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Investigating Sexual Orientation Discrimination Among Lgb Older Adults, Sarah N. Morehouse, Karenia Brunson, Carla J. Cabrera, Andrew Solow, Danielle James, Victor Tran

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

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Veterans Knowledge Of Mental Health Services: Facilitative Role Of Spouses, Jared Warren, Julia Iannucci, Craig R. Carnegie, Emily M. Cnapich, Samantha Zubizarreta, Maria A. Sisniegas, Ralph E. Cash

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

No abstract provided.

Comparing Executive Function Between Outpatient Psychiatric And Neuropsychological Patients, Justn Burgess, Charles J. Golden

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

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Impact Of Sleep Duration On Baseline Neuropsychological Testing In Collegiate Athletes, Bailey Mcdonald, Alison Datoc, Anna Derbaly, Lisa Lashley, Charles J. Golden

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

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I Just Want To Sleep: Implementing Group Cbt-I Following Trauma-Informed Treatment, Tiana Skawinski, Shantha Gowda, Brian J. Letourneau

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

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Can Literacy Skills Predict Working Memory?, Carla J. Cabrera, Charles J. Golden

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

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Post-Exoneration Struggles: Available Programs For Reintegration, Ana C. Alberti, Lyndsey Silva, Ali Pursel, Thomas D. Kennedy

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

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Incarcerated And Traumatized: The Need For Trauma-Specific Treatment Within Correctional Facilities, Lauren R. Pupko

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

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Cerebral Blood Flow Differences In An Opioid Use Disorder Population, Ana Lopez, Alison Datoc, Ryan Bennett, Charles J. Golden, Daniel Amen, Kristin Willeumier, Derek Taylor

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

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Traffic Stops, Television, And Trauma: Investigating Police Brutality, Alexandria Nuccio, Ashley M. Stripling, John E. Lewis

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

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Neuropsychological Performance Of High And Low Responders On Scale 1 Of The Mmpi-2, Alison Datoc, Charles J. Golden

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

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Patterns Of Cerebral Blood Flow In Mood Disorders, Alison Datoc, Damin Hadorn-Papke, Huda Abu-Suwa, Charles J. Golden, Daniel Amen, Kristin Willeumier, Derek Taylor

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

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Differences In Cerebral Blood Flow In Children With Gad And Ocd, Ashleigh Lupton, Huda Abu-Suwa, Chris Burley, Charles J. Golden, Daniel Amen, Kristin Willeumier, Derek Taylor

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

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From Sad To Mad: Anger As A Form Of Depression In The African American Community, Adriana Wilson, John E. Lewis

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

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Relationship Between Mmpi-2 Scale 4 And Mcmi Scales, Lisa Stebbins, Carla J. Cabrera, Brizel J. Golden, Charles J. Golden

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

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Spect Differences Between Groups With High And Low Self-Reported Ptsd Symptoms, Huda Abu-Suwa, Jessica C. Hanson, Charles J. Golden, Daniel Amen, Kristin Willeumier, Derek Taylor

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

No abstract provided.

A Treatment Manual For Adolescent Survivors Of Interpersonal Violence, Brittany S. Ferrell, Thomas D. Kennedy

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

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Vicarious Post-Traumatic Growth In Therapists Working With Severe Mental Illness, Zachary Arcona, Melissa Lacelle, Christian Delucia, Sheila Santiago Schmitt

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

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The Effects Of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy On Childhood Obesity, Shanique T. Yee, Thomas D. Kennedy

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

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The Role Of Technology On The Education Of Children, Corin L. Osborn, Alexandra Harris, Ryan W. Kleinschmidt, Jared Warren, Ralph E. Cash

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

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Female Veterans: Ptsd Symptom Expression Between Combat Exposure And Mst, Seniz L. Warner, Adriana L. Wilson, Jessica S. Reinhardt, David L. Shapiro

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

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The Impact Of Cannabis Use On Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Dylan James Tellez

Student Theses

Cannabis is the most commonly used illicit substance in the world (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2018). Despite past criminalization, various states have begun to decriminalize cannabis for recreational and medical use; however, research on the effect of cannabis use on mental health is divided. Research on specific mental health disorders, like generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), and cannabis use is lacking. This study aimed to understand whether cannabis use affected individuals likelihood of meeting criteria for GAD by using a nationally representative longitudinal dataset. Results indicated that the inclusion of cannabis use did not explain additional variability in …

Creating A “Good” Olmstead Plan For People With Serious Mental Illness: An Empirical Evaluation Of The Legal Frameworks, Andrea Avila

Department of Psychology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Olmstead v. L.C. ex rel Zimring (1999) was a landmark US Supreme Court decision holding that unjustified segregation of people with disabilities is impermissible discrimination; specifically, if the clinician and client believe community integration to be appropriate, the state must have reasonable accommodations in place for the client to be in the community. Enforcement of the Olmstead decision for people with serious mental illness has taken many shapes, from the DOJ’s settlement agreements requiring substantive development of community mental health services and aggressive community integration protocols, to the Third Circuit approach which requires only lower census numbers in the state …

Do Psychopathic Traits Influence Distractibility By Empathy-Eliciting Pictures?, Priya M. Reji

Student Theses

Empathy is a crucial component in forming interpersonal connections, and reflects the ability to share and understand the feelings of others. Psychopathy is often associated with a reduced ability to feel and display empathetic concern towards other people. The Response Modulation Hypothesis argues that such individuals have an attentional deficit, which makes it difficult for them to shift focus between stimuli, thus individuals who have high scores on the interpersonal-affective factor of psychopathy have an increased ability to ignore emotional stimuli that are goal-irrelevant. The current study investigated whether psychopathic traits would influence distractibility on an emotional Stroop (eStroop) task. …

Pathways To Delinquent And Sex Offending Behavior: The Role Of Childhood Adversity And Environmental Context In A Treatment Sample Of Male Adolescents, Kelcey Puszkiewicz

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Exposure to more types of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) has been associated with a greater likelihood of general and sexual offending behaviors. However, few studies exist that consider both the impact of varied ACE exposures and community correlates on pathways to offending behaviors in adolescents who have engaged in sexually abusive behaviors. The current study examined these pathways using data collected from archival records of male adolescents (N= 285) who had received treatment for sexually abusive behavior at a youth facility. Structural equation modeling revealed a three-factor model for ACEs, which included: nonsexual abuse and neglect; household dysfunction; …

Language Access In Early And Late Spanish-English Bilinguals: An Erp Study, Lissete Gimenez-Arce

Student Theses

Research suggests that code-switching between two languages is possible because there is nonselective access to both languages, i.e., both languages are interdependent and stored in a shared lexicon. In this study, we used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to measure the neural processes associated with language access, in particular, the ERP components: N200 and N400. Although previous studies have utilized these ERPs to investigate language access using interlingual homographs, i.e., words that look the same in two languages but have different meanings, these have focused on comparisons of monolingual and bilinguals. In contrast, we used a design that looked at Spanish …

Social Anxiety And Sexual Victimization In A Latina Sample: A Moderated Mediation, Andrew E. Dials

Theses and Dissertations

The current study sought to explore the relationships between social anxiety, sexual victimization, acculturation, and alcohol use. To the author’s knowledge, this is the first study to explore the relationship between social anxiety and sexual victimization in a 100% Latina sample.

It was seen that social anxiety predicted severity of sexual victimization, but not presence or absence of sexual victimization experience. It was also seen that while alcohol did not predict severity of sexual victimization experience, it did predict presence or absence of sexual victimization experience. Results, clinical implications, and future research directions are discussed.

Teen Dating Violence In A Sample Of High School Students In The Rio Grande Valley, Gabriela Ontiveros

Theses and Dissertations

This study analyzes the extent of teenage dating violence (TDV) perpetration and victimization among a sample of high school students in the Rio Grande Valley and its relationship with the occurrence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and exposure to interparental violence. Two hundred and twenty participants out of 426 were eligible for analyses. Rates of male and female physical abuse perpetration and victimization were similar although females reported significantly higher perpetration and males higher victimization rates. Regression analyses indicated that females exposed to interparental violence reported higher rates of overall TDV perpetration and physical abuse perpetration.

Females with higher occurrences …

Perceptions Of Age, Maturity, And Self-Control, Nicole S. Troy

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Race is a major source of bias in person perception. Decades of research have shown, for example, that non-Black perceivers tend to see Blacks as threatening (Hugenberg & Bodenhausen, 2003; Wilson, Rule, & Hugenberg, 2017), and that such threat stereotypes may feed into biased age judgements, such that Black adolescents are also judged to be older than same-aged White adolescents (Goff, Jackson, Di Leone, Culotta,& DiTomasso, 2014). Other work has examined possible consequences of such stereotypes. For example, some work has shown that Black children are perceived more as troublemakers than their White counterparts, and that teachers may be especially …

Like Me, Do What I Say, & Think About My Influence: The Effects On Witness Choosing And Metacognition, Brittany Race

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Confidence can be a strong predictor of accuracy if circumstances are ideal (Wixted & Wells, 2017), but ideal circumstances are not always present. As such it is important to understand ways to ameliorate potentially negative effects on eyewitness metacognition. Rapport building, though seen as an important element of police/witness interaction (Vallano et al., 2015), can lead to some potentially negative memory effects (Wright et al., 2015). Additionally steering, or the process of directing a witness toward a particular suspect, can increase false identifications. Recently the researcher has developed a paradigm meant to better calibrate confidence by reinstating the context of …