Prizes! Fun for the whole family! Learn to train your dog! Raffles!

Come learn how to live a more positive and healthy lifestyle while also being visited by some very cute and lovable service animals.

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The Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference (PURC), was established in 1992 by Dr Elizabeth Bjork to give students an opportunity to develop their presentation skills and share their research efforts with peers and colleagues. Since then PURC has steadily grown in the number of applicants and in visibility and now includes students from across the country doing research in a number of areas including Behavioral Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Health Psychology, Learning and Behavior, Quantitative Methods, and Social Psychology. Students presenting at PURC are selected based on the competitiveness of their application.

BRITE Center Students Justin Kwok and Antonio Shallowhorn will be presenting their research on the identification of opportunity factors to increase Black, breast cancer survivors’ usage of acupuncture. The Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference is scheduled to take place Friday, May 10, 2013 in Kerckhoff Hall from 9:30 am – 4:00 pm.

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A new report published in the Journal of Black Psychology lists an article published in 1994 by Center staff as being one of the most highly cited articles to be published in the Journal of Black Psychology. The report is a twelve year content analysis of articles published in the Journal of Black Psychology from the year 2000 to 2011. The most frequently published authors and institutions during this period were identified and the most highly cited articles were identified and ranked. In addition, after the 276 articles included as part of the study were classified into 17 categories, it was revealed that four categories of research and publication in Journal of Black Psychology accounted for more than half of the articles published–mental health and well-being, personality and (racial) identity, culture, and physiological functioning and health psychology. The author’s state their findings represent a sharp increase in research on mental health and culture, relative to other areas of research which had publication numbers similar to a previous study of Journal of Black Psychology content.

The “Most Cited” article written by center staff titled “HIV prevention research: Are we meeting the needs of African American men who have sex with men?” appeared in the Journal of Black Psychology in February 2004. It has since been cited at least 123 times by other publications, making it the 5th most cited article among articles published in the Journal of Black Psychology from the year 2000 to 2011.

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Special Guest Editors
Vickie M. Mays, PhD, MSPH and Rueben Warren DDS, MPH, DRPH, MDIV

This special ethics & behavior issue addresses the legacy of the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) Syphilis Study on health reform, particularly the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It contains twelve articles, commentaries and essays on this study, and the history and current practices of ethical abuses affecting American Indian, Latino, Asian American, and African American communities in the United States and in one case, internationally.

“As the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act moves forward to ensure health care for all citizens the foundation of its efforts must include guiding principles that will reach those who in the past have not benefitted from the health care system,” explains Guest Editor Vickie Mays. “This special issue examines whether the legacy of the USPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee and President Clinton’s Apology to the Survivors of that egregious study play a role in the participation behaviors of African Americans and other racial/ethnic minorities in health care research and health care services.”

Several other themes are present in this collection of articles, including the consequences of individual consent on community well‐being, need for better government oversight in research and health care ethics, and a call for overhauling bioethics training to develop a population level, culturally driven approach in research bioethics. The articles in this special issue challenge the “cultural paranoia” of mistrust and provide insights into how the distrust may serve to lengthen rather than shorten the lives of racial/ethnic minorities who have been used as guinea pigs on more than one occasion.

Most importantly, this issue “questions whether health care reform can be successful without addressing these past experiences, as we go forward to developing a health care approach that provides preventive, care and treatment services to those who previously have not been a part of the system,” says Mays.

Free Article Access

The following articles and commentaries from this special issue are available to read and download for FREE

• The Legacy of the U. S. Public Health Service Study of Untreated Syphilis in African American Men at Tuskegee on the Affordable Care Act and Health Care Reform Fifteen Years after President Clinton’s Apology
  Vickie M. Mays
  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10508422.2012.730808
• Rethinking Research Ethics for Latinos: The Policy Paradox of Health Reform and the Role of Social Justice
  Lisa Cacari‐Stone and Magdalena Avila
  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10508422.2012.729995
• Ethical Responsibility in Healing and Protecting the Families of the U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study in African American Men at Tuskegee: An Intergenerational Storytelling Approach
  Edward P. Wimberly
  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10508422.2012.730007
• One Voice: A Commentary on the Syphilis Study at Tuskegee by a Descendant’s Daughter
  Lillie Tyson Head
  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10508422.2012.730004
• For paid access to all articles from this special issue please visit the Ethics and Behavior Website
  http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hebh20/22/6

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Article highlights work by Center researcher Susan Cochran and Director Vickie Mays.

Center research staff also speculate about the causes correlating to the increased use of healthcare and cite issues such as higher exposure to discrimination, violence, and other stressful life events. Read the article here. займы без отказа