Dr. R. Nicholas Carleton, Ph.D., R.D. Psych., FCAHS, FRSC

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Research Interests

• Anxiety Disorders
• First Responders and Other Public Safety Personnel
• Potentially Psychologically Traumatic Events
• Traumatic Stress
• Fundamental Cognitions
• Psychometrics and Statistics
• Transdiagnostics

Research interests include the biopsychosocial measurement, assessment, and treatments of anxiety, mood, and somatic disorders, focusing on transdiagnostics, fundamental cognitions (i.e., lower-order factors such as intolerance of uncertainty), and shared emergent properties (i.e., higher-order factors such as extraversion) for first responders and other public safety personnel (www.ptsslab.ca).

Representative Projects

• A Longitudinal Study of Operational Stress Injuries (OSIs) for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (www.rcmpstudy.ca)
• National Public Safety Personnel (PSP) Prevalence Study (https://ptsslab.ca/ax3-project/)
• An Augmented Training Program for Preventing Post-Traumatic Stress Injuries Among Diverse Public Safety Personnel (www.saskptsistudy.ca)
• Development of the Internet-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Pilot in Support of Post-Traumatic Stress Injuries among Public Safety Personnel (www.pspnet.ca)

Representative Publications

Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nS-yQa8AAAAJ&hl=en