Trauma and Anxiety Disorders Lab

This lab primarily focuses on cognitive-behavioral approaches to trauma and anxiety disorders. We investigate traumatic events such as interpersonal traumas and childhood traumas and their consequences in adulthood including posttraumatic stress symptoms, anxiety, depression, substance use, and sleep. We also examine how individuals exposed to trauma cope with their trauma-related symptoms and what psychosocial and cognitive factors affect outcomes of traumatic experiences. In addition, we develop and examine the efficacity of brief technology based self-help interventions for trauma and anxiety disorders, which can meet the needs of underserved individuals with trauma and anxiety symptoms.