes

7.12.17: Congratulations on our new paper! The moderating effect of childhood maltreatment on the relations among PTSD symptoms, positive urgency, and negative urgency.

7.10.17: Congratulations on our new paper! Design and approach of the living organ video educated donors (LOVED) program to promote living kidney donation in African Americans.

7.24.17: Congratulations on our new paper! Prior interpersonal violence exposure and experiences during and after a disaster as predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression among adolescent victims of the spring 2011 tornadoes

7.12.17: Congratulations on our new paper! The moderating effect of childhood maltreatment on the relations among PTSD symptoms, positive urgency, and negative urgency.

7.10.17: Congratulations on our new paper! Design and approach of the living organ video educated donors (LOVED) program to promote living kidney donation in African Americans

5.12.17: We are so excited to have a new graduate student team member - Welcome Zoe Brier!

5.1.17: Check out our work featured in the New England Psychologist: UVM study links childhood emotional abuse to adult opioid use

4.18.17: Check out our work featured in the Port City Daily: From childhood abuse to adult opioid addiction: a local tale

4.13.17: Congratulations on our new paper! Targeting memory reconsolidation to prevent the return of fear in patients with fear of flying

3.28.17: Check out the description of our new project starting in the near future: Strategic Translational Anxiety Research To Leverage Exposure (STARTLE)

3.24.17: Our research was featured on a VPR (Vermont's NPR station)!

3.23.17: Dr. Price shares some of our research with WCAX :30.

3.22.17: Our research was featured on MyNBC 5 as part of their coverage on addiction in Vermont.

3.2.17: Congratulations to Holley Allen on her receipt of a UVM APLE award to conduct a study on the role of trauma-related guilt and alcohol misuse.

3.1.17: We were awarded the American Psychological Foundation David H. and Beverly A. Barlow Grant to conduct a study on methods to improve exposure therapy for anxiety disorders! Stay tuned for more info including how to participate and future results.

2.27.17: We will be relocating to a larger space located at Fletcher Place on UVM's campus. We are excited to have more room to carry out our work.

2.11.17: Congratulations on our new paper! The intervening role of urgency on the association between childhood maltreatment, PTSD, and substance-related problems

1.20.17: Congratulations on our new paper! Tracking Post-trauma Psychopathology Using Mobile Applications: a Usability Study

11.22.16: Dr. Price offers some advice on how to cope with a fear of flying to the BBC

11.7.16: Listen to Dr. Price offer some advice on VPR's Vermont Edition

10.21.16: Congratulations on our new paper! Rural and Urban/Suburban Families' Use of a Web-Based Mental Health Intervention

9.6.16: Dr. Price contributes to the "How I Work Blog"

8.28.16: Welcome to the lab Ally! Our newest team member.

8.10.16: Congratulations on our poster to be presented at this year's ABCT Meeting, Evaluation of the Representativeness of Psychopathology in a Trauma-Exposed Sample Recruited with Mechanical Turk. See you in NYC!
8.10.16: Congratulations on our poster to be presented at this year's ABCT Meeting, Social Support and Post-Trauma Psychopathology: Investigation Toward a Transdiagnostic Treatment. See you in NYC!
8.10.16: Congratulations on our poster to be presented at this year's ISTSS Meeting, Analysis of PTSD prevalence and factor structure in a trauma-exposed MTurk Sample. See you in Dallas!
7.12.16: Congratulations on the acceptance of our presentation at this year's ISTSS Meeting, Mobile monitoring of PTSD symptoms shortly after a trauma: A pilot study. See you in Dallas!
6.19.16: Congratulations on our new publication! Exploring mental health providers' interest in using web and mobile-based tools in their practices
6.1.16: Congratulations on the start of our new project funded by NIMH! The Trauma Affected BraIns (TABI) Project

5.30.16: Congratulations on our new publication! Intimate Partner Violence in Cohabiting Families: Reports by Multiple Informants and Associations with Adolescent Outcomes
5.14.16: Congratulations on our new publication! Baseline psychophysiological and cortisol reactivity as a predictor of PTSD treatment outcome in virtual reality exposure therapy
5.1.16: Congratulations to all of our team members who are moving on to bigger and better things! We will miss you tremendously - please keep in touch!

4.28.16: Congratulations on the acceptance of our posters to this year's ABCT! We will see you in NYC in October!

3.10.16: Dr. Price will be attending the Multi Modality Short Course at MGH this year to learn about how to bring MRI and related techniques to CREST.

3.8.16: Congratulations on our new publication! Investigation of an Abbreviated 4 and 8 Item Version of the PTSD Checklist 5.

3.4.16: Congratulations on our new publication! Investigating relationships between PTSD symptom clusters within Virtual Reality Exposure therapy for OEF/OIF veterans.

12.20.15: Congratulations on our new poster presentation! Intimate partner violence in cohabitating families: Reports by multiple informants and associations with adolescent outcomes

12.3.15: Congratulations to Sarah Pallito on her receipt of a UVM APLE award to examine the relation of transdiagnostic post-trauma psychopathology and physical activity.
11.16.15: Thank you so much for joining us at ABCT! Congrats to the members of the CREST team who presented posters.
10.17.15: Congratulations on our new paper! Usability evaluation of a mobile monitoring system to assess symptoms after a traumatic injury: A mixed method study.

9.30.15: Thank you so much for the visit Dr. Sudie Back and Dr. Therese Killeen.

9.26:15: Congratulations on the start of our new study! Connecting Cultures and Technology.

9.18.15: Congratulations on our new paper! Comparison of the PTSD Checklist (PCL) administered via mobile device.

9.14.15: Congratulations on our new paper! The indirect effect of social support on post-trauma psychopathology via self-compassion.
9.10.15: Congratulations on our new paper! Laboratory-induced stress and craving among individuals with prescription opioid dependence.

8.17.15: Congratulations on our new paper! Web intervention for adolescents affected by disaster: Population-based randomized controlled trial.

8.3.15: Congratulations on our new paper! Examination of the interrelations between the factors of PTSD, major depression, and generalized anxiety disorder in a heterogeneous trauma-exposed sample using DSM 5 criteria.

7.15.15: Dr. Price is excited to present at the NFAR Summit in Austin TX this September.

7.8.15: Congratulations on our new paper! Evaluating changes in judgmental biases as mechanisms of treatment of cognitive-behavioral therapy for social anxiety disorder.

6.20.15: Welcome to the team Cassie!

6.7.15: Congratulations on our new paper! More than just a game? Combat themed gaming among recent veterans with PTSD.

5.15.15: Congratulations to Annie Maheux for receiving the Donald E. Forgays Outstanding Senior Award!

5.5.15: Congratulations on our new paper! Development and testing of a web-based self-help application for disaster-affected families.

5.4.15: Congratulations on our new paper! Investigation of the relation between PTSD symtpoms and self-compassion: Comparison across DSM IV and DSM 5 PTSD symptom clusters.

4.23.15: Congratulations to Andrew Brown and Annie Maheux for presenting at the UVM Student Research Conference.

4.22.15: Congratulations to Annie Maheux on the successful defense of her honor's thesis!

4.8.15: Check out our work featured on Metricwire's page, a research partner in our studies.

4.3.15: Congratulations on our new paper! Randomized controlled trial of home-based telehealth versus in-person prolonged exposure for combat-related PTSD in veterans: Preliminary Results.

3.9.15: Congratulations to Hannah Ward on the receipt of her APLE award to include salivary cortisol assessments to the MAAT-P Project!

3.1.15: Congratulations on our new paper! An investigation of outcome expectancies as a predictor of treatment response for combat veterans with PTSD.

2.22.15: Congratulations to the CREST Team on the receipt of a REACH grant to support the Mobile Assessment After Trauma Study!

2.15.15: Congratulations on our new paper! Access and completion of a web-based treatment in a population-based sample of tornado-affected adolescents.

1.20.15: Congratulations to Annie Maheux on the acceptance of her poster to ADAA! Investigation of the relation between PTSD symptoms, self-compassion, and social support.

1.20.15: Welcome Ryan Payne to the CREST Team!

7.1.14: Congratulations to Dr. Price on the acceptance of a workshop and symposium to ABCT 2014! See you in Philadelphia this November!

7.1.14: A big round of congratulations to members of the CREST team! Maggie Evans and Sara Brennan had posters accepted to ISTSS 2014! Dr. Price was part of an accepted symposium on technology in mental health care! See you all in Miami this November!

6.28.14: Examining patient-level factors in the receipt and completion of PTSD treatment (ISTSS Blog)

6.12.14: Three strategies to improve access to mental health care (ISTSS Blog)

5.23.14: Congratulations on our new publication: Predictors of Using Mental Health Services After Sexual Assault

5.15.14: Participate in one of our online studies - Click Here to Access the Survey

5.14.15: Dr. Price joins the Neuroscience, Behavior, and Health Initiative at UVM (NBH Initiative)

4.22.14: Congratulations on our new publication: A Randomized, Double-Blind Evaluation of D-Cycloserine or Alprazolam Combined with Virtual Realtiy Exposure Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans

3.31.14: Predicting Which Symptoms Drive Treatment Seeking (ISTSS Blog)

3.26.14: Check out what CREST is up to at UVM! (UVM Communications)

3.10.14: Congratulations to Annie Mahuex for receiving a UVM Summer Stipend to study self compassion and PTSD symptoms!

3.3.14: Adolescent Mental Health After a Tornado (ISTSS Blog)

2.21.14: Assessment of Post-Traumatic Injury Risk: Whom Should We Keep an Eye On? (ISTSS Blog)

2.18.14: Congratualtions to Dr. Price on the recent publication: A Feasibility Pilot Study on the Use of Text Messages to Track PTSD Symptoms After a Traumatic Injury

2.10.14: Congratualtions to Dr. Price on the recent publication: Emergency Department Predictors of Posttraumatic Stress Reduction for Trauma-Exposed Individuals With and Without an Early Intervention

2.3.14: If you build it, will clinicians come? Clinician perceptions of using a smartphone app (ISTSS Blog)

1.13.14: Congratulations to Dr. Price who was selected for the ADAA Career Development Leadership Program!

1.8.14: Our web address has changed! Update your browsers. We are now located at: www.uvm.edu/~crest/

1.6.14: A careful examination of the intrusive symptoms of PTSD (ISTSS Blog)

12.17.13: Similarities between those with PTSD and related anxiety disorders (ISTSS Blog)

12.4.13: The Avengers Development Team wins the Judge's Choice Prize at the first UVM CS Fair! (UVM CS Fair)

12.3.13: Dr. Price is elected the President of the ABCT Technology and Behavior Change SIG!

12.3.13: The transgenerational transmission of trauma (ISTSS Blog)

12.1.13: An overview of the current state of technology in the treatment of PTSD (ISTSS Traumatic Stress Points)