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Philip Held, PhD

Philip Held
Research Director, The Road Home Program: The National Center of Excellence for Veterans and their Families at Rush
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Rush Medical College
Education
Instructor & Postdoctoral Fellow, The Road Home Program: The National Center of Excellence for Veterans and their Families at Rush, 2015-2017
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Trauma Recovery (St. Louis, MO), 2014-2015
PhD, Counseling Psychology, University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN), 2009-2014
BA, Psychology & German, University of Indianapolis, 2006-2009
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Honors and Activities

2014 Extraordinary Professional Promise Award, University of Tennessee, TN

2013 ISTSS Outstanding Student Research Award, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Philadelphia, PA

2012 Science Alliance Award, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

2009 Honorable Mention for poster entitled “Disengagement coping as a mediator between trauma-related guilt and PTSD severity” International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, 25th annual meeting in Atlanta, GA.

2009 Outstanding Achievement in Academics and Research Award , University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN

2008 Kate Ratliff Award, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN

2008 Marga Meier Multilingual Studies Award, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN

Publications

  1. Horwitz, A.G., Smith, D., Held, P., & Zalta, A. K., (2018). Characteristics of veteran and civilian suicide decedents: A sex-stratified analysis. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Advance online publication.

  2. Zalta, A. K., Held, P., Smith, D., Klassen, B. J., Lofgreen, A. M., Norman, P., Brennan, M. B., Boley, R. A., Pollack, M. H., Karnik, N. S. (2018). Evaluating the effectiveness of an intensive outpatient treatment for veterans with PTSD. BMC Psychiatry. Advance online publication.

  3. Horwitz, A. G., Held, P., Klassen, B. J., Karnik, N. S., Pollack, M. H., & Zalta, A. K. (2018). Posttraumatic cognitions and suicidal ideation among veterans receiving PTSD treatment. Cognitive Therapy and Research. Advance online publication.

  4. Carroll, K. K., Lofgreen, A. M., Weaver, D. C., Held, P., Klassen, B. J., Karnik, N. S., Pollack, M. H., & Zalta, A. K. (2018). Negative posttraumatic cognitions among military sexual trauma survivors. Journal of Affective Disorders. Advance online publication.

  5. Owens, G. P., Held, P., Hamrick, L., Keller, E. (2018). The Indirect Effects of Emotion Regulation on the Association between Attachment Style, Depression, and Meaning Made among Undergraduates Who Experienced Stressful Events. Motivation and Emotion, 42, 423-437.

  6. Zalta, A.K., Bui, E., Karnik, N.S., Held, P., Laifer, L.M., Sager, J.C., Zou, D., Rauch, P.K., Simon, N.M., Pollack, M.H., Ohye, B. (2018). Examining the link between parent and child psychopathology in treatment-seeking veterans. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 49, 209-216.