Aug 16th, 2012
People who are 50 years or older and who don’t have positive thoughts about aging may want to participate in a free workshop and research study that’s aimed at reducing negative thinking about getting older.
Psychology
May 31st, 2012
When a child is diagnosed with a behavioural problem or a learning disability, it’s often because a teacher has spotted the signs of it first.
 Carlin Miller. |
May 10th, 2012
The African Diaspora Youth Conference changed Shauntae Robinson-Weekes’ life, giving her the courage to pursue post-secondary education. She attended in 2008 as a grade 11 student Toronto’s Oakwood Collegiate Institute.
“I had never been on a university campus before,” says Robinson-Weekes, just finished her second year of studies in French and psychology at the University of Windsor. She says she had been afraid she couldn’t afford university until she saw the example of so many of the event’s organizers and speakers.
A new program to conduct psycho-educational assessments of local children and adolescents will provide “a gold-standard service,” says the faculty member heading up the project.
“We can take more time with cases,” says Sylvia Voelker, director of the Psychological Services and Research Centre. “We plan to conduct follow-up to see how the recommendations from the assessments are acted on.”
May 6th, 2012
The fastest two minutes in sports couldn’t have gone any slower for UWindsor grad Paul Reddam (BA psychology 1976, honours 1977).
“I was just kind of numb through the whole race, and opened my eyes when it was over,” he said after his horse I’ll Have Another captured the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby and the $1 million winner’s share of the $2 million purse Saturday, May 5, at Churchill Downs in Lexington.
People respond to incentives, but sometimes the trick is finding the right incentives, says fourth-year psychology student Ashley Cooper.
She worked with a four-year-old boy with autism, trying to get him to pierce a lump of play dough with a fork as a prelude to mastering table manners. His skills improved as she offered inducements like small toys, but he jumped to perfect mastery when offered a chance to play with an iPad as a reward.
“I had waited three weeks before trying the iPad and I was like: Really? All he wanted was the iPad?” says Cooper.
When Community Living Essex County earns accreditation, it will have a pair of UWindsor students to thank.
Disability studies majors Kelly Bauer and Jenelle Rinkel spent hundreds of hours researching accreditation options for the organization, which provides services to people with intellectual disabilities and their families.
What can contemporary scientific psychology, barely 150 years old, teach us about the emotions that literary and philosophical inquiry cannot? A symposium on the UWindsor campus April 20 and 21 will bring scholars from around the world to explore that question.
Psychology, Emotion, and the Human Sciences is sponsored by the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation, and Rhetoric and English professor Stephen Pender, research leadership chair in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
In what organizers touted as a great night for a great cause, the Behaviour, Cognition, and Neuroscience Students’ Association raised about $3500 for the John McGivney Children’s Centre on January 27.
“A Night on the Nile” at Windsor’s Fogolar Furlan Club boasted a formal dinner, dance and silent auction. The John McGivney Children’s Centre provides rehabilitative services to the Windsor-Essex community, enriching the lives of children and youth with disabilities and special needs.
The student association’s president, Julia Mockler, said she was pleased to be able to help.
Preparing his psychology students for clinical practice required them to learn about themselves, says professor emeritus Jim Porter.
“One of the things that was important to me was to focus on training in relationship skills, helping my students learn to connect with the full humanity of each psychotherapy client,” he said. “It required a lot of personal growth on the part of the students.”