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 16th – March 19th, 2006. The graduate students and professors that made poster presentations were:
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Ms. Tiffany DeVane and Dr. Steve Nida presented “Implicit Attitudes Toward People With Disabilities: Can They Be Changed?”
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Ms. Jana Garl and Dr. Conway Saylor presented “Predictors of Social Competence in Youth With Spina Bifida.”
Paper presentations:
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Ms. Jessica Stinson and Drs. Nida, DeRoma and Matthews presented “Client Perception of Confrontation and Directives in Substance Abuse Treatment.”
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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 student Melissa Wohlfeiler gave 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 19th - 22nd.
Graduate student Katie Scott and Professor Maya Khanna attended the Child Language Processing Conference in New York City on March 21st. They gave a presentation entitled, “Hough Dou You Know Wat Tou Sai?”
Graduate students Constance Leahy, Sarah Smith and Richard Montgomery and Dr. Ryan Allen, Professor, Department of Psychology, attended the 38th Annual Convention for the National Association of School Psychologists in Anaheim, CA on March 28th – April 1st. Ms. Leahy presented the poster entitled, “Matrice Tests: DAS-II and Traditional Nonverbal IQ Assessment.” Mr. Montgomery presented “Scales 2nd Edition”; and Ms. Smith presented “PA316 Comparison of WISC-IV FSIQ and GAI in a Clinical Sample.”
Dr. Steve Nida, Professor and Department Head of Psychology has been invited to participate in the Harvard Summer Institutes Management Development Program this summer at Harvard.
