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Holly K. Orcutt is a researcher affiliated with Northern Illinois University in the United States, whose work primarily focuses on psychology with a significant emphasis on clinical psychology. Their research spans multiple intersecting subfields, including molecular biology, social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and health.

The scientist's main research topics cover various aspects of trauma, mental health, and development. These topics include:

  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies

Recent publications by Holly K. Orcutt reflect these research interests and provide insight into the areas explored:

  • Genomic influences on self-reported childhood maltreatment, 2020, Translational Psychiatry
  • Emotion regulation in undergraduate students with posttraumatic stress symptoms: A multimethod study., 2020, Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy
  • Experiential avoidance as a mediator in the relationship between shame and posttraumatic stress disorder: The effect of gender., 2020, Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy
  • Common Symptom Presentations in Individuals With Probable Comorbid Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, 2020, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
  • Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in sexual minorities., 2020, Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity

The researcher frequently collaborates with other scholars, with recurrent coauthors including:

  • Robyn A. Ellis
  • Adam X. Maihofer
  • Dewleen G. Baker
  • Murray B. Stein
  • Travis A. Cole

Holly K. Orcutt's work has been published in a range of academic venues, primarily centered on trauma and psychiatric research. The venues with multiple publications include:

  • Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Traumatology An International Journal

Additional publication outlets include Translational Psychiatry and Genome Medicine.

Best Publications

  • Preliminary psychometric properties of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II: a revised measure of psychological inflexibility and experiential avoidance.

    Frank W. Bond;Steven C. Hayes;Ruth A. Baer;Kenneth M. Carpenter

  • Personality and the predisposition to engage in risky or problem behaviors during adolescence.

    M Lynne Cooper;Phillip K Wood;Holly K Orcutt;Austin Albino

  • International meta-analysis of PTSD genome-wide association studies identifies sex- and ancestry-specific genetic risk loci

    Caroline M. Nievergelt;Caroline M. Nievergelt;Adam X. Maihofer;Adam X. Maihofer;Torsten Klengel;Torsten Klengel;Elizabeth G. Atkinson;Elizabeth G. Atkinson

  • Emotion Regulation and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms: A Meta-Analysis

    Antonia V. Seligowski;Daniel J. Lee;Joseph R. Bardeen;Holly K. Orcutt

  • An Examination of the Latent Structure of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale

    Joseph R. Bardeen;Thomas A. Fergus;Holly K. Orcutt

  • Face-to-face confrontation: Effects of closed-circuit technology on children's eyewitness testimony and jurors' decisions.

    Gail S. Goodman;Ann E. Tobey;Jennifer M. Batterman-Faunce;Holly Orcutt

  • Male-perpetrated violence among Vietnam veteran couples: relationships with veteran's early life characteristics, trauma history, and PTSD symptomatology.

    Holly K. Orcutt;Lynda A. King;Lynda A. King;Daniel W. King

  • EXPERIENTIAL AVOIDANCE AND FORGIVENESS AS MEDIATORS IN THE RELATION BETWEEN TRAUMATIC INTERPERSONAL EVENTS AND POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER SYMPTOMS

    Holly K. Orcutt;Scott M. Pickett;E. Brooke Pope

  • The course of PTSD symptoms among Gulf War veterans: A growth mixture modeling approach

    Holly K. Orcutt;Darin J. Erickson;Jessica Wolfe

  • Emotion regulation difficulties as a prospective predictor of posttraumatic stress symptoms following a mass shooting.

    Joseph R. Bardeen;Mandy J. Kumpula;Holly K. Orcutt

  • Peritraumatic dissociation and experiential avoidance as prospective predictors of posttraumatic stress symptoms.

    Mandy J. Kumpula;Holly K. Orcutt;Joseph R. Bardeen;Ruth L. Varkovitzky

  • Motivational pathways to alcohol use and abuse among Black and White adolescents.

    M. Lynne Cooper;Jennifer L. Krull;V. Bede Agocha;Mindy E. Flanagan

  • Attentional control as a moderator of the relationship between posttraumatic stress symptoms and attentional threat bias.

    Joseph R. Bardeen;Holly K. Orcutt

  • Female-perpetrated intimate partner violence and romantic attachment style in a college student sample.

    Holly K. Orcutt;Marilyn Garcia;Scott M. Pickett

  • Drinking and sexual experience on first dates among adolescents.

    M L Cooper;H K Orcutt

  • Detecting deception in children's testimony: factfinders' abilities to reach the truth in open court and closed-circuit trials.

    Holly K. Orcutt;Gail S. Goodman;Ann E. Tobey;Jennifer M. Batterman-Faunce

  • A prospective analysis of trauma exposure: the mediating role of PTSD symptomatology.

    Holly K. Orcutt;Holly K. Orcutt;Holly K. Orcutt;Darin J. Erickson;Jessica Wolfe;Jessica Wolfe

  • Prospective trajectories of posttraumatic stress in college women following a campus mass shooting.

    Holly K. Orcutt;George A. Bonanno;Susan M. Hannan;Lynsey R. Miron

  • Experiential Avoidance as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Anxiety Sensitivity and Perceived Stress

    Joseph R. Bardeen;Thomas A. Fergus;Holly K. Orcutt

  • Alcohol use, condom use and partner type among heterosexual adolescents and young adults.

    M L Cooper;H K Orcutt

Frequent Co-Authors

Kerry J. Ressler
Kerry J. Ressler Harvard University
Joseph R. Bardeen
Joseph R. Bardeen Northern Illinois University
Thomas A. Fergus
Thomas A. Fergus Baylor University
Karmel W. Choi
Karmel W. Choi Massachusetts General Hospital
Rachel Yehuda
Rachel Yehuda United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Joel Gelernter
Joel Gelernter Yale University
Robert H. Pietrzak
Robert H. Pietrzak Yale University
Karestan C. Koenen
Karestan C. Koenen Harvard University
Victoria B. Risbrough
Victoria B. Risbrough University of California, San Diego
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital

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