Research Overview

My research interests focus primarily on the role of self-critical cognition in the development and continuation of both suicidal and nonsuicidal self-injurious thoughts and behaviors during adolescence. In addition, I am interested more broadly in examining changes along emotional, cognitive, and social development during late childhood and early adolescence that confer risk for and protect against the onset of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors.

Selected Publications

Research Manuscripts and Book Chapters

• Glenn, C. R., Esposito, E. C., Porter, A. C., & Robinson, D. (in press). Evidence-base update of psychosocial treatments for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors in youth. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.
• Glenn, C. R., Millner, A. J., Esposito, E. C., Porter, A. C., & Nock, M. K. (in press). Implicit identification with death predicts suicidal thoughts and behaviors in adolescents. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.
  
• Porter, A. C., Kearns, J. C., Esposito, E. C., & Glenn, C. R. (2018). Risk and protective factors for adolescent suicidal behaviors. In M. S. Berk (Ed.) Evidence-based treatment approaches for suicidal adolescents: Translating science into prectice. American Psychological Association.
• Porter, A. C., Zelkowitz, R. L., Gist, D. C., & Cole, D. A.  (in press). Self-evaluation and depressive symptoms: A latent variable analysis of self-esteem, shame-proneness, and self-criticism. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment.
• Porter, A. C., Zelkowitz, R. L., & Cole, D. A. (2018). The unique associations of self-criticism and shame-proneness to symptoms of disordered eating and depression. Eating Behaviors, 29, 64-67.
• Zelkowitz, R. L., Porter, A. C., Heiman, E. R., & Cole, D. A. (2017). Social exposure and emotion dysregulation: Main effects in relation to nonsuidical self-injury. Journal of Adolescence, 60, 94-103.

Selected Professional Presentations

• Porter, A. C., Kleiman, E. M., Alpert-Gillis, L. J., & Glenn, C. R. (2019, June). Testing the interpersonal theory of suicide using ecological momentary assessment among recently hospitalized youth. In D. D. L. Coppersmith & E. M. Kleiman (co-chairs) Same Theories, New Methods: Using Real-time Monitoring to Test Theories of Suicide. Symposium to be presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Ambulatory Assessment, Syracuse, NY.
• Porter, A. C., Kleiman, E. M., Alpert-Gillis, L. J., & Glenn, C. R. (2019, March). Poor negative emotion differentiation predicts increased desire for suicide in recently hospitalized youth. Poster accepted to the annual meeting of the Sociaty of Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.
• Porter, A. C., Mournet, A. M., & Glenn, C. R. (November 2018). The associations of self-hatred with the presence and frequency of past year self-injurious thoughts: Unique contributions over-and-above self-esteem and shame. Poster accepted to the meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Washington, D.C.
• Porter, A. C., Zelkowitz, R. L., & Cole, D. A. (November 2017). The differential associations of shame-proneness and self-criticism with the presence and frequency of nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI). Poster accepted to the 51^st annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, San Diego, CA.
• Porter, A. C., Zelkowitz, R. L., & Cole, D. A. (June 2017). The predictive utility of interpersonal exposure to nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) on subsequent thoughts of NSSI. Poster accepted to the 12^th annual meeting of the International Society for the Study of Self-Injury, Philadelphia, PA.
• Porter, A. C., Zelkowitz, R. L., & Cole, D. A. (October 2016). Self-criticism and shame-proneness: Incremental utility in relation to depression. Poster presented at the 50^th annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.
• Porter, A. C., Zelkowitz, R. L., Heiman, E. R., & Cole, D. A. (May 2016). Social exposure to nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) among university students: Direct relation to NSSI behavior and as a moderator of the emotion regulation-NSSI association. Poster presented at the 28^th annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant: Abnormal Psychology, Spring 2018 - University of Rochester
• Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Psychology, Fall 2017 - University of Rochester
• Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Statistical Analysis, Spring 2017 - Vanderbilt University
• Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Statistical Analysis, Fall 2016 - Vanderbilt University

Honors

• 2014 - University Psychology Award - Trevecca Nazarene University

Additional Information

• 2018-2019: APF/The Trust/Eric A. Harris, EdD (JD Grant)
  Does Ecological Momentary Assessment of Suicidal Thinking have Iatrogenic Effects on Suicide Risk?
  Role: Principal Investigator
• 2018-2019: Psi Chi National Honor Society in Psychology (Graduate Research Grant)
  Examining the Utility of Emotional Self-Criticism for Predicting Nonsuicidal Self-Injury, Disordered Eating, and Suicide
  Ideation                                                                                                                                               
  Role: Principal Investigator
• 2017: Vanderbilt University - M.Ed. in Child Studies
• 2014: Trevecca Nazarene University - B.S. in Psychology (Honors: Magna Cum Laude)