Looking for experience working with children in the community while gaining research experience? Join us at the CaRES Lab!
The Coping and Regulation of Environmental Stress (CaRES) Lab, headed by Dr. Martha Wadsworth, is looking for volunteer confederate research judges to help with our Building a Strong Identity and Coping Skills (BaSICS) research study. BaSICS is a new intervention developed by the CaRES Lab for children and adolescents facing chronic stress. For children and adolescents, certain types of stress – such as stress due to discrimination or family money problems – are especially harmful because children have little control over these problems. Fortunately, children can learn tools to help them manage stress. The BaSICS Program seeks to help children develop positive personal and cultural identities and to learn healthy ways of dealing with the stress in their lives. The BaSICS study will test to see if the BaSICS intervention program is an effective tool for youth to manage stress in their life and community.
Research judges will gain valuable, hands-on experience working in a clinical setting by interacting directly with youth during the assessments.
Confederate Research Judges:
- Join assessment sessions remotely via Zoom
- Act as a neutral judge during a child's speech and math task
- Record youth during tasks
- Lead youth through the outlined protocol
- Follow a strict script and and instruction protocol
- Record notes regarding any concerns or errors during protocol
- Confederate research judges will not be collecting an data or truly score any tasks performed by the child
Both females and males are highly encouraged to apply.
- This position requires remote, evening availability from 4:30-6:30 PM.
- A confidential workspace is required
- State and Federal background checks are required for this position. These are non-reimbursable by the university
- Previous experience working with youth or in a research setting is desired, but not required
- Summer availability is highly desirable
- This is a volunteer position.
Submit your application here: https://forms.office.com/r/r5Fkx2U0sj. Please have a CV/Resume ready for your application.
For more information about our lab and projects, please visit https://careslab.la.psu.edu/. Please email Mary Veneziano, mev15@psu.edu, with any questions you may have.