what we're working on
is a study about i don't children of alcoholics
and
commonly referred to as easier ways a lot and it'll in the literature
and were looking at
protective factors that prevent them
or you know just factors the interaction prevent them from having these negative outcomes are
typically associated with having
a parent household so it's substance using a row all using a couple years ago
i work with a graduate students and we were in the literature that there is
a lot of attention being paid to
then negative outcome of having up here and two headed dysfunction of one paper not
and despite the fact there were actually significant number of individuals in each study who
had posited i'll coffins that was somehow distance
for really not p attention to
and when christine schema word she decided to do an interesting twist on this whole
notion of dysfunction in childhood and long-term part
i have noticed in the literature they started focusing on the gender component
with these adult children of alcoholics and looking at
how you know either the gender of that e c o a
or the gender of the alcohol abusing parent affected those outcomes
and the literature as a little inconsistent on
but the outcomes are showing some interesting studies are showing
that's the opposite gender parent is interacting with
you know so
but turn only cr paternal alcohol of using karen is interacting with
the female ec away and producing different outcomes when a maternal a whole using parent
where i mean only see away so
the results are pretty interesting right now the literature is a little scarce but it's
an area to be explored because
a lot of the research is looking at that heterogeneity with and
the easy way population and so that gender is just another component to explore so
we found that unfortunately disproportionately their females a to participate in these studies which is
created an additional challenge for christine i am reviews the method no you got the
variables with your university to try to get at was male participants so we've been
working with the stillness the star
the university improvements for undergraduate students to participate research
and it gives me an opportunity to see which males are signed up for research
this patient where i can target that population so the system that we have here
is definitely needed me and
just the use of recruiting those
referring most participants so
we are still at a limited
limited number of male so we're actively working to increase those numbers
because maybe every we it's a very just it's a stable relationship in the fact
that not all these new findings the time you know coming up with during the
week i can come in present with her and we have a very open discussion
about in the mentor model that
you know we structure meetings with then i mean she's been with me through every
stage of the project through literature collection for through the data and things like that
very open communication very willing to have a discussion
about what we need to do and how to progress study i think with the
small faculty here gave me and opportunities work with numerous faculty members on different studies
and so i was able i mean not only expand the research skills that i
have but also just a complex understanding a variety of different topics and psychology