Representative Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications 

O’Connor, S. S., Mcclay, M., Choudhry, S., Shields, A., Carlson, R., Alonso, Y., Lavin, K., Venanzi, L., Comtois, K. A., Wilson, J. E., and Nicolson, S. (2020). Pilot randomized clinical trial of the Teachable Moment Brief Intervention for hospitalized suicide attempt survivors. General Hospital Psychiatry, 63, 111-118.

McClay, M. M., O’Connor, S. S., Groh, B. N., Baudino, M., Venanzi, L., Shields, A., Wilson, J. E., Bone, J., & Nicolson, S. (2018). Denial of suicide attempt among hospitalized survivors of a self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Psychiatric Services, 69(6), 657-663.

In Preparation

Venanzi, L., Dickey, L., Green, H., Pegg, S., Benningfield, M., Bettis, A., Blackford, J., and Kujawa, A. (In prep). Longitudinal predictors of depression, suicidal ideation, anxiety, and alcohol use in response to COVID-19-related stress.

Conference Symposia

Venanzi, L. & Kujawa, A. (2021, November). Social support and parental conflict as predictors of response to group cognitive behavior therapy for adolescent depression. In R. Vaughn-Coaxum (Chair), CBT in context: Exploring the role of social and environmental contextual factors in the course and outcome of youth depression treatment and prevention. Symposium to be presented at the 55th annual convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New Orleans, LA.

Selected Conference Poster Presentations

Venanzi, L., Kujawa, A., & Pegg, S. (2021, November). The impacts of trauma and reduced neural reward responsiveness in adolescent functioning. Poster session to be presented at the 54th annual meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Chicago, IL.

Venanzi, L., Dickey, L., Pegg, S., & Kujawa, A. (2021, September). Longitudinal predictors of psychopathology during the COVID-19 pandemic. Poster session to be presented at the virtual annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology.

McClay, M.M., O’Connor, S.S., Venanzi, L., and Comtois, K. A. (2017, April). Measuring the presence of posttraumatic stress one year after medical hospitalization for a suicide attempt. Poster session presented at the 50th annual conference of the American Association of Suicidology, Phoenix, AZ. 

O’Connor, S. S., McClay, M. M., Choudhry, S., Alonso, Y., Venanzi, L., Comtois, K. A., and Nicolson, S. (2017, April). Pilot study of a brief intervention for medically hospitalized suicide attempt survivors. Presentation at the 50th annual conference of the American Association of Suicidology, Phoenix, AZ.

McClay, M. M., Groh, B., Baudino, M., Venanzi, L., Bone, J., Shields, A., O’Connor, S. S. & Nicolson, S. (2016, March). Investigating clinical and service characteristics for self-inflicted gunshot wound patients treated in a level 1 trauma center. Poster session presented at the 49th annual conference of the American Association of Suicidology, Chicago, IL. 

Honors

2020, Russell G. Hamilton Scholar, Vanderbilt University