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Overview

Kim L. Gratz is affiliated with the University of Toledo in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of psychology, with a significant focus on clinical psychology. They have contributed extensively to studies in psychiatry and mental health, as well as social, applied, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics, with a strong emphasis on suicide and self-harm studies. Other key areas include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, personality disorders and psychopathology, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, COVID-19 and mental health, mental health research topics, and mental health treatment and access.

Among their most cited recent papers are:

  • "Psychological Outcomes Associated with Stay-at-Home Orders and the Perceived Impact of COVID-19 on Daily Life," 2020, Psychiatry Research
  • "Thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness explain the associations of COVID-19 social and economic consequences to suicide risk," 2020, Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
  • "The prospective influence of COVID-19 affective risk assessments and intolerance of uncertainty on later dimensions of health anxiety," 2020, Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • "Emotion dysregulation across levels of substance use," 2020, Psychiatry Research
  • "Adherence to Social Distancing Guidelines Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Roles of Pseudoscientific Beliefs, Trust, Political Party Affiliation, and Risk Perceptions," 2021, Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Kim L. Gratz has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, reflecting a network of recurring partnerships. These include:

  • Matthew T. Tull
  • Julia R. Richmond
  • Keith A. Edmonds
  • Jason P. Rose
  • Adam J. Mann

The scientist regularly publishes in specific academic venues. The most frequent platforms for their work are:

  • Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
  • Journal of Clinical Psychology
  • Psychiatry Research
  • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment
  • Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Best Publications

  • Multidimensional Assessment of Emotion Regulation and Dysregulation: Development, Factor Structure, and Initial Validation of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale

    Kim L. Gratz;Lizabeth Roemer

  • Solving the puzzle of deliberate self-harm: the experiential avoidance model.

    Alexander L. Chapman;Kim L. Gratz;Milton Z. Brown;Milton Z. Brown

  • Measurement of Deliberate Self-Harm: Preliminary Data on the Deliberate Self-Harm Inventory

    Kim L. Gratz

  • Risk factors for deliberate self-harm among college students.

    Kim L. Gratz;Sheree Dukes Conrad;Lizabeth Roemer

  • Development and Validation of a Brief Version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale: The DERS-16

    Johan Bjureberg;Brjánn Ljótsson;Matthew T. Tull;Erik Hedman

  • Psychological Outcomes Associated with Stay-at-Home Orders and the Perceived Impact of COVID-19 on Daily Life.

    Matthew T. Tull;Keith A. Edmonds;Kayla M. Scamaldo;Julia R. Richmond

  • Preliminary data on an acceptance-based emotion regulation group intervention for deliberate self-harm among women with borderline personality disorder

    Kim L. Gratz;John G. Gunderson

  • Risk Factors for and Functions of Deliberate Self‐Harm: An Empirical and Conceptual Review

    Kim L Gratz

  • An experimental investigation of emotion dysregulation in borderline personality disorder.

    Kim L. Gratz;M. Zachary Rosenthal;Matthew T. Tull;C. W. Lejuez

  • Multidimensional Assessment of Emotion Regulation and Dysregulation: Development, Factor Structure, and Initial Validation of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale

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  • Multidimensional assessment of emotion regulation difficulties in adolescents using the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale.

    Anna Neumann;Pol A. C. van Lier;Kim L. Gratz;Hans M. Koot

  • Risk factors for deliberate self-harm among female college students: the role and interaction of childhood maltreatment, emotional inexpressivity, and affect intensity/reactivity.

    Kim L. Gratz

  • The relationship between emotion dysregulation and deliberate self-harm among female undergraduate students at an urban commuter university.

    Kim L. Gratz;Lizabeth Roemer

  • Emotion regulation as a mechanism of change in acceptance- and mindfulness-based treatments.

    Kim L. Gratz;Matthew T. Tull

  • The role of experiential avoidance in posttraumatic stress symptoms and symptoms of depression, anxiety, and somatization.

    Matthew T. Tull;Kim L. Gratz;Kristalyn Salters;Lizabeth Roemer

  • Targeting emotion dysregulation in the treatment of self-injury.

    Kim L. Gratz

  • Impulsive behaviors as an emotion regulation strategy: examining associations between PTSD, emotion dysregulation, and impulsive behaviors among substance dependent inpatients.

    Nicole H. Weiss;Matthew T. Tull;Andres G. Viana;Michael D. Anestis

  • Borderline personality disorder and emotional responding: a review of the research literature.

    M. Zachary Rosenthal;Kim L. Gratz;David S. Kosson;Jennifer S. Cheavens

  • The role of emotional responding and childhood maltreatment in the development and maintenance of deliberate self-harm among male undergraduates.

    Kim L. Gratz;Alexander L. Chapman

  • A laboratory-based study of the relationship between childhood abuse and experiential avoidance among inner-city substance users: the role of emotional nonacceptance

    Kim L Gratz;Marina Bornovalova;Ayesha Delany-Brumsey;Bettina Nick

  • The Relationship Between Emotion Dysregulation and Deliberate Self-Harm Among Inpatients with Substance Use Disorders

    Kim L. Gratz;Matthew T. Tull

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew T. Tull
Matthew T. Tull University of Toledo
Nicole H. Weiss
Nicole H. Weiss University of Rhode Island
Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon
Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon University of Massachusetts Amherst
Carl W. Lejuez
Carl W. Lejuez Stony Brook University
Michael D. Anestis
Michael D. Anestis Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Terri L. Messman-Moore
Terri L. Messman-Moore Miami University
David DiLillo
David DiLillo University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Jason M. Lavender
Jason M. Lavender Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Nathan A. Kimbrel
Nathan A. Kimbrel Duke University
Alexander L. Chapman
Alexander L. Chapman Simon Fraser University

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