Graduate students presented an array of research and represented the Department of Family Social Science at 11 different conferences across the United States this fall.

American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy | Milwaukee, WI

• Jaime Ballard, “Patterns in Eating Disorder Treatment Across the Lifespan”
• Quintin Hunt, “Alcoholics Anonymous: 12 steps to couples counseling”
• Ashley Landers, “Trauma’s Impact on Law Enforcement Spouses and Relationships”
• Lisa Trump, “Military Couples: Motivations and Solutions for Health”
• Kyle Zrenchik, “LGBT Research Productivity: Leaders and future directions”

American Association of Public Health | New Orleans, LA

• Diego Garcia-Huidobro
  • “Are collaboration factors across sites in a CBPR trial related to research process outcomes?”
  • “Does the quality of collaboration in a CBPR trial contribute to community benefit?”
  • “Does a delayed intervention study design address community concerns with randomization?”

Association for Financial Counseling, Planning, and Education | Bellevue, WA

• Veronica Deenanath and Dung Mao, “Financial Educator Certificate Program”

Black Doctoral Network | Philadelphia, PA

• Corey Yeager, “African American Confiding Relationships”

Collaborative Family Healthcare Association | Washington, D.C.

• Mary Kelleher, “‘I think something might be wrong with Max’: How expert MedFTs share biomedical information with physician collaborators”
• Stephanie Trudeau-Hern, “Barriers, Successes, and Role Development: Content analysis of a family therapist as a member of a team-based, end-of-life healthcare delivery model”

Gerontological Society of America | Washington, D.C.

• Melanie Jackson
  • “Adult Grandchild Family Caregiving for Grandparents: The role of intergenerational solidarity”
  • “What Makes Inheritance Procedures Fair for Parents and Adult Children? A Procedural Justice Lens”

Minnesota Association for Marriage and Family Therapy | New Brighton, MN

• Anna Bohlinger, “Relational Strengths Among Adolescents and Families Affected by Nonsuicidal Self-Injury”
• Lisa Trump, “His and Hers: The Interaction Between Military Couples’ Biological, Psychological, and Relational Health”

Minnesota Council on Family Relations | New Brighton, MN

• Ashley Landers, “American Indian Families in the Child Welfare System: A critical review of reunification literature”

National Council on Family Relations | Baltimore, MD

• Kayla Anderson
  • “Twin Families: When parental control relates to positive child outcomes”
  • “Families with Twins Developmental Stress Theory”
• Patrick Cheek, “Communication Technology Use in Nonresident Father-Teen Relationships” (paper and poster presentations)
• Muzi Chen, “Marital Adjustment in Parents with and without Mood Disorders”
• Veronica Deenanath and Dung Mao, “Insiders’ insight: Assessing Needs of Karen and Bhutanese Refugee Families in Minnesota”
• Jen Doty, “How Useful is it? Differences in Parents’ Perceptions of Parenting Resources”
• Kate Gliske, “Risk for Substance Use in Military Children: Implications for prevention”
• Yaliu He
  • “How Useful Is It? Differences in parents’ perceptions of parenting resource”
  • “Parental Emotion Socialization, Child Negative Emotionality, and Depression Symptoms”
• Heather Hessel, “Parents’ Use of New Media Technologies for Information Seeking”
• Ashley Landers, “Reunification of American Indian Families in Child Welfare: A Review of Literature”
• Jessie Rudi, “How Useful is it? Differences in Parents’ Perceptions of Parenting Resources”

North American Primary Care Research Group | New York, NY

• Diego Garcia-Huidobro
  • “Predictors of engagement and attendance in Padres Informados Jovenes Preparados, a multisite participatory community trial”
  • “Using parallel care to uncover the needs of parents of adolescents: the experience of Aqui Para Ti/Here For You program for Latino youth”

State of Southeast Asian American Studies | Minneapolis, MN

• Veronica Deenanath and Dung Mao, “Economic Transitions of Newly Arriving Southeast Asian Refugees”