Veterans & Active Service Members

• Developing a Veteran-specific inventory of common stressful problems (Alexa Hays' MS thesis)

​Social Problem Solving

• Assessing differences in SPS as a function of type of real-world problem (achievement vs. affiliation) and sex (manuscript in preparation)
• Assessing the relationships among differing models of problem solving (SPS, rational, experiential, insight) and their association with positive and negative mood (manuscript in preparation)
• Assessing the psychometric properties of a revised and abbreviated version of the Social Problem Solving Inventory-Revised
• ​Assessing SPS as a mediator between neuropsychological measures of executive functioning and depression
• Assessing the relationship between SPS and substance use among college students (Jenna Damico's senior thesis)
• ​Assessing the relationship between SPS and bilingualism (Dij Ozel's senior thesis)

​Suicide Risk​

• Assessing the role of SPS as a moderator between emotion regulation and both suicide ideation and deliberate self-harm among undergraduate college students (manuscript in preparation)
• ​SPS, combat exposure, and suicidal ideation among veterans (Chris Diaz's MS thesis)
• ​Assessing differences between SPS and neuropsychological measures of executive functioning in predicting suicidal ideation among college students (Alexandra Greenfield's dissertation)
• ​Reducing suicide risk among veterans in the community via EC-PST (New Beginnings)
• ​Assessing the public's perception of suicide as a function of sex and veteran status
• ​Assessing the extent and type of training in suicide assessment and treatment provided in psychology graduate programs
• Assessing the validity of a social problem-solving model of suicidality among veterans and among college students
• Assessing the moderating role of SPS between sexual harassment and suicide ideation among college students

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