This page highlights the current events, achievements, and current activities of our lab members:
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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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The first of two conferences attended this past semester was the Midwestern Psychological Association Conference in downtown Chicago. The conference was held at the Palmer House from May 2nd-4th. Both presentations given by the lab members included posters. Along with the lab members, Dr. Taku also had a successful poster presentation at MPA. Presentations: Taku, K.,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Our study will be presented at the upcoming ISTSS conference (International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies) in Philadelphia, November 7-9, 2013. Taku, K., Elam, S. G., & Sawa, M. S. Influence of resilience and posttraumatic growth on burnout in healthcare physicians. Poster presentation is currently under review for the 29th annual meeting of the International…
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The PTG lab has created Journal Club. This gives each lab member the opportunity to share an article related to PTG, along with allowing the other members to enhance their knowledge about PTG. The first lab member to participate in Journal Club was Insia Thomas, and here is what she had to say about…
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