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Title: A BROKEN HEART: THE IMPACT OF PEDIATRIC OPEN HEART SURGERY ON PARENTS' WELLBEING AND PARENTING
Author: McWhorter, Linda
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: According to the pediatric medical traumatic stress model, pediatric medicalexperiences can create posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in pediatric patients and intheir parents and siblings. While the impact of traumatic medical experiences has b...

Title: A CULTURALLY ADAPTED INTERVENTION TO TREAT BINGE EATING IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN WITH BINGE EATING
Author: Scott, Tamara
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Binge eating (BE), a specific type of overeating, is characterized by a pattern of consuming unusually large amounts of food in a discrete period of time combined with a sense of loss of control. Although research suggests similar rates of binge e...

Title: A Grounded Theory Study of Posttraumatic Growth and Wisdom in a Sample of Oncology Nurses
Author: Vishnevsky, Tanya
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Medical sciences, Oncology
Description: This study utilized a grounded theory approach to examine the degree to which oncology nurses report posttraumatic growth (PTG) and wisdom as a result of caring for patients. Open-ended interviews were conducted with 30 oncology nurses; interviews...

Title: A comparative analysis of pro-anorexia versus pro-recovery Instagram images through the lenses of objectified body consciousness and positive body image conceptual frameworks
Author: Jafari, Nadia
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Mental health, Clinical psychology
Description: Instagram (IG) is a social media application that allows users to upload personal images in a public forum by including a searchable link (e.g. hashtag) along with a posted image. An IG community devoted to a pro-recovery (i.e., #anarecovery) pers...

Title: ANOTHER BATTLE, ANOTHER HURDLE: HOW PARENTS CREATE MEANING FROM RAISING A CHILD WITH AUTISM
Author: Basalik, Debra
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Psychology
Description: The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is increasing (CDC, 2016). Research studies have focused on either medical treatments and therapeutic interventions for this disorder, or the trauma of the diagnostic process. Scholarship, however,...

Title: An Examination of Family and Health Risks and Services on Permanency Outcomes for Multisystem Youth
Author: Behrendt-Mihalski, Jaimelee
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Multisystem youth, or youth involved with the juvenile court and child welfare systems, are a high-need population about which research is still-emerging. These youth tend to experience considerable adversity and risk across domains (e.g., health ...

Title: An evaluation of an intervention for HPV risk reduction among college-aged women
Author: Sweeney, Jocelyn
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Health education
Description: The goal of the study was to examine the effectiveness of a group intervention in reducing risk in relation to human papillomavirus (HPV) among sexually active, college-aged women. Using a randomized design, the current study examined the effectiv...

Title: Assessing The Impact of Programming to Strengthen Social Emotional Skills in Young School Children: Associations with Academic and Behavioral Outcomes
Author: Simmons, Caitlin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Educational psychology
Description: Considerable research documents the importance of social emotional development for children’s short- and long-term outcomes, including academic outcomes and long-term health and wellbeing. Studies have demonstrated that the development of social e...

Title: Assessing the Feasibility, Acceptability, Preliminary Efficacy, and Anticipated Clinical Practice Implementation of a Mindful Eating Smartphone Application: A Mixed Methods Analysis Among Undergraduate Women with Binge Eating and Clinical Experts.
Author: Jafari, Nadia
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, Psychology
Description: Mental health applications (mHealth apps) are developed to bolster the utility and convenience of smartphones to stimulate behavior change, although many mHealth apps lack strong empirical support. Undergraduate women are daily app users and a hig...

Title: Assimilation & Accommodation: Cognitive Processes Facilitating Posttraumatic Growth and Depreciation After Infidelity
Author: O'Connor, Victoria
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: This study aimed to integrate elements of Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) into the developmental pathway theorized to underlie posttraumatic growth (PTG). PTG theory posits that positive psychological changes can result from the struggle to res...

Title: Associations between food choice values of parental guardians, socioeconomic status, home food availability, and child dietary intake
Author: Lyerly, Jordan
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Previous research has found that food choice values (FCVs), socioeconomic status (SES), and home food availability (HFA) are associated with child dietary intake. However, the relationships between these variables have been poorly studied. Therefo...

Title: Bicultural Context and Metabolic Health
Author: Rodriguez Diaz, Michelle
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Clinical psychology
Description: Cardiovascular disease and diabetes are among the leading causes of death in the United States (NCHS, 2016), making the metabolic syndrome (MetS) an important target for research and intervention. In addition, there seems to be a disproportionate ...

Title: Broadened Horizons: Nature Walks and Reflective Thinking in the Context of Scarcity
Author: Azra-Lewis, Paisley
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Walking in nature has been demonstrated to have a positive impact on cognitive and emotional wellbeing by restoring attention and increasing positive affect. Both of these factors are in turn linked to increases in flexible, reflective thinking ("...

Title: Building Healthy Communities: An Exploration of a Place-based Initiative, Participant Characteristics, and Preliminary Outcomes
Author: Tynan, Jacqueline
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Public health, Psychology
Description: Decades of discriminatory housing policies have resulted in geographic segregation, forcing low-income minorities into areas of concentrated poverty (Massey & Kanaiaupuni, 1993; Stoloff, 2004). Areas of concentrated poverty are typically marked by...

Title: Can posttraumatic growth protect the mental and physical health of prostate cancer survivors?
Author: Addington, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Oncology
Description: Due to high incidence and survival rates of prostate cancer, mental and physical health outcomes of prostate cancer survivors are important public health issues. Some men with prostate cancer experience positive psychological changes known as post...

Title: Cognitive Control of Attention, Emotion, and Memory: An ERP Study
Author: Eyer, Joshua
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Cognitive psychology, Clinical psychology
Description: Unwanted retrieval of negative memories can be problematic for many clinical populations. The Think/No-Think (T/NT) task (Anderson & Green, 2001) is a new paradigm for studying cognitive control during cued recall. In this task participants view a...

Title: Cognitive, Attitudinal, and Behavioral Predictors of College Sleep and Health
Author: Peach, Hannah
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: College students are one of the top at-risk groups for chronic sleep loss and poor sleep quality, therefore research devoted to the identification of cognitive, attitudinal, and behavioral predictors of sleep is essential. The present study examin...

Title: Development and Initial Validation of a Comprehensive Model of Forgiveness Following Interpersonal Conflict
Author: D'Angelo, Amanda
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Clinical psychology
Description: Psychological research on forgiveness has become increasingly prevalent over the past several years. However, there remain significant gaps in the theory guiding this research. This dissertation developed and tested a comprehensive model of the st...

Title: Development and Initial Validation of a Comprehensive Model of Scarcity
Author: De Sousa, Maysa
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: This dissertation aimed to develop a comprehensive model of scarcity. While socioeconomic factors partially explain these disparities, the traditional indicators used in most of the literature fail to fully capture the relationship between SES and...

Title: Development and Initial Validation of a Measure of Internalized Diet Culture
Author: Morris, Victoria
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences--Research
Description: Scholars argue that a unique diet culture exists in Westernized nations which conflates health outcomes and moral character, by attaching morality to food choices, eating and exercising behaviors, and physical appearance. Several seemingly separat...