Graduate Students
Carolyn A. Heitzmann
Program: Counseling, Ph.D.
Research Interests: Heitzmann's research interest is in the field of health psychology, more specifically in Psycho-oncology. She is generally interested in issues of resilience, coping, and quality of life in cancer patients. Her current projects focus on issues of measurement, such as cultural analysis and the investigation of bias in psychological measurement.
Recent Publications:
Hoover, A., Cohen, T., Heitzmann, C., Yezdimer, K., & Vescio, T.K. (2003). Power and gender-based social categorization in gender-neutral contexts. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Los Angeles, CA.
McLaughlin, K.A., Behar, E., Darby, A.S., & Heitzmann, C.A. (2003). Family History of Psychiatric Problems in Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Boston, MA.
Merluzzi, T.V., & Heitzmann, C.A. (March, 2006). Matching of the Need for Social Support and its Actual Provision Optimizes Adjustment to Cancer. Poster presented at the 27th annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, San Francisco, CA.
Merluzzi, T.V., Heitzmann, C.A., Roscoe, J.A., Lord, R.S., Kirsh, K.L., & Passik, S.D. (February, 2006) Assessing Self-Efficacy for Coping with Cancer: Reliability and Validity of the Cancer Behavior Inventory (Brief Version). Paper presented at the 3rd annual meeting of the American Psycho-oncology Society, Amelia Island Plantation, FLA.
Undergraduate Institution: The Pennsylvania State University
Contact Information
Email: cheitzm1@nd.edu