{"id":149,"date":"2018-04-05T20:58:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T20:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/stressandcoping\/?page_id=149"},"modified":"2025-06-18T14:16:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:16:48","slug":"research-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/stressandcoping\/research-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #606a6d\">Research Projects Open for Recruitment<\/span><\/h2>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #a279a8\">R01 Social Connectedness and Health in Families Coping with Huntington&#8217;s Disease (AKA &#8220;HD Family&#8221;)<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>5 year NICHD funded descriptive longitudinal study<\/li>\n<li>Examining stress, coping, and social connectivity and their health correlates in families with Huntington&#8217;s Disease and from the community.<\/li>\n<li>Data collection and recruitment ongoing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #a279a8\">Stress, Inflammation, and Neurocognitive Functioning (SINF) Study<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Examining stress, inflammation, and executive functioning in adults with Huntington&#8217;s Disease and from the community.<\/li>\n<li>Data collection and recruitment ongoing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #a279a8\">Parenting, Emotions, and School Safety Concerns<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Examining how parents communicate with their children about threats to school safety, how parents regulate their own emotions during these difficult conversations with their children, and how parents&#8217; communication and emotions related to threats to school safety are related to children&#8217;s emotional and behavioral functioning<\/li>\n<li>Data collection and recruitment ongoing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #a279a8\">Neurocognitive Outcomes Among Pediatric Brain Tumor Patients<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Accelerated longitudinal design<\/li>\n<li>Examining the long-term effects of PBT diagnosis and treatment on neurocognition and how neurocognitive deficits translate to other areas of academic performance, emotional regulation, and social functioning<\/li>\n<li>Data collection and recruitment ongoing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #a279a8\">Neurocognitive, Social, and Emotional Functioning in Young Cancer Survivors<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Multisite long-term survivorship study of young cancer survivors<\/li>\n<li>Comparing the long-term psychosocial adjustment of YS to matched peers and identify group differences in social cognition and peer interactions that may predict poor adjustment<\/li>\n<li>Identifying specific social cognitive and peer interaction factors that account for psychosocial adjustment in YS<\/li>\n<li>Identifying environmental resources that protect psychosocial adjustment in young survivors<\/li>\n<li>Data collection and recruitment ongoing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #606a6d\">Current Research Projects<\/span><\/h2>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #a279a8\">Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Adverse Childhood Experiences, Adolescent and Caregiver Emotion Regulation, and Adolescent Physical and Mental Health.<\/li>\n<li>Goal is to improve programs and interventions for children who have experienced maltreatment and their caregivers\n<ul>\n<li>testing novel laboratory methodology to measure adolescent and caregiver emotion regulation.<\/li>\n<li>Examining physiological correlates, adolescent emotion regulation, mental and physical health difficulties, caregiver practices, and exposure to adverse childhood events.<\/li>\n<li>Examining novel associations between adolescents&#8217; and caregivers&#8217; emotions and physiological responses during a face-to-face lab interaction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Research stage: data analyses only<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #a279a8\">CHDI: Families Coping with Huntington&#8217;s Disease Study (CHDI Foundation; Griffin Family Foundation)<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Program development to build resilience in families and patients with Huntington&#8217;s Disease<\/li>\n<li>Research Stage: Data collection pending; no longer open for recruitment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #a279a8\">Prevention of Depression<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Family Group Cognitive Behavioral (FGCB) Preventive Intervention<\/li>\n<li>3 Components:\n<ul>\n<li>Educate families about depression, stress &amp; effects on families<\/li>\n<li>Teach parenting skills (warmth and structure)<\/li>\n<li>Teach coping skills to adolescents (acceptance, cognitive reappraisal\/positive thinking, distraction)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #a279a8\">Coping with Discrimination, Racism, and Hate<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Examining sources of stress related to race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and understanding the impact on physical &amp; mental health<\/li>\n<li>Examining how students cope with these stressors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #606a6d\">Past Projects<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"..\/project1\/\">Coping and Communication in Children with Cancer and their Parents<\/a>\u00a0<b><b><b><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"project16\" href=\"..\/project16\/\">Cognitive Functioning and Remediation in Children with Congenital Heart Disease<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/project12\/\">Thinking and Learning in Children with Sickle Cell Disease<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/project14\/\">Family Cognitive Behavioral Prevention of Depression in Youth and Parents<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/project3\/\">Communication, Coping, and Executive Function in Children with Cancer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/project15\/\">Cognitive Remediation for Pediatric Brain Tumor Patients<\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/project2\/\">Enhancing Stress Management and Executive Function Skills in College Students<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/project2\/\">Stress and Emotion Regulation in Parents of Children with Cancer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/project4\/\">Prospective Study of Neurocognitive Effects in Pediatric Brain Tumor Patients<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/project5\/\">Neuroimaging of Social-Emotional Functioning of Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/project6\/\">Pediatric Cancer and Family Adjustment<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/project7\/\">Family Cognitive-Behavioral Prevention of Depression<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/project8\/\">Mothers, Children and Their Emotions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/project9\/\">Neuorcognitive Bases of Coping and Emotion-Regulation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/project10\/\">Stress &amp; Coping in College Students &#8211; RSQ-II<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/project11\/\">Psychobiology of Attention and Social Stress<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Other pages regarding our past and current projects are in progress.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Projects Open for Recruitment R01 Social Connectedness and Health in Families Coping with Huntington&#8217;s Disease (AKA &#8220;HD Family&#8221;) 5 year NICHD funded descriptive longitudinal study Examining stress, coping, and social connectivity and their health correlates in families with Huntington&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/stressandcoping\/research-projects\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-149","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/stressandcoping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/stressandcoping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/stressandcoping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/stressandcoping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/stressandcoping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/stressandcoping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/stressandcoping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149\/revisions\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/stressandcoping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}