Kristen P. Lindgren, PhD
kpl9716@uw.edu | CV
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Acting Director, Trauma Recovery Innovations
Dr. Kristen P. Lindgren is an Associate Professor and Licensed Clinical Psychologist in the University of Washington’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the UW in 2006 and returned to UW as a faculty member in 2010. Her research interests include addictions, posttraumatic stress disorder, sexuality, and relationships. One line of her work focuses on implicit (i.e., non-conscious or automatic) cognitive processes that contribute to the development and maintenance of substance use and misuse, especially alcohol and marijuana, and psychopathology. A second line of her research focuses on identity and self-concept processes related to substance use and misuse. Support for her work has been provided by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the University of Washington’s Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute. Dr. Lindgren also serves as a consultant for dissemination projects aimed at training community-based mental health workers in Cognitive Processing Therapy in Washington State, Texas, and Iraq.
Current Grants
Evaluating Change in Drinking Identity as a Mechanism for Reducing Hazardous Drinking (R01AA024732)
Project COPE: Evaluating the Feasibility and Acceptability of Cellphone Text Messages as an Ultra-brief Intervention for Individuals with Trauma Exposure and Problem Drinking
Past Grants
Using Implicit Measures to Improve the Prediction of Hazardous Drinking (R01AA021763)
Retraining Automatic Biases Related to Problem Drinking in College Students (R00 AA 17669)
Retraining Automatic Biases Related to Problem Drinking in College Students (K99 AA 17669)
An Investigation of Controlled and Automatic Cognitive Mediators of the Relation between Sexual Assault and Problem Drinking in College Women
Selected Publications
- Lindgren, K. P., Hendershot, C. S.., Ramirez, J. J., Bernat, E., Rangel-Gomez, M., Peterson, K. P. , & Murphy, J. G. (2018). A dual process perspective on advances in cognitive science and alcohol use disorder. Clinical Psychology Review.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2018.04.002 - Lindgren, K. P., Baldwin, S. A., Olin, C. C. , Wiers, R. W., Teachman, B. A., Norris, J., Kaysen, D., & Neighbors, C. (2018). Evaluating within-person change in implicit alcohol associations: Increases in implicit alcohol associations predict changes in drinking risk and vice-versa. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 53, 386-393. https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agy012
- Lindgren, K. P., Neighbors, C., Gasser, M. L., Ramirez, J. J., & Cvencek, D. (2017). A review of implicit and explicit substance self-concept as a predictor of alcohol and tobacco use and misuse. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 423, 237-246. https://doi.org/10.1080/00952990.2016.1229324
- Lindgren, K. P., Neighbors, C., Teachman, B. A., Baldwin, S. A., Norris, J., Kaysen, D., Gasser, M. L., & Wiers, R. W. (2016). Implicit alcohol associations, especially drinking identity, predict drinking over time. Health Psychology, 35(8), 908-918. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000396
- Lindgren, K. P., Kaysen, D., Werntz, A. J., Gasser, M. L., & Teachman, B.A. (2013). Wounds that Can’t Be Seen: Implicit trauma associations predict posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 44, 368-375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2013.03.003