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CURRICULUM VITAENicole D. Seligman, B.A.

PERSONAL INFORMATIONPersonal Address: 115 West 104th Street, Cell Phone: (610)-996-8439 Apartment 21, New York, NY, 10025 Email: nseligman1@forhdham.edu

DIRECTOR OF CLIINICAL TRAINING Personal Information: Dr. Monica Rivera Mindt, Ph.D. Cell Phone: (718)-817-3879

Email: riveramindt@forhdham.eduEDUCATION09/15 – Present Doctor of Philosophy, Fordham University Major: Clinical Psychology (APA Approved Program) Advisor: M. Andover, Ph.D.09/09 – 05/13 Bachelor of Arts, University of Pennsylvania Major: Psychology Honors Psychology Thesis

CLINICAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE09/15 – Present Doctoral Graduate Student Fordham University, Mood and Behavior Lab Projects: Associations between Physiological Sensitivity and Self-Injurious Behaviors among College Students Principal Investigator: Dr. Margaret Andover, Ph.D. Experiences: • Assist with a study examining the associations between physiological sensitivity

and self-injurious behaviors among college students by running participants in a two-hour protocol.

• Administer Structured Clinical Interview for the DSM-IV, Axis II Disorders; Borderline Personality Disorder Module (SCID-II, BPD; First et al., 1997), Injury Severity Scale for Non-suicidal Self-injury (ISS for NSSI; Gurciullo & Andover), Minor Injury Severity Scale (MISS; Peterson et al., 1996) and Injury Severity Scale for Non-suicidal Self-injury (ISS for NSSI; Gurciullo & Andover) and Distress Tolerance Task (Nock & Mendes, 2008).

• Administer pain sensitivity protocol using electrical simulation (Biopac STMISOC stimulus isolation adapter).

• Responsible for co-leading undergraduate research assistant meetings and overseeing data entering.

• Conduct masters thesis investigating whether the interaction between type of coping strategy (emotion regulation or distress tolerance) and perceived control of life events is related to perceived effectiveness by running participants in an hour and a half protocol.

06/13 - 08/15 Post-Baccalaureate Research Assistant Temple University, Mood and Cognition Lab

Projects: Project ACE (Adolescent Cognition and Emotion) and Project TEAM (Teen Emotion and Motivation)

Principal Investigator: Dr. Lauren Alloy, Ph.D. Experiences:

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• Assist with five R01 grants, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health on the cognitive, psychosocial, developmental, and neurobiological processes involved in the development of depression (Project ACE) and bipolar disorders (Project TEAM) in adolescents. The lab contains EEG and EKG equipment for measuring brain activity and heart rate, respectively.  In addition, the lab includes fMRI, immune system (cytokine assessments via blood draws), cortisol, and circadian rhythm (via actigraphy, skin temperature, melatonin) assessments.

• Structured Diagnostic Interviewer:o Trained as a structured diagnostic interviewer for five NIMH-funded

R01 grants on prospective first onset and course of depression and bipolar disorder in adolescence. 

o Conduct semi-structured diagnostic interviews using the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS & K-SADS), as well as evaluations of life events using the Life Events Interview (LEI) and an interview of Parental Attributions for Children’s Events (PACE). 

o Trained to conduct risk assessments using the FNSSI and the BDI –II (Beck Depression Inventory Version II; Beck et. al. 1996) and a follow-up Risk Assessment Interview when warranted.

o Administer behavioral tasks of cognitive vulnerabilities (Autobiographical Memory Task, Self-Referential Encoding Task), memory, attention, and executive functioning (TEACH), and coordinate and conduct prospective, longitudinal data analyses. 

o Administer behavioral and physiological assessments of stress reactivity, including Trier social stress task, salivary cortisol, skin conductance (galvanic skin response using Biopac systems), heart rate and blood pressure. 

• National Certified Phlebotomist Technician (NCPT)o Certified as a phlebotomist technician to take and centrifuge blood

samples in order to examine cytokine levels that indicate an over-reactive immune system as a risk factor for depression in adolescents and young adults.

• Administrative Functiono Conduct cash outs to oversee the financial aspects of projects.o Oversee scheduling participants under the role of Calling Captain.o Responsible for data management in order to conduct data analyses for

the NIMH Progress Reports for Project TEAM and Project ACE.o Responsible for coding and entering Schedule for Affective Disorders

and Schizophrenia Lifetime diagnostic interview (SADS; Endicott & Spitzer, 1978), the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School Age Children Present and Lifetime diagnostic interview (KSADS; Kauffman, et. al. 1997), Life Events Interview (LEI; Safford et al., 2007), questionnaires and behavioral tasks data.

• Personality Disorders and Bipolar Disorderso Independently initiated project using secondary data analysis with

Longitudinal Investigation of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders grant to identify symptoms that differentiate Borderline personality disorder (BPD) from Bipolar Spectrum Disorder (BSD) and to examine how co-morbid BPD characteristics and BSD diagnosis predict BSD symptom course and illness severity.

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o Independently initiated project using secondary data analysis with Longitudinal Investigation of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders grant to identify symptoms that differentiate Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) from Bipolar Spectrum Disorder (BSD).

• Bipolar Disorder and Behavioral Activation System (BAS)o Independently initiated project using secondary data analysis with

Longitudinal Investigation of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders grant to examine how Bipolar Spectrum Disorder mediates the relationship between behavioral activation system (BAS) sensitivity and aggression.

06/13 - 08/15 Post-Baccalaureate Research Assistant Temple University, Cognition and Coping Study

Projects: Cognition and Coping Study Principal Investigator: Jonathan B. Stange, M.A.

Experiences: • Assist doctoral student Jonathan Stange on his dissertation study, the Cognition

and Coping Study, funded by National Institute of Mental Health as an F31 National Research Service Award grant.

• The study is a multi-wave evaluation of inflexible styles of cognition (negative cognitive style, overgeneralization, metacognitive beliefs), executive functioning (cognitive flexibility, inhibition, set-shifting, attentional control), affect (flexible set-shifting of affective material, emotional reactivity), emotion- regulation (e.g., rumination, cognitive reappraisal, expressive suppression, and spontaneous regulation of emotion with emotion-eliciting stimuli), coping, and psychophysiology (respiratory sinus arrhythmia and galvanic skin response) as vulnerabilities to depression and anxiety in life stressors in early adulthood. 

• Administer behavioral tasks of set-shifting and inhibition, including the Delis- Kaplan Executive Functioning System (D-KEFS). • Acquire psychophysiology data (respiration, heart rate, and skin conductance) with Biopac systems, including respiratory sinus arrhythmia and galvanic skin response.

09/12 - 05/13 Research Assistant University of Pennsylvania, Honors Psychology Thesis Projects: The Girls in Transition Project

Principal Investigator: Dr. Jane Gillham, Ph.D. Experiences: • Assisted on the Girls in Transition Program, a resiliency intervention designed to

reduce anxiety and depression in adolescent girls. • Responsibilities included participant recruitment, administering baseline and post-

assessment questionnaires, conducting literature reviews, collecting, coding, entering and analyzing data in Excel and SPSS. • Responsible for co-leading the intervention to participants from diverse

backgrounds. Taught cognitive-behavioral skills in order to handle emotion regulation difficulties, body image concerns, and interpersonal problems that are most applicable for adolescent girls. Targeted strengthening interpersonal relationships, positive body images, healthy emotion regulation and overall resiliency.

• Intervention consisted of three units. o Instructed girls about negative thinking styles that lead to anxiety and

depression and to counter these negative thoughts and unrealistic

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standards through cognitive and problem-solving skills, based on Ellis’s ABC model.

o Taught interpersonal and social problem solving, coping, and assertiveness skills in order to handle difficult stressors, such as interpersonal or academic problems. Included ways to break the rumination cycle and to deal with anger, anxiety and sadness.

o Taught a Media Literacy Training to combat the internalization of media ideals by educating girls that media messages can create unrealistic standards of ideal feminine images. Taught cognitive behavioral skills like cognitive disputation to combat subsequent negative beliefs and increase positive beliefs about physical appearance.

• Honors thesis explored whether this intervention countered the internalization of thin media ideals of beauty in early adolescent girls, thereby increasing body satisfaction. Mediation analyses examined whether the intervention increased body satisfaction in adolescent girls by decreasing the internalization of thin ideals.

07/12 - 05/13 Research Assistant Drexel University, Center for Family Intervention Science Formerly affiliated with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. Projects: Attachment Based Family Therapy for Suicidal Adolescents

Principal Investigator: Dr. Guy Diamond, Ph.D. Experiences • Assisted on several research studies on the assessment, prevention and treatment

of childhood mental problems and their impact on adolescent development and family functioning.

• Responsible for transcribing Attachment-Based Family Therapy sessions, conducting patient intakes, assisting with participant assessments, conducting data entry, literature reviews and assisting in general clinic functioning and IRB proposals. • Co-leader of a student research project that examined whether direct anger

mediates depressive symptoms over the course of the treatment.

05/11 - 05/12 Research Assistant University of Pennsylvania, Anxiety and Depression Lab Projects: Intrusive Negative Thoughts and the Interpretation Effects on Anxiety and Depression

Principal Investigator: Dr. Ayelet Ruscio, Ph.D. Experiences • Assisted with a study examining intrusive negative thoughts, the dysfunctional

interpretations of those thoughts and the subsequent effect on anxiety and depression.

• Responsible for aiding in the development and design of a palm pilot journal study, conducting literature reviews, pilot testing the study and overall edits.

• Responsible for running participants for Palm Pilot journal study. Responsible for conducting information sessions, fielding participant questions or concerns during the study and conducting debriefing sessions.

01/11 - 01/12 Research Assistant University of Pennsylvania, Good Judgment Lab Projects: ‘Wants’ or ‘Shoulds’ and Daily Well-being

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Principal Investigator: Dr. Barbara Mellers, Ph.D., Dr. Cassie Mogilner, Ph.D., Experiences: • Assisted on a research study investigating the perception of daily activities as

‘wants’ or ‘shoulds.’ • Helped to design and run the journal style study. Assisted in participant

recruitment and running participants. Responsibilities included sending email remainders concerning the study and fielding participant questions or concerns • Responsible for coding data in Excel and running statistical analysis in SPSS to examine how the perception of 'want' activities versus 'should' activities affected

well-being levels. • Conducted additional analysis of the data across race, sex and age demographics

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE 07/16 - 06/17 Clinical Extern

New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Division, Inpatient CBT on Women’s Unit Supervisor: Dr. Victoria Wilkins, Ph.D.

Experiences: • Will assist the Women’s Unit to provide comprehensive cognitive-behavioral

treatment of a wide variety of psychiatric diagnosis in an inpatient setting, including intensive group and individual cognitive-behavioral therapy and assessments.

• Will attend weekly clinical group supervision meetings and individual supervision, Psychology and Psychiatry Grand Rounds, seminars, and case conferences.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE09/15 – 05/16 Teaching Assistant: Department of Psychology, Fordham University

Undergraduate Courses : Learning Lab (PSYC 2201)

HONORS AND AWARDS03/14 Third Place Poster Presentation: Bipolar Spectrum Disorder Mediates the

Relationship between Behavioral Activation System (BAS) Sensitivity and Aggression. Psi Chi Research Day, Temple University

09/09 – 05/13 Cum Laude with Distinction in Psychology College of Arts of Science, University of Pennsylvania

09/12 – 05/13 Honors Psychology Program College of Arts of Science, University of Pennsylvania

12/12 – 05/13 Millstein Family Undergraduate Research Grant College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Fund, University of Pennsylvania

07/12- 05/13 Certified in Crisis Prevention Institute Center for Family Intervention Science, University of Pennsylvania

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION2016 – Present The Psi Chi Society2013 – Present American Psychological Association 2013 – Present Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies 2013 – 2015 Society for Affective Science

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RELEVANT SKILLS Proficient in Spanish

PUBLICATIONSStange, J. P., Hamilton, J. L., Burke, T. E., Kleiman, E. M., O’Garro-Moore, J. K., Seligman, N. D.,

Abramson, L. Y., & Alloy, L. B. (2015). Negative cognitive styles synergistically predict suicidal ideation in bipolar spectrum disorders: A three-year prospective study.  Psychiatry Research, 226, 162-168. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.12.042.

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPERATION Mellers, B.A., Mogilner, C., & Seligman. N.D. The perception of activities and well-being. Burke, T.E., Stange, J.P., Seligman, N.D., & Waldburger, L. C. Borderline personality disorder

characteristics predict greater dysfunction in bipolar disorder: Presentation of impulsivity and affective instability.

PRESENTATIONS Seligman, N.D., Morris, B.W., & Andover, M. S.(2016). Emotion regulation, distress

intolerance, and method of non-suicidal self-injury. Poster accepted for presentation at the 2016 Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.

Zambrano, D.N., Seligman, N.D., Molz-Adams, A.R., Stange, J.P., O’Garro-Moore, J.K., Abramson, L.Y., & Alloy, L.B. (2015). Generalized anxiety disorder mediates the relationship between pessimistic cognitive style and depression in early adolescence. Poster accepted for presentation at the 2015 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Stange, J. P., Hamilton, J. L., Yim, C., Jessar, A. J., Seligman, N. D., Waldburger,. C., Fresco, D. M., & Alloy, L. B. (2015).  Emotional reactivity and vulnerability to depression: cognitive-behavioral inflexibilities as potential mechanisms. In A. Mezulis & P. Bijttebier (Chairs), Mechanisms Linking Stress Reactivity with Negative Affect.  Symposium talk presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, PA.

Seligman, N. D., Stange, J. P., Molz, Adams, A., O’Garro-Moore, J. K., Abramson, L.Y., & Alloy, L. B. (2014). Distinguishing bipolar disorder from borderline personality disorder: presentation of affective instability and risk taking behaviors. Poster presented at the 2014 Society for Affective Science conference, Bethesda, MD.

Seligman, N. D., Stange, J. P., Molz, Adams, A., O’Garro-Moore, J. K., Abramson, L.Y., & Alloy, L. B. (2014). Borderline personality disorder characteristics predict severity of illness course In bipolar disorder: presentation of depression, hypomania and affective instability. Poster presented at the 2014 American Psychological Association, Washington DC.

Seligman, N. D., Stange, J. P., Molz, Adams, A., O’Garro-Moore, J. K., Abramson, L.Y., & Alloy, L. B. (2014). Borderline personality disorder characteristics predict greater dysfunction in bipolar disorder: presentation of suicidal ideation and impulsivity. Poster presented at the 2014 American Psychological Association, Washington DC.

Seligman, N. D., Stange, J. P., Molz, Adams, A., O’Garro-Moore, J. K., Abramson, L.Y., & Alloy, L. B. (2014). Antisocial personality disorder characteristics predict substance abuse and impulsivity in bipolar disorder. Poster presented at the 2014 Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.

Stange, J. P., Seligman, N. D., Yim, C., Jessar, A. J., Waldburger, L. C., Fresco, D. M., & Alloy, L. B. (2014). Flexibility in thinking and coping enhances spontaneous emotion regulation following negative mood provocation.  Poster presented at the 2014 Society for Affective Science conference, Bethesda, MD. 

Stange, J. P., Seligman, N. D., Yim, C., Waldburger, L. C., Jessar, A. J., Fresco, D. M., & Alloy, L. B. (2014). Decentering ability predicts flexible executive control and adaptive cognitive and

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affective characteristics. Poster presented at 2014 Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.

Zambrano, D.N., Seligman, N.D., Molz-Adams, A.R., Stange, J.P., O’Garro-Moore, J.K., Abramson, L.Y., & Alloy, L.B. (2014). Bipolar spectrum disorder mediates the relationship between behavioral activation system (BAS) sensitivity and aggression. Poster presented at the 2014 Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.

Waldburger, L. C., Stange, J. P., Seligman, N. D., Jessar, A. J., Yim, C., Fresco, D. M., & Alloy, L. B. (2014). Differential mediational effects of ruminative subtypes between emotional reactivity and depression. Poster presented at the 2014 American Psychological Association conference, Washington, DC.

Yim, C., Stange, J. P., Seligman, N. D., Jessar, A. J., Waldburger, L. C., Fresco, D. M., & Alloy, L. B. (2014). Emotional reactivity predicts elevated physiological reactivity and diminished parasympathetic regulatory capacity in response to a dysphoric mood induction. Poster presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.

Stange, J. P., Yim, C., Seligman, N. D., Jessar, A. J., Waldburger, L. C., Fresco, D. M., & Alloy, L. B. (2014).  Emotional reactivity is associated with inflexibility self-regulation, cognitive control, and parasympathetic functioning and risk for depression and anxiety. Posterpresented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Evanston, IL. 

Stange, J. P., Alloy, L. B., Fresco, D. M., Seligman, N. D., Yim, C., Jessar, A. J., & Waldburger, L. C. Inflexibility in self-regulation and executive control characterize and confer vulnerability to depression and anxiety. (2014).  In E. Debeer (Chair), Psychological Inflexibility in Emotional Disorders.  Symposium presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the European Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, The Hague, Netherlands. 

Yim, C., Stange, J. P., Jessar, A. J., Seligman, N. D., Waldburger, L. C., Fresco, D. M., & Alloy, L. B. (2014). Set-shifting ability predicts trait and state cognitive reappraisal following negative mood provocation. Poster presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.

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