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E. Alison Holman

Assistant Professor, College of Health Sciences
Nursing Science

Ph.D., U.C. Irvine, 1996, Health Psychology


B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1989, Psychology


B.S., San Francisco State University, 1981, Nursing

Phone: (949) 824-0217
Fax: 949-824-0470
Email: aholman@uci.edu

University of California
Program in Nursing Science
205B Irvine Hall
Mail Code: 3959
Irvine, CA 92697


Research
Interests
The mental and physical health consequences of trauma; cognitive, emotional, and social responses to trauma impact on long-term health;physical health correlates of resilience, positive adaptation, and growth from adversity.
   
Appointments Post-doctoral Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychology, Stanford University
1997-1998
   
Publications Gil-Rivas, V., Silver, R. C., Holman, E. A., McIntosh, D. N., & Poulin, M. J. (in press). Parental response and adolescent adjustment to the September 11th terrorist attacks. Journal of Traumatic Stress.
   
  Suvak, M., Maguen, S. Litz, B. T., Silver R. C., & Holman, E. A. (in press). Indirect exposure to the September 11 terrorist attacks: Does symptom structure resemble PTSD? Journal of Traumatic Stress.
   
  Silver, R. C., Holman, E. A., McIntosh, D. N., Poulin, M., Gil-Rivas, V., & Pizarro, J. (2006). Coping with a national trauma: A nationwide longitudinal study of responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11. In Y. Neria, R. Gross, R. Marshall, & E. Susser (Eds.), 9/11: Mental health in the wake of terrorist attacks (pp. 45-70). NY: Cambridge University Press.
   
  Chu, T.Q., Seery, M. D., Ence, W. A., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2006). Ethnicity and gender in the face of a terrorist attack: A national longitudinal study of immediate responses and outcomes two years after September 11. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 28, 291-301.
   
  Holman, E. A., & Silver R. C. (2005). Future oriented thinking and adjustment to trauma in a nationwide longitudinal study following the September 11th attacks. Motivation and Emotion, 29, 389-410.
   
  Gil-Rivas, V., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R.C. (2004). Adolescent vulnerability following the September 11th terrorist attacks: A study of parents and their children. Applied Developmental Science, 8, 130-142.
   
  Silver, R. C., Poulin, M., Holman, E. A., McIntosh, D. N., Gil-Rivas, V., & Pizarro, J. (2004).
Exploring the myths of coping with a national trauma: A longitudinal study of responses to the September 11th terrorist attacks. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 9, 129-141.
   
  Silver, R. C., Holman, E. A., McIntosh, D. N., Poulin, M., & Gil-Rivas, V. (2002). Nationwide longitudinal study of psychological responses to September 11. JAMA:The Journal of the American Medical Association, 288, 1235-1244.
   
  Holman, E. A., Silver, R. C., Waitzkin, H. (2000). Traumatic life events in primary care patients: A study in an ethnically-diverse sample. Archives of Family Medicine, 9, 802-810.
   
  Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (1998). Getting “stuck” in the past: Temporal orientation and coping with trauma. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1146-1163.
   
  Holman, E. A. (1997). The nursing profession’s role in health psychology research: A reply to Helgeson and Lepore. The Health Psychologist, 19, 8.
   
  Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (1996). Is it the abuse or the aftermath? A stress and coping approach to understanding long-term responses to incest. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 15, 318-339.
   
  Holman, E. A., & Stokols, D. (1994). The environmental psychology of child sexual abuse. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 14, 237-252.
   
  Holman, E. A. (1990). Death and the health professional: Organization and defense in health care. Death Studies, 14, 13-24.
   
Other Experience Family Nurse Practitioner
Community Care Health Clinics 2002—2007

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Last updated 08/23/2007