Developing Faith-Based Health Promotion Programs that Target Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer Risk Factors

Journal of Religion and Health - The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of a faith-based health promotion program on the ideal health behaviors shared between cardiovascular...     

Executive Functioning and Emotion Regulation in Children with and without ADHD

Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology - Difficulties with emotion regulation affect the majority of youth with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and predict greater...     

Establishing a Valid,Reliable, and Efficient Chart Review Process for Research in Pediatric Integrated Primary Care Psychology

Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings - Retrospective chart review is an accessible form of research that is commonly used across medical fields but is underutilized in behavioral...     

Feasibility and Acceptability of Technology-supported Sexual Health Education Among Adolescents Receiving Inpatient Psychiatric Care

Journal of Child and Family Studies - Mental illness in adolescence is associated with high-risk sexual behaviors including multiple sex partners, infrequent or inconsistent condom use, and nonuse...     

Narcissism and Empathy in Young Offenders and Non‐offenders

Understanding the individual factors that predispose persons to criminal behaviour is vital to reducing offending and rehabilitating those who have been sentenced to prison. This study examined the roles of narcissism (at both clinical and subclinical trait levels) and empathy, by comparing levels in young adult males currently serving a prison sentence to those with no history of criminal convictions. Prison participants had significantly higher levels of narcissism—in particular entitlement—than control participants, and this link was sequentially mediated by lower perspective‐taking and subsequently lack of empathic concern. Trait narcissism showed stronger effects than narcissistic personality disorder symptoms. Narcissistic young men's feelings of entitlement and ensuing lack of empathy for others may account for their greater likelihood of criminal behaviour. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Reply to Rouder (2014): Good frequentist properties raise confidence

Established psychological results have been called into question by demonstrations that statistical significance is easy to achieve, even in the absence of an effect. One often-warned-against practice, choosing when to stop the experiment on the basis of the results, is guaranteed to produce significant results. In response to these demonstrations, Bayes factors have been proposed as an antidote to this practice, because they are invariant with respect to how an experiment was stopped. Should researchers only care about the resulting Bayes factor, without concern for how it was produced? Yu, Sprenger, Thomas, and Dougherty (2014) and Sanborn and Hills (2014) demonstrated that Bayes factors are sometimes strongly influenced by the stopping rules used. However, Rouder (2014) has provided a compelling demonstration that despite this influence, the evidence supplied by Bayes factors remains correct. Here we address why the ability to influence Bayes factors should still matter to researchers, despite the correctness of the evidence. We argue that good frequentist properties mean that results will more often agree with researchers’ statistical intuitions, and good frequentist properties control the number of studies that will later be refuted. Both help raise confidence in psychological results.     

Fictioning authority: Writing experience in feminist teaching and learning

This paper explores connections and tensions between practices of feminist teaching and learning and psychotherapeutic work, in relation to three areas: issues of authority, the crafting of experience into narrative account, and the production of safe (enough) spaces for exploration of (students‘/clients’) personal meanings in relation to socially structured differences and inequalities. Drawing on examples from teaching, I discuss writing as a mode of representation of personal experience that both facilitates its expression and containment, and thereby supports individual and group processes. The paper ends on a cautionary note by highlighting limits to the parallels drawn between (feminist) therapy and teaching. Nevertheless, it is argued that the challenge within both arenas is to use the power with which we as practitioners are invested to foster conditions for transforming inequalities, while maintaining the structural ambivalence of our own institutional positions.     

Residual Effects of Slavery: What Clinicians Need to Know

Marriage and family therapists grapple with the intersection of societal influence and African American clients’ presenting problems. Questions include: what impact has the historical trauma of slavery had on African Americans and what are the clinical implications of this trauma? This paper reviews the literature on the various residual effects of slavery (RES) within the African American community. A case vignette and a broad discussion of therapeutic techniques will be used to highlight the clinical implications of RES.