Amanda M. Raines

Amanda M. Raines is a Senior Professor at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans. Her research focuses on clinical psychology, post-traumatic stress disorder, and military psychology, with particular emphasis on trauma-exposed veterans. Her recent work examines behavioral activation for depression, written exposure therapy in primary care, and the role of anxiety sensitivity in substance use among veterans. She has developed psychometric instruments, including the Barriers to Abstinence and Reducing Drinking Scale and the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale-5, and investigates transdiagnostic safety aid reduction treatments and quality of care coordination for PTSD in community settings.