Dr. Kathryn Bell is a clinical psychologist with broad research interests in interpersonal violence, including intimate partner violence (IPV), sexual assault, and childhood abuse. She is interested in utilizing a contextually-based framework to identify risk factors that are proximally and dynamically associated with episodes of interpersonal violence perpetration and victimization. Over the years, Dr. Bell has used this framework to investigate the influences of posttraumatic stress symptoms, childhood trauma, emotion regulation skills, experiential avoidance, substance use problems, expected and actual consequences of aggression, and verbal rules on adult interpersonal violence. Dr. Bell has secondary research interests in addictions, particularly as substance use relates to risk for interpersonal violence. Her most recent research project, in collaboration with Lorie L. McCaughan through the Family Advocacy Clinic at Capital University’s Law School and Melis Sedef Kahraman, is examining predictors of civil protection order attainment for domestic violence victims within the State of Ohio.
Dr. Bell is a registered psychologist with expertise in the assessment and treatment of adults with anxiety, trauma-related disorders, addictions, and associated conditions. She has specialized training and experience in the delivery of prolonged exposure (PE) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), single-session exposure treatment for specific phobias, behavioral activation for depression, panic control treatment, mindfulness-based approaches and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Behavioral Couples Therapy for co-morbid addiction and relationship problems.
