{"id":116,"date":"2024-07-14T13:48:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T13:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.acsu.buffalo.edu\/birch\/?page_id=116"},"modified":"2025-04-17T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T19:46:00","slug":"research-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/birch\/research-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Since our humble beginnings in 2014 as the UMaine Peer Lab, through today as the Birch Lab Group at the University at Buffalo, we’ve conducted tons of research on youth, relationships, development, intervention, and more!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Stay tuned for news on our upcoming projects. If you’d like to participate in the future, check out our “Participate in Research” tab. If you’re interested in joining our lab as a researcher, check out our “Join the Lab” tab.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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A follow-up from the BIRCH Project, UMatter is aimed at better understanding how teen friendship similarities may be related to helpful and unhelpful emotional outcomes, friendship characteristics, and heart rate reactivity. The goal of the study is to make youth friendship most helpful throughout development. A subsample of BIRCH participants were selected based on previous indications of emotional challenges in order to better help youth who struggle with their emotions.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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As part of Cassandra Rowan’s dissertation research, Maine youth were interviewed about their decisions regarding mental health care to better understand what characteristics contribute to decision-making and how those characteristics change with age. This research hopes to inform our ability to provide mental healthcare to teenagers in the future, such as evidence-based policies around consent to mental healthcare.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The BIRCH Project
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Supported by a grant from the National Insitute of Mental Health (NIMH), the BIRCH Project partnered with local middle and high schools for a multi-method, longitudinal study of risk and resilience in adolescence. A major focus of BIRCH was to better understand the protective power of interpersonal relationships in supporting adolescents\u2019 academic achievement, social adjustment, and emotional well-being. Partner schools received professional development and consultation from the BIRCH team.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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