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Tactical contingencies in the experimental analysis of reinforcement and operant classes
(Wiley Online Library, 2020-12-03)In his “Tactics of Scientific Research” (1960), his work on avoidance, his discovery of equivalence classes and his cautions on applications of coercion, Murray Sidman created high standards for behavior analytic research. ... -
Telepsychotherapy With Youth at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis: Clinical Issues and Best Practices During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Through Others' Eyes
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To Arrest Motion
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Too Old to Know Everything
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Trauma Exposure and PTSD Among Women Receiving Treatment for Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration
(SAGE journals, 2019-01-07)Trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms have been associated with men’s perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV), but relatively little research has examined these associations among women ... -
Trauma’s Influence on Relationships: Clients’ Perspectives at an Intimate Partner Violence Intervention Program
(Springer Nature Switzerland AG., 2018-10-01)Although individuals who engage in intimate partner violence (IPV) report high rates of trauma exposure, it is unclear whether they perceive a link between trauma exposures and relationship problems, which traumas are seen ... -
Treating Emerging Adults Differently: How Developmental Science Informs Perceptions of Justice Policy
(American Psychological Association, 2020)Several states have proposed changes to how their legal system responds to young or emerging adults. Scholars, policy makers, and advocates have highlighted the developmental and behavioral similarities between juvenile ... -
Unacknowledged Miracles
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Underneath the Mask of the Strong Black Woman Schema: Disentangling Influences of Strength and Self-Silencing on Depressive Symptoms among U.S. Black Women
(Springer US, 2018-09-10)Recent investigations have elucidated the influence of the Strong Black Woman (SBW) Schema on the mental health and treatment seeking behaviors of Black women in the United States. However, the SBW schematic characteristics ... -
An Unequal Burden: Poor Patient-Provider Communication and Sickle Cell Disease
(Elsevier, 2014-05-23)Objective To assess disparities in the quality of healthcare provider communication experienced by African-American adults with and without sickle cell disease (SCD) in the U.S. Methods Poor provider communication was ... -
A Unit Price Evaluation of Severe Problem Behavior
(Wiley Online Library, 2007-08)We evaluated problem behavior exhibited by 6 individuals with developmental disabilities using the behavioral economic conceptualization of unit price. Descriptive observations were conducted during interactions between ... -
Using search engine data to gauge public interest in mental health, politics and violence in the context of mass shootings
(PLOS, 2020-08-07)Despite significant potential for providing insight to private perceptions and behaviors, search engine data has yet to be utilized as a means of gauging the U.S. public’s interest and understanding of mental health in the ... -
Using the K-SADS psychosis screen to identify people with early psychosis or psychosis risk syndromes
(SAGE Journals, 2019-05-16)Background: Current methods to identify people with psychosis risk involve administration of specialized tools such as the Structured Interview for Psychosis-Risk Syndromes (SIPS), but these methods have not been widely ... -
Validity of a two-item screen for early psychosis
(Elsevier B.V., 2018-12)Well-validated screening tools have been developed to identify people at high risk for psychosis, but these are rarely used outside of specialty clinics or research settings. The development of extremely brief and simple ... -
VASE-Containing N-CAM Isoforms Are Increased in the Hippocampus in Bipolar Disorder but Not Schizophrenia
(Elsevier, 2002-05-25)The neural cell adhesion molecule (N-CAM) is a cell recognition molecule that is involved in cellular migration, synaptic plasticity, and CNS development. In schizophrenia, a 105- to 115-kDa N-CAM protein is increased in ... -
Verbal Sexual Coercion Experiences, Sexual Risk, and Substance Use in Women
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-06-18)esearch has linked sexual assault, substance use, and sexually transmitted infection (STI) risk in women. Sexual assault by means of verbal sexual coercion (VSC) is more common than sexual assault by means of physical ... -
When Pandemics Call: Community-Based Research Considerations for HIV Scholars
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Which foods should a child with food allergy avoid? The role of parental knowledge in food avoidance appraisals
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-08-31)This study explored factors that influence the accuracy of caregivers’ appraisals of the foods their children with food allergy should avoid. Seventy-two caregivers of children with food allergy completed measures of ... -
Women's sexual arousal: Effects of high alcohol dosages and self-control instructions
(Elsevier, 2011-03-23)The basic relationship between alcohol and women’s sexual arousal – especially genital arousal –received little research attention for nearly 30 years (e.g. Wilson & Lawson, 1978) until very recently (e.g. George et al., ...