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The Effect of Home-School Communication on Treatment Integrity
(East Carolina University, 2014)
Federal policy and school psychology practice have recently increased advocacy for the use of evidence-based interventions. Treatment integrity is an important component of evidenced-based interventions and individuals ...
The influence of a motivational interviewing based computerized screening assessment on veteran request for mental health services and treatment entrance rates
(East Carolina University, 2014)
Military veterans experience high prevalence rates of mental illness, substance use disorders (SUDs), and traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, veterans enter into treatment for these problems at very low rates. Mental ...
Factors Influencing Teacher Acceptability of Evidence-Based Interventions for the Treatment of ADHD
(East Carolina University, 2014)
The current study examined ratings of teacher-rated acceptability of three evidence-based interventions commonly used for children diagnosed with ADHD. Teachers (n = 170) from five suburban elementary schools were asked ...
Questioning "Questioning" as a Sexual Identity and Label : An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis
(East Carolina University, 2014)
Sexual or gender minorities often experience poorer health and mental outcomes than their heterosexually-identified or cisgender peers. Among those often included as sexual or gender minorities are those who identify as ...
Predicting Treatment Success : Assessing Theoretically-Driven Constructs that Impact the Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Among African American Women in a Novel Peer-Delivered Small Changes Treatment Approach
(East Carolina University, 2014)
Rural African American women have greater prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) and poorer treatment outcomes compared to Caucasians. Some research suggests that self-efficacy, subjective norms, and locus of control ...
Project MENTOR+ : Mentor-led exercise with cognitive-behavioral therapy to improve perceived competence, reduce social anxiety, and increase physical activity in overweight adolescents.
(East Carolina University, 2014)
Overweight adolescents are at increased risk for peer victimization and avoidance of physical activity, thus perpetuating overweight status and peer victimization. Avenues of intervention include (1) reducing avoidance ...
The Impact of Moral Judgment on the Relationship Between Trait Aggression and Deviant Behavior
(East Carolina University, 2014)
The purpose of this study was to investigate moral judgments' mediating effect on the relationship between trait aggression and deviant behavior. Participants consisted of 337 undergraduate students at a large southeastern ...
"Did you Hear?" : Gossip as a Manifestation of Trait Aggression
(East Carolina University, 2014)
This study sought to ascertain how trait aggression relates to individuals' motives and tendencies to participate in various types of gossip; while empirically differentiating between the application of negative and positive ...
Identifying the missing piece of suicide prevention : Formative risk assessment
(East Carolina University, 2014)
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among adolescents and young adults (Centers for Disease Control [CDC], 2011). However, no evidence-based suicide prevention programs currently exist that utilize formative ...
Paving the Way : A Biopsychosocial Survey Study of Young Adults Diagnosed with Heart Failure and Identification of Key Intervention Priorities
(East Carolina University, 2014)
Introduction: Rates of heart failure have been increasingly noticed in individuals between 20 and 50 years of age, especially in Eastern North Carolina. Little is known about this subset of patients with heart failure. The ...