Several faculty and students from the NDSU College of Human Development and Education had recent publications, presentations or were awarded grants.
The college also announced all 18 counseling education students who took the Counselor Preparation Comprehensive Examination passed with an overall mean score of 96.94. The overall national mean for the exam was 84.53. In each of the eight areas tested, NDSU students scored above the national mean. Ten of the 18 students scored one standard deviation above the national mean.
Justin Wageman, associate professor in the School of Education, received a grant award from North Dakota Department of Public Instruction for more than $255,000. The scope of work includes the North Dakota State Assessment, state accountability reporting and academic content standards development. The project period runs from October 2014 to September 2015.
Carol Buchholz Holland, associate professor in the School of Education, presented at the international Solution Focused Brief Therapy Association annual conference held during November in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She presented a session titled "Creative Solution-Focused Activities for Children and Adolescents."
Kwangsoo Park, assistant professor of apparel, design and hospitality management, had a manuscript, "Topic analysis of event management research," accepted for publication in Event Management. He co-wrote the paper with Seunghyun Park, a doctoral candidate at Kansas State University.
The NDSU Center for 4-H Youth Development was awarded a $164,000 grant from the National 4-H Council for the 4-H National Youth Mentoring Program. This is the fourth grant received to implement the 4-H Mentoring: Youth and Families With Promise program on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota. Rachelle Vettern, NDSU Extension leadership/volunteer development specialist and associate professor in the School of Education, provides leadership for the project, with local Extension staff responsible for its implementation. The staff members include Sue Isbell, Extension agent in Sioux County and several project assistants. The 4-H Mentoring: Youth and Families with Promise program is a prevention-based program designed to enhance the developmental assets of at-risk youth ages eight to 18. As of fall 2014, 187 tribal youth have been reached through the work of 44 mentor volunteers. Schools where mentored youth attend report a 20 percent increase in attendance and the number of youth passing their classes has more than doubled. The program also has helped address truancy and drop out issues.
Everyday Health recently published a story where Todd Lewis, associate professor in counselor education, discussed the dangerous side of bipolar disorder. The story can be found at www.everydayhealth.com/news/dangerous-side-mania/.
Tom Stone Carlson, professor of human development and family science, gave a keynote presentation at the 12th International Narrative Therapy and Community Work Conference in Adelaide, Australia. NDSU alumna Amanda Haire was a co-presenter. The presentation was based on a new theory of couples therapy that Carlson developed, which will be discussed and described in an upcoming issue of the International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work.
Abby Gold, assistant professor of health, nutrition and exercise sciences, along with co-writers Kelly Kunkel, Mary Schroeder, Ali Hurtado and Sue Sing Lim, had a poster presentation, "Food Bubbles: An evaluation tool to assess attitudes about Fruit and Vegetable items for third graders," accepted for the Society for Public Health Education's 66th annual meeting in April.
Brad Strand, professor of health, nutrition and exercise sciences, along with David Benson, Ronald Buck, Weston McGill and David Smith, had a paper, "The Characteristics of Coaching Expertise," published in the The Virginia AAHPERD Journal. Benson completed his master's degree in health, nutrition and exercise sciences, while Buck, McGill and Smith are current master's degree students.
Former graduate student Amy Beutler and Brad Strand, professor of health, nutrition, and exercise sciences, had an article accepted for publication in Physiology Journal. The title is "The Altered Water System: Excess Levels of Free Radicals Contribute to Carcinogenesis by Altering Arginine Vasopressin Production and Secretion and Promoting Dysregulated Water Homeostasis in Concert with Other Factors."
Katie Lyman, assistant professor of health, nutrition and exercise sciences; Kyle Hackney, assistant professor of health, nutrition and exercise sciences; Bryan Christensen, associate professor of health, nutrition and exercise sciences; and Sarah Sletten of Mayville State University were awarded a grant from the North Dakota Space Grant Consortium funded via NASA. The grant will afford them the opportunity to conduct research regarding the effects of Kinesio Tape on muscle activity for future astronauts. In addition, they will research the effects of Kinesio Tape on changes in biomechanics during functional activity. They applied and received just under $20,000 for their research project.
Kristen Benson, assistant professor of human development and family science, was informed her co-written articles "Research on LGBT-Headed Families: A Content Analysis of Top Family Journals 2000-2013" and "Confronting Prejudice: Factors of Nontarget Confrontation" had been accepted for publication by the National Council on Family Relations. Her co-written "Affirmative Therapy Practices with Parents of LGBT Youth" was accepted by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and a book chapter, "Queers Doing Family: Navigating Family in a Heteronormative World," is scheduled to appear in "Understanding and Treating Contemporary Families: Translating Research into Practice," published by Routledge.
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