April 2016 CURRICULUM VITAE Holly Levin-Aspenson Telephone: (919)357-3438 Email: hlevinas@nd.edu EDUCATION August 2014 Present Ph.D Student Clinical Psychology University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana August 2012 May 2014 M.A. General/Experimental Psychology University of North Carolina Greensboro Greensboro, North Carolina GPA: 3.84/4.00 Thesis: The Effect of Neuroticism on Symptom Report: A Signal-Detection Model August 2005 May 2009 B.A., with Honors Psychology and English Language/Literature Guilford College Greensboro, North Carolina GPA: 3.69/4.00
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Graduate Research Assistant Center for Advanced Measurement of Personality and Psychopathology (CAMPP) University of Notre Dame August 2014 present Responsibilities include Supporting, facilitating, and carrying out human subjects research projects Administering and scoring structured clinical diagnostic interviews, including the MINI-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) and the Structured Interview for DSM-IV Personality (SIDP) Supervising undergraduate research assistants Supervisor: David Watson, Ph.D Assistant Data Manager The Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC) Duke University Medical Center/Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center February 2012 June 2012 Responsibilities included Using Microsoft Access and Microsoft Excel to create and organize data sets according to researcher specifications Scoring, imputing, and uploading questionnaire and clinical interview data Resolving discrepancies between participant self-report and medical and military records Standardizing imputation rules Supervisor: Mira Brancu, Ph.D Project Director Traumatic Stress and Health Research Laboratory Duke University Medical Center/Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center June 2009 June 2012 Responsibilities included Supporting, facilitating, and carrying out human studies research projects Administering and scoring structured clinical diagnostic interviews, including the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID) and the Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) Administering and interpreting risk assessments for homicidality and suicidality in study participants Participating in case review and peer counseling for diagnostic interviews and risk assessments
Attending continuing education sessions on the assessment and differential diagnosis of psychopathology Collecting, interpreting, and analyzing ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data Conducting medical record reviews of potential study participants by obtaining copies of medical and medication records and performing medical record abstractions Coordinating a clinical trial examining the effect of nicotine patch pretreatment on smoking cessation among smokers with posttraumatic stress disorder Planning, developing, and completing required documentation, paperwork, and forms for initial and continuing human subject review Entering, organizing, and managing coded data in Microsoft Access databases Conducting statistical analyses using SAS 9.0 Conducting literature reviews and contributing to manuscript preparation Coordinating and supervising peer-review of outside manuscripts and peer-review education within the laboratory Supervisors: Patrick Calhoun, Ph.D., and Jean Beckham, Ph.D. Research Assistant Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Center The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill May-August 2008 Responsibilities included Helping to develop and implement research materials, such as eye-tracking tasks, for the study of developmental disorders such as autism-spectrum disorders and Fragile X syndrome Assessing medical records Assisting in data analysis and interpretation Supervisor: Heather Hazlett, Ph.D. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Ad Hoc Reviewer Clinical Medicine Insights Comprehensive Psychiatry Current Neuropharmacology Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology Journal of Psychosomatic Research Neuropsychopharmacology Nicotine & Tobacco Research Military Medicine Publications and Conference Proceedings Levin-Aspenson, H.F. & Payne, J. (in preparation). The transdiagnostic relevance of cognitive neuroscience models of psychosis. Levin-Aspenson, H.F. & Watson, D. (in preparation). Group and individual differences in mode effects in psychopathology assessment. Levin-Aspenson, H.F. & Watson, D. (under review). Item-level analysis of the structure of thought pathology. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Baltimore, Maryland. Watson, D., Larew, S., Stanton, K., & Levin-Aspenson, H. (in press). Personality provides a general structural framework for psychopathology: Commentary on Translational applications of personality science for the conceptualization and treatment of psychopathology. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Levin-Aspenson, H.F. & Watson, D. (2015). Method effects on gender differences in depression scores. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, New Orleans, Louisiana. Silvia, P.J., Beaty, R.E., Nusbaum, E.C., Eddington, K.M., Levin-Aspenson, H., & Kwapil, T.R. (2014). Everyday creativity in daily life: An experience-sampling study of little c creativity. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 8, 183. Van Voorhees, E.E., Dedert, E.A., Levin, H.F., Calhoun, P.S., Brancu, M., Runnals, J., & Beckham, J.C. (2011). Childhood traumatic exposure in Iraq and Afghanistan war era Veterans: Implications for stress disorder symptoms and adult functional social support. Poster presented at the posttraumatic 27 th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Baltimore, Maryland. Calhoun, P.S., Levin, H.F., Johnson, Y., Dedert, E.A., the VA Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center Registry Workgroup, & Beckham, J.C. (2011). The relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder and smoking outcome expectancies among U.S. military Veterans who served since September 11, 2001. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 24, 303-308. Calhoun, P.S., Levin, H.F., Harper, L.A., the VA Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center Registry Workgroup, & Beckham, J.C. (2010). The relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder and smoking outcome expectancies among U.S. military Veterans
who served since September 11, 2001. Poster presented at the 26 th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Montreal, Canada. Dedert, E., Stein, J., Levin, H., Britt, N., & Beckham, J.C. (2010). Smoking and posttraumatic stress disorder: Exploration of the link to negative affect and smoking expectancies using a range of methodologies. Poster presented at the 26 th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Montreal, Canada. Bedford, J.E., Elison, J.T., Levin, H.F., Piven, J., & Bodfish, J.W. (2009). Task-evoked pupillary response to social stimuli: Hypoactivation in autism. Poster presented at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Co-Instructor of Record PSY 30160 Experimental Psychology II: Methods August-December 2015 Teaching Assistant PSY 30300 Psychology of Personality Instructor: Anita Kelly January-May 2015 Classes taught Personality assessment and psychometrics Motivational theories of personality Family and cohort effects on personality Personality and interpersonal relationships Personality disorders Pedagogy Workshops and Courses Gathering Early Semester Feedback () Assessment and Exam Design () Developing Learning Goals () Effective and Exciting Teaching in Social Sciences and Humanities (July 2015) Teaching (with) Writing (July 2015) Facilitating Discussion in Social Sciences and Humanities (March 2015) Grading and What Works (February 2015)
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE Practicum Counselor University Counseling Center University of Notre Dame August 2015 May 2016 Supervisor: Maureen Lafferty, Ed.D Clinical Training Workshops Unified Protocol for Emotional Disorders (November 2015) Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy: An Evidence-Based Program to Promote Successful Goal- Achievement and Resilience for Individuals with Schizophrenia, in and out of the Hospital (November 2015) Core Competencies in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Becoming an Effective and Competent Cognitive-Behavioral Therapist (November 2015) Mastering the Art of Behavioral Chain Analyses in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (November 2015) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Psychological Association (APA) Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP) Society for Research in Psychopathology (SRP) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Advocacy Coordinating Team (ACT) American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) campus representative (August 2015-present) RESEARCH INTERESTS Thought pathology and psychosis Research methodology Psychometrics and other quantitative methods Psychopathology structure and assessment Accuracy of clinician assessment Accuracy of symptom self-report Personality and other individual differences in symptom presentation and course