The PTG lab is looking for one or two additional research assistants to begin in the Fall 2013 semester.  New research assistants must be an enrolled OU student, and must be able to commit 10 hours per week to this lab.  If you are interested in applying for this position, please contact the current research Read more

The third workshop of PTG and Resilience was successfully held at the National Cancer Center Hospital (click the picture to read more about the location) by Dr. Kanako Taku and Dr. Ken Shimizu.  Psychologists, psychiatrists, physicians, nurses, social workers, educators, teachers, researchers, graduate students and many others attend the workshop.  The attendees exchanged their opinions Read more

Dr. Taku just recently finished her new study in Japan.  The purpose of this study is to examine how core beliefs, rumination and subjective perceptions of the earthquake that hit Japan on March 11, 2011, would correlate with posttraumatic growth and distress. Dr. Taku conducted this survey in the beginning of June.  Approximately 300 Japanese undergraduate students Read more