Positions
Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Postdoctoral Fellow, South Central Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), North Little Rock site
Contact
VA e-mail: kent.hinkson@va.gov
Research Expertise
Dr. Hinkson is a first-year postdoctoral fellow with a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. His areas of expertise revolve around the assessment and treatment of trauma-related sequelae such as PTSD and suicidal thoughts/behaviors. Research focuses include the prediction of suicide attempts in non-disclosing suicidal individuals, student veterans in postsecondary universities and colleges, and meaningful measurement of intervention outcomes.
Research interests: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), suicidal ideation (SI), suicidal behaviors (SB), student Veterans, psychometrics, quantitative methods, functional improvement