Tag: mental-health
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Recent Presentation by Dr. Booker on Programs to Promote Healthy Outlooks for High School Students
This past Wednesday, Dr. Booker had the opportunity to share a talk about two promising school-based interventions: the Promote Care and Prevent Harm program for encouraging “upstanding” behaviors away from bullying and toward caring for peers; and Our Minds Matter, with its focus on encouraging a community for greater mental health through extracurricular clubs and…
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Recent Lab Publication: The Stories Adults Carry about Their Parents’ Upbringing are Valuable
We’re excited to announce a recent lab paper based on our team’s interests in the lasting importance of family stories for adult offspring. This paper, titled “Family Stories about Parents as Resources for Young Adults’ Well-Being and Identity” is in press at the Journal for Applied Research on Memory and Cognition and was led by…
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Recent Lab Publication: Hope Plays a Distinct Role for Having Meaning in Life
We’re excited to announce a recent team paper, led by former University of Missouri student Megan Edwards–now a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University–and Dr. Laura King at the University of Missouri. This paper, titled “Hope as a Meaningful Emotion: Hope, Positive Affect, and Meaning in Life”, is in press at the journal Emotion, and included…
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Recent Lab Publication about Social Support among Teens and Young Adult
We’re excited to announce a recent team paper, based on interests from one of our former undergraduate scholars and other collaborators within and beyond the lab. This paper, titled “Social Support is Fundamentally Important for Mental Health among Adolescents and Emerging Adults: Evidence across Relationships and Phases of the COVID-19 Pandemic”, is in press at…
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Recent Publication on Strengths in a Jarring Time
We’re excited to announce a recent publication with Dr. Booker and grad student Chloe Johnson. This paper, titled, “Personal strengths in a jarring time: Self-compassion and hope before and during COVID disruptions” is in press at the journal Emerging Adulthood. This manuscript involves a multi-cohort look at how individual differences in college adults’ hopefulness and…
The Milestones Lab at Mizzou 