Keyne Catherine LawSeattle Pacific University | SPU · Department of Clinical Psychology
Keyne Catherine Law
Doctor of Philosophy
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Introduction
Keyne Law is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at Seattle Pacific University. Her research primarily focuses on examining the dynamic changes and interplay between ecological, cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and biological systems that facilitate the progression from suicidal thoughts into lethal suicidal behavior.
Additional affiliations
September 2018 - present
Position
- Professor (Assistant)
Description
- Clinical Research in Self-Injury & Suicide Lab
August 2018 - March 2020
August 2016 - May 2017
Education
August 2017 - July 2018
August 2013 - December 2018
University of Southern Mississippi
Field of study
- Clinical Psychology
August 2013 - May 2016
Publications
Publications (30)
We examined the impact of 3 state laws (permit to purchase a handgun, registration of handguns, license to own a handgun) on suicide rates.
We used 2010 data from publicly available databases and state legislatures to assess the relationships between our predictors and outcomes.
Results largely indicated that states with any of these laws in place...
Research supports a model in which emotionally dysregulated individuals are more likely to think about suicide and experience proximal risk factors for suicidal ideation (e.g., thwarted belongingness, perceived burdensomeness). The drive to escape aversive affective sensations inherent in emotion dysregulation, however, serves as an obstacle to the...
Suicide-specific rumination, a repetitive mental fixation on one's suicidal thoughts and intentions, may influence the transition from suicidal thoughts to behaviors. Research on suicide-specific rumination has been hindered by the lack of an independent measurement tool. This article presents the development and validation of a self-report measure...
To prevent suicidal behaviors, it is crucial to understand the mechanisms and processes that enable an individual to act on suicidal thoughts. Suicide capability, which involves an increased pain tolerance and fearlessness of death, is a critical factor that enables an individual to endure the physical pain necessary to make a lethal suicide attemp...
Background
Agitation is an important transdiagnostic factor for several mental health disorders and a significant risk factor for dangerous or maladaptive coping behaviors. How an individual responds to experiences of agitation itself may also play a crucial role in conferring risk towards maladaptive behaviors. Specifically, ruminating on high aro...
This editorial overview provides an introduction to the Suicide and Life‐Threatening Behaviors Special Issue: “Analytic and Methodological Innovations for Suicide‐Focused Research.” We outline several challenges faced by modern suicidologists, such as the need to integrate different analytical and methodological techniques from other fields with th...
In recent years, concerns about the standard practices surrounding how research in psychology is conducted has been raised. To help researchers in psychology address these concerns, the ‘open science’ community subsequently provided a set of practices and considerations. These include using open science platforms, pre-registering studies, ensuring...
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a disorder characterized by emotion regulation (ER) difficulties. Although research indicates that patterns of ER differ across racial groups, few studies have examined the role of race in the ER-BPD association. This study sought to address this gap. Participants in this study identified as either East Asia...
Previous evidence suggests an association between negative cognitive styles and suicide-related outcomes. Recently, Acute Suicidal Affective Disturbance (ASAD) was proposed to characterize the phenomenology of acute suicidal crises, with key features being the rapid onset of suicidal intent, social- or self-alienation, perceptions of intractability...
This study sought to examine the effect of general PTSD symptoms as well as specific PTSD symptom clusters on suicidal ideation and suicidal attempts. We first compared a correlated factors solution consistent with the DSM-5 symptom clusters for PTSD with a bifactor solution comprising a General PTSD factor and orthogonal specific factors. Using th...
This study seeks to determine if the severity of suicidal ideation at the worst point can differentiate individuals who think about suicide (ideators) from those who make a suicide attempt (attempters). Subsequently, the indirect effect of worst point ideation on differentiating ideators from attempters through various pathways such as an increased...
Extant research has found a significant overlap between various repetitive negative thinking (RNT) patterns, such as rumination and worry, across different affective disorders implicating that the process of repetitive negative thinking is likely trans-diagnostic. Furthermore, RNT patterns at the core of psychiatric disorders associated with suicid...
Current efforts at suicide prevention center largely on reducing suicidal desire among individuals hospitalized for suicidality or being treated for related psychopathology. Such efforts have yielded evidence-based treatments, and yet the national suicide rate has continued to climb. We propose that this disconnect is heavily influenced by an unmet...
Background
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and suicidal behavior exhibit a robust association with one another. Research on the contexts within which this relationship is stronger or weaker, however, is limited. The interpersonal theory of suicidal behavior (ITS) posits that NSSI influences suicidal behavior through a habituation to physical pain a...
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is comprised of a set of complex and highly impairing symptoms that emerge in adolescence and persist into adulthood (Steele, Bate, Nikitiades, & Buhl-Nielsen, 2015). The BP phenotype (Gunderson & Lyons-Ruth, 2008; Lazarus, Cheavens, Festa, & Rosenthal, 2014) is distinguished by a labile interpersonal style vac...
Background:
Recent evidence suggests an association between cognitive anxiety sensitivity and suicidal ideation. Cognitive anxiety sensitivity has also been implicated as a precursor to various forms of overarousal. These manifestations of overarousal (i.e., agitation, insomnia, nightmares, and anger) may account for the association between cognit...
Objective:
Media reporting guidelines exist for suicide-related content; however, no experimental studies have examined the impact of guideline violations. As such, we utilized an experimental design to determine whether reading an article about suicide that violated guidelines would impact mood and suicidality relative to the same article without...
Researchers have recently emphasized the need to develop a greater understanding of factors and contexts that facilitate the progression from suicidal thoughts to suicidal behavior. Hopelessness has been implicated in numerous studies as one of the primary cognitive vulnerabilities associated with heightened suicide risk. This study aimed to addres...
Suicidal desire in the military has been previously examined through the lens of the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide (IPTS). However, no research has examined the impact of specific coping strategies on perceived burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness, and suicidal ideation in a large population of individuals serving in the US milita...
According to the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicide (Joiner, 2005), perceived burdensomeness (PB) and thwarted belongingness (TB) are core factors associated with suicidal desire. Individuals with BPD die by suicide more frequently than members of the general population (Pompili, Girardi, Ruberto & Tatarelli, 2005). Conceptualizations of...
Several variables have been proposed as heavily influencing or explaining the association between nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) and suicidal behavior. We propose that increased comfort with bodily harm may serve as an incrementally valuable variable to consider. We sought to indirectly test this possibility by examining the moderating role of numb...
Difficulties in interpersonal relationships have been established as a core feature of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), and research suggests that individuals with BPD exhibit a pervasive pattern of negative social interactions (Stepp, Pilkonis, Yaggi, Morse & Feske, 2009). Attachment has been found to have a unique relationship to Borderline...
Projects
Project (1)
This is my dissertation project which serves to test the effects of rumination on feelings of anger vs. sadness on pain responses through changes in autonomic reactivity. I am using an experimental approach, where emotion and rumination will be induced and changes in pain tolerance and persistence will be measured using a cold pressor. Autonomic reactivity is operationalized as changes in heart rate variability, electrodermal activity, and respiration across various time points in the study.
