Nancy Liu, MA

Nancy became interested in SMI through working with the homeless and low-income populations.  Witnessing the disproportionate rates of poverty among those with SMI, she concentrates her research on improving the neurocognitive functioning, health behaviors and employment programs of community-dwelling persons with SMI.  Receiving a Fulbright to Beijing, she examined suicide risk factors in SMI. She was subsequently selected for the NIH/Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Program, where she worked in health policy and the dissemination of evidence-based practices in Buenos Aires.  In the past, Nancy assisted with a multi-site attention shaping project to improve neurocognitive functioning in treatment-refractory inpatients with schizophrenia.  She is currently at the Department of Health and Human Services and has designed a project to examine vocational outcomes for a Supported Employment program directed at persons with SMI.

Prior to UNL, Nancy graduated from Trinity University with a major in psychology and minors in philosophy, sociology, and religion.  There she researched rumination biases in memory and factors impeding engagement in behavioral therapy and completed a clinical practicum at the inpatient unit of the state hospital.

Email Nancy: nancyhhliu@gmail.com

Publications
Kasckow, J., Liu, N.H., Haas, G., Phillips, M.R. Case-control study of the relationships of depressive symptoms to suicide in a community-based sample of individuals with schizophrenia in China.  Manuscript in preparation.

Choi, K.H., Reddy,F., Liu, N.H., Spaulding,W.D. (2009). Memory as a moderator in the relationship between child sexual abuse and maladaptive functioning people with severe mental illness. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 197, 282-286.

Tong, Y.S., Guo, N.F., Liu, N.H., Cao, L.Y. (2008). Dysfunction in inter-hemispheric inhibition and enhancement in patients with schizophrenia. Chinese Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 34, 449-455.

Liu, N.H. (2009). On multidisciplinary research. NIH/Fogarty Newsletter.  Available at: http://www.fogartyscholars.org/connection/newsletter/issue-4/issue-4

Johnson, R.W., Liu, N.H., Wynne, A., Spaulding, W.D. (2008). Schizophrenia. In H. Tinsley & E. Lease (Eds.) Encyclopedia of counseling (pp. 403-407). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Presentations & Posters

Liu, N.H., Niu, J.Y., Phillips, M.R., Spaulding, W.D. (2009, November). Neurocognitive predictors of functional outcome in Chinese first-episode patients with schizophrenia. Poster to be presented at the 42nd Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.

Liu, N.H., Choi, K.H., Spaulding, W.D. (2009, November). 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.

Pichon-Reviere, A., Augustovski, F., Rubinstein, A., Martí, S.G., Calgano, J.I., Liu, N.H. (2009, June). Health technology assessment reports impact decision-makers in Argentina. Poster presented at the 2nd Latin America Conference for the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the 6th Annual Meeting of the HTAi Globalisation and Health Technology Assessment, Singapore.

Kasckow, J., Liu, N.H., Haas, G.L., & Phillips, M.R. (2009, May and October). Case-control study of the relationship of depressive symptoms to suicide in a community-based sample of individuals with schizophrenia in China. Poster to be presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, CA and 2009 meeting of the Institute on Psychiatric Services, New York, NY.

Liu, N.H., & Phillips, M.R. (2008, October). Prevalence and risk factors for thoughts and acts of deliberate self-harm in China: results of a national risk factor study. Paper presented at the 3rd Asia Pacific Regional Conference of the International Association for Suicide Prevention, Hong Kong.

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 persons 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, June). Neurocognitive and socio-cognitive predictors of functioning at 1-year follow-up in a psychiatric rehabilitation program. Poster presented at the 10th Cognitive Remediation in Psychiatry Conference, 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, May). 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 American Psychological Society, Washington, DC.

Liu, N.H. (2006, May). Meeting the mental health needs of China. Chaired symposium at the Asian Congress for Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

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

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 40th ABCT Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.

Trask, E., Cuadra, L., Liu, N. H., & DiLillo, D. (2006, November). Exploration of relationships between child maltreatment, alcohol abuse, & revictimization. Poster presented at the 40th ABCT Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.

Bauer, S. K., McLean, C. P., Hayes, S. A., Perry, A. R., Vogler, J. E., Liu, N. H., & Hope, D. A. (2006, November). Correlates of attitudes towards bisexual men and women. Poster presented at the 40th ABCT Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.

Choi, K. H. & Liu, N. H. (2006, May). Validation of the Emotional and Contextual Cue Processing Task. Poster presented at the 1st Asian Congress for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies, Hong Kong.

Liu, N.H. & Hansen, D.J. (2005, November). Increasing the accessibility and impact of mental health services for child sexual abuse among Asian-Americans. Poster presented at the 39th ABCT Annual Convention, Washington, DC.

Johnson, R., Liu, N.H., Spaulding, W.D., & Sullivan, M.E. (2005, November). Effects of staff training and administrative interventions on a contingency management intervention for serious mental illness. Poster presented at the 39th ABCT Annual Convention, Washington, DC.

Revilla, B., Liu, N. H., & Hertel, P. H. (April, 2003). Rumination biases in interpretation and memory. Poster presented at the meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association Conference, San Antonio, TX.