Dr. Valerie Stephens Leake

Title: Assistant Professor

Program: Counseling  

Ph.D.:  University of Kentucky

Office: Russell 408

E-mail: vleake@radford.edu

Phone: (540) 831-5361

Homepage:

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.