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August 2024
- Current Mental Health Clients’ Religious/Spiritual Beliefs and Practices: A National Survey (Oxhandler, Polson, Pearce, Vieten, & Pargament)
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide-related risk among college students: A cross-sectional analysis (Moon, Um, Anderson, Kim, Yu, & Maleku)
- Marijuana Use among College Students after the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Classification and Regression Tree Approach (Moon, Zhao, D. Pooler, Kim, Maleku, Um, & Yu)
- Influence of Neighborhood Disadvantage and Individual Sociodemographic Conditions on Heart Failure Self-care (Meraz, Osteen, McGee, Noblitt, & Viejo)
July 2024
- “I can see the good, even when things around are rough”: Gratitude among family caregivers of people living with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease (McGee, Davie, Meraz, Ambrose, & Boddie)
- The Impact of Undermining Coparenting on the Mental and Physical Health Outcomes of Black Fathers: The Role of Depression and Restrictive Emotionality (Lemmons, Jackson, Coleman, O’Gara, Brown, Alston, Tolliver, & Rollins)
- “I Did Not Come to China for That!”: Intersections of Mission Work, Marriage, and Motherhood for Southern Baptist Women in China at the Turn of the 20th Century (Scales)
June 2024
- Maternal Incarceration and Adolescent Health Risk Behavior Patterns: Exploring Gender and Racial Differences (Zhao)
- Helpful and Harmful Approaches to Integrating Religion and Spirituality into Mental Health Care: A National Survey of Current Clients’ Experiences in the United States (Oxhandler, Polson, Ander, Moffatt, Pearce, Vieten, & Pargament)
- Spiritual and religious competency training for mental health care professionals: How much is enough? (Vieten, Fox, Oxhandler, Pearce, Polson, Pargament, Wong, & Currier)
May 2024
- Gratitude Predicts Meaning in Life in Family Caregivers of Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease (McGee, Polson, Myers, McClellan, Ke, Zhao, & Meraz)
- Lifetime Polyvictimization and Mental Health Outcomes in Women With vs Without Incarceration Histories: A Population-Based Latent Class Analysis (Arevalo & Zhao)