College of Education
Laura Shannonhouse Research Group
Led by Laura Shannonhouse · Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education
What we study
Laura Shannonhouse's lab studies crisis intervention and disaster response, focusing on suicide prevention and spiritual first aid. They use community-based research, clinical trials, and multilevel modeling.
What working here is like
- Fieldwork
- Surveys & interviews
- Human participants
- Coding helps
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Project HOPEFUL
A randomized controlled trial examining suicide prevention strategies for older adults.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Secular versus religious resources and coping in adjustment to bereavement: Results from a National U.S. Sample
2026 · Death Studies
Tests whether mindfulness or religious commitment helps more with grief and depression after losing someone.
- Examining the Longitudinal Effects of Therapeutic Alliance Based on Session Rating Scale Scores on Suicidal Desire in Homebound Older Adults
2026 · Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
Examines if therapeutic alliance improves suicidal desire in older adults in a warm-calling intervention.
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- Associations of Generative AI Use for Health Issues With Anxiety and Depression
2026 · Journal of Counseling & Development
Finds that using generative AI for health issues may increase anxiety and depression in college students.
- Score Reliability and Validity of a Mexican Dialect Spanish Translation of the Flourishing Scale With Mexican Earthquake Survivors
2026 · Journal of Counseling & Development
Tests whether a Spanish version of the Flourishing Scale works well for Mexican earthquake survivors.
- Influence of Positive Childhood Experiences Profiles on Bullying Victimization and Perpetration in Youth: A Latent Class Analysis
2026 · Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Identifies patterns of positive childhood experiences and links them to bullying victimization and perpetration in youth.
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