Dr. Steve Nida, Professor and Department Head of Psychology, was invited to participate in the Harvard Summer Institutes Management Development Program this summer 2006 at Harvard.
The Psychology Department is pleased to announce that eight cadets and six graduate students attended the annual Southeastern Psychological Association Convention held in Atlanta, Ga. on March 16 – March 19, 2006. The graduate students and professors that made poster presentations were:
- Ms. Tiffany DeVane and Dr. Steve Nida presented “Implicit Attitudes Toward People With Disabilities: Can They Be Changed?”
- Ms. Jana Garl and Dr. Conway Saylor presented “Predictors of Social Competence in Youth With Spina Bifida.”
- Ms. Amanda Lewis and Dr. Darin Matthews presented “Analysis of the Comprehensive Tests of Nonverbal Intelligence.”
- Ms. Jessica Stinson and Drs. Nida, DeRoma and Matthews presented “Client Perception of Confrontation and Direcives in Substance Abuse Treatment.”
- Mr. Brad Leach and Dr. Saylor presented “Perceived Peer Victimization in Youth With and Without Disabilities.”
Along with graduate student James Collins Drs. Nida, Finch and Allen made a poster presentation entitled, “The Future of SEPA: A Survey of the Members.”
Dr. Allen presided over the “Memory and Learning” poster session.
Graduate Melissa Wohlfeiler will give a poster presentation entitled, “Paternal vs. Maternal Contributors to Cognitive and Behavioral Outcome of Children With Spina Bifida” at the 2006 National Conference on Child Health Psychology in Gainesville, Florida on April 19 – 22.
Graduate student Katie Scott and Professor Maya Khanna attended the Child Language Processing Conference in New York City on March 212006. They gave a presentation entitled, “Hough Dou You Know Wat Tou Sai?”
Graduate students Constance Leahy, Sarah Smith, Richard Montgomery and Dr. Ryan Allen, Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department, attended the 38th Annual Convention for the National Association of School Psychologists in Anaheim, CA on March 28 – April 1. Ms. Leahy presented the poster entitled, “Matrices Tests: DSA-II and Traditional Nonverbal IQ Assessment.” Mr. Montgomery presented “Scales 2nd Edition”; and Ms. Smith presented “PA316 Comparison of WISC-IV FSIQ and AGI in a Clinical Sample.”
The School of Humanities and Social Sciences sponsored Erin Jeffords, graduate student in clinical psychology, in her recent paper presentation at the International Family Violence and Child Victimization Research Conference in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in July, 2006. Ms. Jeffords’ paper, entitled, “Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Child Maltreatment,” was sponsored by Dr. Virginia DeRoma, Associate Professor in the Psychology Department. This research culminates a cross-cultural study comparing parenting differences for families from the United States and Ecuador.
