Measuring Communication Risk-Taking Behavior Among Adults Who Stutter and Do Not Stutter is the kind of topic that looks straightforward until it collides with the speed, ambiguity, and competing demands of adult services and community participation. In Measuring Communication Risk-Taking Behavior Among Adults Who Stutter and Do Not Stutter, for this course, the practical stakes show up in clearer case conceptualization, better instructional targets, and stronger generalization, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →The choice to speak or not speak for adults who stutter may be laden with both positive and negative emotional and interpersonal consequences, which can influence one's quality of life. However, there has been limited research focused on understanding decision-making processes related to communication amongst a stuttering population. Probability discounting, a behavioral measure of risk-taking, may offer a way to understand communication choices among adults who stutter. The focus of this talk will be on the newly developed probability discounting task for communication (PDC). Across a series of trials, the PDC has individuals make choices around the likelihood they will engage in a communicative situation under varying risks that they will have a stutter and that the listener will respond negatively to the stutter. Results from the PDC suggest that adults who stutter versus adults who do not stutter may have differential sensitivity to risky communication outcomes. Additionally, patterns of discounting demonstrated a significant association with stuttering-related measures among adults who stutter, suggesting this measure may be valid for this population. Overall, the extent to which adults who stutter discount communication may offer a way to guide stuttering treatment; however, more research is needed to further validate the task. Learning Objectives: Describe the characteristics of stuttering Identify how stuttering can impact quality of life Define probability discounting Explain how the probability discounting for communication discounting measure may inform intervention among AWS
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Dr. Luis Rodriguez (pronouns: he/him) is a licensed psychologist at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, Texas where he provides empirically based therapies for Veterans who are at high risk for suicide or have been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder or a mood-related disorders. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the North Texas VA Health Care System in Dallas, TX with a special emphasis in providing affirming mental health care for sexual and gender minority Veterans. He finished his predoctoral clinical internship at the Michael E. DeBakey VA and received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Idaho State University under the mentorship of Dr. Erin Rasmussen. At ISU, Dr. Rodriguez studied behavioral mechanisms underlying mental and physical health disorders amongst underserved populations (i.e., women with food insecurity and adults who stutter), in addition to the delivery of mindfulness- and acceptance-based interventions. He has had articles focused on this area research published in Mindfulness, Health Psychology, and Behavioral Processes. In addition to his passion for the field of psychology, Dr. Rodriguez also enjoys spending time with his partner, practicing Zen meditation, golfing, singing, running, and saving Princess Zelda and the land of Hyrule on the Nintendo Switch.
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