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Outstanding Graduate Teaching Instructor, Deven Dyer and Dr. Art Gillaspy

Congratulations to the 2022 Student Recognition Ceremony award winners! Olyvia Gonzalez, Pearl McGowan-Hanna, Dylan Garrison, department chair Dr. Art Gillaspy, Greta Hacker, Chelsey Bull, Merritt Tate.

Billy and Terry Smith Outstanding Graduate Student in Mental Health Counseling, Faith Reynolds and Dr. Kevin Rowell

Dr. Ron Bramlett and Billy and Terry Smith Outstanding Graduate Student in School Psychology, Lorianne Graves

Dr. Bill Lammers and Richard Allen Scott Outstanding Psychology Student Finalist Ryan Liew

Dr. Bill Lammers and Richard Allen Scott Outstanding Psychology Student Finalist Sage Wilson

Dr. Bill Lammers and Richard Allen Scott Outstanding Psychology Student Cassandra Alise Holloway

Richard Allen Scott Outstanding Psychology Students Ryan Liew, Cassandra Alise Holloway, and Sage Wilson

Dr. John Murphy conducts workshops at National Association of School Psychologists conference

Dr. John Murphy, Professor of Psychology & Counseling, presented two half-day training workshops on February 15th, 2018 entitled, “Core and Advanced Skills of Brief Solution-Focused Counseling in Schools” at the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) conference in Chicago, IL.

Posted in: News and Events on February 21, 2018

Dr. Marc Sestir co-authors conference presentation

Congrats to Dr. Marc Sestir and colleagues for the acceptance of this paper for presentation. Citation below:

Peszka, J., Sestir, M.A., Kennedy, L.A., & Mastin, D.F. (accepted). A population comparison of active and passive bedtime social technology use. Talk presented at the 2018 SLEEP conference. Baltimore, MD.

Posted in: News and Events on February 17, 2018

Dr. Alberto Soto and Sloane Nolan to present research in Amsterdam

Dr. Alberto Soto and Mental Health Counseling Graduate Student, Sloane Nolan, have co-authored two papers to be presented at the Society for Psychotherapy Research conference in Amsterdam in June. Full citations below:

Soto., A., Smith, T. B., & Nolan, S. (June, 2018). Alliance, Attachment Style, Empathy, and Expectations: A meta-analysis of client outcomes. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. Amsterdam, NL.

Soto., A., Smith, T. B., & Nolan, S. (June, 2018). Cultural Adaptations and Multicultural Competencies. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. Amsterdam, NL.

Congrats!

Posted in: News and Events on February 6, 2018

Dr. Femina Varghese, graduate students, and undergraduate students will present research at APA

Congratulations to Dr. Varghese and her students for recent acceptance of papers for presentation at the annual conference of the American Psychological Association this August in San Francisco.

Graduate students: Chelsey Bull, Jared Whitmire, and Jon Nolan.

Undergraduates: Osiris Stephenson and Lizeth Flores

Varghese, F.P., Bull, C., Whitmire, J., Stephenson, O., Flores, L. & Bihm, E.M, (2018, August). Mentoring Program for Court-Ordered Juveniles: Perspectives of Juveniles and Mentors. Poster presented at the American Psychological Association Conference, San Francisco, CA.

Whitmire, J., Varghese, F.P., & Nolan, J. (2018, August). Seriously Mentally Ill Populations and Exercise Mobile Applications. Poster presented at the American Psychological Association Conference, San Francisco, CA.

Posted in: News and Events on February 3, 2018

SURF Grant awarded to Kane York and Dr. Ken Sobel

Congratulations to Psychology major, Kane York, who was awarded a Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) from the Arkansas Department of Higher Education for his project, “Using Visual Search to Study Inner Workings of the Reverse Stroop Effect.”

Kane’s mentor on this project is Dr. Kenith Sobel.

Posted in: News and Events on February 3, 2018

Dr. Alberto Soto to present research at American Psychological Association

Dr. Alberto Soto’s paper, “Cultural adaptations and multicultural competence” was accepted for presentation at the 2018 meeting of the American Psychological Association in San Francisco, CA. Jordan Pyle, Counseling Psychology doctoral student, is a co-author.

Soto., A., Bernal, G., Domenech Rodriguez, M., & Pyle, J. (Accepted). Cultural adaptations and multicultural competence. Paper presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association. San Francisco, CA.

Posted in: News and Events on January 31, 2018

Dr. Bill Lammers to conduct workshop on building student-instructor rapport

Dr. Bill Lammers’ workshop, “Building Student-Instructor Rapport” was accepted for presentation at the 2018 meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association meeting in April.

Lammers, W. J. (accepted). Building Student-Instructor Rapport. Workshop presented at the 2018 conference of the Southwestern Psychological Association. Houston, TX.

Posted in: News and Events on January 31, 2018

Dr. Marc Sestir to present research at Southwestern Psychological Association meeting

Dr. Marc Sestir’s paper, “Social Support in Your Back Pocket: Cell Phones and Social Pain Experiences” was accepted for presentation at the 2018 meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association meeting in April.

Sestir, M.A. & Kennedy, L.A.(accepted). Social support in your back pocket: Cell phones and social pain experiences. Talk presented at the 2018 conference of the Southwestern Psychological Association. Houston, TX.

Posted in: News and Events on January 31, 2018

Dr. Kevin Rowell and Dr. Dong Xie conduct workshops in China

During the winter break, Dr. Kevin Rowell and Dr. Dong Xie conducted several workshops on suicide and crisis intervention, strength-based counseling, client feedback informed counseling, and basic counseling skills to over 150 Chinese counselors in mainland China.

Dr. Xie and Dr. Rowell collaborated with faculty from Hangzhou Normal University, College of Psychological Science Research. They also provided supervision to school counselors from school districts in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province. In addition, Dr. Xie presented a supervision workshop to the Department of Psychology at Zhejiang Normal University.

Posted in: News and Events on January 30, 2018

Dr. Lora Adair and several students to present research at conferences

Dr. Lora Adair and several of her students had the following presentations accepted at conferences for later this year.

Southwestern Psychological Association

o Adair, L. E., *Andersen, B., *Hinton, T., & *Cipriani-Bluemmel, I. (accepted). He looks “easy” and she’s not into it: Sexual exploitation cues and attraction. Poster Presentation at the 2018 conference of the Southwestern Psychological Association. Houston, TX.

o *Wilson, E. & Adair, L. E.(accepted). The role of visibility, stigma by association, and commitment in relationship defection. Poster Presentation at the 2018 conference of the Southwestern Psychological Association. Houston, TX.

o Adair, L. E., Park, A., *Lund, B. & *Thompson, M. K.(accepted). Does this burger make me look manly? Using meat-eating as an impression management technique. Talk presented at the 2018 conference of the Southwestern Psychological Association. Houston, TX.

Northeastern Evolutionary Psychology Society

o Adair, L. E., *Andersen, B., & *Hinton, T. (accepted). He looks “easy” and she’s not into it: Sexual exploitation cues and attraction. Talk presented at the 2018 conference of the Northeastern Evolutionary Psychology Society. New Paltz, NY.

o *Andersen, B. & Adair, L. E. (accepted). Disgust and discrimination: Behavioral immune system activation and ethnocentrism. Talk presented at the 2018 conference of the Northeastern Evolutionary Psychology Society. New Paltz, NY.

Students include:

Brett Andersen

Taylor Hinton

Isabella Cipriani-Bluemmel

Elizabeth (Libby) Wilson

Brittany Lund

Mary Kate Thompson (graduated last Fall)

Posted in: News and Events on January 30, 2018