Current Projects
Vocational Psychology: Career Development of Women and People of Color
Women caregivers at end-of-life: Career/vocational/economic effects (O’Brien, K.M., Yang, N.Y., & Jankauskaite, G.)
Educate and Empower: An online intervention to improve college women's knowledge and efficacy in communicating to a partner about relational constructs (Trovato, K., & O’Brien, K.M.)
Understanding barriers to engineering careers among U.S. college students: Improving instrumentation. (Lee, H., & O’Brien, K.M.)
Measuring career aspirations among undergraduate and graduate women in Turkey (Buyukgoze Kavas, A., & O'Brien, K.M.)
Educate and Empower: An online intervention to improve college women's knowledge and efficacy in communicating to a partner about relational constructs (Trovato, K., & O’Brien, K.M.)
Understanding barriers to engineering careers among U.S. college students: Improving instrumentation. (Lee, H., & O’Brien, K.M.)
Measuring career aspirations among undergraduate and graduate women in Turkey (Buyukgoze Kavas, A., & O'Brien, K.M.)
Domestic Violence and Dating Violence Research
College dating violence: Barriers and facilitators of bystander intervention (Herman, M., & O’Brien, K.M.)
Appealing to masculinity or empathy?: Educating men to recognize warning signs of dating violence (Kearney, M., & O'Brien, K.M.)
Recognizing warning signs of dating violence: The contributions of gender role orientation and hypergender constructs (Kearney, M., & O'Brien, K.M.)
Appealing to masculinity or empathy?: Educating men to recognize warning signs of dating violence (Kearney, M., & O'Brien, K.M.)
Recognizing warning signs of dating violence: The contributions of gender role orientation and hypergender constructs (Kearney, M., & O'Brien, K.M.)
Death, Dying and Grieving
Best practices for teaching end-of-life communication skills (O’Brien, K.M., Jankauskaite, G., Yang, N.Y., et al.)
I'm not alone: Evaluating the effectiveness of an innovative group intervention for grieving children (O’Brien, K.M., Cannon, G., Stearns, A., Walsh, C., & Hill, E.)
Educating therapists in Korea and the US about grief and grief counseling ( O’Brien, K.M., et al.)
Coping with traumatic loss: Understanding the role of coping, grief disenfranchisement, and social support in Black college students in response to police brutalization of Black Americans (Harris, M., & O’Brien, K.M. )
Evaluating an online intervention to educate psychology graduate students about grief and grief counseling (Jankauskaite, G., O’Brien, K.M., et al.)
Evaluating an online intervention to enhance knowledge, confidence and skills in undergraduate students’ responses to bereaved peers (Hill, E., & O’Brien, K.M. )
Women's grief experiences: The death of a close female friend (Sauber, E., & O'Brien, K.M.)
Predicting psychological adjustment in grief: Cross cultural differences between Koreans and Americans (Yang, N.Y., & O’Brien, K.M.)
I'm not alone: Evaluating the effectiveness of an innovative group intervention for grieving children (O’Brien, K.M., Cannon, G., Stearns, A., Walsh, C., & Hill, E.)
Educating therapists in Korea and the US about grief and grief counseling ( O’Brien, K.M., et al.)
Coping with traumatic loss: Understanding the role of coping, grief disenfranchisement, and social support in Black college students in response to police brutalization of Black Americans (Harris, M., & O’Brien, K.M. )
Evaluating an online intervention to educate psychology graduate students about grief and grief counseling (Jankauskaite, G., O’Brien, K.M., et al.)
Evaluating an online intervention to enhance knowledge, confidence and skills in undergraduate students’ responses to bereaved peers (Hill, E., & O’Brien, K.M. )
Women's grief experiences: The death of a close female friend (Sauber, E., & O'Brien, K.M.)
Predicting psychological adjustment in grief: Cross cultural differences between Koreans and Americans (Yang, N.Y., & O’Brien, K.M.)