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Overview

Tracy K. Witte is affiliated with Auburn University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the field of psychology. Their work covers a range of subfields including clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, speech and hearing, social psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their research interests center notably on suicide and self-harm studies, veterinary practice and education, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, as well as anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes. Additional topics include mental health treatment and access, agriculture and farm safety, and human-animal interaction studies.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Tracy K. Witte are:

  • Reconnecting to Internal Sensation and Experiences: A Pilot Feasibility Study of an Online Intervention to Improve Interoception and Reduce Suicidal Ideation (2021, Behavior Therapy)
  • A survey of negative mental health outcomes, workplace and school climate, and identity disclosure for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and asexual veterinary professionals and students in the United States and United Kingdom (2020, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association)
  • Looking through a filtered lens: Negative social comparison on social media and suicidal ideation among young adults (2022, Psychology of Popular Media)
  • Dynamic associations between interpersonal needs and suicidal ideation in a sample of individuals with eating disorders (2020, Psychological Medicine)
  • An Examination of the Factor Structure of the Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory (2021, Assessment)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Witte include Eric S. Crosby, April R. Smith, Sharon Kramper, Frank W. Weathers, and Sydney N. Waitz-Kudla.

Publishing venues where Witte has appeared recurrently include:

  • Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
  • Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
  • Behavior Therapy
  • Assessment
  • Traumatology An International Journal

Best Publications

  • The Interpersonal Theory of Suicide

    Kimberly A. Van Orden;Tracy K. Witte;Kelly C. Cukrowicz;Scott R. Braithwaite

  • The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5): Development and Initial Psychometric Evaluation.

    Christy A. Blevins;Frank W. Weathers;Margaret T. Davis;Tracy K. Witte

  • Thwarted Belongingness and Perceived Burdensomeness: Construct Validity and Psychometric Properties of the Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire

    Kimberly A. Van Orden;Kelly C. Cukrowicz;Tracy K. Witte;Thomas E. Joiner

  • Suicidal Desire and the Capability for Suicide: Tests of the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicidal Behavior among Adults.

    Kimberly A. Van Orden;Tracy K. Witte;Kathryn H. Gordon;Theodore W. Bender

  • Main predictions of the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior: empirical tests in two samples of young adults.

    Thomas E. Joiner Jr.;Kimberly A. Van Orden;Tracy K. Witte;Edward A. Selby

  • Warning Signs for Suicide: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications.

    M. David Rudd;Alan L. Berman;Thomas E. Joiner;Matthew K. Nock

  • The Interpersonal Theory of Suicide: Guidance for Working with Suicidal Clients

    Thomas E. Joiner Jr.;Kimberly A. Van Orden;Tracy K. Witte;M. David Rudd

  • Fearlessness about death: the psychometric properties and construct validity of the revision to the acquired capability for suicide scale.

    Jessica D. Ribeiro;Tracy K. Witte;Kimberly A. Van Orden;Edward A. Selby

  • Four studies on how past and current suicidality relate even when "everything but the kitchen sink" is covaried.

    Thomas E. Joiner Jr.;Yeates Conwell;Kathleen Kara Fitzpatrick;Tracy K. Witte

  • Suicidal Ideation in College Students Varies Across Semesters: The Mediating Role of Belongingness

    Kimberly A. Van Orden;Tracy K. Witte;Lisa M. James;Yessenia Castro

  • Risk factors for suicide, attitudes toward mental illness, and practice-related stressors among US veterinarians

    Randall J. Nett;Tracy K. Witte;Stacy M. Holzbauer;Brigid L. Elchos

  • “Impulsive” youth suicide attempters are not necessarily all that impulsive

    Tracy K. Witte;Katherine A. Merrill;Nadia E. Stellrecht;Rebecca A. Bernert

  • Variability in suicidal ideation: a better predictor of suicide attempts than intensity or duration of ideation?

    Tracy K. Witte;Kathleen K. Fitzpatrick;Thomas E. Joiner;Norman Bradley Schmidt

  • Stoicism and sensation seeking: Male vulnerabilities for the acquired capability for suicide.

    Tracy K. Witte;Kathryn H. Gordon;Phillip N. Smith;Kimberly A. Van Orden

  • Clinical applications of the interpersonal‐psychological theory of attempted and completed suicide

    Nadia E. Stellrecht;Kathryn H. Gordon;Kimberly Van Orden;Tracy K. Witte

  • Perceived burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness, and suicide ideation: re-examination of the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory in two samples

    Ian Cero;Kelly L. Zuromski;Tracy K. Witte;Jessica D. Ribeiro;Jessica D. Ribeiro

  • Revisiting impulsivity in suicide: implications for civil liability of third parties.

    April R. Smith;Tracy K. Witte;Nadia E. Teale;L J D Sarah King

  • Dissociation and posttraumatic stress disorder: a latent profile analysis.

    Christy A. Blevins;Frank W. Weathers;Tracy K. Witte

  • Deaths by suicide among individuals with anorexia as arbiters between competing explanations of the anorexia-suicide link.

    Jill M. Holm-Denoma;Tracy K. Witte;Kathryn H. Gordon;David B. Herzog

  • A Factor Analytic Evaluation of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale

    Daniel J. Lee;Tracy K. Witte;Joseph R. Bardeen;Margaret T. Davis

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas E. Joiner
Thomas E. Joiner Florida State University
Kimberly A. Van Orden
Kimberly A. Van Orden University of Rochester Medical Center
Frank W. Weathers
Frank W. Weathers Auburn University
Kathryn H. Gordon
Kathryn H. Gordon North Dakota State University
Jessica D. Ribeiro
Jessica D. Ribeiro Florida State University
Edward A. Selby
Edward A. Selby Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Norman B. Schmidt
Norman B. Schmidt Florida State University
Kelly C. Cukrowicz
Kelly C. Cukrowicz Texas Tech University
M. David Rudd
M. David Rudd University of Memphis
Michael D. Anestis
Michael D. Anestis Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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