Nicholas Holder, PhD
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Specific areas of interest include: (1) understanding trends in and improving access to evidence-based treatment for PTSD; (2) understanding variability in response to evidence-based psychotherapies for PTSD; (3) understanding the process of symptom change during evidence-based psychotherapies for PTSD; (4) improving acceptability of and retention in mental health treatment; and (5) understanding and treating clinical complexity associated with PTSD.

• Factors associated with receipt of minimally adequate psychotherapy for PTSD at the Veterans Health Administration.
  Journal of psychiatric research 2023 Ranney RM, Bernhard PA, Holder N, Vogt D, Blosnich JR, Schneiderman AI, Maguen S
• Advancing health equity by understanding race disparities and other factors associated with PTSD symptom improvement following evidence-based psychotherapy.
  Journal of anxiety disorders 2023 Maguen S, Batten A, Hubbard A, Holder N, Burkman K, Cottonham D, Purcell N, Mehlman H, Shiner B
• Military sexual trauma among Veterans using and not using VA justice-related programing: A national examination.
  Journal of psychiatric research 2023 Holliday R, Holder N, Smith AA, Desai A, Hoffmire CA, Forster JE, Monteith LL
• Relationship of social determinants of health with symptom severity among Veterans and non-Veterans with probable posttraumatic stress disorder or depression.
  Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology 2023 Holder N, Holliday R, Ranney RM, Bernhard PA, Vogt D, Hoffmire CA, Blosnich JR, Schneiderman AI, Maguen S
• Treatment Utilization for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in a National Sample of Veterans and Nonveterans.
  Medical care 2023 Ranney RM, Maguen S, Bernhard PA, Holder N, Vogt D, Blosnich JR, Schneiderman AI
• Clinician Concerns About Cognitive Processing Therapy: A Review of the Evidence
  Cognitive and Behavioral Practice 2022 LoSavio ST, Holder N, Wells SY, Resick PA
• Childhood Sexual Abuse and Military Sexual Trauma Interact to Increase Suicide Risk: Results from a Nationally Representative Veteran Sample.
  Journal of interpersonal violence 2022 Holliday R, Nichter B, Holder N, Hill ML, Monteith LL, Norman SB, Pietrzak RH
• Institutional Betrayal and Closeness Among Women Veteran Survivors of Military Sexual Trauma: Associations with Self-Directed Violence and Mental Health Symptoms.
  Journal of trauma & dissociation : the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD) 2022 Monteith LL, Holder N, Iglesias CD, Holliday R
• Association between post-traumatic stress disorder severity and death by suicide in US military veterans: retrospective cohort study.
  The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science 2022 Forehand JA, Dufort V, Gradus JL, Maguen S, Watts BV, Jiang T, Holder N, Shiner B
• Moral injury and chronic pain in veterans.
  Journal of psychiatric research 2022 Ranney RM, Maguen S, Bernhard PA, Holder N, Vogt D, Blosnich JR, Schneiderman AI
• The Importance of Context: Using Social Determinants of Health to Improve Research and Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
  Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry 2022 Holder N, Mehlman H, Delgado AK, Maguen S
• Veterans receiving a second course of cognitive processing therapy or prolonged exposure therapy: is it better to switch or stay the same?
  Cognitive behaviour therapy 2022 Holder N, Batten AJ, Shiner B, Li Y, Madden E, Neylan TC, Seal KH, Patterson OV, DuVall SL, Maguen S
• Psychosocial Outcomes Among Veteran and Non-Veteran Survivors of Sexual Assault.
  Journal of interpersonal violence 2022 Holder N, Maguen S, Holliday R, Vogt D, Bernhard PA, Hoffmire CA, Blosnich JR, Schneiderman AI
• Treating PTSD in the Context of Concurrent Suicide Risk: Current Evidence and Navigating Complicating Factors
  Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry 2021 Holliday, R., Holder, N., Williams, A. M., Monteith, L. L.
• Effectiveness and comparative effectiveness of evidence-based psychotherapies for posttraumatic stress disorder in clinical practice.
  Psychological medicine 2021 Maguen S, Madden E, Holder N, Li Y, Seal KH, Neylan TC, Lujan C, Patterson OV, DuVall SL, Shiner B
• Influence of suicidal ideation on mental health care following risk assessment among Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder.
  General hospital psychiatry 2021 Holder N, Holliday R, Khan AJ, Shiner B, Neylan TC, Madden E, Li Y, Patterson OV, DuVall SL, Maguen S
• Reducing Barriers to Behavioral Treatments for Insomnia: A Qualitative Examination of Veterans' Perspectives of BBTI.
  Behavioral sleep medicine 2021 Holder N, Kanady JC, Straus LD, Khan AJ, Purcell N, Huggins J, Gloria R, Neylan TC, Lujan C, Maguen S
• A Factor Analysis of the Suicide Cognitions Scale in Veterans with Military Sexual Trauma-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
  Journal of trauma & dissociation : the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD) 2021 Wiblin J, Holder N, Holliday R, Jeon-Slaughter H, LePage J, Surís A
• The impact of family bereavement interventions: Qualitative feedback identifies needs
  Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology 2021 Henning E, Germann JN, Holder N, Nakonezny P, Loftin S, Redondo-Doan B, Jones L, Petty LA, Pratt C, Garza-Saenz M, Isaacs T, Liu K, Winick N
• Tailoring manualized treatment to the needs of the client: A review of flexible applications of cognitive processing therapy: Evidence-Based Treatment Methods
  Eur J Psychotraumatol 2020 Holder, N., Holliday, R., & Williams, A.
• Preventing Suicidal Self-Directed Violence Among Survivors of Military Sexual Trauma: Understanding Risk and Applying Evidence-Based Principles
  Psychiatr Annals 2020 Holliday, R., Wiblin, J., Holder, N., Gerard, G.R., Matarazzo, B.B., & Monteith, L.L.
• How do gender and military sexual trauma impact PTSD symptoms in cognitive processing therapy and prolonged exposure?
  Journal of psychiatric research 2020 Khan AJ, Holder N, Li Y, Shiner B, Madden E, Seal K, Neylan TC, Maguen S
• Cognitive Processing Therapy for Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: What is the Median Effective Dose?
  Journal of affective disorders 2020 Holder N, Shiner B, Li Y, Madden E, Neylan TC, Seal KH, Lujan C, Patterson OV, DuVall SL, Maguen S
• Factors associated with PTSD symptom improvement among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans receiving evidenced-based psychotherapy.
  Journal of affective disorders 2020 Maguen S, Holder N, Li Y, Madden E, Neylan TC, Seal KH, Lujan C, Patterson OV, DuVall SL, Shiner B
• Comparing the effectiveness of VA residential PTSD treatment for veterans who do and do not report a history of MST: A national investigation.
  Journal of psychiatric research 2019 Holliday R, Smith NB, Holder N, Gross GM, Monteith LL, Maguen S, Hoff RA, Harpaz-Rotem I
• Evidence-based psychotherapy trends among posttraumatic stress disorder patients in a national healthcare system, 2001-2014.
  Depression and anxiety 2019 Maguen S, Holder N, Madden E, Li Y, Seal KH, Neylan TC, Lujan C, Patterson OV, DuVall SL, Shiner B
• Validation of the Timberlawn Couple and Family Evaluation Scales-Self-Report in Veterans with PTSD.
  Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS 2019 Holliday R, Holder N, Wiblin J, Surís A
• Treating Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the Presence of Acute Suicide Risk in Veterans and Active Duty Service Members: A Call for Research.
  The Journal of nervous and mental disease 2019 Holliday R, Holder N, Olson-Madden JH, Monteith LL
• Predictors of dropout from a randomized clinical trial of cognitive processing therapy for female veterans with military sexual trauma-related PTSD.
  Psychiatry research 2019 Holder N, Holliday R, Wiblin J, LePage JP, Surís A
• A Preliminary Examination of the Effect of Cognitive Processing Therapy on Sleep Disturbance Among Veterans with Military Sexual Trauma-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
  Traumatology 2019 Holder N, Holliday R, Wiblin J, Surís A
• Patterns and temporal precedence of symptom change during cognitive processing therapy for military sexual trauma-related posttraumatic stress disorder.
  Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy 2019 Holder N, Holliday R, Wiblin J, Surís A
• Competence in psychology board certification: Unlike a good wine, it does not get better with age
  Training and Education in Professional Psychology 2019 Bordes-Edgar, V., Holder, N., Cox, D., Surís, A.
• The effect of childhood sexual assault history on outpatient cognitive processing therapy for military sexual trauma-related posttraumatic stress disorder: A preliminary investigation.
  Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress 2018 Holder N, Holliday R, Surís A
• Decreases in Suicide Cognitions After Cognitive Processing Therapy Among Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Due to Military Sexual Trauma: A Preliminary Examination.
  The Journal of nervous and mental disease 2018 Holliday R, Holder N, Monteith LL, Surís A
• Predictors of Unbearability, Unlovability, and Unsolvability in Veterans With Military-Sexual-Trauma-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
  Journal of interpersonal violence 2018 Wiblin J, Holder N, Holliday R, Surís A
• A Single-Arm Meta-Analysis of Cognitive Processing Therapy in Addressing Trauma-Related Negative Cognitions
  Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, & Trauma 2018 Holliday, R., Holder, N., & Surís, A.
• Reductions in self-blame cognitions predict PTSD improvements with cognitive processing therapy for military sexual trauma-related PTSD.
  Psychiatry research 2018 Holliday R, Holder N, Surís A
• Childhood Sexual Assault, Quality of Life, and Psychiatric Comorbidity in Veterans With Military and Civilian Sexual Trauma
  Military Psychology 2017 Williams, R. C., Holliday, R., Holder, N., Surís, A.
• A preliminary examination of the role of psychotherapist fidelity on outcomes of cognitive processing therapy during an RCT for military sexual trauma-related PTSD.
  Cognitive behaviour therapy 2017 Holder N, Holliday R, Williams R, Mullen K, Surís A
• Role of Borderline Personality Disorder in the Treatment of Military Sexual Trauma-related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder with Cognitive Processing Therapy.
  Behavioral medicine (Washington, D.C.) 2017 Holder N, Holliday R, Pai A, Surís A
• Therapeutic response to Cognitive Processing Therapy in White and Black female veterans with military sexual trauma-related PTSD.
  Cognitive behaviour therapy 2017 Holliday RP, Holder ND, Williamson MLC, Surís A
• A Reexamination of Military Sexual Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
  Psychiatric Annals 2017 Williamson, M. L. C., Holliday, R., Holder, N., North, C. S., Surís, A.
• Principles of Mental Health Intervention for Survivors of Major Disasters
  Psychiatric Annals 2017 Holder, N., Surís, A., Holliday, R., & North, C. S.
• Facilitating Fear-Based Memory Extinction With Dexamethasone: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Male Veterans With Combat-Related PTSD.
  Psychiatry 2017 Surís A, Holliday R, Adinoff B, Holder N, North CS
• Providers' use of evidence-based treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder: The influence of training, attitudes, and barriers in military and private treatment settings
  Best Practices in Mental Health 2017 Borah, E.V., Holder, N., Chen, K.
• Psychometric validation of the 16 Item Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology Self-Report Version (QIDS-SR16) in military veterans with PTSD.
  Journal of affective disorders 2016 Surís A, Holder N, Holliday R, Clem M
• Lessons learned in a clinical trial for military sexual trauma-related posttraumatic stress disorder.
  Journal of rehabilitation research and development 2016 Surís A, Holder N, Holliday R, Morris EE, Surís A, Holder N, Holliday R, Morris EE
• Mephedrone: Public health risk, mechanisms of action, and behavioral effects.
  European journal of pharmacology 2013 Dybdal-Hargreaves NF, Holder ND, Ottoson PE, Sweeney MD, Williams T
• Why do capuchin monkeys urine wash? An experimental test of the sexual communication hypothesis using fMRI.
  American journal of primatology 2011 Phillips KA, Buzzell CA, Holder N, Sherwood CC