08/02/2020
Hello Division 43 Members,
You are probably aware by now that the APA Convention for 2020 has shifted to a virtual format. Registration fees start as low as $15, providing access to hundreds of hours of live and pre-recorded digital programming. This year, folks who register for APA will have access to this programming for the entire calendar year (until August fo 2021)
As part of this year’s programming, Division 43 is proud to be sponsoring the following pre-recorded programs and posters:
PROGRAMS
1) Coping with Family Caregiving: Interpersonal Resources and Psychosocial Strategies
Jasmine Manalel, PhD; Sydney Sumrall, BA; Athena Koumoutzis, MA; Joan Monin, PhD
The stress and burden of informal caregiving has been shown to be detrimental to the health and psychological well-being of family caregivers. As a result, caregivers employ a variety of strategies to cope with heightened stress and burden. This symposium features a collection of papers that highlight the psychological and social resources that caregivers can leverage to buffer the negative effects of caregiver- related stress. This session highlights the social context of caregiving and adopts a life course approach to caregiving, recognizing that caregivers can be parents, spouses, or children of care recipients across a number of caregiving situations. First, Manalel and colleagues compare the support networks of parent- caregivers of chronically ill children and typically developing children, assessing both network structure (e.g., size and composition) and function (e.g., support and strain). They found differences in both network composition and support that suggest caregivers shape their support networks according to their caregiving contexts. Sumrall and colleagues examine the extent to which the type and source of social support is associated with well-being among primary caregivers of children with rare diseases. They found that lack of family support was associated with poorer psychological well-being. Koumoutzis and Cichy investigate informal caregivers use of emotional eating as a coping strategy and the role of family strain in mediating the association between caregiver demographics and emotional eating. They found that family strain was associated with increased use of emotional eating as a coping strategy. Finally, Monin and colleagues evaluate a self-regulation intervention among spousal caregivers of persons with dementia. They found evidence for this intervention as a potential approach for alleviating stress and improving spousal relations. This collection of papers demonstrates the variability in strategies used by family caregivers and provides insight into which coping resources may be most adaptive across a variety of caregiving conditions.
2) Exploring the Impact of Climate Change on Families and their Communities
Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers, PhD; Cara Lomaro, BA; Zachary R Foley, BA
This presentation will discuss the ways that climate change has imposed changes in social and interpersonal dynamics through the lens of micro-meso-macro framework, beginning with a look at the creation of historical movements and countercultures designed to help alleviate and mitigate anthropogenic contributions to climate change. The political and social implications of the resulting demonstrations, such as the creation of the EPA and improvement in environmental legislation, are reflected upon as well as the drawbacks of the media attention on climate mitigation. Inaccurate media portrayal of the climate crisis has led to the polarization of ideological views between conservative and liberal individuals, inspiring a partisan divide between the two groups. Cognitive processes like heuristics and motivated cognition are discussed as reinforcers of group polarization. We examine how individual group identification affects the efficacy of climate science in schools, and evaluate the current pedagogical approach of the deficit model as well as possible solutions to ideological biases through a novel, presentation-based approach to teaching climate science. We will then explore how increasing trends of severe weather create precarious living conditions and impact communities, particularly looking at lower income and developing communities and how such hazards create difficulties in sustaining safe living conditions. Furthering this topic, we will discuss how climate change has become a social justice issue; evaluating equity and resource allocation for poverty-stricken areas as well as the resulting forced- migration. We explore the climate change perspective of sustainability and ways in which current efforts of sustainability fail to prevail. We conclude by examining the employment of psychology in an effort to promote sustainable behaviors through synthesizing literature on empathy and dissonance related patterns of thought to change perspective on individual levels of involvement in mitigating the effects of climate change
3) Trauma and the Lifespan (Collaborative Program co-sponsored by Divison 43)
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Valerie Maholmes, PhD; Yo Jackson, PhD; Kathryn H. Howell, PhD; Chandra C. Graves, PhD; Andrea M. Garroway, PhD; Ann Masten, PhD
The symposium will open with the federal research funding perspective with Dr. Valerie Maholmes from NICHD. Dr. Yo Jackson will discuss trauma exposure and biomarkers in preschool aged children. Dr. Kathryn Howell will present work on post-traumatic stress in pregnant women experiencing intimate partner violence. Dr. Chanda Chatting Graves will discuss pediatric medical trauma and how family and systems models are used to facilitate recovery. Dr. Andrea Garroway will discuss the downstream effects of early trauma in adults, as well as models for trauma-informed health care and training for medical residents. Finally, Dr. Ann Masten will discuss early trauma through the lens of critical scholarship on resilience.
POSTERS
- Understanding the Family Ecosystem: Why Teens Talk With Extended Family About S*x and Relationships
- Telehealth for Couples and Families: A Good Solution for Reducing Disparity Among Underrepresented Groups?
- Race and In*******al Relationship Partners: Racial Worldview and Perceptions of the Impact of Race
- Psychological Well-Being and Family Functioning in Middle Childhood: The Unique Role of Sibling Relational Dynamics
- An Analysis of Factors That Influence the Functionality of African-American Families
- The Difference in Parent/Expectant Parents and Non-Parents Relationship Between Perceived Stress, Intimacy, and SES
- Artificial Intelligence Methodologies in Examining Human Development and Family Functioning
- Adverse Childhood Experiences, Bystander Efficacy, and Intentions to Intervene in IPV
- Relationship Satisfaction and Prediction of Character Strengths in Romantic Partners: A Systematic Literature Review
- Differentiation of Self, Vocational Identity, and Career Indecision: The Mediating Role of Goal Instability Among College Students
- Work-Family Conflict and Challenges in Heterosexual and Same-S*x Dual-Earner Couples
- Family Resilience and Adolescent Mental Health in Malaysian Families: A Mixed Methods Study
- Marriage: A “Mane” Event
- S*xting Coercion Among College Students: Tactics Used, Risk Factors, and Relations to In-Person Dating Abuse
- Consensual Nonmonogamy, Stigma Consciousness, and Outness
- Relations Between Father Support, Socioeconomic Status, and Academic Outcomes
- Maternal Depressive Symptoms, Intimate Partner Violence, and Child Adjustment in Diverse Families
- Effective and Supported Psychotherapy Approaches for Working With Undocumented Latinx Immigrant Families
- The Effectiveness of a Brief Couples Intervention for Infidelity
- Uniendo Familias Latinas: Testing the Spillover Hypothesis With Latino Mothers and Fathers
- The Impact of Personality and Intimacy on Depressive Symptoms
- The Predictive Validity of Relationship Quality and the Coparenting Relationship on Relationship Longevity in Fragile Families
- When Race Matters: Reflections on When Race Is Discussed in In*******al Relationships
- Key Factors of Parenting Effectiveness: The Role of Marital Status and Family Boundaries on Parental Self-Efficacy and Parental Emotion Regulation
- Expanding the Agenda: Including Undergraduates in Research at Research Universities
- Does Parental Attachment Mediate the Association Between Emerging Adults Parents' Mental Illness Status and Psychological Adjustment?
- The Experience of Families With a Child With the Medical Care for the Condition of Cleft Lip and Palate: Implications for Integrated Care
- Post-Traumatic Growth Among Parents of Pediatric Cancer Patients
- The Role of Care Bonds in Hiv-Related Stigma's Effects on Men in Botswana
- Social Support, Parental Stress, and Parental Self-Efficacy in Diverse Sample
- Literature Review of LGBTQ+ College Student Mental Health Needs and Services Utilization
- Development of the Asexuality Stigma Inventory
- Predictive Factors of Mock Jurors’ Attitudes Towards S*xual and Gender Minorities
- Relationships Among Disgust Domains and Homonegativity in Parents of LGB Youth
