• A therapist survey of evidence-based practices in publicly funded youth mental health 

  Tugendrajch, Siena K. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)

  Publicly funded services, such as Medicaid, account for close to half of all youth mental health (MH) services in the U.S. (Buck, 2003; Mark et al., 2007; Pires, 2013). Outcome studies of treatment as usual (TAU), particularly ...

• Antecedents and motives for smoking in borderline personality disorder 

  Valadka, Jaclyn S. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)

  Though borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with higher rates of substance use, including cigarette smoking (Carpenter, Wood, & Trull, 2016; Rohde, Lewinsohn, Brown, Gau, & Kahler, 2003; Trull, Jahng, Tomko, ...

• The role of conflict communication in the link between marital and sibling relationship qualities 

  Odudu, Christopher (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)

  Research shows that persistently intense marital conflict has deleterious effects on children, leading to adjustment problems such as anxiety or aggression (Grych & Fincham, 2001; Ha, Overbeek, Vermulst, & Engels, 2009). ...

• Implementation of a low-cost, web-based, multi-component training for trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy 

  Marriott, Brigid R. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)

  Although continuing education appears to be a promising strategy for closing the research-to-practice gap, effective trainings that result in clinician behavior change remain expensive and largely inaccessible. The current ...

• An in depth evaluation of internal criteria for determining the number of clusters in a data set 

  Stevens, Jordan (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)

  Clustering procedures partition data sets into groups, minimizing the distance within clusters while maximizing the distance between clusters. Clustering can be apowerful tool for data reduction or hypothesis generation, ...

• A bayesian investigation into inhibition mechanisms of contrast and assimilation 

  Snyder, Hope K. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)

  The ability to inhibit distractors within an environment while focusing on specificinformation is crucial to proper functioning. In most inhibition tasks, such as Stroop,the to-be-ignored information affect the response ...

• The influence of race on behavior and the neural correlates of expectancy during an economic decision game 

  Levsen, Meredith P. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)

  I investigated how another person's race influences resource sharing during a social economic decision-making game that depends on trustworthiness. Seventy-eight university students played a behavioral economics Trust Game ...

• Investigating the early processes of person construal using ERPs 

  Volpert, Hannah I. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)

  According to the dynamic interactive theory of person construal (Freeman & Ambady, 2011), upon perception of a person, multiple social categories become simultaneously active and are refined through the integration of ...

• Socioeconomic status and adolescent alcohol involvement: evidence for a gene-environment Interaction 

  Davis, Christal (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  Adolescent alcohol use patterns stem from both genetic and environmental influences. In addition to these factors contributing additively to risk for use, genetic and environmental factors interact with each other to inhibit ...

• The social ecology of aggression in youths with autism spectrum disorder 

  Brown, Cynthia E. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)

  More than half of youths with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) behave aggressively toward other individuals. Although a wide range of individual and social ecological(e.g., family, peer) variables have been linked with ...

• The costs and benefits of dampening of positive affect in youth 

  Hausman, Estee M. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  The main goals of the current study were to a) extend the literature on dampening, or positive emotion regulation strategies, affective, cognitive, and behavioral, used to decrease the frequency, intensity, or duration of ...

• Multisystemic therapy with juvenile sexual offenders : a 10.2-year follow-up to a randomized effectiveness trial 

  Sheerin, Kaitlin M. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  Multisystemic Therapy for Problem Sexual Behavior (MST-PSB; Borduin, Letourneau, Henggeler, & Swenson, 2009) is a family- and community-based treatment for juvenile sexual offenders that has shown long-term efficacy in two ...

• Differentiating psychosis risk and mania risk scales and their associations with spontaneous eye blink rate 

  Hua, Jessica P. Y. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  Psychosis risk and mania risk scales are strongly correlated, and both psychosis and mania are linked to alterations in striatal dopamine. However, previous research has not examined whether measures of psychosis and mania ...

• Family relationships during emerging adulthood : longitudinal course and associations with emotional and academic adjustment 

  Lindell, Anna K. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  During emerging adulthood (ages 18 through the mid-twenties), parents and siblings become more peripheral in daily life compared to earlier in development. While family relationship quality often improves significantly ...

• The effect of estrogen deficiency on learning and memory in two novel rat models of Alzheimer's disease 

  Klakotskaia, Diana (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that results in synaptic and neuronal loss in regions of the brain responsible for memory and cognition. To date, transgenic animal models have played a crucial ...

• A Bayesian hierarchical model of lexicographic choice 

  Park, Sanghyuk (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  I present a lexicographic, threshold-based model of choice used to evaluate decision makers' preferences among risky alternatives. Using a hierarchical Bayesian frame-work, this model is able to account for observed ...

• Structural-morphometric examination of thalamic nuclei in individuals with Autism spectrum disorders 

  Sokoloff, Jennifer Lea (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  The thalamus has been implicated as a potential source of neural disruption in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). This subcortical nuclear complex is critically involved in sensory processing, an area of deficit in ASD. ...

• Associations between executive functioning, affect-regulation drinking motives and alcohol use and problematic drinking 

  Martins, Jorge (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)

  [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Extant literature confirms the direct effects of two key constructs on alcohol use and problematic drinking: (1) motivations to use alcohol to regulate ...

• The effects of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) treatement on nonverbal working memory-related brain activations and connectivity in individuals with phenylketonuria 

  Bellesheim, Katherine R. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)

  [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Previous research suggests that phenylketonuria (PKU) is associated with disruptions in structural and functional connectivity that may contribute to ...

• Model-based recursive partitioning of structural equation models 

  You, Dongjun (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)

  [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The goal of this dissertation is to describe the algorithmic method of model-based recursive partitioning, and to compare different estimation techniques ...

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