On Sunday June 9th, 2013, Dr. Kanako Taku and her colleagues will host this workshop at the National Cancer Center Hospital in Tokyo, Japan.  This workshop will cover posttraumatic growth, resilience, perceived benefit, making meaning and problem solving; this will be the third workshop. There will be ten presenters along with Dr. Taku: Taku Kondo Read more

On April 2nd, the PTG lab presented their first study at a Psi Chi gathering.  Their study was entitled, “Examining Posttraumatic Growth in Adolescents: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Japanese and American High School Students.  The overall purpose of this study was to examine PTG in high school students, or in other words an adolescent population Read more

Congratulations are in order for the lab members!  The Department of Psychology here at Oakland University have rewarded lab members Kellie McGuire, Insia Thomas and Sharell Elam with the Undergraduate Psychology Research Endowment Award.  This award will help support the cost of registration, travel and lodging for the Midwestern Psychological Association conference in Chicago.  The Read more