DREAM Lab

Emily Allen, a graduate student in the DREAM lab, was awarded a three-year APA Minority Fellowship. This program supports the training the ethnic minority students who are committed to improving the quality of care for historically marginalized people suffering from mental illness and substance use disorders.

APA MFP

Recent Student Accomplishments

Gavin Miller, Mia Iandolo, and Mattie Berry all received grants to conduct their honors theses!

Emily Allen received the Outstanding Poster Award from Division 38 at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association [August 2023].

Christin Mujica successfully defended her dissertation: "Stay woke: Understanding critical consciousness development in adults and its relationship to psychological constructs."

Christin Mujica is now on internship at the Medical University of South Carolina!

New DREAM lab member

The DREAM lab is excited to welcome Julian Ruiz to our program starting Fall 2024! Julian came to us from the University of California, Los Angeles. Most recently, he worked as a research assistant at the Anxiety Disorders Research Center with Dr. Michelle Craske.

Grants awarded

Dr. Bridges was awarded a UARK Women's Giving Circle grant to conduct a randomized control trial of SHARE treatment (Survivors Healing from Abuse: Recovery through Exposure) in women who are incarcerated. This grant will be conducted in partnership with the Washington State Department of Corrections and the Washington County Detention Center.

Dr. Bridges and members of the U of A clinical faculty were awarded a 3-year, $1.2 million USDHHS/HRSA Graduate Psychology Education grant to train clinical psychology students in interprofessional, culturally responsive approaches to preventing and treating substance use/opioid use disorders in primary care patients.

Christin Mujica received a grant from APA Division 56 to study individual and organizational coping resources used by social justice advocates at predominantly white institutions of higher education.

Dr. Bridges and colleagues at Virginia Tech (Dr. Johnson, Sociology), New York University (Dr. Sun, Communications), and James Madison University (Dr. Ezzell, Sociology) were awarded a two-year grant from Culture Reframed to examine pornography use and sexual behavior in Mexican adults.

BridgesDREAM Lab

Department of Psychological Science

Book published

Springer

Fellowship award

APA MFP

Board Member

CUDCP

Location

MEMH 116A, 116B, 121

Serving

Disseminating

Researching

Updates:

Dr. Bridges will not be reviewing applications for graduate students for Fall 2025 admission.

Recent Student Accomplishments

New DREAM lab member

Grants awarded