Kee-Hong Choi , MA

Kee-Hong is generally interested in the recovery of severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI), treatment of neuro- and social-cognition, moderation and mediation effect of cognition in response to acute stressors (e.g. child abuse and trauma), longitudinal trajectories of treatment response (using advanced statistical methodoloy such multilevel modeling), and latent trait measurement model/theory (e.g. IRT).

Prior to coming to UNL, Kee-Hong received his MA from Korea University (Seoul) in 2004. While there, he worked with Dr. Jung-Hye Kwon primarily in the area of social-cognition in schizophrenia. His master ’s thesis examined the effects of social-cognition enhancement training for schizophrenia.

Email Kee-Hong: keehongchoi@gmail.com

Publications

Choi, K.H., Reddy, L.F., Liu, N.H., & Spaulding, W.D. (2009). Memory as a moderator in the relationship between child sexual abuse and maladaptive functioning in people with severe mental illness. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 197(4), 282-6.

Choi, K. H. & Kwon, J. H. (2006). Social-Cognition Enhancement Training for Schizophrenia: A Preliminary Randomized Controlled Trial. Community Mental Health Journal, 42(2), 177-187.

Choi, K. H. & Kwon, J. H. (2006). A Case Study on the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy on reducing irrational thoughts and depression of individuals with schizophrenia. Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Korea, 5(2), 69-75.

Kwon, J. H., Chun, J. S., & Choi, K. H. (2003). Validation study of the Social Behavior Sequencing Task: The assessment of the social-cognitive ability of schizophrenics. The Korean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 22(3), 629-639.

Manuscript under review

Choi, K.H., Hoffman, L., Nolting, J.R., & Spaulding, W.D. (Under review). Recovery of social functioning in psychiatric rehabilitation: dependence and independence from recovery of neurocognition and social cognition.

Choi, K.H., & Spaulding, W.D. (Under review). The role of context in emotion perception in severe mental illness: scale development.

Liu, N.H., Reddy, F.L., Choi, K.H., & Spaulding, W.D. (Under review). Recovery of social functioning in persons with schizophrenia.

Manuscript in progress

Choi, K.H., Nolting, J.R., Hastings, J., & Spaulding, W.D. (In preparation). Therapy-Activity-Class Tracking in a state hospital

Choi, K.H., Nolting, J.R., Reddy, L.F., & Spaulding, W.D. (In preparation). Recovery of social inference ability in psychiatric rehabilitation.

Jung, E., Choi, K.H., & Ahn, C.Y. (In preparation). Mood Regulation as a Mediator in Relation between Job Stressors and Burnout.

Choi, K.H., Davidson, C., & Spaulding, W.D. (In preparation). Social Cognition Moderates the Influence of Child Physical Abuse On Inpatient Psychiatric Rehabilitation.

Choi, K.H., Cook, L., & Spaulding, W.D. (In preparation). Impact of Different Types of Child Abuse On the Longitudinal Course of Psychiatric Rehabilitation.

Professional Symposium Presentations (Co-Chair)

Choi, K.H., & Nolting, J.R. (2008, Nov). Heterogeneity of recovery in severe mental illness: Implications for dissemination of CBT in psychiatric rehabilitation. Accepted for Symposium at the 42nd ABCT Annual Convention. Orlando, FL.

Poster Presentations

Choi, K.H., Davidson, C., & Spaulding, W.D. (November, 2009). Social Cognition moderates the influence of child abuse on inpatient psychiatric rehabilitation. Poster to be presented at the 42nd ABCT Annual Convention, New York, NY.

Reddy, L.F., Choi, K.H., & Spaulding, W.D. (November, 2009). Child sexual abuse, neurocognition, and symptomatology in people with severe mental illness: A comparison of nurse-observed and patient-reported symptomatology. Poster to be presented at the 42nd ABCT Annual Convention, New York, NY.

Liu, N.H., Choi, K.H., & Spaulding, W.D. (November, 2009). Health behaviors among individuals with SMI enrolled in a day rehabilitation center. Poster to be presented at the 42nd ABCT Annual Convention, New York, NY.

Choi, K.H., Jung E., & Spaulding, W.D. (2009, June). Sensitivity to Emotional Context in Severe Mental Illness : Scale Development using the 2-Parameter Logistic (2-PL) Item Response Model. Accepted for poster presentation at 2009 American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology (AACN) annual conference, San Diego, CA.

Choi, K., Reddy, L. F., Wynne, A., Tarasenko, M., Davidson, C. A., Cook, E. & Spaulding, W.D. (2008, November). Memory Functioning Trajectories as a Level of Severity of Child Abuse during Inpatient Psychiatric Rehabilitation: An 18-Month Longitudinal Study Using Multilevel Modeling (MLM). Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Orlando, FL.

Kleinlein, P., Choi, K.H., Collins, A., Swoboda, J., & Spaulding, W.D. (2008, Nov). Psychiatric residential rehabilitation: a program evaluation of a community transition program for clients with severe and persistent mental illness. Accepted for poster presentation at the 42nd ABCT Annual Convention, Orlando, FL.

Tarasenko, M., Kleinlein, P., Choi, K., Cook, E., Davidson, C. A., & Spaulding, W. D. (2008, November). Differential Processing of Emotional Cues in Inpatients and Outpatients with Serious Mental Illness. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Orlando, FL.

Choi, K. H., Nolting, J.R., Reddy, L.F., & Spaulding, W.D. (2008, June). Recovery of social inference ability in psychiatric rehabilitation: dependence and independence of recovery in neurocognition. Poster presented at the 11th Annual Conference in Cognitive Remediation in Psychiatry, New York, NY.

Choi, K. H., Nolting, J.R., Reddy, L.F., Taransenko, M., & Spaulding, W.D. (2008, June). Development of intensive emotion perception training for people with severe mental illness. Poster presented at the 11th Annual Conference in Cognitive Remediation in Psychiatry, New York, NY.

Choi, K. H., Nolting, J.R., & Spaulding, W.D. (2007, September). Tracking Therapy, Activity, and Classes  (TAC) in a state hospital: development of a computerized system. Poster presented at the 1st Annual Threshold’s Science, Service and Recovery, Chicago, IL.

Johnson, R. W., Wynne, A., Taransenko, M., Choi, K. H., & Spaulding, W. D., (2007, November). Examining inter-rater reliability for the Comprehensive Inventory of Mental Health and Recovery and Rehabilitation Services (CIMHRRS). Poster presented at the 41st ABCT Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA.

Choi, K. H., Reddy, F., Liu, N. H., Tweet, A., Schulte, M., & Spaulding, W. D. (2007, November). History of Child Abuse and Social Cognition in People with Severe Mental Illness : Neurocognition Moderates the Relationship Between Severity of Child Abuse and Emotion Perception Bias. Poster presented at the 41st ABCT Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA.

Choi, K. H., Liu, N. H., Nolting, J.R., & Spaulding, W.D. (2007). The Role of Neurocognitive and Socio-cognitive Measures in Predicting Social Functioning Following One-Year Intensive Psychiatric Rehabilitation in Individuals with SMI. Poster presented at the 10th Cognitive Remediation in Psychiatry, New York, NY.

Choi, K. H ., Liu, N. H., Kleinlein, P., Wynne, A., Kim, J.S., Lee, S.A., Kwon, J. H., & Spaulding, W.D. (2007). Culture and Contextual Cues Affect Emotion Perception: Context-dependent emotion perception among Korean controls and negative biases in emotion perception in individuals with schizophrenia. Poster presented at the 19th APS Annual Convention, Washington, DC.

Choi, K. H., Liu, N. H., Kleinlein, P., Wynne, A., & Spaulding, W. D. (2006, November). Facial affect and emotional context processing in people with severe mental illness. Poster presented at the 40 th ABCT Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.

Liu, N. H., Kleinlein, P., Choi, K. H., & Spaulding, W. D. (2006, November). Gender differences in social cognition. Poster presented at the 40 th ABCT Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.

Mosier, N., Choi, K.H., Tweet, A., & Spaulding, W. D. (2006, November). Cortisol and the Course of Psychotic Mental Disorders. Poster presented at the 40 the ABCT Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.


Choi, K. H., Liu, N. H., Kleinlein, P., Kang, H. S., Lee, H. J., Kwon, J. H., & Spaulding, W. D. (2006).Validation Study of Emotional and Contextual Cue Processing Task. Poster presented at the 1st Asian CBT Conference, Hong Kong.

Choi, K. H. & Kwon, J. H. (2004). A Preliminary Study on the Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy (CBGT) for Schizophrenia. World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Kobe, Japan.

Kwon, J. H., Choi, K. H., Kim, K. H., Kim, N. R., Chun, J. S., Jung, Y. S., Jun, K. Y., & Yu, Y. J. (2003). Validation Study on the Situational Matching Task for Persons with Schizophrenia. Autumn Meeting of the Korean Clinical Psychology Association, Seoul, Korea.

Choi, K. H. & Kwon, J. H. (2003). A Study on the effectiveness of Social-Cognition Enhancing Rehabilitation Program (SERP) for individuals with Schizophrenia in Community. Annual Meeting of the Korean Psychology Association, Seoul, Korea.