Current Projects
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Mindful Self-Compassion Intervention to Address Co-occurring PTSD and Substance Use in Unhoused Women
This Department of Defense-funded study uses a community-engaged approach to explore how a self-compassion intervention might help reduce PTSD and substance use in women who have experienced homelessness and trauma.
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Compounding Crises: Facing Hurricane Season and Climate Hazards in the Era of COVID-19.
This National Science Foundation-funded study examines how people respond to the threat of hurricanes and the escalating climate crisis in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic (with Gabrielle Wong-Parodi).
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Amplifying Threats During Cascading Crises: Media’s Role in Shaping Psychological Responses to the War in Ukraine.
This NSF-funded study examines the psychological impact of the war in Ukraine and the impact of related existential threats (with Drs. E. Alison Holman, and Roxane Cohen Silver).
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Uncertain Risk and Stressful Future: A National Study of the COVID-2019 Outbreak in the U.S.
This NSF-funded study examines the psychological response to the COVID-19 pandemic in a nationally representative sample of U. S. adults (with Drs. E. Alison Holman, and Roxane Cohen Silver).
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Mindfulness-based Intervention to Address PTSD in Trauma-exposed, Homeless Women
This National Institute of Health-funded, mixed methods project takes a bio-psycho-social approach to understanding the experience of trauma in unhoused women and how community-based, mindfulness interventions might help alleviating adverse traumatic stress symptoms and associated problems (e.g., substance use, depression).
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