STRESS Lab
Serving people with lived experiences of trauma and substance use through research, practice, and advocacy. Directed by @nicoleweiss.bsky.social in the Department of Psychology at the University of Rhode Island.
- 📣 Join our team We are hiring 4 research assistants to support work across three grants: 1. EMA and biosensor to predict return to use, 2. Mobile app for co-occurring PTSD-OUD, 3. EMA and biosensor to understand timing and mechanisms underlying alcohol use and suicide. Apply and share widely!
- The STRESS Lab is recruiting 4 full-time Research Assistant I positions across multiple research projects led by @nicoleweiss.bsky.social (Director and PI of the @stresslab.bsky.social). Position details and application instructions are linked below.
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- Reposted by STRESS Lab📣 New Pub 📣 Studied PTSD and opioid use across 60 days in people in the community who use opioids and have a history of trauma. 75% met criteria for current OUD 67% met criteria for current PTSD www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- First year PhD student Katy Price sharing qualitative findings on the needs, barriers, and lived experiences of Black asylum seeking parents @istss.bsky.social
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- Awesome series of EMA talks chaired by STRESS Lab postdoc @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social and lead by STRESS Lab alum (Emmanuel Thomas and Alexa Raudales) and current members (Noam Newberger)
- Sixth year PhD student @reina-kiefer.bsky.social presenting on emotion dysregulation and mental and behavioral health outcomes across community and college samples with experiences of childhood trauma @istss.bsky.social
- STRESS Lab RA Ben Seebold presenting on hair cortisol-derived stress and emotion dysregulation among women experiencing IPV @istss.bsky.social
- STRESS Lab RA Dominique Sheldon presenting on childhood trauma, impulsivity, and physical aggression @istss.bsky.social
- PhD student alum Emmanuel Thomas sharing preliminary findings from his F31 on momentary associations among trauma symptoms of discrimination and alcohol craving @istss.bsky.social @istss-sud-sig.bsky.social
- PhD alum Alexa Raudales presenting on the intersections among PTSD, opioid use, and suicide @istss.bsky.social
- Fifth year PhD student @hodiana.bsky.social presenting on racial microaggressions and alcohol use among women of color in the community
- STRESS Lab RA Natalie Chasten presenting qualitative findings on coping among individuals with co-occurring PTSD and OUD
- Fourth year PhD student Noam Newberger presenting on the utility of GIMME for exploring group, subgroup, and idiographic relations among PTSD symptoms in individuals with OUD @istss.bsky.social
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- Most of the crew @istss.bsky.social (@nicoleweiss.bsky.social @hodiana.bsky.social @reina-kiefer.bsky.social) plus a few of our alum (@melissarschick.bsky.social and @atobar.bsky.social)
- Fifth year PhD student @hodiana.bsky.social presenting @istss-sud-sig.bsky.social on the relations among racial microaggressions and alcohol use @istss.bsky.social
- Fifth year PhD student Alana Egan presenting preliminary qualitative findings from her F31 on the intersections among historical trauma, substance use, and suicide @istss.bsky.social @istss-sud-sig.bsky.social
- Third year PhD student Jewelia Ferguson sharing findings on the role of stigma in PTSD and SUD @istss.bsky.social @istss-sud-sig.bsky.social
- STRESS Lab is @istss.bsky.social Come meet us and see some of our current work!
- New lab grant!
- Proud to empower our community through naloxone distribution on IOAD. Community engagement is more than research; it's action. @nicoleweiss.bsky.social @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social @hodiana.bsky.social (and many others!)
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- Congratulations to Dr. Catherine Diem-Quynh Trinh for successfully defending her dissertation, entitled Happiness and Activity Engagement as Longitudinal Predictors of Adolescent Alcohol and Cannabis Outcomes. We're very proud of you!
- Meet PhD Candidate Noam Newberger! Noam is a soon-to-be 4th year graduate student who will be applying for clinical internship this year. His research interests (including F31 award) include culturally-informed, idiographic, and translational methods to understand co-morbid PTSD and substance use.
- New to Bluesky! Will have a post a day introducing us and our work. We are in the Department of Psychology @universityofri.bsky.social & Directed by @nicoleweiss.bsky.social. We use community-engaged and culturally responsive methods to inform treatments for PTSD and SUD web.uri.edu/stress/
- Meet PhD student Jewels Ferguson! Jewels is a third year graduate student. Her research takes a strengths-based approach to understand coping and resilience within historically marginalized communities characterized by experiences of trauma.
- New to Bluesky! Will have a post a day introducing us and our work. We are in the Department of Psychology @universityofri.bsky.social & Directed by @nicoleweiss.bsky.social. We use community-engaged and culturally responsive methods to inform treatments for PTSD and SUD web.uri.edu/stress/
- Meet PhD Candidate Catherine Trinh! Catherine is a soon-to-be 5th year student who will be applying for clinical internship this year. Her research (including F31 award) leverages strengths-based approaches to studying substance use, including a focus on alternative reinforcers & positive emotions.
- New to Bluesky! Will have a post a day introducing us and our work. We are in the Department of Psychology @universityofri.bsky.social & Directed by @nicoleweiss.bsky.social. We use community-engaged and culturally responsive methods to inform treatments for PTSD and SUD web.uri.edu/stress/
- Meet PhD Candidate Alana Egan! Alana is a soon-to-be 5th year student who will be applying for clinical internship this year. Her research interests are on the intersections among trauma, substance use, and suicide in Pacific Islanders.
- Meet PhD Candidate Diana Ho! Diana is a soon-to-be 5th year student who will be applying for clinical internship this year. Her research interests are on the etiology, maintenance, and intervention of alcohol use and related harm among marginalized populations, particularly Asian Americans.
- New to Bluesky! Will have a post a day introducing us and our work. We are in the Department of Psychology @universityofri.bsky.social & Directed by @nicoleweiss.bsky.social. We use community-engaged and culturally responsive methods to inform treatments for PTSD and SUD web.uri.edu/stress/
- Meet PhD Candidate Reina Kiefer! Reina will be headed to Philly in July to complete clinical internship at Penn. Her research (including an F31) seeks to uncover mechanisms that confer risk for unwanted sexual experiences & related harm across the lifespan, most notably college campus sexual assault
- New to Bluesky! Will have a post a day introducing us and our work. We are in the Department of Psychology @universityofri.bsky.social & Directed by @nicoleweiss.bsky.social. We use community-engaged and culturally responsive methods to inform treatments for PTSD and SUD web.uri.edu/stress/
- Meet PhD Candidate Emmanuel Thomas! Emmanuel is completing clinical internship at Western Psych and then transitioning to an Endowed Postdoc at Rutgers. His research (including an F31) identifies culturally-informed risk and protective factors for alcohol use in racially marginalized communities.
- New to Bluesky! Will have a post a day introducing us and our work. We are in the Department of Psychology @universityofri.bsky.social & Directed by @nicoleweiss.bsky.social. We use community-engaged and culturally responsive methods to inform treatments for PTSD and SUD web.uri.edu/stress/
- Meet PhD Candidate Alexa Raudales! Alexa is completing clinical internship (and then transitioning to postdoc) at Brown. Her research (including an F31) uses real-time methods and advanced analytic approaches to examine the intersections among trauma, NSSI/suicide, and substance use.
- New to Bluesky! Will have a post a day introducing us and our work. We are in the Department of Psychology @universityofri.bsky.social & Directed by @nicoleweiss.bsky.social. We use community-engaged and culturally responsive methods to inform treatments for PTSD and SUD web.uri.edu/stress/
- Meet our new PhD student! Katy's research focuses on the intersection of sexual and gender-based violence and substance use among systemically excluded and marginalized populations. She is particularly interested in the influences of intergenerational trauma and resiliency in contexts of poverty.
- New to Bluesky! Will have a post a day introducing us and our work. We are in the Department of Psychology @universityofri.bsky.social & Directed by @nicoleweiss.bsky.social. We use community-engaged and culturally responsive methods to inform treatments for PTSD and SUD web.uri.edu/stress/
- Celebrating our undergrads at @universityofri.bsky.social Psychology Awards Night
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- Talking careers in psychology with high schoolers as part of the Rhode Island Psychological Association Social Justice & Public Policy Committee Diversifying Psychology Working Group
- More than ever, scientists must amplify evidence-based work. Captured some of our scientists-in-training sharing their research @universityofri.bsky.social College of Health Sciences Research Night.
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- 📣 Newly posted position to support several of our grants 📣 We will conduct an initial review of applications on 5/1. This is perfect for someone who is looking for research experience prior to applying to PhD programs in Clinical Psychology. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/... The Job ID is 22298
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- SIP is a two-year F31 awarded to @reina-kiefer.bsky.social by NIAAA. This project uses alcohol administration and emotion induction paradigms to investigate the effects of positive and negative emotion states on sexual assault risk perception during acute alcohol intoxication.
- New to Bluesky! Will have a post a day introducing us and our work. We are in the Department of Psychology @universityofri.bsky.social & Directed by @nicoleweiss.bsky.social. We use community-engaged and culturally responsive methods to inform treatments for PTSD and SUD web.uri.edu/stress/
- Gratitude to the sponsor team @nicoleweiss.bsky.social @lindsayorchowski.bsky.social Kathy Parks. Thanks to Amy Stamates for use of her BAR Lab.
- Reposted by STRESS LabExcited to share that our S-GIMME paper is out! This was a fun foray into idiographic networks that we wanted to share, but has left me with many methodological questions. doi.org/10.1002/jts....
- LIFT is a two-year R21 funded by NIAAA. This project leverages intensive longitudinal data to evaluate dynamic & idiographic processes among positive emotional processes, alcohol use, & PTSD symptoms as they unfold in daily life among trauma-exposed individuals in the community.
- New to Bluesky! Will have a post a day introducing us and our work. We are in the Department of Psychology @universityofri.bsky.social & Directed by @nicoleweiss.bsky.social. We use community-engaged and culturally responsive methods to inform treatments for PTSD and SUD web.uri.edu/stress/
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- Proud of STRESS Lab doctoral candidate @reina-kiefer.bsky.social for having the courage to share her story. Your experiences offer hope, healing, and strength to others who may be silently carrying similar pain. Your bravery is powerful.
- COPE is a 6-year R61/R33 funded by NIDA's HEAL Initiative. This study uses a ground-up approach & EMA + MRT designs to rigorously develop, evaluate, & optimize a mobile app with both on-demand and automated features to reduce opioid use harm among adults with PTSD exiting residential OUD treatment.
- New to Bluesky! Will have a post a day introducing us and our work. We are in the Department of Psychology @universityofri.bsky.social & Directed by @nicoleweiss.bsky.social. We use community-engaged and culturally responsive methods to inform treatments for PTSD and SUD web.uri.edu/stress/
- Project ReNew is a five-year R01 funded by NIDA. This study integrates data from a wearable biosensor and 6x/day EMA to examine longitudinal changes in neg & pos affective processes on risk for return to substance and related harm during the 30-days immediately following residential SUD treatment.
- New to Bluesky! Will have a post a day introducing us and our work. We are in the Department of Psychology @universityofri.bsky.social & Directed by @nicoleweiss.bsky.social. We use community-engaged and culturally responsive methods to inform treatments for PTSD and SUD web.uri.edu/stress/
- New to Bluesky! Will have a post a day introducing us and our work. We are in the Department of Psychology @universityofri.bsky.social & Directed by @nicoleweiss.bsky.social. We use community-engaged and culturally responsive methods to inform treatments for PTSD and SUD web.uri.edu/stress/
- Reposted by STRESS LabThank you @apadivision50.bsky.social for hosting a space for our symposium on how CBPR methods advance substance use tx for minoritized groups. It felt more important than ever to present on harm reduction tx efficacy across diverse groups #CPA2025 @susan-collins.bsky.social @tfrohe.bsky.social
