This page highlights the current events, achievements, and current activities of our lab members:
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Sharell Elam presented at the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies conference in Philadelphia, PA on November 7th. This study was collaborative by Dr. Taku, previous lab member Melissa Sawa, and current lab member Sharell Elam. The purpose of their study was to examine the influence of resilience and personal growth resulting from professional experience on burnout in physicians. To find out more about
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New lab members Leah Lalonde and Rebekah Hendrian start off their semester with Journal Club. Journal club is an interactive and educational way for the lab members to bring forward studies that have contributed to the world of research and may also be helpful to each member’s specific focus in the lab. Rebekah brought forward
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The PTG lab welcomes Maggie Britton as another new member! Maggie is currently a senior here at Oakland University majoring in Psychology and minoring in Spanish and Biology. While in the lab, she will be focusing on the relationships that exist between posttraumatic growth and self-esteem. After graduating, she would like to further her education
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Another new addition to the PTG lab is Rebekah Hendrian! Rebekah is currently working on completing her Bachelor’s in Psychology here at Oakland University. While in the lab, she would like to study PTG specifically towards sport related injuries. After Oakland, she would like to further her education in psychology at Wayne State or Central
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The PTG lab would like to welcome Leah LaLonde as one of our new research assistants! Leah is currently working on receiving her Bachelor’s in Psychology here at Oakland University. In this lab, she wants to focus her efforts on gaining an understand of PTG in cancer patients specifically. After Oakland, she plans on pursuing
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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
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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
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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
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Congratulations are in order! Online Schools Michigan has created a list of the top 25 psychology professor in Michigan based on recent awards in teaching, research and scholarship. Oakland University’s very own Dr. Taku was selected to be placed among this list based on her research endeavors in clinical psychology, cross-cultural psychology and trauma psychology.
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The most recent conference that the PTG lab attended was the Meeting of the Minds Conference, located at U of M-Flint on May 10th, 2013. The members had a total of two poster presentations, and one oral presentation. Presentations: Elam, S., & McGuire, K. The
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