This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Coming Home. The author has a grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) on innovative approaches to understanding and treating PTSD. In this presentation, the author discusses PTSD and other responses to trauma and stress.

This poster discusses how public health research should incorporate mindfulness, self-esteem, and positive states of mind when addressing the well-being of sexual minorities.

This article examines participant experience by examining psychophysiological responses of participants to their surroundings.

This article helps researchers avoid common pitfalls associated with reliability including incorrectly assuming that measurement error always attenuates observed score correlations, different sources of measurement error originate from the same source, and reliability is a function of instrumentation.

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.

Presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on mindfulness, self-esteem, positive states of mind, and correlates of mental health in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals.

Presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on resilience and behavioral disengagement and correlates of a negative sense of control for an HIV sample.

Presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing the role of stress, behavioral disengagement, and self distraction and the perceived stigma in HIV-positive individuals.

Presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on stress, self-esteem, loneliness, sex guilt, and sexual risk in college students.

Presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the psychology of revenge.

Presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing anger expressions, coping strategies, and interpersonal support dynamics relating to CD4 count in human immunodeficiency virus positive (HIV+) adults.

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the positive and negative effects of classical conditioning on a person's psyche.

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the importance of superstition as competition increases.

Poster for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on suicide across time and culture.

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing the relative influences of personal psychological factors on conversational interpretation and behavior.

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on forgiveness compared to women and men.

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on maternal filicide.

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on collectivist cultures and individualistic cultures.

Paper on whether anger expressions, coping strategies and interpersonal support dynamics relate to CD4 count in HIV positive adults.

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Coming Home and discusses the reintegration of veterans and families. The author directs the Family Attachment Lab and is conducting the Student Veteran Research Project. In this presentation, she discusses the family relationships of veterans after deployment.

Undergraduate thesis examining the moderating role of religious coping on the associations between romantic attachment and psychological symptoms among 86 heterosexual, married couples with children aged 8-11. Spouses completed a demographic questionnaire, the Brief RCOPE (Pargament et al., 1998), the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale (Brennan et al., 1998), and the Symptom Assessment-45 (Maruish, 1996, 1998). Using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (Kenny et al., 2006), multilevel modeling examined both within-person (actor) and dyadic (partner) influences between spouses.