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Areas of Research
Interest:
Sense of belonging,
particularly family belonging, stepfamilies and stepfamily
adolescents, PTSD
Recent
Publications/Presentations:
- Leake,
V.S., & Chard, K.M. (2007, August). Association of
family-belonging with severity of PTSD symptoms in veterans.
Poster presentation accepted for the American Psychological
Association annual conference, San Francisco, CA.
- Tzou, J.,
& Leake, V.S. (2007, August). Cross cultural validation of
the Family Belonging Scale with Taiwanese youth. Poster
presentation accepted for the American Psychological Association
annual conference, San Francisco, CA.
- Leake,
V.S., & Miller, A. D. (2007, April). Protecting stepfamily
adolescents from harm: The longitudinal association of level of
family belonging and engagement in risky behaviors for
adolescents. Poster presented at the American Educational
Research Association annual conference, Chicago, IL.
- Leake, V.
S. (2007). Personal, familial, and systemic factors associated
with family belonging for stepfamily adolescents. Journal of
Divorce and Remarriage, 47(1/2).
- Anderman,
L.H., & Leake, V.S. (2005). The ABCs of motivation: An
alternative framework for teaching
preservice teachers about
motivation. The Clearinghouse,
78(2),
192-197.
- Anderman,
L.H., & Leake, V. S. (2007). The interface of school and family
in meeting the belonging needs of early adolescents. In S.
Mertens, V. Anfara, & M. Caskey, Eds., Handbook of research
in middle level education (Vol. 6.): The young adolescent and
middle school. Charlotte,
N.C.: Information Age Publishing.
- Leake,
V.S., & Matthews, K.F. (2005, July). Helping up the steps:
Positive outcomes for young stepfamily adults. Poster
presented at the American Psychological Association annual
conference, Washington, D.C.
- Korfhage,
B.A., Leake, V.S., & Duhigg, J.M. (2005, July). Self efficacy
beliefs for providing affirmative counseling to sexual minority
clients. Poster presented at the American Psychological
Association annual conference, Washington, D.C.
- Matthews,
K.F. & Leake, V.S. (2005, April). Factors that predict
positive outcomes in young adults with and without learning
disabilities. Poster presented at the American Educational
Research Association annual conference, Montreal, Quebec.
- Leake, V.
S. (2004, July). Protecting stepfamily adolescents from harm:
Is increased family belonging a true protective factor from
risky behaviors? Paper presented at the National
Longitudinal Adolescent Health Survey Users biannual conference,
Washington, DC.
- Leake, V.
S. (2004, July). How many steps to a family? Adolescents and
stepfamily belonging. Poster presented at the American
Psychological Association annual conference, Honolulu, HI.
- Leake, V.
S., & Matthews, K.F. (2004, July). Adolescents in
stepfamilies: What does it take to belong? Poster presented
at the American Psychological Association annual conference,
Honolulu, HI.
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