Current Faculty Research Projects

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Below are research projects that faculty in the School of Graduate Psychology & Counseling are currently working on. They welcome you to submit a proposal on how you can join and contribute to their research!

 

Faculty Member
Research Topic
Dr. Karla Basurto Gutiérrez
  • Developing curriculum aimed at equipping graduate professors with the skills to guide and instruct graduate students in producing publishable articles
Dr. Ronald Coffen
  • Nationwide study of the prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder, and how it is diagnosed by School Psychologists
Dr. Bradly Hinman
  • The experience of LGBT Seventh-day Adventists
  • Family dynamics, communication, and behavior disorders within families
  • Sexuality and Christianity, including sexual orientation, pornography, sex addiction, and hypoactive sexual desire
  • Supervision of minority supervisees by majority supervisors.
Dr. Nadine Isaac-Dennis
  • Traumatic stress in children, social emotional education in diverse settings
Dr. Rebecca Katovsich
  • The intersection of faith and mental health
  • Healing properties of the therapeutic relationship
  • Forgiveness and its role in facilitating improved mental health
  • The impact of parental discord on the psychological health & personality development of children & adolescents
Dr. Michael Milmine
  • Student success and engagement
  • Learning and memory
  • The impact of media use on everyday life
  • The use of virtual reality in education and psychology
Dr. Nadia Nosworthy
  • Numeracy development in children
  • Individual differences in math achievement
  • Math anxiety as it relates to math achievement in K-3
Prof. Renette Portecop-Prentice
  • Self-efficacy for teaching students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
Dr. Carole Woolford-Hunt
  • Psychoneuroendocrine response to perceived difference
  • Managing competing epistemologies/world views
  • HAIR study (Hair, Activity, Identity, Race)