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Chinese American children’s temperamental shyness and responses to peer victimization as moderated by maternal praise
(American Psychological Association, 2020-11-01)This study examined the relations between Chinese American children’s temperamental shyness and their assertive and submissive responses to peer victimization. The mediating role of children’s anxious-withdrawn behavior ... -
Multimodal Displays to Reduce Distraction In Locomotive Engineers
(SAGE, 2021-02-09)Multi-modal displays that allow the locomotive engineer to delay safety-critical dispatches in high workload scenarios offer the promise of reducing the cognitive distraction that occurs when the locomotive engineer must ... -
A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-Informed Self-Management Program for Acute Respiratory Failure Survivors: A Feasibility Study
(MDPI, 2021-02-20)Background: The number of people surviving critical illness is rising rapidly around the globe. Survivorship comes at a cost, with approximately half of patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF) experiencing clinically ... -
Back Story – Summer 2014
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Why Change Now? Cognitive Reappraisal Moderates the Relation between Anxiety and Resistance to Sunk Cost
(Springer Nature, 2021-01-06)To minimize distress associated with choices with uncertain consequences, individuals with high levels of anxiety may continue with familiar choices rather than seek out novel choices. As a result, they might be more ... -
Measurement Invariance of Psychotic-Like Symptoms as Measured With the Prodromal Questionnaire, Brief Version (PQ-B) in Adolescent and Adult Population Samples
(Frontiers, 2021-01-21)Valid measurement of group differences in self-reported psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) requires knowing any group-specific measurement properties of the instruments. We investigated the measurement invariance of the ... -
Dis-ease and Disease: In Reply
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Attenuated psychosis syndrome: benefits of explicit recognition
(Shangai Archives of Psychiatry, 2015-03-25)Given the unique characteristics of people who meet criteria for attenuated psychosis syndrome (APS) and the growing literature on the clinical benefits of providing services to individuals who meet these criteria, the ... -
Relative Privilege, Risk, and Sense of Community: Understanding Latinx Immigrants’ Empowerment and Resilience Processes Across the United States
(Wiley, 2020-12-22)Latinx immigrants regularly navigate adversity and oppression through resilience and empowerment; however, little research has sought to delineate when, how, and why they may engage in either process. Through the ... -
Supporting Students Experiencing Early Psychosis in Middle School and High School
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Minor Physical Anomalies, Dermatoglyphic Asymmetries, and Cortisol Levels in Adolescents With Schizotypal Personality Disorder
(American Psychiatric Association, 1999-04-01)A relationship between schizotypal personality disorder and schizophrenia has been documented in behavioral genetic studies, and there are similarities in the cognitive deficits and brain abnormalities associated with these ... -
Assessing psychotic‐like symptoms using the BASC‐2: adolescent, parent and teacher agreement
(Wiley Online Library, 2013-01-24)Aim The aim of the current study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the BASC‐2 (Behavior Assessment System for Children, Second Edition) Atypicality subscale in a sample of adolescents receiving mental ... -
Elevated Levels of Plasma Phenylalanine in Schizophrenia: A Guanosine Triphosphate Cyclohydrolase-1 Metabolic Pathway Abnormality?
(PLOS, 2014-01-21)Background Phenylalanine and tyrosine are precursor amino acids required for the synthesis of dopamine, the main neurotransmitter implicated in the neurobiology of schizophrenia. Inflammation, increasingly implicated in ... -
Mismatch and lexical retrieval gestures are associated with visual information processing, verbal production, and symptomatology in youth at high risk for psychosis
(Elsevier, 2014-07-04)Introduction Gesture is integrally linked with language and cognitive systems, and recent years have seen a growing attention to these movements in patients with schizophrenia. To date, however, there have been no ... -
Differences Between Parents of Young Versus Adult Children Seeking to Participate in Family-to-Family Psychoeducation
(American Psychiatric Association, 2014-02-01)Objective Parents of individuals with mental illness often play a central role in initiating and supporting their children’s treatment. This study compared psychological symptoms and experiences of parents of younger ... -
Outcomes of a Family Peer Education Program for Families of Youth and Adults with Mental Illness
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2015-09-15)Family members of consumers with mental illness often play important roles in initiating and supporting treatment. Self-help programs such as the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Family-to-Family Education Program ... -
Premorbid multivariate prediction of adult psychosis-spectrum disorder: A high-risk prospective investigation
(Elsevier, 2015-07-23)Premorbid prediction of psychosis-spectrum disorders has implications for both understanding etiology and clinical identification. The current study used a longitudinal high-risk for psychosis design that included children ...