Research and Contributions
Participation--National Treatment
Center Study, NIDA, University of Georgia,
2008-2009
Contributor—Oxycontin,
the Road to Heroin—City
Weekly—2007
Participation—Spy-Hop
Productions—Wine to Water—movie
documentary-2006
Research Collection
and Contribution--
The Personality and Behavioral
Characteristics of Men Who Batter their Intimate Female Partner (Chiffriller & Heness, 2006)
Contributor—UDVC—domestic
violence training, treatment section—2005-2006
Research
Participation--Identifying
Factors Predictive of Women Ending Domestic violence Relationships
(Rodriguez, C., 2003)
Article Writer—
SLADVC Children’s
Newsletter—2000—2001
Articles; Victims and Trauma, and Domestic
Violence and Substance Abuse
Participation
& Research—Salt Lake Area
Domestic Violence Council—1996—2000
Participated in a multi-agency study on domestic violence, using a pre-post model of perpetrators and victims to determine whether and how well existing treatment works.
Research
Evaluator—SLADVC Multicultural
Subcommittee—1999—2000
Compiled the data on a qualitative multicultural needs assessment of fifty local community agencies, and prepared it into both a written and PowerPoint presentation format.
Program Assistant—Univ.
of Utah ,
Department of Health
Sciences--1986 and 1988
Assisting with registration and grading of
papers for the
Research
Assistant--University
of Utah Arboretum--1987
Conducted interviews with visitors to the University’s Red-Butte Gardens Arboretum.
Research
Contractor--Utah State Department
of Corrections—1986
Conducted research on offender monitoring devices for the National Institute of Justice
Research
Assistant--University
of Utah ,
Department of Psychology—1986
Coded videotaped sessions for the use of humor as a measure of therapeutic warmth.
