Whitney S. Livingston

Whitney S. Livingston

Associate Behavioral and Social Scientist

She/Her

Expertise

Whitney Livingston is an associate behavioral and social scientist at RAND and a licensed clinical psychologist. Her research focuses on sexual violence, intimate partner violence, suicide risk, women's health, and PTSD among service members and veterans. She uses quantiative and qualitative methodologies with clinical and non-clinical populations. Livingston previously provided evidence-based treatments and clinical assessments to veterans seeking care from the Veterans Health Administration. She earned her Ph.D. in clinical/counseling psychology from Utah State University and attended the National Center for PTSD at VA Boston for her postdoctoral research fellowship.

Education

Ph.D. in clinical/counseling psychology, Utah State University; BA in psychology, American University

Selected Work

  • Livingston, Whitney S., Carrie M. Farmer, Heather M. Salazar, Rajeev Ramchand, and Kayla M. Williams, "This Is a Solvable Problem": Proceedings from a Roundtable on Providing Support to Veterans in the Transition from Military Service to Civilian Life, RAND Corporation (CF-A1363-4), 2024
  • Livingston WS, Tannahill HS, Meter DJ, Fargo JD, & Blais RK, "The association of military sexual harassment/assault with suicide ideation, plans, attempts, and mortality among US service members/veterans: A meta-analysis," Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 2022
  • Livingston WS, Carter SP, Leitner R, Ton AT, Gebhardt H, Zoellner LA, Mizik N, Rojas SM, Buchholz JR, & Reger MA, "A peer veteran approach to the caring letters suicide prevention program: Preliminary data," Psychological Services, 2023
  • Blais RK, Livingston WS, Barrett TS, Tannahill HS, "Sexual violence in military service members/veterans individual and interpersonal outcomes associated with single and multiple exposures of civilian and military sexual violence," Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 38(3-4), 2022
  • Blais RK, Zalta AK, & Livingston WS, "Interpersonal trauma and sexual function and satisfaction: The mediating role of negative affect among survivors of military sexual trauma," Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(7-8), 2020
  • Livingston WS, Fargo JD, Gundlapalli AV, Brignone E, & Blais RK, "Comorbid PTSD and depression diagnoses mediate the association of military sexual trauma and suicide and intentional self-inflicted injury in VHA-enrolled Iraq/Afghanistan veterans, 2004-2014," Journal of Affective Disorders, 274, 2020
  • Tannahill HS, Livingston WS, Fargo JD, Brignone E, Gundlapalli AV, & Blais RK, "Gender moderates the association of military sexual trauma and risk for psychological distress among VA-enrolled veterans," Journal of Affective Disorders, 268, 2020
  • Blais RK, Brignone E, Fargo JD, Livingston WS, & Andresen F, "The importance of distinguishing between harassment and assault military sexual trauma during screening," Military Psychology, 31(3), 2019

Authored by Whitney S. Livingston

  • Content Type
  • Topic

    Most relevant topics

  • Region

    Most relevant regions

  • Date
    to
1 Result