A5005783252- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
- Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Children's Physical and Motor Development
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
University of Washington
2019-2024
Healing Foundation
2024
National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
2021
Danish Institute against Torture
2019
Dartmouth College
2018
The COVID-19 global pandemic is in many ways unchartered mental health territory, but history would suggest that long-term resilience will be the most common outcome, even for those directly impacted by outbreak. We address 4 myths about and discuss to systematically build individual community resiliency. Actively cultivating social support, adaptive meaning, direct prosocial behaviors reach vulnerable can have powerful promoting effects. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
The global refugee crisis disproportionately affects the Muslim world. Forced displacement often results in trauma-related mental health issues. Effective psychotherapy exists, but there are barriers to uptake by groups as well a lack of culturally appropriate interventions.
Several public health departments throughout North America have responded to the obesity epidemic by mandating that restaurants publish calories at point of purchase-with intention encouraging healthier food decisions. To help determine whether accompanying calorie information successfully changes a food's appetitive value, this study investigated influence on brain responses images. During functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning, dieting (N = 22) and non-dieting 20)...
Among trauma-exposed, forcibly displaced Muslims, very little is known about how social connectedness, or perceived interpersonal connection and belonging, may alter the relationship between discrimination negative posttraumatic cognitions. Discrimination aggravate trauma psychopathology (Helms et al., 2010); however, connectedness buffer its effects (Juang & Alvarez, 2010). We examined whether higher religious racial/ethnic would be associated with stronger cognitions adaptively this...
Sexual assault of men by women has received increasing attention in recent years, as research on rape myths about male victims. This study is a cross-generational replication 1984 college students' judgments and female victims scenario involving sexual carried out or assailants. The data (n = 172) were compared with those 2019 cohort 372) 2 (participant gender) x (assailant (victim (cohort) factorial design to assess potential generational changes perceptions Judgments participants assaults...
Retrospective memory for peritraumatic reactions occurring during or immediately after trauma exposure may decrease in intensity some over treatment. This be due to psychotherapy-specific processes, such as repeated accessing of the memory. Additionally, it that recovery drives changes these experiences. Critical examining hypotheses is an effective control treatment reduces symptoms but does not directly involve retrieval memory, pharmacotherapy.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric often characterized by the unwanted re-experiencing of traumatic event through nightmares, flashbacks, and/or intrusive memories. This paper presents neurocomputational model using ACT-R cognitive architecture that simulates memory retrieval following potentially (PTE) and derives predictions about an individual’s recovery trajectory, behavioral symptoms, neurological effects. Memory intrusions were captured in framework weighting prior...
Background Somatic complaints play a central role in the posttraumatic psychological symptom presentation among people within many cultural contexts. One theory about function of somatic symptoms suggests that diffuse bodily serve as idioms distress. However, few studies have examined effect culturally adapted trauma interventions on reducing specifically implemented low-income country. Methods We effects Islamic Trauma Healing – brief, group- and mosque-based, lay-led intervention reduction...