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Current Projects
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Mindful Self-Compassion to address Co-occurring PTSD and Substance Use in Unhoused Women

This DOD-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 NSF-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 NIH-funded mixed methods project takes a biopsychosocial 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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