Student Research

Our students have traveled across the country to present posters, papers, and workshops on topics including:

  • Associations among Intimate Partner Violence, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms, and Disordered Eating among a racially diverse sample of women IPV survivors residing in shelter
  • Immigrant Latina survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: Addressing barriers to help-seeking
  • Mexican American cultural values, acculturation, and resilience to PTSD in survivors of intimate partner violence
  • Psychology graduate student training in sexual assault prevention & outreach
  • Revisiting consciousness-raising: An approach to sexual assault prevention
  • Survival sex among women survivors of intimate partner violence: Preliminary results from a domestic violence shelter
  • The relationship between rape myths, sexual communication self-efficacy, and knowledge of consent in undergraduates

These presentations have taken place at a wide variety of conferences, such as:

  • American Psychological Association Annual Conference
  • Association for Women in Psychology Annual Conference
  • Great Lakes Counseling Psychology Conference
  • International Conference on Eating Disorders (ICED)
  • International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) Annual Meeting
  • ResilienceCon
  • Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Annual Meeting

And our students have published papers in peer-reviewed, academic journals and other publications, including:

  • Handbook of Interpersonal Violence across the Lifespan: A Project of the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV)
  • Professional Psychology: Research and Practice
  • Biological Psychology
  • Psychology of Women Quarterly
  • Violence Against Women
  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence
From left to right, Alejandra Gonzalez, Marisa Norton, Samsara Soto, and Nuha Alshabani presenting at the Association for Women in Psychology Annual Conference