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Areas of specialization:

• Clinical psychology, forensic psychology, and cognitive and neuropsychological evaluation.

Research Interests:

• Women in prison, adjustment to incarceration, forensic populations, cognitive and neuropsychological evaluation, alcohol expectancy, and trauma history.

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Research Interests:

• Mental Health Counseling, Education and Supervision
• Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention
• Disaster Mental Health Response and Training
• College student development and mental health disorders
• College students and peer attachment relationships
• Reasons to Live
• Attachment relationship and importance across the lifespan
• Exercise and mental health
• Neuroscience applications in counseling

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Research Interests:

• Risky behavior across the lifespan
• Risk and human factors with particular interest in aviation

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Research Interests:

• How individuals with lung cancer adjust to their disease, especially as it relates to perceived stigma and posttraumatic growth.
• How perceived and enacted stigma might impact academic performance and psychosocial wellbeing in students with chronic diseases.
• How small changes to mindfulness meditation scripts impact individuals’ experiences of the meditation.

Applied interests:

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Mental healthcare in primary care settings
• Therapy after major loss (or “grief counseling”)
• Advanced statistical modeling via computerized methods (e.g., SPSS, SAS)

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Areas of Specialization:

• Early Childhood Assessment and Intervention
• Assessment of Functional Academic and Behavioral Skills
• Instructional Coaching and Consultation

Research Interests:

• Vocabulary development
• Preschool expulsion
• Supervision

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Research Interests:

• Stereotyping and discrimination, impression formation, and self-perception biases

Areas of Specialization

• Social and Personality Psychology

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Research Interest:

• Autism Spectrum Disorders

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Research Interests:

• Psychosocial predictors of longevity

• Successful aging and well being in older adulthood

• Applied behavior analysis and behavioral gerontology

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Research Interests:

Kolts’s current research and professional work is focused upon Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and the application of CFT in working with emotional difficulties, particularly anger, compassion, and mindfulness interventions.

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Research Interests:

• Social Justice
• Saving and revitalizing Salish languages
• Mitigating marginalization & colonization of individuals and groups
• Mitigating discrimination and harassment, decolonizing classrooms, schools, & epistemologies
• Mitigating student passivity through voice & choice
• Problematizing social norms & practices via qualitative inquiry & post-formal reasoning

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Research Interests:

• Identification of Learning Disabilities
• Implementation of Multi-Tier System of Supports (MTSS)
• Professional Practice of School Psychologists
• Educational Staff Associate (ESA)-School Psychologist
• Licensed Psychologist

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Research Interests:

• Practices associated with Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)
• Evidence Based Interventions
• Social Emotional Learning (SEL)

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Research Interests:

• Student motivation
•  Homeschooling
• Sexual decision-making

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Research Interests:

• Correcting errors in memory
• Memory in the classroom
• Memory and aging Cognition,

Memory Lab Website

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Research Interests:

• Psychopathy
• Aggression
• Mechanisms linking trauma
• Developmental psychopathology

Curriculum Vitae

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Research Interests:

• Developmental psychology, social-behavioral disorders and assessment
• Supervision of graduate students

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Recent Interests:

• Social Psychology with an emphasis in Health Psychology and Intimate Relationships (including LGBTQ+, Gender, and Sexual Orientation).

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Research Interests:

• Positive psychology
  • Gratitude: How gratitude enhances happiness and well-being

• Joy:
  • The nature of joy and its relationship to well-being.

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Research Interests:

• Variants of the MAOA gene with personality variables such as impulsivity, emotion regulation, borderline personality