Psychology Research at IIT
Nearly everyone at the Institute of Psychology, from undergraduates to faculty, actively participates in research. Students are involved extensively in the research process and come away with hands-on training and superb research skills. Current research topics include the following.- Depression and seasonality
- Stigma and discrimination experienced by people with health conditions and disabilities
- Psychiatric rehabilitation
- How communication of couples can decrease cardiac risk
- Source credibility
- The disparity between chronological age and developmental age in school children
- Strategies to erase the impact of these stigma
- Employment for individuals with severe mental illness
- Mental illness stigma
- Leadership in the workplace
- Adjustment to disability
- Infant and maternal attachment
- Retention of top performers
- Services research for people with psychiatric disabilities
- Recovery and Mental Illness
- Physical and attitudinal barriers that prevent full participation in society by people with disabilities
- Evidence-based practice dissemination
- Women in the workplace