Abigail Szkutak, M.S.
PhD Student, Clinical Psychology
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Abigail Szkutak, M.S.
PhD Student, Clinical Psychology
Department of Counseling & Clinical Psychology
Teachers College, Columbia University
My name is Abigail (“Abby”) Szkutak and I am currently a fourth-year Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student at Teachers College, Columbia University in Dr. Douglas Mennin's Regulation of Emotion in Anxiety and Depression (READ) Lab.
I graduated with a B.A. (summa cum laude) in Psychology in 2019 from the College of the Holy Cross, a small liberal arts college in Massachusetts. I then worked for two years as a post-bacc research coordinator at the Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for OCD & Related Disorders (CORD), where I coordinated studies investigating cognitive/attentional processes across worries, rumination, and obsessions, TMS for OCD, and neural correlates of emotional learning.
My main program of research centers around leveraging affective neuroscience and psychophysiology techniques to better understand (1) the connection between perseverative negative thinking (PNT; e.g., worry, rumination, self-criticism) and negative health consequences as well as (2) mechanisms underlying the transdiagnostic treatment of PNT in adults.
I am also interested in investigating ways to personalize dosing of treatment components to match clients’ needs using novel methodological techniques (e.g., person-centered approaches, idiographic trajectories) and research designs (e.g., micro-randomized controlled trials, just-in-time adaptive interventions).
I graduated with a B.A. (summa cum laude) in Psychology in 2019 from the College of the Holy Cross, a small liberal arts college in Massachusetts. I then worked for two years as a post-bacc research coordinator at the Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for OCD & Related Disorders (CORD), where I coordinated studies investigating cognitive/attentional processes across worries, rumination, and obsessions, TMS for OCD, and neural correlates of emotional learning.
My main program of research centers around leveraging affective neuroscience and psychophysiology techniques to better understand (1) the connection between perseverative negative thinking (PNT; e.g., worry, rumination, self-criticism) and negative health consequences as well as (2) mechanisms underlying the transdiagnostic treatment of PNT in adults.
I am also interested in investigating ways to personalize dosing of treatment components to match clients’ needs using novel methodological techniques (e.g., person-centered approaches, idiographic trajectories) and research designs (e.g., micro-randomized controlled trials, just-in-time adaptive interventions).
