Biography
Alex Crenshaw is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Kennesaw State University. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Utah. His research focuses on clinical trial methodology, intimate relationship functioning and treatment, and quantitative and research methods in close relationships research.
Interests
- Clinical trial methodology
- Intimate relationship functioning and treatment
- Quantitative and research methods in the study of close relationships
Education
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Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2020-2022
Toronto Metropolitan University
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Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, 2020
University of Utah
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M.S. in Clinical Psychology, 2016
University of Utah
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B.A. in Psychology, 2007
Miami University
Recent Publications
(2024).
A pilot of couple HOPES within the U.S. Veterans Affairs Healthcare System: PTSD and relationship outcomes in veteran couples.
In Psychological Services.
(2023).
Subjective emotion trajectories in couple therapy and associations with improvement in relationship satisfaction.
In Family Process.
(2023).
The influence of sleep on emotion dysregulation in borderline personality disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and healthy controls.
In Psychiatry Research.
(2023).
Actor and partner effects of PTSD and relationship functioning in a recently traumatized sample.
In Journal of Family Psychology.
(2023).
Partner outcomes from an uncontrolled trial of Couple HOPES - A guided online couple intervention for PTSD and relationship enhancement.
In Journal of Traumatic Stress.
(2022).
An uncontrolled trial of Couple HOPES - A guided online couple intervention for PTSD and relationship enhancement.
In Journal of Family Psychology.
(2021).
Time spent together in intimate relationships - Implications for relationship functioning.
In Contemporary Family Therapy.
(2021).
Initial outcomes of Couple HOPES - A guided online couple intervention for PTSD and relationship enhancement.
In Internet Interventions.
(2021).
Negative partner attributions moderate the association between heart rate reactivity during relationship conflict and relationship satisfaction.
In Family Process.
(2021).
Relative importance of conflict topics for within-couple tests - The case of demand/withdraw interaction.
In Journal of Family Psychology.
(2021).
A replication and extension of the interpersonal process model of demand/withdraw behavior - Incorporating subjective emotional experience.
In Journal of Family Psychology.
(2021).
The development of Couple HOPES - A guided online intervention for PTSD and relationship enhancement.
In European Journal of Psychotraumatology.
(2020).
Incorporating physiology into the study of psychotherapy process.
In Journal of Counseling Psychology.
(2019).
Knowledge of suicide history, current depressive symptoms, and future suicide risk within couples.
In Behavior Research and Therapy.
(2019).
The effect of stress on empathic accuracy in romantic couples.
In Journal of Family Psychology.
(2019).
Evaluating the efficacy of couple and family therapy.
In APA Handbook of Contemporary Family Psychology - Family Therapy and Training.
(2018).
Simplifying the complexity of interpersonal emotion dynamics with regression graphics.
In Interpersonal Emotion Dynamics in Close Relationships.
(2018).
Associations of patient-rated emotional bond and vocally encoded emotional arousal among clinicians and acutely suicidal military personnel.
In Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
(2018).
Cardiovascular reactivity to marital conflict in laboratory and naturalistic settings.
In Family Process.
(2017).
A multivariate dynamic systems model for psychotherapy with more than one client.
In Journal of Counseling Psychology.
(2017).
Graphic methods for interpreting longitudinal dyadic patterns from repeated-measures actor-partner interdependence models.
In Journal of Family Psychology.
(2017).
Exposure in couple and family therapy.
In Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy.
(2017).
Revised scoring and improved reliability for the Communication Patterns Questionnaire.
In Psychological Assessment.