Currently Recruiting Couples!
We are currently seeking couples in northern Colorado to participate in a study about relationships, health, and how best to handle conflict.
Ongoing Research
Learning to Breathe in Campus Connections
We are working to understand the effects of mindfulness-based intervention on youth who are experiencing adversity who are enrolled in a mentoring program. In order to accomplish this, our team facilitates mindfulness group sessions, adapted from the Learning to BREATHE curriculum, within Campus Connections, a therapeutic youth mentoring program. Based on the night they attend the program, youth are assigned to receive mindfulness-only or mindfulness with an adaptive technological supplement including just-in-time supports and reminder messages.
Recently Completed Projects
Optimization of a Technological Supplement to Learning to BREATHE
Our lab designed a technological supplement to an existing mindfulness group curriculum, Learning to BREATHE. In this study, participants were randomized to receive certain mindfulness curriculum and different combinations of aspects of the technological supplement in order to determine which aspects of the supplement were most beneficial in supporting increases in mindfulness. Supports received outside of the program included just-in-time text messages and access to an online library of mindfulness-based activities.
Couple Communication Study
A study designed to increase understanding of the different ways that couples communicate with each other, and how those communication patterns are related to health and biomarkers of stress. Couples participated in a recorded conflict discussion and provided saliva samples to our lab.
Moving to Mindful
A group intervention and study for teens (ages 14-18) aimed at coping with stress. Groups met 1 time per week for 1 hour over the course of 6 weeks.