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CHAMPS: Changing Hearts and Minds In Relationships

August 14, 2019 01:33 PM
Changing Hearts And Minds in relationships (CHAMPS) is a multi-method, state-of-the-art, and state-of-the-science therapy process research project. Using self-report questionnaires, fMRIs, video recordings, physiologic readings and more, CHAMPS seeks to identify mechanisms of change in Marriage and Family Therapy. Undergraduate Research Assistants should prepare by taking SFL 290. They participate through one of three opportunities:

The Festivals Project

August 15, 2022 08:42 PM
This is an ongoing project. New research assistants will be recruited yearly.

Process Research in Couple Therapy

August 30, 2021 10:54 AM
The overarching goal of this project is to understand how couples change during couple therapy. We use couples’ responses to questionnaires that are administered throughout therapy as part of the Marriage and Family Therapy Process Research Network and/or video recordings from sessions of therapy to examine processes of interest. Each year we examine a different aspect of the change process. This opportunity is particularly useful for students interested in pursuing graduate training as a marriage and family therapist.

The Family Finance Project

July 01, 2021 09:05 AM
Dr. LeBaron-Black is looking for students who are excited about family finance research and enjoy writing to join her research team! She is primarily recruiting students to write articles for her website--check it out at lebaron-black.com. You would "translate" the research findings from long, complicated papers into jargon-free, easy-to-apply articles for non-academics.

UPS: Understanding and Preventing Suicide

August 18, 2020 03:54 PM
Understanding and Preventing Suicide (UPS) is a mixed-method research project that focuses on people at risk of suicide (primarily sexual- and gender-minority youth currently).

READY: Researching Emerging Adults Developmental Years

July 14, 2020 11:23 AM
READY is a longitudinal study that aims to provide a comprehensive description of the transition to adulthood. Before applying please complete SFL 290 & Stats 121. RAs can receive credit or pay.

Sexual Mindfulness Project

May 01, 2020 09:35 AM
The Sexual Mindfulness Project examines how being more aware and less judgmental may be linked with sexual well-being.

Project M.E.D.I.A

August 22, 2019 09:45 AM
Project MEDIA recruits new Research Assistants each fall. Students that are hired will take a 3 credit 403R class during Winter semester and will work up to 40 hours a week (paid) during the summer. The project hires a team of research assistants to collect data in Denver as well as a team that codes data and will stay in Provo.

MORE: Minority-Oriented Research Evaluation

August 22, 2019 09:31 AM
MORE: Minority-Oriented Research Evaluation is a cross-disciplinary content analysis project examining the social sciences literature and its attention to racial/ethnic/cultural minorities. Student researchers will categorize and code journal articles based on topic, level of minority focus, methodology and sample characteristics. Recruiting RA's for credit now and recruiting RA's for pay later.

Project AHEAD (Advancing Health and Education for Adolescent Development)

August 19, 2019 09:45 PM
Project AHEAD (Advancing Health and Education for Adolescent Development) investigates how gender-based socialization during the adolescent years (e.g., gender roles, gender stereotypes) shapes adolescent adjustment outcomes, particularly mental/emotional health and academic well-being. We will be collecting two waves of longitudinal data on a national sample of adolescents between Fall 2019 and Winter 2020. RAs are being sought to begin as early as Summer 2019. Potential applicants are encouraged to have taken Research Methods and Statistics. Prior research experience is encouraged, but not required.

CEC

August 19, 2019 09:43 PM
In the CEC, we aim to understand how we make sense of the world around us. We investigate the development of social cognition and emotion understanding in infancy and childhood by assessing infants' emotion attributions, false-belief understanding, imitation/emulation, and false-emotion attributions using a multi-method approach, which includes non-verbal measures, behavioral paradigms, violation-of-expectation paradigms, and eye-tracking. We also investigate the role of context in emotion perception, especially as it pertains to how facial expressions of emotion are categorized and visually processed. Potential applicants are encouraged to have taken Research Methods and Statistics. Prior research experience is encouraged, but not required.

CREATE: Couple Relationship and Transition Experiences

August 19, 2019 09:40 PM
The Couple Relationships and Transition Experiences (CREATE) study is a nationally representative longitudinal study of newly married couples. The study involves 2,187 couples, most of whom were married in 2014, and explores aspects of relationships and how transitions are associated with relationship qualities. To prepare RAs are encouraged to take SFL 290 and Stats 121 or equivalent in other major (not required, but helpful).
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Couples With Diabetes

September 12, 2023 11:29 AM
Couples With Diabetes is researching how young adults couples manage Type 1 Diabetes together.

The Relationship Educator Blog

August 22, 2019 09:46 AM
A regular blog helping to keep relationship educators up-to-date with the latest research. RAs should prepare by taking SFL 290 & Stat 121 (SFL 325 preferred). Likely recruiting in September 2018.

Healthy Sexuality Project

August 19, 2019 09:44 PM
This project explores parent-child sex communication as it relates to children and adolescents’ development of healthy sexuality. The project also focuses on adults’ healthy sexuality within committed relationships. We have cross-sectional pilot and measurement data, and in the Fall of 2019 plan to begin gathering longitudinal data to explore how healthy sexuality is socialized and develops over time.

PRN: Marriage and Family Therapy Practice Research Network

August 19, 2019 09:41 PM
The MFT-PRN an Internet-based assessment system that can be used by MFTs and other systemically-oriented therapists across the country and the world. The system is designed so that the receptionist or therapist works with clients to complete the assessments before each therapy session. When the client checks in with the receptionist or other person designated by the clinic, the receptionist will enter their name in the PRN website (if it is the first session) or pull-up the client by their initials (if it is an established client). The receptionist will then scan the QR code that automatically pops up using an iPad or other electronic tablets (if preferred a computer could also be used). The appropriate assessment measures will then automatically be loaded, and the clients will complete the assessments. Once they are finished, the attending therapist will then instantaneously receive a clinical report of the clients’ assessments, and the responses will be automatically stored on a secure server. Data from all clients using the PNR are to BYU for use in publications and presentations.
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Sibling Influence on Becoming Adults Study

August 22, 2019 09:56 AM
An examination at how siblings influence one another in reaching important markers of adulthood. RAs should prepare by taking SFL 290 & STATS 121 (preferred).

Premarital Education in Utah Project

August 22, 2019 09:55 AM
Evaluate the effectiveness of Utah's new policy promoting premarital education. RAs should prepare by taking SFL 290. RAs can receive either pay or credit.

Media, Children, and Families

August 22, 2019 09:54 AM
Observational study examining the impact of media on family relationships.. RAs are encouraged (but not required) to take SFL 290. RAs can receive credit or pay.

Sound Money Management and Marriage

August 22, 2019 09:51 AM
A quantitative study that examines the association between sound financial management behaviors and marriage. RAs can receive credit.

Disaster and Families

August 22, 2019 09:51 AM
We are conducting a series of literature reviews regarding what we know about what happens to family relationships in the wake of natural disaster. RAs should prepare by taking SFL 290.

Effectiveness of Relationship Education Project

August 22, 2019 09:50 AM
Ongoing meta-analysis of the effectiveness of relationship education. RAs should prepare by taking SFL 290 and Stat 121. RAs can receive credit.

Family Finances

August 22, 2019 09:49 AM
In the process of developing a new major project in the Fall. RAs can receive pay or credit.

American Families of Faith

August 19, 2019 09:42 PM
The American Families of Faith research project is a national research project involving in-depth, qualitative interviews with nearly 300 religious couple and families (500+ individuals) from all eight regions of the United States. We interview "exemplary" families with strong marriages and learn how they have overcome challenges in life, marriage, and parenting--and how their faith has helped them do so.
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