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Our research explores topics related to:
Developmental Patterns of Adjustment
We are developing and evaluating the effectiveness and impact of several wellbeing-promoting interventions for youth:
- Trajectories of risk and resilience across development (e.g., transitions to adolescence, emerging adulthood, and parenthood)
- College student mental health challenges (e.g., stress and coping, social support, emotion regulation, cognitive styles) and strengths
- Gender- and sexual- orientation- linked patterns of psychosocial well- versus ill-being (e.g., depression, anxiety, body image and eating disturbances)
- Social media use as it relates to mental health, physical health, health behaviors, and academic outcomes
We are developing and evaluating the effectiveness and impact of several wellbeing-promoting interventions for youth:
- Technology-based interventions:
- SMiLe: Examining the effectiveness of an online/mobile mindfulness app (Headspace) in improving psychological well-being among college students who are depressed. In addition, examining the impact of two levels of enhancements to self-guided use of Headspace: (1) A one-time small-group orientation, and (2) ongoing peer supportive accountability features both face-to-face and online (Conley et al., 2019; Hugenel dissertation in prep; Hundert dissertation in prep).
- SAMMY: Examining the feasibility and acceptability of a novel smartphone app (MentorHub) in building youth resilience via supervised skills practice provided by mentors.Brief blurb about SAMMY
- SAMMY-A: Examining the impacts of an app-based intervention that leverages college students’ relationship with their academic advisors, who offer supportive accountability for students’ engagement in mental health apps. This intervention is intended to promote well-being and academic success especially for low-income, first-generation, BIPOC and/or academically at-risk college students.
- Face-to-face interventions:
- PPW: A class-based psychosocial wellness promoting intervention for first-year college students (Conley et al., 2013)
- STEPS: A class-based social-emotional skill-building intervention, embedded into a career-and life-planning course, for upper-level college students (Shalwani, Hareli et al., 2020)
- HOP: A peer-led small-group intervention for college students self-identifying as living with mental illness, aimed at reducing self-stigma and improving self-efficacy about disclosure-related decisions (Conley et al., 2019; Hundert et al., in prep)
- Social-emotional learning programs in higher education (Conley, 2015)
- Primary prevention programs for college students (Conley et al., 2015)
- Technology-delivered preventive interventions for higher-education students (Conley et al., 2016)
- Indicated mental health prevention programs for at-risk higher education students (Conley et al., 2017)
- Universal mental health promotion and prevention programs for students across the globe (Conley & Durlak, 2017)
- Mental health apps for youth (Conley/Raposa et al., in prep)