Recently, Gina Reyes, a senior undergraduate research assistant, gave an insightful presentation on her independent study titled “Grief Perceptions & Norms.” To begin, Gina described how societal beliefs and expectations about grief can shape what is considered a “normal” or “healthy” grieving process—often leading to disenfranchised grief, or grief that is not socially recognized or Read more

We would like to congratulate Paxton Hicks, a second year Master’s student in the FF-TIP Lab, who has officially defended his Master’s thesis! Paxton impressed his committee, with an insightful and engaging presentation on self-disclosure depenetration, earning acceptance with no revision requests. Paxton introduced us all to the concept of self-disclosure, before discussing the lack Read more

Last week, the lab had the opportunity to hear from Conner, who presented an article titled “Treatment initiation and dropout from prolonged exposure and cognitive processing therapy in a VA outpatient clinic” by Shannon M. Kehle-Forbes, Laura A. Meis, Michele R. Spoont, and Melissa A. Polusny. This article aimed to report the initiation and dropout Read more