NIU Psychology - Holly Orcutt

Holly K. Orcutt, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology

Office: 305 Psychology/Computer Science Building
Office Phone: (815) 753-5920
Lab Phone: (815) 752-5920
Fax: (815) 753=8088
horcutt@niu.edu

Office hours for Fall 2008:

Tues/Thurs 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., 4:45 - 5:15 p.m.

Undergraduate Courses:

Psychology 316 - Introduction to Psychopathology
Psychology 418 - Introduction to Clinical Psychology

Graduate Courses:

Psychology 543 – Theories of Psychotherapy
Psychology 554 - Clinical Team Practicum

Research Lab:

Lab for the Study of the Consequences of Trauma Exposure (C.T.E. lab)

Education:

Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo, 1998

Research interests:

· Identifying risk factors that operate to increase individual vulnerability to PTSD following exposure to traumatic events

· Identifying factors that mediate the link between trauma exposure and increased risk for subsequent trauma exposure

· Identifying factors that increase or reduce sexual risk-taking behavior

· Experiential avoidance, psychological acceptance, and mindfulness

· Application of structural equation methodologies (e.g., confirmatory factor analysis, latent growth curve modeling, general growth mixture modeling)

Representative papers:

Orcutt, H. K., Pickett, S. M., & Pope, E. B. (2008). The relation of offense-specific forgiveness to posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in a sample of college students. Journal of Agression, Maltreatment and Trauma, 16, 72-91.

Orcutt, H. K. (2006). The prospective relationship of interpersonal forgiveness and psychological distress symptoms among college women. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 53, 350-361.

Reddy, M. K., Pickett, S. M., & Orcutt, H. K. (2006). Experiential avoidance as a mediator of the relationship between psychological abuse and current mental health symptoms in college students. Journal of Emotional Abuse, 67-85.

Orcutt, H. K., Cooper M. L., & Garcia, M. (2005). Use of sexual intercourse to reduce negative affect as a prospective mediator of sexual revictimization. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 18, 729-739.

Orcutt, H. K., Garcia, M., & Pickett, S. M. (2005). Female-perpetrated intimate partner violence and romantic attachment style in a college student sample. Violence & Victim, 20, 287–302.

Orcutt, H. K., Pickett, S., & Pope, E. (2005). Experiential avoidance and forgiveness as mediators in the relation between traumatic life events and PTSD symptoms. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 24, 1003-1029.

Orcutt, H. K., Erickson, D. J., & Wolfe, J. (2004). The course of PTSD symptoms among Gulf War veterans: A growth mixture modeling approach. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 17, 195-202.

Orcutt, H. K., King, L. A., & King, D. W. (2003). Male-perpetrated violence among Vietnam veteran couples: Relationships with veteran’s early life characteristics, trauma history, and PTSD symptomatology. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 16, 381-390.

Orcutt, H. K., Erickson, D. J., & Wolfe, J. (2002). A prospective analysis of trauma exposure: The mediating role of PTSD symptomatology. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 15, 259-266.

Interesting psychology sites:

Psychology Majors Page from NIU Career Planning and Placement - Tons of information!!!!

American Psychological Association

American Psychological Society

Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT, formerly AABT)

International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS)

ISTSS list of programs for training in trauma

The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (Division 9 APA)

Society of Clinical Psychology (Division 12 of APA)

Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology

Association of Black Psychologists

Society for the Psychology of Women