Christopher D. Hughes, PhD, works as a research and clinical psychologist at Butler Hospital and is an assistant professor (research) in Brown University’s Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. His research centers around two complementary arms: (1) improving the identification and prediction of suicidal thoughts and behaviors through multimethod, intensive longitudinal data collection and novel analytical methods; and (2) improving the treatment and prevention of suicidal thoughts and behaviors through the development of brief, scalable, digital interventions, particularly during high-risk care transitions like discharging from inpatient hospitalization.
| Schatten, Heather T., Kimble, Sara K., Alboukrek, Daniel, Carosa, Catarina L., Hughes, Christopher D., Armey, Michael F., Miller, Ivan W., Elwy, A. Rani, Primack, Jennifer. "Development of the Mobile Application to Prevent Suicide (MAPS), a Personalized Smartphone App for Suicide Prevention: Feedback from Individual Interviews." Journal of Technology in Human Services, vol. 42, no. 2, 2024, pp. 156-172. |
| Rogers, Megan L., Bozzay, Melanie L., Hughes, Christopher D., Schatten, Heather T., Armey, Michael F. "Examining the predictive utility of suicidal ideation characteristics in relation to real‐time monitoring of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts at follow‐up." Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2024. |
| Gaudiano, Brandon A., Ward, Madeline, Benz, Madeline B., Hughes, Christopher, Johnson, Jennifer E., Moitra, Ethan. "Feasibility and acceptability of a mobile intervention for patients with psychosis following psychiatric hospitalization: A pilot randomized controlled trial." Psychological Services, 2024. |
| Bozzay, M.L., Hughes, C.D., Eickhoff, C., Schatten, H., Armey, M.F. "Identifying momentary suicidal ideation using machine learning in patients at high-risk for suicide." Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 364, 2024, pp. 57-64. |
| Kaplan DM, Hughes CD, Schatten HT, Mehl MR, Armey MF, Nugent NR. "Emotional change in its "natural habitat": Measuring everyday emotion regulation with passive and active ambulatory assessment methods." Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, vol. 33, no. 2, 2023, pp. 123-140. |
| Boyd, Simone Imani, Levin-Aspenson, Holly F., Hughes, Christopher D., Zimmerman, Mark. "Fluctuations in anger, depressive symptoms, and self-injurious thoughts and behaviors throughout partial hospitalization treatment." Journal of Psychiatric Research, vol. 168, 2023, pp. 304-309. |
| Bayliss, Luke T., Hughes, Christopher D., Lamont‐Mills, Andrea, du Plessis, Carol. "Fluidity in capability: Longitudinal assessments of suicide capability using ecological momentary assessments." Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, vol. 54, no. 1, 2023, pp. 138-153. |
| Palitsky, R., Reznik, S. J., Kaplan, D. M., Anderson, M. R., Athey, A., Brodt, M. A., Coffino, J. A., Egbert, A., Hallowell, E. S., Fox-Fuller, J. T., Han, G. T., Hartmann, M.-A., Herbitter, C., Herrera Legon, M., Hughes, C., Hosking, C. R., Jao, N. C., Kassel, M. T., Le, T.-A. P., Levin-Aspenson, H. F., López, G., Maroney, M. R., Medrano, M., Rogers, M. L., Stevenson, B. "Inclusion of Trainee Stakeholders Is Necessary for Effective Change in Health-Service-Psychology Internship Training." Clinical Psychological Science, vol. 12, no. 1, 2023, pp. 189-195. |
| Selby, Edward A., Hughes, Christopher. "The Dynamics and Perception of Pain During Self-Injury." The Oxford Handbook of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury, 2023, pp. 440-467. |
| Rogers, Megan L., Carosa, Catarina L., Haliczer, Lauren A., Hughes, Christopher D., Schofield, Casey A., Armey, Michael F. "The Suicide Dot Probe Task: Psychometric properties and validity in relation to suicide‐related outcomes." Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, vol. 53, no. 6, 2023, pp. 1010-1024. |
| Yin, Qingqing, Hughes, Christopher D., Rizvi, Shireen L. "Using GIMME to model the emotional context of suicidal ideation based on clinical data: From research to clinical practice." Behaviour Research and Therapy, vol. 171, 2023, pp. 104427. |
| Hiller, Atara D., Hughes, Christopher D. "Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents: Treatment Outcomes in an Outpatient Community Setting." Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, vol. 8, no. 4, 2022, pp. 488-505. |
| Hughes, Christopher D., King, Alexandra M., Bailey, Katharine, Alba, Maria C., Hoelscher, Elizabeth, Rizvi, Shireen L. "How Will You Feel on Valentine's Day? Affective Forecasting and Recall Biases as a Function of Anxiety, Depression, and Borderline Personality Disorder Features." Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, vol. 41, no. 5, 2022, pp. 491-516. |
| Palitsky, Roman, Kaplan, Deanna M, Brodt, Madeline A, Anderson, Micheline R., Athey, Alison, Coffino, Jaime A, Egbert, Amy, Hallowell, Emily, Han, Gloria T, Hartmann, Marco-Antonio, Herbitter, Cara, Legon, Manuel J Herrera, Hughes, Christopher D, Jao, Nancy C., Kassel, Michelle T, Le, Thien-An, Levin-Aspenson, Holly Frances, López, Gabriela, Maroney, Meredith R, Medrano, Michael, Reznik, Samantha J, Rogers, Megan L., Stevenson, Brittany. "Systemic challenges in health service psychology internship training: A call to action from trainee stakeholders." [], 2022. |
| Palitsky, R., Kaplan, D. M., Brodt, M. A., Anderson, M. R., Athey, A., Coffino, J. A., Egbert, A., Hallowell, E. S., Han, G. T., Hartmann, M.-A., Herbitter, C., Herrera Legon, M., Hughes, C. D., Jao, N. C., Kassel, M. T., Le, T.-A. P., Levin-Aspenson, H. F., López, G., Maroney, M. R., Medrano, M., Reznik, S. J., Rogers, M. L., Stevenson, B. "Systemic Challenges in Internship Training for Health-Service Psychology: A Call to Action From Trainee Stakeholders." Clinical Psychological Science, vol. 10, no. 5, 2022, pp. 819-845. |
| Hughes, Christopher D., Rizvi, Shireen L. "Applying a Cognitive-Behavioral, Principle-Based Approach to the Treatment of Personality Disorders: Commentary on Cognitive Behavioral Approaches." The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Disorders, 2020, pp. 418-421. |
| Hughes, Christopher D., King, Alexandra M., Kranzler, Amy, Fehling, Kara, Miller, Alec, Lindqvist, Janne, Selby, Edward A. "Anxious and Overwhelming Affects and Repetitive Negative Thinking as Ecological Predictors of Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors." Cognitive Therapy and Research, vol. 43, no. 1, 2019, pp. 88-101. |
| Hughes, Christopher D., Rizvi, Shireen L. "Biases in Affective Forecasting and Recall as a Function of Borderline Personality Disorder Features." Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, vol. 38, no. 3, 2019, pp. 200-223. |
| Cooperman, Nina A., Rizvi, Shireen L., Hughes, Christopher D., Williams, Jill M. "Field Test of a Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training–Based Intervention for Smoking Cessation and Opioid Relapse Prevention in Methadone Treatment." Journal of Dual Diagnosis, vol. 15, no. 1, 2019, pp. 67-73. |
| Carson-Wong, Amanda, Hughes, Christopher D., Rizvi, Shireen L. "The effect of therapist use of validation strategies on change in client emotion in individual dbt treatment sessions." Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, vol. 9, no. 2, 2018, pp. 165-171. |
| Rizvi, Shireen L., Hughes, Christopher D., Hittman, Alexandra D., Vieira Oliveira, Pedro. "Can Trainees Effectively Deliver Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Individuals With Borderline Personality Disorder? Outcomes From a Training Clinic." Journal of Clinical Psychology, vol. 73, no. 12, 2017, pp. 1599-1611. |
| Rizvi, Shireen L., Hughes, Christopher D., Thomas, Marget C. "The DBT Coach mobile application as an adjunct to treatment for suicidal and self-injuring individuals with borderline personality disorder: A preliminary evaluation and challenges to client utilization." Psychological Services, vol. 13, no. 4, 2016, pp. 380-388. |
| Hughes, Christopher D., Gunthert, Kathleen, Wenze, Susan, German, Ramaris. "The subscale specificity of the Affective Control Scale: Ecological validity and predictive validity of feared emotions." Motivation and Emotion, vol. 39, no. 6, 2015, pp. 984-992. |
ACTIVE
"Ecological Assessment of Proximal Risk Factors for Suicide During Care Transitions”
R01MH128248-01A1 01/01/2023 – 10/31/2027 NIMH
Role: Principal Investigator (MPI)
Description: The goal of this study is to identify proximal risk factors for suicide and use intensive longitudinal methods to characterize the relationships among affective and contextual risk factors.
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | PhD | Rutgers University |
| 2016 | MS | Rutgers University |
| 2014 | MA | American University |
| 2012 | BS | James Madison University |
| Postdoctoral Fellow | Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Butler Hospital | 2020-2023 | Providence, Rhode Island, United States |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Armey, Michael | Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research) |
| Brick, Leslie Ann | Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior |
| Gaudiano, Brandon | Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences |
| Nugent, Nicole | Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics |
| Saletin, Jared | Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior |
| Schatten, Heather | Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research) |
| Uebelacker, Lisa | Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior |
| Clinical Psychology | Rhode Island | 2023-Present | #PS02162 |
| Clinical Psychologist. 2023-Present |
| Research Psychologist. Butler Hospital, 2023-2024 |
