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Sara Honn
Qualls, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology Director, Center on Aging E-mail: squalls@mail.uccs.edu EDUCATION: Ph.D., Clinical
Psychology, Penn State University, 1983. RESEARCH INTERESTS: Marriage and family
development in later life. ONGOING PROJECTS: Compliance with Evaluation Recommendations following Geriatric Assessment: Collaboratively with Dr. Daniel Segal, I have been working to develop a data archive from multidisciplinary evaluations of older adults at St. Francis Health Center. Currently we are examining predictors of mental health problems, and predictors of compliance with the multidisciplinary team's recommendations. Children's attitudes toward older adults: The effects of intergenerational contact. This project is comparing attitudes toward aging between children who have been in an intergenerational child care center with those who are in more traditional care (collaborative with Dr. Sandy Wurtele). PUBLICATIONS: Owens, S. J., & Qualls, S. H. (1997). Family stress at the time of a geropsychiatric hospitalization. Family Relations, 46, 179-185. Qualls, S. H. (1996). Family therapy with aging families. In S. H. Zarit & B. Knight (Eds.), Psychotherapy and aging (pp. 121-137). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Qualls, S. H. (1996). Marital therapy with later life couples. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 28, 139-163. NON-ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES: Family time, cooking, gardening, reading. HOMETOWN: Champaign, Illinois.
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