Browsing by Subject "Clinical psychology"
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A Laboratory Investigation of Mindfulness and Reappraisal As Emotion Regulation Strategies
(2013)Effective emotion regulation plays an important role in psychological health. Two commonly-researched emotion regulation strategies are reappraisal, a cognitive change-based strategy, and mindfulness, an acceptance-based ... -
Adherence and Quality of Life in Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease: A Pilot Mobile Health Intervention
(2017)Children and adolescents with sickle cell disease (SCD) are at high risk for medical complications, neuropsychological sequelae, and lower overall quality of life. One target of intervention that can positively impact these ... -
Attentional Effects on Conditioned Inhibition of Discrete and Contextual Stimuli
(2013)In the present study, we examined the predictions of an attentional-associative model (Schmajuk, Lam, & Gray Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 22, 321-349, 1996) regarding the effect of attentional ... -
Can Computers Assist Treatment? Virtual Reality as a Possible Cue Exposure Technique With Adolescent Substance Abusers
(2014)Substance use disorders are one of the most common psychiatric diagnoses among adolescents; marijuana is the illicit drug used most frequently by youth. Treatment dropout and relapse following treatment are common; innovative ... -
Cultural Values, Coping Strategies, and HIV Risk Behaviors in African-American and Hispanic Adolescents
(2015)Utilizing data from The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), the current study examined the relationship between cultural values, coping behavior, and HIV risk behaviors among African-American/Black ... -
Development and Evaluation of a Web Application to Support Remote Clinical Supervision of Lay Counselors in Kenya
(2020)Psychological treatments delivered by lay counselors, individuals with little or no previous mental health training, have been shown to be effective in treating a range of mental health problems. However, in low resource ... -
Evaluating the Impact of a Brief, Emotion Regulation Intervention on Emotion Perception
(2021)The current study tested the effects of a brief, behavioral intervention for problems with emotion perception, the ability to perceive other people’s emotions, across a range of psychiatric disorders. The intervention was ... -
Expanding Mental Health Services Delivery for Depression in the Community from Burma in North Carolina: A Paraprofessional Training Program
(2015)The scope of my dissertation project was to investigate the training of community leaders, including religious leaders, in the delivery of individual cognitive-behavioral support for depression in the community from Burma ... -
Framing Debate to Lift Children Out of the Political Divide
(2017)Many cost-effective, evidence-based developmental programs (EBPs) remain inaccessible to children in need. To improve access to care, this dissertation theoretically and then empirically examines different approaches to ... -
GxE = ‘p’? Using Hierarchical Measures of Psychopathology to Capture the Effects of Environmental Stressors and Gene-Environment Interplay
(2019)Exposure to psychosocial stress is a robust predictor of subsequent psychopathology. However, only a portion of individuals with these experiences will develop psychiatric symptoms. The concept of gene-environment interaction ... -
Identifying Neural, Genetic, and Behavioral Correlates of the p Factor
(2019)Accumulating mental health research encourages a shift in focus towards transdiagnostic dimensional features that are shared across categorical disorders. In support of this shift, recent studies have identified a general ... -
Identifying Neural, Genetic, and Behavioral Correlates of the p Factor
(2019)Accumulating mental health research encourages a shift in focus towards transdiagnostic dimensional features that are shared across categorical disorders. In support of this shift, recent studies have identified a general ... -
Individual Differences in the Neural Response to Personal Goal Pursuit Success and Failure: A Developmental Analysis
(2016)Regulatory focus theory (RFT) proposes two different social-cognitive motivational systems for goal pursuit: a promotion system, which is organized around strategic approach behaviors and "making good things happen," and ... -
Invalidation, Experiential Avoidance and Child Psychopathology
(2012)Although it has been hypothesized that chronic emotional invalidation by a parent may have lasting effects on later ability to regulate emotions, and possibly increase the chances of experiencing symptoms of psychopathology, ... -
Investigating the Efficacy of a Lovingkindness Meditation Intervention for Patients Undergoing Breast Cancer Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study
(2015)Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women in the United States. Despite more women undergoing treatment and increased survival rates, many women continue to suffer from emotional distress and physical ... -
Is Everything Really Okay?: Anxious Reassurance Seeking as a Predictor of Stress Generation
(2020)NEED TO GO BACK AND ENTER WHEN I AM SURE IT IS COMPLETE -
Jealousy in Close Relationships Among Emerging Adults
(2014)Using a mix of quantitative and qualitative measures, the current study examines how jealousy is experienced and expressed in close peer relationships during emerging adulthood. 193 college student participants (94 males, ... -
Maladaptive Rule-Governed Behavior in Anorexia Nervosa: The Need for Certainty and Control
(2014)Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a dangerous disorder characterized by unrelenting rigidity that continues even in the presence of deadly outcomes. Despite this, our understanding of factors that promote and maintain rigidity is ... -
Mechanisms of Change within a Brief, Phone-Based, Behavioral Intervention for Graduate Burnout
(2018)Emerging changes in health care reform have further accelerated the need for brief and cost-effective interventions. As such, the current study tested the efficacy of two brief, phone-administered, behavioral interventions ... -
Midlife as a window onto the aging brain: surrogate biomarkers, exposures, and biological aging
(2022)The global population is aging with projections that the number of people over 60 will more than triple by 2050. While many organ systems are impacted by aging, deterioration of the brain is a particularly debilitating form ...
