June 17, 2024

Public radio show to feature UMW faculty Saturday (The Free Lance-Star)

UMW Coach and Psychologist Appear on Radio Program

University of Mary Washington faculty members Corey Hewson, coach of the women’s soccer team and athletics instructor, and Holly Schiffrin, associate professor of psychology, will appear on the public radio program “With Good Reason” beginning Saturday, Jan. 11. Corey Hewson During the show, “Start the Year Off Right,” Hewson will share advice for new runners and those training for a half-marathon, based on his own experience as a runner and his “Training for the Half Marathon” course at UMW. Later in the show, Schiffrin will encourage listeners to cultivate strong relationships with family and friends, rather than focusing on the effects of a less than ideal economy. Schiffrin’s portion of the program originally aired in January 2011. Holly Schiffrin The program also will feature commentary from faculty at the Virginia Military Institute and Christopher Newport University. Audio files of the full program and its companion news feature are available online at http://withgoodreasonradio.org/2014/01/start-the-year-off-right/. “With Good Reason” is a program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. The show airs weekly in Fredericksburg on Sundays from 1-2 p.m. on Radio IQ 88.3 Digital. To listen from outside of the Fredericksburg area, a complete list of air times and links to corresponding radio stations can be found at http://withgoodreasonradio.org/when-to-listen/.

Liss and Schiffrin Publish Article on Parenting Guilt and Shame

Miriam Liss and Holly Schiffrin, along with  former student Kathryn Rizzo, recently had a paper titled “Maternal Guilt and Shame: The Role of Self Discrepancy and Fear of Negative Evaluation” published in the November 2013  issue of the Journal of Child and Family Studies. This study found that women who had a gap between their perception of their own parenting traits and those they prescribed to the “ideal mother” had higher levels of guilt and shame. Women who feared the negative evaluation of others had particularly high levels of shame when they experienced the discrepancy between actual and ideal parenting styles.

Why Paying Kids to Do Homework Can Backfire (Healthland.Time.Com)

Cash Incentives to get Children to do Homework Can Backfire, Study Reports (Counsel Heal.Com)

Helping, not Hovering: How to be a College Parent (Irish Times.Com)

How to Stop Being Helicopter Parents (Real Simple)

Hyper-parenting Demotivates Kids (Independent Online)

Helicopter Parents Can Make Their College Aged Children Depressed: Study (Huffington Post.Com)

Psychology Faculty and Students Present at APS

Miles-McLean, H., Schiffrin, H. H., Liss, M., *Geary, K., *Tashner, T., *Rizzo, K., & Erchull, M. J. (2013, May). Helping or hovering? The effects of helicopter parenting and autonomy support on college students’ mental health. Poster presented at the annual meeting for the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.

 

NOTE:  There were several other faculty at the conference that also presented with their students including Jennifer Mailloux, Hilary Stebbins, Debra Steckler, Miriam Liss, & Mindy Erchull (they had a poster with different students in addition to this one).  So, you might want to contact them to get the complete information or you can search for their last names on the APS web site:

http://aps.psychologicalscience.org/convention/program_2013/search/?type=poster