Publications
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2022
Prairie, K.*, Kivisto, A.J., Gray, S.L., Taylor, N., & Anderson, A. (2022). The association between hate crime laws that enumerate sexual orientation and adolescent suicide attempts. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/law0000360
Kivisto, A.J. (2022). Beyond legislated lethal means restriction approaches to suicide prevention. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 50(2), 170-176.
Viglione, D. J., de Ruiter, C. M., King, C., Meyer, G. J., Kivisto, A. J., Rubin, B. A., & Hunsley, J. (2022). Legal admissibility of the Rorschach and R-PAS: A review of research, practice, and case law. Journal of Personality Assessment, 104(2), 137-161.
Kivisto, A.J., Mills, S.*, & Elwood, L.S. (2022). Racial disparities in pregnancy-associated intimate partner homicide. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(13-14), 10938-10961.
Chavez, L.*, Kivisto, A.J., Gray, S.L., & Thomas, K.J. (2022). Youth gun carrying and household firearm ownership in 22 US states. Journal of Community Psychology, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22861
Mills, S.*, & Kivisto, A.J. (2022). Firearm availability and parricide. Journal of Family Violence. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-022-00361-1
2021
Kivisto, A.J., Kivisto, K.L, Gurnell, E.,* Phalen, P.L., & Ray, B. (2021). Adolescent suicide, household firearm ownership, and the effects of child access prevention laws. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 60(9), 1096-1104.
Porter Staats, M.*, Kivisto, A.J., & Connell, R. (2021). The role of cognitive functioning in predicting restoration among criminal defendants committed for inpatient restoration of competence to stand trial. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 74, 101654. doi: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2020.101654
Beasley, R.*, Kivisto, A.J., Leonhardt, B., & Waldron, J.S. (2021). Childhood maltreatment and psychosis: A comparative validity study of maltreatment indices. Child Maltreatment, 26(2), 228-237.
Stanek, R.*, Kivisto, A.J., Swier-Vosnos, A., & Elwood, L. (2021). Optimal per test cutoff scores and combinations of failure on multiple embedded performance validity tests in detecting performance invalidity in a mixed clinical sample. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/23279095.2021.1973005
2020
Kivisto, A.J., Porter Staats, M.*, & Connell, R. (2020). Development and validation of a typology of criminal defendants admitted for inpatient competency restoration: A latent class analysis. Law and Human Behavior, 44(6), 449-460.
Phalen, P.L., Bridgeford, E., Grant, L., Kivisto, A.J., Ray, B., & Fitzpatrick, S., et al. (2020). Baltimore Ceasefire 365: Estimated impact of a recurring community-led ceasefire on gun violence. American Journal of Public Health, 110(4), 554-559.
Kivisto, A.J. & Porter, M.* (2020). Firearm use increases risk of multiple victims in domestic homicides. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 48, 1-9.
2019
Kivisto, A.J., Magee, L.A., Phalen, P.L., & Ray, B. (2019). Firearm ownership and domestic versus nondomestic homicide in the United States. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 57, 311-320.
Smith, J.M., Gacono, C.B., Cunliffe, T.B., & Kivisto, A.J. (2019). A PCL-R, Rorschach, and PAI investigation of females with sex offenses against minors and a Rorschach comparison with male pedophiles. Archives of Assessment Psychology, 9, 113-137.
2018
Kivisto, A.J., & Phalen, P. (2018). Effects of risk-based firearm seizure laws on suicide rates in Connecticut and Indiana, 1981-2015. Psychiatric Services, 69(8), 855-862.
Ray, B., Lowder, E., Kivisto, A.J., Phalen, P., & Gil, H. (2018). EMS naloxone administration as non-fatal opioid overdose surveillance. Six-year outcomes in Marion County, Indiana. Addiction, 113(12), 2271-2279.
Kivisto, A.J., & Kivisto, K.L. (2018). Risk management with clients who stalk, threaten, and harass mental health professionals. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 71(3), 110-120.
2017
Kivisto, A.J., Ray, B., & Phalen, P. (2017). Firearm legislation and fatal police shootings in the United States. American Journal of Public Health, 107(7), 1068-1075.
Kivisto, A.J. (2017). Gun violence following inpatient psychiatric treatment: Offense characteristics, sources of guns, and number of victims. Psychiatric Services, 68(10), 1025-2031.
Kivisto, A.J. (2017). Risk and redemption: Does social science support the assumption of lifelong risk for sexually violent predators? Res Gestae: Journal of the Indiana Bar Association, 60(9), 18-29.
Watson, M.E.*, & Kivisto, A.J. (2017). The Inventory of Legal Knowledge (ILK) with adults with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behavior, 8, 83-89.
2016
Kivisto, A.J. (2016). Violence risk assessment and management in outpatient clinical practice. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 72, 329-349.
Young, M., Justice, G., Gacono, C.B., & Kivisto, A.J. (2016). The incarcerated psychopath in psychiatric treatment: Management or treatment? In C.B. Gacono (Ed.), The Clinical and Forensic Assessment of Psychopathy: A Practitioner’s Guide. New York, NY: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
Cunliffe, T.B., Gacono, C.B., Smith, J.M., Kivisto, A.J., & Meloy, J.R., Taylor, E. (2016). Assessing psychopathy in women. In C.B. Gacono (Ed.), The Clinical and Forensic Assessment of Psychopathy: A Practitioner’s Guide. New York, NY: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
Richards, H., Gacono, C.B., Cunliffe, T.B., Kivisto, A.J., Smith, J.M., & Bodholdt, R. (2016). Assessing psychopathy in adults: The Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) and Psychopathy Checklist Screening Version (PCL:SV). In C.B. Gacono (Ed.), The Clinical and Forensic Assessment of Psychopathy: A Practitioner’s Guide. New York, NY: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
Gacono, C.B., Kivisto, A.J., Smith, J., & Cunliffe, T. (2016). The use of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R) and Rorschach Inkblot Method in forensic psychological assessment. In U. Kumar (Ed.), The Wiley Handbook of Personality Assessment. New York: Wiley.
2015
Kivisto, A.J., & Watson, M.* (2015). 12-month prevalence, trends, gender effects, and the impact of mental health treatment on intimate partner violence perpetration among discharged psychiatric patients. Journal of Family Violence, 31(3), 379-385.
Kivisto, A.J. (2015). Male perpetrators of intimate partner homicide: A review and proposed typology. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 43, 300-312.
Kivisto, A.J., Berman, A.*, Watson, M.*, Gruber, D., & Paul, H.* (2015). North American psychologists’ experiences of stalking, threatening, and harassing behavior: A survey of ABPP diplomates. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 46(4), 277-286.
Gacono, C.B., & Kivisto, A.J. (2015). Foreward. In D. Emerson’s, Psychopath’s in Our Lives: My Interviews. Author.
2014
Smith, J.M., Cunliffe, T.B., Gacono, C.B., Kivisto, A.J., & Taylor, E.E. (2014). Psychodynamics in the female psychopath: A PCL-R/Rorschach investigation. Violence and Gender, 1(4), 1-12.
Kivisto, A.J. (2014). Abandonment and engulfment: A bimodal classification of anxiety in domestic violence perpetrators. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 19, 200-206.
Ritter, K., Kivisto, A.J., Moore, T.M., & Handsel, V. (2014). Intimate partner violence, PTSD, and substance abuse. In P. Ouimette & J. Read (Eds.), Trauma and Substance Abuse: Causes, Consequences, and Treatment of Comorbid Disorders (p. 211-230). Washington, DC: APA Press.
Gruber, D.*, Hansen, L.*, Soaper, K.*, & Kivisto, A.J. (2014). The role of shame in general, intimate, and sexual violence perpetration. In K.G. Lockhart (Ed.), Psychology of Shame: New Research. Happauge, NY: Nova Science.
2013
Kivisto, A.J. Gacono, C.B., & Medoff, D. (2013). Does the R-PAS meet standards for forensic use? Considerations with introducing a new Rorschach coding system. Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, 13, 389-410.
Kivisto, A.J., & Swan, S.A. (2013). Rorschach measures of aggression: A laboratory-based validity study. Journal of Personality Assessment, 95, 38-45.
Kivisto, A.J. (2013). The use of forensic mental health consultants for work product review and litigation consultation. Res Gestae: Journal of the Indiana Bar Association, 19-28.
Elkins, S.R., Moore, T.M., McNulty, J.K., Kivisto, A.J., & Handsel, V. (2013). Electronic diary assessment of the temporal association between proximal anger and intimate partner violence perpetration. Psychology of Violence, 3, 100-113.
Kivisto, A.J. (2013). Divorce law and shorter vs. longer-term marriages. In R.E. Emery (Ed.), Cultural Sociology of Divorce. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2012
Kivisto, A.J. (2012). Sirhan Sirhan. In W. Miller (Ed.), The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2011
Kivisto, A.J., Moore, T.M., Fite, P.A., & Seidner, B.G. (2011). Future orientation and competence to stand trial: The fragility of competence. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 39, 316-326.
Kivisto, A.J., Little, K.C., Moore, T.M., & Rhatigan, D.L. (2011). Antisociality and intimate partner violence: The facilitating role of shame. Violence and Victims, 26, 758-773.
Kivisto, A.J., & Swan, S.A. (2011). Attitudes towards the insanity defense in capital cases: (Im)partiality from Witherspoon to Witt. Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, 11, 311-329.
Moore, T.M., Elkins, S.R., McNulty, J., Kivisto, A., & Handsel, V. (2011). Alcohol use and intimate partner violence perpetration among college students: Assessing the temporal association using electronic diary technology. Psychology of Violence, 1, 315-328.
Shorey, R.C., Sherman, A.E., Kivisto, A.J., Elkins, S.R., Rhatigan, D.L., & Moore, T.M. (2011). Gender differences in depression and anxiety among victims of intimate partner violence: The moderating effect of shame-proneness. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 26, 1834-1850.
Kivisto, A.J. (2011). Drugs and Terrorism. In M. Kleiman & J. Hawdon (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Drug Policy, Vol. 1 (pp. 254-258). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Kivisto, A.J., & Moore, T.M. (2011). United States v. Warner. In M. Kleiman & J. Hawdon (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Drug Policy, Vol. 2 (pp. 817-819). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Kivisto, A.J., & Moore, T.M. (2011). Narcotic Drug Act. In M. Kleiman & J. Hawdon (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Drug Policy, Vol. 2 (pp. 544-546). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2009
Kivisto, A.J., Moore, T.M., Elkins, S.R., & Rhatigan, D.L. (2009). The effects of PTSD symptomatology on laboratory-based aggression. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 22, 344-347.
2008
Moore, T.M., Kivisto, A.J., & Elkins, S. (2008). Book Review. Behavioral couple’s therapy for alcoholism and drug abuse. O’Farrell, Timothy J., & Fals-Stewart, W. (2006). New York: Guilford. The Family Psychologist, 24, 26-28.
2007
Cates, G.L., Dunne, M., Erkfritz, K.N., Kivisto, A.J., Lee, N., & Wierzbicki, J. (2007). Differential effects of two spelling procedures on acquisition, maintenance and adaption to reading. Journal of Behavioral Education, 16, 70-81.