Browsing VanLiere Symposium Posters by Title
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Oasis: A Proposed Study and Review of Suicide Prevention Programs Amongst Young People
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people, ages 15-24, in the United States (Drapeau & McIntosh, 2015). Suicide prevention techniques and programs are important for young people because they are ... -
Occupational Stress and Burnout Syndrome Among Nursing Professionals: a Proposed Study Addressing Compromised States of Mental Health and Improving Patient Outcomes
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)The following proposed study will examine the effects of therapeutic intervention on mental and physical health states of practicing nurses. Nurses are particularly susceptible to increased occupational stress, which can ... -
Online Computerized Behavioral Activation Treatments on Depression
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2010-04)Online cognitive behavioral therapy has been recently developed to help cut costs of treating depression, make treatment widespread, and provide another alternative to treating depression. Research confirms that online CBT ... -
An Overview of Treatments for Rape and Sexual Assault Survivors: A Literature Review
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)Rape and sexual assault are severe crimes that can lead to mental illnesses such as PTSD, depression, and anxiety. In recent years, there has been an increase in attention towards colleges and universities, where these ... -
Overview, Analysis, and Recommendation of Psychometric Diagnostic Assessments for Pine Rest Psychological Consultation Center
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2015)Due to the drastic increase in the number of mental health diagnoses being made concerns have arisen in regards to the effectiveness and usefulness of psychometry and its assessment tools. Currently, the Pine Rest Psychological ... -
Parent Emotion Coaching and Emotion Language Effects on Children's Use of Emotion Words
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2009)Mothers' and fathers' emotion socialization through parent-emotion coaching and parent emotion language was investigated for effects on children’s positive and negative emotion language. The sample included 14 two-parent ... -
Parental Styles and its effects on Self-Esteem and Mental well-being of Adolescents in Individualist and Collectivist cultures
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)This literature review seeks to investigate how parental styles influence self-esteem, and mental well-being of adolescents in different cultures. Self-esteem is important because it controls the emotional state and function ... -
Peer Educators In Comprehensive Sex Education Will Improve Efficacy: A Proposed Study
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2018)Sexuality education is high school settings is a topic that taught in many different ways depending on state laws, district policies, and resources available. However, sexuality education falls into two main overarchin ... -
Perception of Upper Extremity Strength in Elderly
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2010-04)Perception of grip strength between hands, and actual grip strength being applied in elderly adults was studied. Four performed a series of grasping tasks. It was hypothesized that participants would not accurately match ... -
Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Psychological Interventions on Injury Rehabilitation in a Proposed Study
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2016)Until recently the use of psychological interventions to assist with injury rehabilitation was not very common due to a lack of knowledge. Now that these practices are gaining more support the key is to get the backing of ... -
Personality Correlations Between Mothers and their Biological Children
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)Adoption and twin studies such as Horn, Loehlin, and Willerman (1979) and Bergeman et al. (1993) suggest that genetics has the most influence on the formation of the personality, while the environment has little to no ... -
The Positive Effects of Cultural Immersion on Cross-Cultural Awareness and Knowledge
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2010-04)The most common type of cultural immersion today is study abroad. Dating back to when it first emerged in the 1960s, cultural psychology has always been very interested in the different ways humans interact (Markus, 2001). ... -
The Potential of Neurofeedback: A Case Study of a 9-year ADHD Child
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2015)Neurofeedback is a non-invasive, drug-free, treatment option for a wide variety of illnesses and disorders. Neurofeedback therapy is a relatively new method of mind-body treatment. Neurofeedback therapy is the process of ... -
The Prevalence and Labeling of Sexual Assault and Rape at Kalamazoo College
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2014)• Around one in four women will experience sexual assault in college (Elliott, Mok, & Briere, 2004), and one in five women and one in 71 men will experience sexual assault in their lifetimes (U.S. Center for Disease Control ... -
The Primary Factor of Perceived Risk of Injury and its Effects on Performance
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2006)Researchers have examined three psychological factors that impair the performance of athletes that have suffered an injury: (a) anxiety from being injured, (b) confidence in avoiding another injury and (c) perceived ... -
Pro-Environmental Behavior Modification Techniques: A Program Designed to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions at a Residential Level
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2010-04)This study takes several behavior modification techniques, specifically, (a) group-based peer learning, (b) implementation intentions, (c) prompts, (d) public commitments, and (e) social-injunctive norms and combines them ... -
Promoting Creative Process in a Product Design Firm
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)Initially an effort to understand the variables and dynamics effecting product design, this research is the sum of my experiences working as an Idea Development Assistant (IDA) at Billings Jackson Design in NYC, as well ... -
The Psychological Effects of Sports Related Concussions and a Proposed Plan for Recovery at Kalamazoo College
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019)Concussions can be a complicated injury for an athlete to sustain as they are invisible to the onlooker. Often, athletes who are already experiencing some kind of underlying psychological issue tend to have poorer ... -
The Psychological Effects of the Ecological Network on African American Adolescents’ Pregnancy Behavior
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2008)Research on the pregnancy tendencies and sexual behaviors of African American female adolescents, 14-18 years of age reveals patterns and influences that lead to these behaviors, and repeat pregnancies within a year. ... -
Racial and Educational Disparities in Adherence to Safe Sleep Recommendations: Knowledge and Behavior in Kalamazoo
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019)Black infant mortality is a pertinent issue in Kalamazoo and highlights structural inequities such as access to healthcare, housing, education, and employment. In Kalamazoo, 3 times as many Black infants die from sleep ...