Antoine Lebeaut

Antoine Lebeaut
University of Washington | UW · Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Doctor of Philosophy

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Antoine Lebeaut, PhD a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington (UW). He completed his PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Houston and his APA-accredited pre-doctoral internship at the UW School of Medicine. Dr. Lebeaut specializes in the treatment of PTSD and anxiety disorders, and his primary research focus is on identifying risk and maintenance factors for PTSD and co-occurring disorders in community adults and first responders. Follow me on X: @Antoine_Lebeaut !

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Background Firefighting is an intrinsically stressful occupation, and firefighters are routinely confronted with potentially traumatic experiences. Abilities to tolerate distress and to recover from stressful experiences (i.e., resilience) are pertinent to firefighting. Various facets of distress tolerance (DT), defined as the ability to withstand...
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Objective: Firefighters are at risk of experiencing heightened anxiety and alcohol use perhaps due to occupational stress. Mindfulness is related to both anxiety and alcohol use; however, research on the relations of mindfulness with anxiety and alcohol use and drinking motives among firefighters is limited. This study examined (1) whether higher a...
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Emotional disorders are highly comorbid with substance use disorders (SUD). Despite the increasing availability of evidence-based and integrative treatment modalities for SUD/emotional disorder(s) comorbidities, access to these treatments remains low and there is a critical need to improve existing treatments and develop novel, evidence-based inter...
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Objective: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and alcohol use commonly co-occur and present a prevalent clinical comorbidity. The self-medication/coping model has been applied most consistently to understand the PTSD–alcohol use association. However, there is a relative paucity of self-report measures designed to assess motivations for a...
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First responders frequently encounter potentially traumatic and stressful emergency events and work in an increasingly demanding profession. Given the nature of their profession, a proactive and preventative approach to addressing the mental health and well-being of first responders has garnered significant interest and support. Strategies for miti...
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Objective: Heightened rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and alcohol use have been documented among firefighters. Emotion regulation difficulties (ERD) are clinically relevant to both PTSD and alcohol use. Few studies have examined the role of ERD in the association of PTSD symptoms with alcohol use severity and alcohol use moti...
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Objectives Impulsivity is one factor that is associated with increased risk for suicide ideation and suicidal risk. However, limited studies have examined the association between impulsivity and suicidal risk, or clinically relevant protective factors, for Black Americans. While mindfulness is a robust coping mechanism and facilitator of psychologi...
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Compared with the general U.S. population, firefighters (FF) and emergency medical services (EMS) workers (FF + EMS personnel) are at increased risk for firearm suicide. Although secure firearm storage is associated with reduced risk of firearm suicide, no study has examined the prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of firearm ownership and st...
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Objective: The present investigation examined the main and interactive effects of COVID-19-related medical vulnerability (CMV; the number of medical conditions with potential to elevate COVID-19 risk), and first responder status (emergency medical services [EMS] roles versus non-EMS roles) on mental health symptoms. Methods: A national sample of...
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The present investigation examined associations of childhood maltreatment, anxiety sensitivity (AS), and sleep disturbance among a diverse sample of adults in psychiatric inpatient treatment. We hypothesized that childhood maltreatment would be indirectly associated with greater sleep disturbance through elevated AS. Exploratory analyses examined t...
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Background: Hazardous drinking and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are commonly co-occurring conditions among adults. Motivational enhancement interventions, such as personalized feedback interventions (PFI), have demonstrated efficacy for reducing hazardous drinking. Emerging though scant literature has evaluated PFI for co-occurring PTSD and...
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Objective: Firefighters experience heightened rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms compared to the general population. Nascent literature has identified distress overtolerance (DO; i.e., the tendency to persist through extremely high levels of distress despite harmful consequences) as a construct of potential relevance to PTSD sym...
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Objectives Firefighters are regularly exposed to potentially traumatic and injurious events and are at increased risk for developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, pain, and pain-related disability. Mindfulness (i.e., present-oriented awareness and nonjudgmental acceptance of cognitions and bodily sensations) may influence PTSD-pain...
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Mindfulness-based interventions have demonstrated efficacy with regard to diverse psychological symptoms across populations. Few studies have evaluated the efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions for firefighters. This pilot randomized clinical trial (RCT) is designed to determine the preliminary efficacy, feasibility, and acceptability of a no...
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Firefighters demonstrate high rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol use disorder (AUD). Research has yet to compare how these diagnoses and their co-occurrence relate to firefighter mental health. This study evaluated trauma load, PTSD, alcohol use, depression, sleep, suicide risk, anger, and occupational stress across four disc...
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Firefighters are chronically exposed to potentially traumatic events, augmenting their risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The current study aimed to examine the incremental associations of lower-order dimensions of anxiety sensitivity (AS), examined concurrently, and PTSD symptom severity among a sample of trauma-exposed firef...
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Background : Anxiety sensitivity (AS), defined as the fear of anxiety-related sensations, is associated with increased risk for suicide and related behavior. However, investigations of AS have centered on primarily non-Hispanic White men and women and with limited attention to clinically relevant underlying factors. Methods : The purpose of this p...
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The present investigation evaluated the preliminary impact of COVID-19 exposure on first responder mental health. Data were collected between June and August 2020. The sample was comprised of 189 first responders (M age = 47.58, SD = 10.93; 21% female), recruited nationally, who completed an online survey. Results indicated that COVID-19-exposed fi...
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Objective Firefighters represent a distinct group of first responders that are at heightened risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol use disorder (AUD). Assessing the role of transdiagnostic factors that underlie PTSD-AUD associations can inform specialized interventions among this population. This study included urban f...
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Objective: Persons in psychiatric inpatient hospitals represent a unique population with high rates of suicidal ideation and behavior as well as childhood maltreatment. Lower levels of perceived distress tolerance (DT) are associated with a history of childhood maltreatment and suicidal ideation and behavior in adulthood. Our study examined the ass...
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Objectives Trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are significant concerns across psychiatric inpatient populations. Sleep disturbance is implicated in the etiology and maintenance of PTSD. Mindfulness facets, including observing, describing, acting with awareness, non-judging of inner experience, and non-reactivity to inner exper...
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Introduction: Firefighters are vulnerable to developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol use disorder (AUD). Anxiety sensitivity (AS) is a cognitive-affective mechanism with clinical relevance to both PTSD and AUD. The current study examined the potential role of AS in the association of PTSD symptomatology with alcohol use severit...
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Developing research suggests that the co-occurrence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a significant clinical concern across first responder populations. This comorbidity is difficult to treat and marked by a more costly, complex, and chronic clinical course when compared to either disorder alone. Significant...
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Firefighters represent a unique population at high risk for trauma exposure, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and alcohol use. This study explored the main and interactive effects of PTSD symptom severity and impulsivity with regard to alcohol use severity. We hypothesized that higher levels of PTSD symptom severity and impulsivity would be re...
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Background Schizophrenia is associated with visual-processing abnormalities, including impairments in visual acuity, low-contrast stimulus detection, and perceptual organization (i.e., perceiving visual information in an organized “perceptual whole”). These visual impairments are clinically significant, with research indicating that specific visual...
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The comorbidity of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)and alcohol use disorders (AUD)is prevalent, complex, and difficult to treat. Cue reactivity paradigms offer a clinically relevant scientific avenue to advance our understanding of PTSD/AUD comorbidity and ultimately inform evidence-based interventions. Cue reactivity paradigms evoke emotional...
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Mental contamination (MC), feeling dirty in the absence of a physical contaminant, has been linked to the basic emotion of disgust. Both MC and disgust have been associated with posttraumatic stress (PTS) and obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms occurring separately as well as together. However, there is no consensus on the specific ways in which the...
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Mental contamination (MC), feeling dirty in the absence of a physical contaminant, has been linked to the basic emotion of disgust. Both MC and disgust have been associated with posttraumatic stress (PTS) and obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms occurring separately as well as together. However, there is no consensus on the specific ways in which the...

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