Fargo, N.D. – Sharon Query, assistant professor of human development and family science and 4-H youth specialist, received a $16,065 grant from the North Dakota Governor’s Prevention Advisory Council on Drugs and Alcohol to provide travel stipends and printed material to participants in the April “Power of Parents” training in Bismarck.

Carol Buchholz Holland, assistant professor of counseling at NDSU; James Korcuska, associate professor of counseling; and Robert C. Nielsen,
professor of counseling, presented numerous professional programs at the North Dakota Counseling Association Midwinter Conference in Bismarck. Holland presented “Applications of Solution-Focused Approach in Schools” and “ACE 101: Helpful Tips on How to Apply for the Award of Counseling Excellence.”

Korcuska presented “Motivational Interviewing; Preparing Clients for Change,” and Nielsen presented “Stress and the Helping Profession”and “Jeopardy: Round Two Cognitive Theories.” The three jointly presented “NDSU Counselor Education Program Update.”

Brandy Randall, associate professor of human development and family science at NDSU, and Molly Secor-Turner, assistant professor
of nursing, have been awarded $7,000 by the Innovative Small Grants program of the Society for Research on Adolescents. The grant will allow them to travel to Kenya to collect data for their research, which focuses on culturally specific risk and protective factors that influence rural adolescent behaviors and outcomes in the developed and developing world.

Christi McGeorge and Tom Carlson, associate professors of human development and family science at NDSU, and their colleague, Russell Toomey from Arizona State University, had the article, “Establishing the validity of the feminist couple therapy scale: Measuring therapists’ use of feminist practices with heterosexual couples,” accepted for publication in the Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy.

Beth Blodgett Salafia, assistant professor of human development and family science, had an article appear in the February issue of
the Journal of Child and Family Studies. Te article, “Associations between multiple types of stress and disordered eating among
girls and boys in middle school,” was co-written by Jessica Lemer, who earned a master’s degree in human development and family
science in 2010. Blodgett Salafia attended the Society for Research on Adolescence conference in early March where she presented research on three different studies on eating disorders.