Graduate Research Training

In my role as an instructor and supervisor for graduate students, I attempt to provide practical knowledge and experience to prepare students for future leadership roles in psychology. Research opportunities are a large part of this training. My students have co-authored over a dozen recent publications and co-authored over 30 posters or papers presented at national conferences with me.

Current student research projects include 1) the creation of a measure of schizotypal qualities among youth, 2) the comparison of community referred youth who endorse psychotic screening items to those who do not on various clinical correlates, 3) the qualitative accounts of parents’ experiences raising a youth with a schizophrenia-spectrum disorder, 4) an assessment of certain psychometric properties of self-report prodromal screening questionnaires, 5) the relation between dermatoglyphic abnormalities and prodromal symptoms in a large, non-clinical young adult sample, 6) the assessment of community provider’s clinical conceptualization of the prodrome, 7) an examination of the psychometric properties of a psychotic subscale of a general measure of psychopathology administered to a large sample of youth in Hawaii, 8) the long term effects of a significant prenatal stressor in adults, just to name a few.