Memorial University staff presents at international conference on neuropsychology
Original shorter article was written by Geoff Ash and published in the Memorial University Gazette February 1, 2012.
You might not expect a Memorial University engineering alumna to present a poster at an international neuropsychology conference. For Sherrie Myers, Engineering Coordinator with the Division of Co-operative Education at Memorial, it was a perfectly natural link. Ms. Myers’ poster presentation was based on results from her master’s thesis in Coun- selling Psychology, which she completed through the Faculty of Education at the Uni- versity of British Columbia, supervised by Dr. Anita Hubley, a Professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education, and an internation- ally respected expert in psychological as- sessment and measurement in adults.
“The research helps to provide validation evidence for future use of the Hubley De- pression Scale for Older Adults (HDS-OA), a relatively new and short screening tool for depression in older adults that is consistent with DSM-IV-TR criteria”, explains Ms. Myers, who hopes that this presentation will help to disseminate the findings of the research to a larger audience. The research study involved a group of already diagnosed depressed older adults and a group of non-depressed older adults from the community. Results for the two groups were compared to demon- strate that the HDS-OA is able to accurately identify depression. Overall, the measure performed as well as, or better than, a com- monly used, but longer, depression screen for older adults, the Geriatric Depression Scale. “Helping to validate a measure that could be used in the future to easily screen for depression so that older adults can re- ceive treatment more quickly is very fulfill- ing”, noted Ms. Myers.
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term placements, Ms. Myers career seems to have come full-circle. However, it was other interests that led her down the path of coun- selling and the related area of psychological measurement. “I realized after my undergrad that I had a huge interest in psychology, and the engineering side of me loved numbers and the idea of measurement in psychol- ogy, so it became a perfect marriage of both fields.”
The conference, which is the 40th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsycho- logical Society, took place in Montreal from February 15-18, 2012.
Sherrie Myers is a Canadian Certified Counsel- lor.
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