猎奇重口

Education

Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Palo Alto University (2017 - predoctoral internship completed with the Alaska Psychology Internship Consortium at Norton Sound Health Corporation)
M.S., Clinical Psychology, Palo Alto University
B.A., Psychology, Minor: English, University of Alberta

Courses Taught

Graduate Courses:

PSYX 534 Applied Clinical Methods

PSYX 551 Advanced Personality

PSYX 631 Conceptualizations and Treatment of Trauma

PSYX 632 Psychology and Climate Change

Undergraduate Courses:

PSYX 120 Research Methods

PSYX 378 Intro to Clinical Psychology

PSYX 222 Psychological Statistics

Teaching Experience

猎奇重口 (2021-Present)

St. Lawrence College, Kingston, Ontario (2018-2021): Statistics, Psychometrics, Personality Theory, Abnormal Psychology, Honors Thesis Supervision

Research Interests

Director: Existential Trauma Lab

The Existential Trauma (ET) Lab, housed within the 猎奇重口’s Department of Psychology, focuses on the application of existential theory to better understand potentially traumatic events and responses. Research projects emphasize expanded conceptualizations of trauma and traumatic stress responses. Although clinical conceptualizations of trauma, i.e., PTSD, are often included, we tend to focus on potentially traumatic events (PTEs) and responses that exist on the margins of diagnostic criteria. This involves the examination of, for example, collective and systemic traumas that may be impactful, not necessarily due to a literal threat to one's safety, but because of a threat to one's existential security and ability to maintain meaningful connections to others and the world. The diversity that students and other collaborators bring to the research process is a resource and a strength—I am always happy to merge my interests and skillset, when appropriate, to support specific topics meaningful to my students and colleagues.   

Projects

ACTIVE COLLABORATIONS AND TOPICS OF STUDY

Global Collaboration on Traumatic Stress: The ET lab is an active participant in the . The GC-TS brings together researchers and clinicians from around the world who collaborate on topics of global importance related to cross-cultural experiences of traumatic stress. Lab members are actively involved in GC-TS projects and Dr. Williamson serves as the co-chair for the Climate Change workgroup.
Representative Publications:

• Vergunst, F., Williamson, R. E., Mazzazza, A., Berry, H., Olff, M. (in press). Definitions and scope of the mental health burden of global climate change. Nature Mental Health.
• Salimi, Y., Hoeboer, C., Haghi, S. M., Williamson, R. E., Rahimi, M. D., Rajabi-Gilan, N., Almasi, A., Olff, M. (2023). Trauma and its consequences in Iran: Cross-cultural adaption and validation of the Global Psychotrauma Screen in a representative sample. BMC Psychiatry, 23(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04564-8
• Williamson, R. E., Hoeboer, C., Primasari, I., Qing, Y., Coimbra, B., Hovnanyan, A., Grace, E., & Olff, M. (2021). Symptom Networks of COVID-19-Related Versus Other Potentially Traumatic Events in a Global Sample. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 84(3):102476. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2021.102476
• Olff, M., Primasari, I., Qing, Y., Coimbra, B., Hovnanyan, A., Grace, E., Williamson, R. E., & Hoeboer, C. (2021). Mental health responses to COVID-19 around the world. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2021.1929754

Climate Change: The intersection of climate and mental health is an exciting and emergent line of research in the lab, representing a topical extension and application of previous theoretical and empirical work. Given the uniqueness of climate change as a non-discrete event that creates a cascade of PTEs both within and outside of circumscribed diagnoses, the ET lab is well-equipped to investigate the complexity of this contemporary global issue. Visit the to learn more about completed and current projects.

Sexual Violence: Projects explore the existential impact of experiences of and exposure to sexual and gender-based violence, including widespread coverage of the MeToo movement, reproductive coercion and abortion restrictions. 
Representative Publications:

• Williamson, R. E., Hardt, S., Courtney, E. P., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2024). Sexual Victimization and the Existential Impact of #MeToo. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167824123494
• Williamson, R. E., Courtney, E. P., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2022). Fetch the Boltcutters: the Existential Labor and Liberation of #MeToo. The Humanistic Psychologist: Special Issue on Women in Humanistic Psychology, 50(3), 443. https://doi.org/10.1037/hum0000289

Perpetrator Trauma: This research builds on a developed theory of traumatic dissonance, which describes the socio-cognitive mechanisms responsible for traumatic responses to one's own act of perpetration. This model supports existing research documenting the potential psychological impact of certain acts of perpetration but re-conceptualizes the phenomenon in terms of general existential motivations.
Representative Publication:

• Williamson, R. E., Reed II, D. E., & Wickham, R. E. (2020). A traumatic dissonance theory of perpetrator-related distress. Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology. 2020;00: 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.5

Publications

Vergunst, F., Williamson, R. E., Mazzazza, A., Berry, H., Olff, M. (in press). Definitions and scope of the mental health burden of global climate change. Nature Mental Health.

Williamson, R. E., Hardt, S., Courtney, E. P., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2024). Sexual Victimization and the Existential Impact of #MeToo. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167824123494 

Williamson, R. E., Macia, K. S., Burton, J., Wickham, R. E.. (2024). Mapping the Pathways between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Depression, and Alcohol and Cannabis Use: A Network Analysis. Journal of Dual Diagnosis. https://doi.org/10.1080/15504263.2024.2330620 

Salimi, Y., Hoeboer, C., Haghi, S. M., Williamson, R. E., Rahimi, M. D., Rajabi-Gilan, N., Almasi, A., Olff, M. (2023). Trauma and its consequences in Iran: Cross-cultural adaption and validation of the Global Psychotrauma Screen in a representative sample. BMC Psychiatry, 23(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04564-8 

Coimbra, B. M., Hoeboer, C. M., van Zuiden, M., Williamson, R. E., D’Elia, A. T., Mello, A. F., & Olff, M. (2023). The relationship between tonic immobility and the development, severity, and course of posttraumatic stress disorder: systematic and meta-analytic literature review. Journal of anxiety disorders, 102730. 

Williamson, R. E., Courtney, E. P., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2022). Fetch the boltcutters: the existential labor and liberation of #MeToo. The Humanistic Psychologist: Special Issue on Women in Humanistic Psychology, 50(3), 443. https://doi.org/10.1037/hum0000289

Coimbra, B., Carvalho, C., van Zuiden, M., Williamson, R. E., Mello, A., Ota, V., Belangero, S., Olff, M., & Mello, M. (2022). The impact of neighborhood context on telomere length: a systematic review. Health & Place, 74(9):102746. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102746

Williamson, R. E., Hoeboer, C., Primasari, I., Qing, Y., Coimbra, B., Hovnanyan, A., Grace, E., & Olff, M. (2021). Symptom Networks of COVID-19-Related Versus Other Potentially Traumatic Events in a Global Sample. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 84(3):102476. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2021.102476

Olff, M., Primasari, I., Qing, Y., Coimbra, B., Hovnanyan, A., Grace, E., Williamson, R. E., & Hoeboer, C. (2021). Mental health responses to COVID-19 around the world. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2021.1929754

Reed, II, D. E., Williamson, R. E., & Wickham, R. E. (2021). Memento Mori: Understanding Existential Anxiety through the Existential Pathway Model. Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, 5(1), 14-25. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.79

Gauvin, S. E. M., Joy, P., Dunn, B., Lee, M. & Williamson, R. E. (2021). Empirical evaluation of Rainbow Reflections: A comic book anthology on body image for queer men. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 50, 69-82. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-020-01876-8

Williamson, R. E., Reed II, D. E., & Wickham, R. E. (2020). A traumatic dissonance theory of perpetrator-related distress. Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology. 2020;00: 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.59

Bunge, E., Cook, H., Bond, M., Williamson, R. E., Cano, M., Barrera, A. Z., Leykin, Y., & Muñoz, R. F. (2018). Comparing Amazon Mechanical Turk with unpaid internet resources in online clinical trials. Internet Interventions, 12, 68-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.invent.2018.04.001

Williamson, R. E., Reed II, D. E., Wickham, R. E., & Field, N. P. (2017). The mediational role of posttraumatic stress in the relationship between domestic violence exposure and peer victimization: A Cambodian sample. Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, 23(1), 28-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/13632752.2017.1335121

Bunge, E., Williamson, R. E., Cano, M., & Muñoz, R. F. (2016). Mood management effects of a brief online intervention. Internet Interventions, 5, 36-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.invent.2016.06.001

Wickham, R. E., Williamson, R. E., Beard, C. L., Kobayashi, C. L., & Hirst, T. (2016). Authenticity attenuates the negative effects of interpersonal conflict on daily well-being. Journal of Research in Personality, 60, 56-62.

Wickham, R. E. Reed II, D. E., & Williamson, R. E. (2015). Establishing the psychometric properties of the Self and Perceived-partner Authenticity in Relationships Scale-Short Form (AIRS-SF): Measurement invariance, reliability, and incremental validity. Personality and Individual Differences, 77, 62-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.12.049

Professional Experience

Licensed Psychologist (猎奇重口).

My clinical experience is largely based in community mental health, including homeless shelters in the San Francisco Bay Area and health clinics in remote Alaskan communities. Across these different sites, I have worked with a diverse population with a wide range of chronic and acute mental health problems, including, mood disorders, complex trauma, chronic suicidality, substance abuse, and psychosis.

Hobbies

Playing records and looking for lights in the sky.