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Brandon Scott, M.A.

Graduate Student

bgscott@uno.edu

Research Interest

Brandon graduated Summa Cum Laude from Texas Tech University in August 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. The following semester he began graduate work at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, TX and earned a Master of Arts degree in Psychology (Clinical Track) in May of 2008. During his master’s level graduate training, he had the opportunity to teach undergraduate psychology courses in Behavioral Self-Management and Introduction to Psychology and served as Vice President of GRE/Graduate School Preparation for the SFASU Psi Chi chapter. He also worked at the Nacogdoches Boys Ranch, a local residential treatment facility, which provides 24-hour services for boys with a history of sexual, physical, or mental abuse.

Brandon’s clinical experience at the Nacogdoches Boys Ranch and thesis research on the cognitive and behavioral effects of guilt-induction, led him to further pursue the study of emotional and behavioral processes of youth with internalizing problems. He entered the Applied Developmental program at the University of New Orleans in August 2008 and is currently in his fourth year working with Dr. Carl Weems in the Youth and Family Stress, Phobia, and Anxiety Research Lab. His current research interests focus on understanding the role of emotion regulatory processes (i.e., cognitive, behavioral, and physiological) and perceptions of emotional control in youth with internalizing and externalizing problems.

Thesis


Scott, B.G. (2008). Moral Transgressions, Guilt, and Self Deception: Is Cleansing Strictly
Physical? Unpublished master’s thesis, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX.

Publications

  1. Scott, B.G., Burke, N. J., Weems, C. F., Hellman, J.L., & Carrión, V. G. (in press). Adverse childhood experiences among at-risk youth: The interrelation of ACES within a pediatric sample. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma.
  1. Scott, B.G., & Weems, C.F. (in press). Natural disasters and existential concerns: A test of Tillich’s theory of existential anxiety. Journal of Humanistic Psychology.
  1. Weems, C. F., Scott, B. G., Taylor, L. K., Cannon, M. F., Romano, D. M., & Perry A. M. (in press). A theoretical model of continuity in anxiety and links to academic achievement in disaster exposed school children. Development and Psychopathology.
  1. Weems, C. F., Scott, B. G., Banks, D. M. Graham, R. (in press). Is TV traumatic for all kids? The role of pre-existing posttraumatic stress symptoms on the link between disaster coverage and stress. Psychological Science.
  1. Burke, N. J., Hellman, J.L., Scott, B.G., Weems, C. F., & Carrión, V. G. (2011). The impact of adverse childhood experiences in an urban pediatric population. Child Abuse & Neglect, 35, 408-413.
  1. Scott, B.G., & Weems, C.F. (2010). Patterns of actual and perceived control: Are control profiles differentially related to internalizing and externalizing problems in youth? Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 23, 515 - 528.
  1. Weems, C. F., Scott, B. G., Taylor, L. K., Cannon, M. F., Romano, D. M., Perry A. M., & Triplett, V. (2010). Test anxiety prevention and intervention programs in schools: Program development and rationale. School Mental Health, 2, 62-71.
  1. Weems, C. F., Taylor, L. K., Cannon, M. F., Marino, R., Romano, D. M., Scott, B. G., Perry A. M., & Triplett, V. (2010). Posttraumatic stress, context, and the lingering effects of the Hurricane Katrina disaster among ethnic minority youth. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 38, 49-56.

Presentations

Weems, C. F., Scott, B. G., Banks, D. M., & Graham, R. (August, 2012). Trajectories of Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Minority Youth following Hurricanes Katrina and Gustav: Subsequent Exposure and the Role of Watching TV Coverage. In A. La Greca (Chair), From Exposure to Recovery: Traumatic Stressors and Their Impact on Children and Adolescents. Symposium to be presented at Annual Convention of American Psychological Association, Orlando, FL.


Scott, B.G., Lapre, G.E., Marsee, M.A., & Weems, C.F. (March, 2012). Aggression predicts academic achievement among disaster-exposed youth: The indirect effect of disaster exposure via PTSD symptoms and aggression. Paper to be presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Human Development.


Weems, C. F., Scott, B. G., Banks, D. M., & Graham, R. (March, 2012). Viewing Television Disaster Coverage and Adolescent’s Versus Children’s Stress Reactions. To be presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence biennial conference, Vancouver, Canada.


Graham, R., Banks, D. M., Scott, B. G., & Weems, C. F., (February, 2012). Viewing Television Storm Coverage of Hurricane Gustav and Youth Post Traumatic Stress Reactions: The Role of Pre Disaster Symptoms. To be presented at Southeastern Psychological Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA.


Scott, B.G., Edel, P., & Weems, C.F. (March, 2011). Existential anxiety and its association with suicidal thoughts following exposure to a natural disaster. Poster presented at the 31st annual meeting of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, New Orleans, LA.

Weems, C. F., Scott, B. G., Taylor, L. K., Cannon, M. F., & Edel, P. (2011, March). The UNO Test Anxiety Prevention and Intervention Program in Urban Schools. Anxiety Disorders Association of America Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA.


Scott, B.G., Marks, A.B., Taylor, L.K., & Weems, C.F. (2010, November). Ethnicity, corporal punishment, and their relations to fear and anxiety in youth. In K.M. Lewis and T.H. Ollendick (Co-Chairs), All in the family: Exploration of parenting practices and their relation to internalizing symptoms in children and adolescents across cultures. Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, San Francisco, CA.


Taylor, L. K., Scott, B. G., Cannon, M. F., Weems, C. F., Romano, D. M., Perry, A. M., & Triplett, V. (August, 2010). Test Anxiety Prevention and Intervention Programs in schools. In E. Shapiro (Chair), Partnership to Improve Mental Health Services for Children in Schools. Symposium to be presented at Annual Convention of American Psychological Association, San Diego, CA.


Weems, C. F., Scott, B. G., Taylor, L. K., & Cannon, M. F. (June, 2010). A Longitudinal Study of Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Ethnic Minority Youth Exposed to Hurricanes Katrina and Gustav: The Role of Subsequent Exposure on Symptom Trajectories.  In Symposium:  PTSD in children and adolescents. Presented at the triennial meeting of the World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Boston, MA.


Scott, B.G., & Weems, C.F. (June, 2010). Can Patterns of Actual and Perceived Control Help to Distinguish Internalizing and Externalizing Problems? Presented at the triennial meeting of the World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Boston, MA.


Scott, B. G., Weems, C. F., Taylor, L. K., Marks, A. B, Cannon, M. A., Edel, P. O. (August, 2009). Role of control beliefs in the maintenance of childhood anxiety. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada.

 

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