APA Stress Showcase – Kudos: Growing the influence of research

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Burnout and Secondary traumatic stress among caregivers who work with victims
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How Different Types of Traumatic Experiences Affect the Mental Health of Refugee Children and Teens
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The effects of psychological pressure cognition and performance during an esport task.
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Why do people choose to read negative news?
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Yoga as a Treatment for Anxiety Issues
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Psychological Strategies for Helping Teens Manage Reconstructive Surgery Pain
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Minority stress and mental health in gay and lesbian youth: a cross-cultural comparison
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When Grief Becomes Complicated: Development of Psychopathological Distress in The Years After a Loss
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Parental employment and family well-being during the COVID-19 onset
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Life after COVID-19 infection and how it affected physical activity and relationships
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From memory to motivation: Probing the relationship between episodic simulation, empathy, and helping intentions.
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Treatment for Graduate Students: Blunting the Emotional Toll of Postgraduate Education
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When Latinx and Queer Identities Collide: An Understudied Risk Factor for Depression and Anxiety
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Coping mechanisms and Defense Mechanisms: A scoping review of empirical literature
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The healing potential of precognitive dream: A case study combining cognitive and EMDR approach
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Psychosocial issues in pregnant women who use illicit substances.
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Effects of a brief self-compassion intervention for college students with impostor phenomenon.
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Helping Grieving Youth: Therapy Review
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Self-Care for Psychology Doctoral Students
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Secondary traumatic stress and vicarious posttraumatic growth in healthcare professionals: A meta-analysis.
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Stress plays a broader role in mental disorders than you might think
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When empowering leadership goes awry and unintentionally promotes employee unethical behavior
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Mindfulness-based intervention for women experiencing trauma and homelessness
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Anomalous perceptual experiences in older adults in the general community
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Limitations of ketamine as a treatment for mood disorders associated with early life stress
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Factors Complicating the Impact of Food Insecurity Among Rural Latinx Adolescents
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Why some mental health professionals avoid self-care.
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Fathers' views on family and work after COVID-19 lockdowns
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California Nurses' Experiences During COVID-19
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Chinese Audiences' Entertainment Experience of Retribution Narratives
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Impact of seeing yourself as a leader when others don't
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How can we improve the lives of school children?
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Factors associated with distress during social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
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We are feeling more depressed, anxious, and stressed after COVID-19 pandemic
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People can be stressed out by their friends, but some are less susceptible than others
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Depression can be foreseen
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Why do sexual minority adults report sleeping less well than others, and what could be causing it?
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Social support provision among dual-earner couples
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The pandemic's toll on parents' sleep and the functioning of their family
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A brief primer on modern causal mediation analysis
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Who has nightmares
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The concept of psychological distress and its clinical assessment using the science of clinimetrics
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Bonobos attend to emotions of strangers, but humans attend to emotional signals of close others
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Characteristics of organizations and departments with high levels of stressed workers.
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Social media and its impact on how young women feel about their body.
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Positive Behaviors Increase Resilience to Pandemic Stressors Among Veterans
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Using intersectionality to study discrimination and distress experienced by queer people of color
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Childhood psychosocial factors and adulthood cognitive function