Winners were named in the state-wide research poster presentation and competition, held at the Louisiana Psychological Association Scientific Poster Session, on June 14. The session was organized by Melissa Dufrene PhD, chair of the Early Career Psychologist Committee for the Association.
Tiffany Augustine, MA, Shaely Cheramie, MA, and Christoph Leonhard, PhD, authored the winning research presentation for the Evidence-Based Practice category for graduate students, titled “Making a difference in marginalized populations: mindfulness and adjudicated youth.”
The authors represented The Chicago School of Professional Psychology at
Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans.
The undergraduate winner for Evidenced-Based Practice was Anna Elysse Lee, with research titled, “Esketamine as an adjunct to psychotherapy, efficacy and possible side effects: Implications for therapists.” Ms. Lee represents Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, and her sponsor is Mary-Margret Livingston, PhD. In the category for Original Research, the graduate student entry winner was for the research, “Posttraumatic stress symptoms and gender: Independent and interactive associations with suicidal ideation among veterans with military sexual trauma.”
Authors were Chelsea R. Ennis, MS, from South Central Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), New Orleans; Taylor Ceroni, MA, also from MIRECC, Amanda M. Raines, PhD, from MIRECC, Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System, New Orleans and School of Medicine, Louisiana State University, New Orleans; and C. Laurel Franklin, PhD, from MIRECC, Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System, New Orleans, and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans.
The undergraduate winner in the category for Original Research was Sarah Grace Guillaume for “Racial socialization of Black preschool-aged children: The influences of child sex and maternal arrest.”
Ms. Guillaume represented Tulane University, New Orleans, and was sponsored by Justin Carreras, PhD.