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Alisa Garner

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Psychology

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • PhD, University of Tennessee Knoxville, 2024
    Major: Psychology
    Specialization: Clinical Psychology
    Dissertation: Extending a Risk-taking Model of Alcohol-facilitated Consensual and Sexually Coercive Hook-up Behaviors among College Men.

Current Scheduled Teaching

PSYC 6820.714PracticumSpring 2025
PSYC 6830.715PracticumSpring 2025

Previous Scheduled Teaching

PSYC 3300.001Psychology of Addictive BehaviorsFall 2024 Syllabus SPOT

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Encyclopedia Article

  • Jensen, M.C., Garner, A., Basting, E., Sullivan, J., Medenblik, A., Stuart, G. (2024). Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf).
  • Jensen, M.C., Garner, A., Stuart, G. (2024). Nutt vs. Norwich Roman Catholic Diocese.
  • Basting, E., Sullivan, J., Garner, A., Medenblik, A., Jensen, M.C., Stuart, G. (2023). Child maltreatment: Intervention strategies.
  • Sullivan, J., Jensen, M.C., Basting, E., Garner, A., Medenblik, A., Stuart, G. (2023). Child maltreatment: Suicidal thinking and behaviors resulting.
  • Medenblik, A., Basting, E., Garner, A., Sullivan, J., Jensen, M.C., Stuart, G. (2023). Clergy, transferring accused of sexual abuse.
  • Basting, E., Jensen, M.C., Sullivan, J., Medenblik, A., Garner, A., Stuart, G. (2023). Intimate partner violence in teenage relationships: same-sex relationships.
  • Jensen, M.C., Sullivan, J., Garner, A., Basting, E., Medenblik, A., Stuart, G. (2023). Kimberlé Crenshaw.
  • Jensen, M.C., Basting, E., Garner, A., Sullivan, J., Medenblik, A., Stuart, G. (2023). License to rape: Sexual abuse of wives (Finkelhor and Yllo).
  • Jensen, M.C., Basting, E., Garner, A., Medenblik, A., Sullivan, J., Stuart, G. (2023). Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy: perpetrator characteristics.
  • Basting, E., Medenblik, A., Jensen, M.C., Garner, A., Sullivan, J., Stuart, G. (2023). Offspring-perpetrated familicide.
  • Jensen, M.C., Garner, A., Sullivan, J., Basting, E., Medenblik, A., Stuart, G. (2023). Parricide: Perpetrator characteristics.
  • Jensen, M.C., Garner, A., Sullivan, J., Basting, E., Medenbllik, A., Stuart, G. (2023). Roman Catholic Diocese of Jackson v. Morrison.
  • Garner, A., Medenblik, A., Basting, E., Sullivan, J., Jensen, M.C., Stuart, G. (2023). Secrecy Regarding Child Sexual Abuse: Jehovah’s Witnesses.
  • Basting, E., Sullivan, J., Garner, A., Medenblik, A., Jensen, M.C., Stuart, G. (2023). Severe neglect: Fathers’ neglect of children.
  • Medenblik, A., Basting, E., Sullivan, J., Jensen, M.C., Garner, A., Stuart, G. (2023). Treatment, Father’s Neglect of Children.
  • Sullivan, J., Basting, E., Garner, A., Medenblik, A., Stuart, G. (2023). Urie Bronfenbrenner.
  • Jensen, M.C., Garner, A., Sullivan, J., Basting, E., Medenblik, A., Stuart, G. (2023). Why Kids Kill Parents (Heide).
  • Basting, E., Garner, A., Sullivan, J., Medenblik, A., Jensen, M.C., Stuart, G. (2023). “Voices Against Violence”.
  • Journal Article

  • Basting, E., Medenblik, A., Eberwein, J., Garner, A.R., Shorey, R., Stuart, G.L. (2024). Adverse childhood experiences, PTSD symptoms, and compulsive behaviors among adults in substance use treatment: A latent class analysis.
  • Brem, M.J., Wolford-Clevenger, C., Garner, A.R., Edwards, K., Shorey, R. (2024). Alcohol use, discrimination, and psychological partner abuse among LGBQ+ college students: Results from a daily diary study.
  • Farrell, B., Garner, A.R., Romero, G., Stuart, G.L. (2024). Antisocial personality traits link college students’ family of origin violence and emotional partner abuse.
  • Medenblik, A.M., Garner, A.R., Basting, E., Sullivan, J., Jensen, M.C., Shorey, R., Stuart, G.L. (2024). Examining trauma, anxiety, and depression as predictors of dropout from residential treatment for substance use disorders.
  • Basting, E., Medenblik, A., Switalska, K., Garner, A.R., Shorey, R., Stuart, G.L. (2024). Impulsivity dimensions predict treatment dropout among women in residential treatment for substance use disorders.
  • Basting, E., Medenblik, A., Garner, A.R., Sullivan, J., Romero, G., Shorey, R., Stuart, G.L. (2024). Intimate partner violence perpetration among sexual minority young adults: Associations with alcohol use, PTSD symptoms, internalized homophobia, and heterosexist discrimination.
  • Basting, E., Romero, G., Stanley, L., Sullivan, J., Jensen, M.C., Medenblik, A., Garner, A.R., Stuart, G.L. (2023). Adverse childhood experiences increase the likelihood of sexting coercion through anxious attachment among college aged adults.
  • Garner, A.R., Florimbio, A., Basting, E., Sullivan, J., Medenblik, A., Jensen, M.C., Stuart, G.L. (2023). Alcohol use and compulsive sexual behaviors in college students: The moderating effect of alcohol-related sexual expectancies.
  • Kelner, W., Wolford-Clevenger, C., Garner, A.R., Elledge, L.C., Stuart, G.L. (2023). Applying the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide to Inform the Association between Bullying Victimization and Suicidal Ideation in College Students.
  • Garner, A.R., Stuart, G.L. (2023). Integrating Mindfulness and Acceptance into Traditional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of an Adult Man with Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
  • Basting, E., Barrett, M., Garner, A.R., Florimbio, A., Sullivan, J., Medenblik, A., Stuart, G.L. (2023). Sexual narcissism and hypersexuality relate to sexual coercion in hookups among US university students.
  • Basting, E., Romero, G., Garner, A.R., Medenblik, A., Cornelius, T., Stuart, G.L. (2022). Applying Attachment Theory to Link Family of Origin Violence History to Cyber Dating Abuse Among College Students.
  • Garner, A.R., Blocher, N., Tierney, D., Baumgardner, M., Watson, A., Romero, G., Skadberg, R., Younginer, T., Waugh, M. (2022). Applying the DSM-5 Alternative Model of Personality Disorders and the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure to the Classic Case of “Madeline G:” Novice and Expert Rater Convergences and Divergence.
  • Garner, A.R., Brem, M.J., Shorey, R., Hamlin, J., Stuart, G.L. (2022). Negative urgency moderates the association between compulsive sexual behaviors and sending unsolicited sexts among men in residential treatment for substance use disorders.
  • Choi, H.J., Grigorian, H., Garner, A., Stuart, G.L., Temple, J.R. (2022). Polydrug Use and Dating Violence Among Emerging Adults. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 37 (5-6) 2190-2217. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260520934427
  • Brem, M.J., Romero, G., Garner, A.R., Grigorian, H., Florimbio, A., Stuart, G.L. (2021). Alcohol problems, jealousy, and cyber dating abuse perpetration among men and women: Toward a conceptual model.
  • Garner, A.R., Shorey, R., Anderson, S., Stuart, G.L. (2021). Alcohol use and aggression among men in residential treatment for substance use disorders: The moderating role of mindfulness facets.
  • Brem, M.J., Garner, A.R., Grigorian, H., Florimbio, A., Wolford-Clevenger, C., Shorey, R., Stuart, G.L. (2021). Problematic pornography use and physical and sexual intimate partner violence perpetration among men in batterer intervention programs.
  • Garner, A.R., Johansson-Love, J., Romero, G., Grigorian, H., Florimbio, A., Brem, M., Wolford-Clevenger, C., Stuart, G.L. (2021). Risk of revocation among batterers: A preliminary analysis of criminogenic, intimate partner violence, and mental health risks.
  • Garner, A.R., Gilbert, S., Shorey, R., Gordon, K., Moore, T., Stuart, G.L. (2020). A Longitudinal investigation on the relation between self-compassion and alcohol use in a treatment sample: A brief report.
  • Garner, A.R., Shorey, R., Anderson, S., Stuart, G.L. (2020). Risky sexual behaviors among men in residential treatment for substance misuse: The role of compulsive sexual behavior.
  • Florimbio, A., Brem, M.J., Grigorian, H., Garner, A.R., Stuart, G.L. (2020). Sexting and substance use among women arrested for domestic violence: A brief report.
  • Garner, A.R., Spiller, L., Williams, P. (2020). Sexual coercion in the college population: A form of risk-taking behavior.
  • Wolford-Clevenger, C., Frantell, K.A., Brem, M.J., Garner, A., Rae Florimbio, A., Grigorian, H., Shorey, R.C., Stuart, G.L. (2020). Suicide ideation among Southern U.S. Sexual minority college students. Death Studies. 44 (4) 223-229. Informa UK Limited. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2018.1531088
  • Grigorian, H., Brem, M., Garner, A.R., Florimbio, A., Wolford-Clevenger, C., Stuart, G.L. (2020). Alcohol use and problems as a potential mediator of the relationship between emotion dysregulation and intimate partner violence perpetration.. Other. 10 (1) 91-99. https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000237
  • Grigorian, H., Garner, A.R., Florimbio, A., Brem, M., Wolford-Clevenger, C., Elmquist, J., Shorey, R., Stuart, G.L. (2019). Emotion Dysregulation as a Correlate of Intimate Partner Violence Among Women Arrested for Domestic Violence. Other. 10 (1) 98-113. Springer Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1891/1946-6560.10.1.98
  • Florimbio, A., Brem, M., Garner, A.R., Grigorian, H., Stuart, G.L. (2018). Alcohol-related sex expectancies explain the relation between alcohol use and sexting among college students.
  • Garner, A.R., Grigorian, H., Florimbio, A., Brem, M., Wolford-Clevenger, C., Stuart, G.L. (2018). The association between compulsive sexual behavior and sexual aggression perpetration among men arrested for domestic violence.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Fellowship

  • Garner, A., "Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship," sponsored by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Federal, $135048 Funded. (2020 - 2023).
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    This rating represents the combined responses of students to the four global summative items and is presented to provide an overall index of the class’s quality. Overall summative statements include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 5 = Excellent, 3 = Good, and 1= Very poor):
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    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
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    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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