Recent Internships and Collaborative Research Projects

Internships

These are some examples of recent internships placements. As you read through the list realize that there are many more possibilities for internships.

• Oregon State Hospital, Salem - Forensics Unit
• Juliette's House Child Abuse Assessment Center
• McMinnville High School/Middle School Counseling
• Henderson House Family Crisis Shelter
• Kids on the Block
• Yamhill County Community Corrections
• Rainbow Family Services
• CHOICE Mentoring Program
• Upward Bound
• McMinnville Community Peer Court
• Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente
• Vocational Village High School Counseling
• Federal Correctional Institution, Sheridan
• Crossroads Program, Dayton Elementary School
• McMinnville Police Department
• Boys and Girls Aide Society
• Oregon Health Sciences University: Occupational Therapy
• Yamhill-Carlton Youth Advocate Program
• Chehalem Youth and Family Services Residential Center
• Metro Crisis Line, Portland
• Oakwood Country Place (gerontology setting)
• Portland Council on Autism
• Salem Rsychiatric Medicine Center
• Yamhill County Community Action Agency
• ABACUS Day Treatment Program
• Western State Mental Hospital (In Washington)
• Boys and Girls Aide Society in Oregon
• Portland Council on Autism

Research Projects

This is a partial list of recent research projects that both students and faculty worked collaboratively on. Remember that there are more topics unexplored than have been explored.

• Differences in emotional autobiographical memories in high vs low dissociative participants.
• Detecting deception of perceptual alteration in real vs simulating hypnotic subjects.
• Dissociative tendencies as a predictor of false memories in the Deese task.
• Recollective experience in true vs false memories: A test of the source monitoring model of false memory creation.
• Sex differences in aggression within an evolutionary model.
• Changing beliefs about the past: Exploring mechanisms of the imagination inflation effect.
• A theory based approach to adherence in chronic obstructive sleep apnea.
• Neuropsychological correlates of adherence and non adherence in chronic obstructive sleep apnea and other sleep disturbances.
• Evaluation of the role of learned resourcefulness in a juvenile justice community service program.
• Control issues and risk taking behavior
• Influence of physical arousal on the extremity of attitudinal judgements.
• Effects of ethanol on associative and memory processes using the Pavlovian Conditioning Paradigm.
• Effects of ethanol on spatial memory processes using the Morris Water Maze.
• Evaluating drugs that may facilitate recovery of function after brain injury.