Current Research
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Moms and Dogs Study
Researchers at Colorado State University and Virginia Tech are interested in understanding how living with a pet dog fits into daily life in the first year after having a baby.
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If you are interested in participating, please complete this eligibility screener.
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RELAX Intervention Study
This clinical trial examines how well RELAX, a group-based intervention for adolescents and their families, works to improve emotional, social, and academic functioning in adolescents with ADHD, relative to a psychoeducational waitlist group. RELAX teaches adolescents how to better deal with big emotions like anger, sadness, frustration, and worry; how to more effectively communicate and manage conflicts with others, and provides parents with strategies to support adolescents’ use of these skills. RELAX consists of 8 weekly 90-minute groups for parents and adolescents, and 2 review groups 2 months and 1 year after the RELAX groups are completed.
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Chatbot Study for College Students with ADHD
This study examines how well the BRIDGE (Bot for Regulating Initiatives and Developing Goal Execution) chatbot can help improve executive function skills and well-being for college students over 1 month. Participants in the study will be asked to use a Slack-based Chatbot to support time management, planning, and self-regulation for 1 month.
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Participants will be asked to attend two 1-hour
in-person research visits at the CALMER Lab before and after the 1 month of using BRIDGE. During the first visit, you will complete a diagnostic interview and online questionnaires before being shown how to engage with BRIDGE. During the second visit, you will complete online questionnaires and be asked to engage in an interview to provide feedback on your experience with using BRIDGE.
Recent Past Research
RELAX Intervention Telehealth Pilot
The RELAX intervention targets emotion dysregulation and family conflict in families of adolescents with ADHD. RELAX consists of 8 weekly 90-minute groups for parents and adolescents, with a review session 1 month and 6 months after the groups are completed. We recently finished the telehealth RELAX intervention pilot study for middle schoolers with ADHD (n = 20).
Social-Emotional Development Study
While we are no longer recruiting, we are still finishing up our longitudinal social-emotional development study which examines the role of parent emotion regulation and parenting behaviors in children's social-emotional development from the preschool years through adolescence. This study involves 120 families of children ages 4-16 years.
ADHD & Eating Study
This study examined the frequency and contributing factors to different forms of disinhibited eating (overeating, loss of control, binge eating) among adolescents with ADHD (ages 13 to 19 years).
Support BRANCH Parenting Program
This study sought to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and benefit of the Support BRANCH program used in combination with clinician-delivered behavioral therapy as part of a stepped-care model for reducing child behavior problems and increasing parents’ feelings of competency in supporting youth behavior.