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Graduate Student Research Grant Winners
Past winners of ABCT’s Graduate Student Research Grant.
Learn more about the Research Faciliation Committee.
Spencer Chen
2025
“Beyond Suicide Risk: A Cross-Cultural Grounded Theory Study of Life-Oriented Processes in Suicidal Individuals Across Western and Eastern Cultures”
Honorable mentions:
- Simon M. Li, “Emotion Regulation in Context: How Daily Life Shapes Suicidal Ideation.”
Emily Bibby
2024
“A Video-Based Single-Session Intervention for Emerging Adults Coping with a Breakup”
Honorable mentions:
- Kendall Poovey, “Investigating Gastrointestinal Interoception in the Maintenance of Restrictive Eating Disorders”
Alexa Raudales
2023
“Opioid Use and Acute Suicide Risk: The Real-Time Influence of Trauma Context”
Honorable mentions:
- Mallory Cannon, “Examination of Fear Extinction in Chronic Cannabis Use, Anxiety Disorders, and their Co-occurrence”
Gabrielle Ilagan
2022
“Invalidation, Identity-Related Minority Stressors, and Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms in the Flow of Daily Life”
Honorable mentions:
- Kiran Kaur, “Identifying the Role of Emotion Regulation Flexibility in the Association Between Acculturative Stress and Anxiety Symptomatology to Develop an Ecological Momentary Intervention”
Quyen A. Do
2021
“Intimate Partner Violence among Sexual Minorities in Consensual Non-Monogamous Relationships”
Honorable mentions:
- Kathryn Coniglio
Kelsey Pritchard
2020
“Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders: Contextual, Biological, and Social Processes”
Honorable mentions:
- Christina L. Verzijl
Colin M. Bosma
2019
“Individual Differences and Ecological Validity of Emotion Regulation in Response to Sadness”
Honorable mentions:
- Shirley Wang, “Computational Modeling of Decision-Making Biases Associated with Restrictive Eating”
Laurel D. Sarfan
2018
“Using the Approach Avoid Task: Testing the Relation Between Implicit and Explicit Experiential Avoidance and Social Anxiety Symptoms”
Honorable mentions:
- Daniel P. Moriarity, “Reward Processing and Decision-Making in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)”
- Rebecca Cox, “Sleep Restriction and OC Symptoms: The Mediating Role of Inhibition”
Hannah Lawrence
2017
“Physiological and Affective Correlates of Visual and Verbal Rumination in Adolescence”
Honorable mentions:
- Amanda Sanchez, “Cultural, Attitudinal and Stress-Related Barriers to Engagement with Internet-Delivered Services in Traditionally Underserved Children”
Lauren Forrest
2016
“Examining Objective Interoception as a Novel Prospective Predictor of Self-Injurious Behaviors”
Honorable mentions:
- Casey May, “Reward Processing and Decision-Making in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)” & Rebecca Cox, “Sleep Restriction and OC Symptoms: The Mediating Role of Inhibition”
Timothy Ritzert
2015
“Transforming Fear: The Impact of Brief Values-Based Interventions on Approach Behavior in a Spider-Fearful Sample”
Ryan J. Jacoby
2014
“A Translational Study of the Mechanisms of Exposure Therapy for Obsessions: Fear Tolerance vs. Habituation”
Featured Researcher
Alayna Park - Alayna Park, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon. 
Alexa M. Raudales - Alexa M. Raudales, M.A. (she/her/hers) is a doctoral student at the University of Rhode Island and a member of Dr. Nicole H. Weiss’ STRESS Lab. She was the 2023 recipient of the ABCT Research Facilitation Committee’s Student Research Grant.
Ana Bridges - Ana Bridges, PhD, is a Professor, Director of Clinical Training, and licensed psychologist whose research focuses on understanding and ameliorating factors that interfere with mental health help-seeking in historically marginalized and oppressed groups. 
Emily Bibby - Emily Bibby is a doctoral student in the Relationship Development Center at Stony Brook University. 
Evan J. White - Evan White, PhD, is an enrolled member of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. He belongs to the Shawnee Chapter of the Native American Church of Oklahoma and the Whiteoak Shawnee Ceremonial Grounds. 
Gabrielle Ilagan - We study whether daily fluctuations in invalidation are associated with fluctuations in BPD symptoms, and whether identity-related invalidation and self-validation may serve as a risk and protective factors, respectively, for Black and Latinx people with BPD symptoms.
Henry A. Willis - Henry A. Willis, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and is originally from Jackson, Mississippi. He received his B.S. in psychology from Howard University and his M.A. in clinical psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University. 
Joanna Arch - Dr. Joanna Arch is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and the Inaugural Yvonne Kristy Endowed Chair in the Renée Crown Wellness Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder. 
Kelsie H. Okamura - Kelsie Okamura (she/her) is an Implementation Researcher at the Baker Center for Children and Families, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, and a licensed psychologist. 
Richard Liu - Richard Liu, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Suicide Research in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.Featured Lab
The Back-Flanagan Lab, affiliated with the Addiction Sciences Division of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina and the Charleston (Ralph H. Johnson) VA Medical Center, is co-directed by Julie Flanagan, PhD, and Sudie Back, PhD. - Julie Flanagan, PhD, and Sudie Back, PhD. direct the lab at MUSC and the Charleston (Ralph H. Johnson) VA Medical Center.