This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out, the Symposium on Well-Being. In this presentation, the author discusses the importance of quality of life to achieve happiness and wellness.

This paper discusses research on the effects of mutual partner violence on women's mental health.

This paper discusses a research study on language barriers and their effect on healthcare among Vietnamese immigrants in Tarrant County.

Article from a study completed using secondary analysis of data from two studies of expressive writing about stressful relational events to first describe the relations of word use to social-cognitive maturity of role-taking using Feffer’s Interpersonal Decentering scoring system and then to test hypotheses about active processing of relational information versus event closure. This is the Accepted Manuscript version of a published article.

Article examining the differences in predictors of depression among individuals with fibromyalgia (FM) and osteoarthritis (OA) using a range of health, demographic, and psychological variables.

This poster examines how therapeutic interventions to identify and address symptoms of trauma, as well as to promote forgiveness of unpleasant experiences, would be associated with lower rates of depression in people living with HIV/AIDS.

This poster investigates the extent to which forgiveness of self mediates the relationship between sense of control and resilience.

This poster tests a model wherein resilience acts as a mediator between forgiveness and one's perception of stigma.

This poster examines the relationships between gender differentiated HIV-related coping strategies and depression.

This poster examines relationships between health protective sexual communication, depression, and STD attitudes.

This poster examines the relationships between forgiveness, spirituality, and perceptions of stigma in the mental and physiological health of women living with HIV/AIDS.

This poster suggests that positive and negative personality characteristics plus social functioning relate to psychological quality of life in college students.

This poster tests the efficacy of forgiveness to affect the quality of life in women living with HIV.

This poster suggests that a biopsychosocial approach may be beneficial to people living with HIV/AIDS to reduce stress.

This poster investigates HIV-related self-stigma and prevalence of symptoms as stressors for people living with HIV.

This poster discusses how forgiveness may be associated with less anxiety among African-American women living with HIV.

This poster examines how the relationships between trauma, perceived stress, and self-esteem affect emotional well-being in college students.

This poster examines the role of forgiveness and stigma in health distress in both adherent and non-adherent HIV+ Individuals.

This poster uses social cognitive theory to model the relationship between health distress, denial, and daily hassles faced by HIV individuals.

Article examines molecular markers of neuropsychological functioning among elders with and without Alzheimer's disease (AD) and determine the predictive ability of combined molecular markers and select neuropsychological tests in detecting disease presence. This work provides the foundation for the generation of a point‐of‐care device that can be used to screen for AD.

This article aims to examine the link between low-level arsenic exposure and cognitive functioning, and the potential role of a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP A35991G, rs10748835) of the AS3MT gene in modifying this link.

Article discusses study which led to the development of the Social Reward Questionnaire (SRQ), a measure of individual differences in the value of different social rewards.

This article argues that rather than using one technique to investigate regression results, researchers should consider multiple indices to understand the contributions that predictors make not only to a regression model, but to each other as well.

This article describes a study in which the adult Social Reward Questionnaire is adapted for use with adolescents.