We at the Lai Lab are happy to report our R03 project has been funded. This project will integrate data from landmark studies of children’s reactions to four of the most costly disasters in U.S. history. Our goal is to understand how and why children differ in their reactions to disasters. The long-term goal of this work is to develop risk models to more effectively use scarce resources to help children who have been exposed to disasters.
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July 2017 | NSF Supplement Awarded
Drs. Lai and Esnard received an NSF supplement award (#1745318). This award will allow us to create strong recommendations for safeguarding schools in the face of disasters. Specifically, we will be able to identify and integrate additional datasets, conduct a case study on Galveston, Texas, and publish data and data derivatives in public access formats.
July 2017 | APHA Posters Accepted
We’re happy to announce that four posters associated with members of the Lai Lab have been accepted for display at the American Public Health Association’s Annual Meeting & Expo in November, 2017. Asterisks denote individuals associated with the lab.
*Cowart, M., Kelley, M.L., Piscitello, J., Self-Brown, S., & *Lai, B.S. (November 2017). Longitudinal relationship between social support and PTS symptoms in children impacted by Hurricane Katrina. Poster presented at the American Public Health Association Conference. Atlanta, GA.
Monday, November 6th 2:30-3:30 in the PHSW Student Poster Session 1 (Session 3332.0).
*Lewis, R., *Livings, M., *Williams, J.D., *Shah, H.J., *Lai, B.S., Self-Brown, S. (2017, November). Exploratory factor analysis of the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children: A comparison of two factor extraction methods. Poster to be presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia.
Monday, November 6th 2:30-3:30 in the PHSW Student Poster Session 1 (Session 3332.0).
*Shah, H.J., Guastaferro, K., Miller, K., *Lai, B.S., & Lutzker, J. (2017, November). Evaluating use of the Child Planned Activities Training measure. Poster presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia.
Monday, November 6th 2:30-3:30 in the PHSW Student Poster Session 1 (Session 3332.0).
*Shah, H., *Savage, R., *Ortiz, R., *Malmin, N., Wyczalkowski, C., Esnard, A.-M., & *Lai, B.S. (November 2017). Examining the immediate impact of Hurricane Ike on public schools in Galveston, Texas. Poster presented at the American Public Health Association Conference. Atlanta, GA.
Monday, November 6th 10:30AM – 11:30AM in the Hurricane, weather, and environmentally-related injury and disaster poster session (Session 3092.0).
July 2017 | Dr. Lai Receives APA Award
Congratulations to Dr. Betty Lai for receiving the 2017 American Psychological Association (APA) Early Career Award for Outstanding Contributions to Benefit Children, Youth, and Families from the APA Committee on Children, Youth, and Families.
May 2017 | Presentation
Lai, B.S. (2017, May). Faculty Teaching and Learning Communities. Presented at the Georgia State University Conference on Scholarly Teaching. Atlanta, Georgia.
May 2017 | Growth Mindset Presentations
School of Public Health GM presentation
“Employing Growth Mindset Strategies at the Graduate Level”
This interactive presentation was centered around using a Growth Mindset to learn more effectively and efficiently. The session provided graduate students with motivational and effort-building strategies to positively shape attitudes about learning. These strategies reinforce students’ beliefs that their cognitive capacities are not fixed and build the capacity to learn even more. Additionally, students learned to create mind/body states that are receptive to feedback and further learning.
CETL GM presentation
“Enhancing Graduate Student Motivation and Persistence Through a Growth Mindset Intervention”
Jeremiah also presented a CETL poster presentation that showed the initial development of a growth mindset intervention for use within the University System of Georgia. This intervention focuses on 1) psychoeducation about learning and 2) open tasks illustrating multiple methods for addressing problems. Analysis of the study’s results is currently underway.