Current Students

Dr. Uche Stanley Chukwuemeka’s research centers on adolescent mental health, pain perception, and behavioral risk factors, with a focus on how psychological and environmental variables influence emotional regulation and help-seeking behaviors among youth. His doctoral work examines the relationship between pain perception, medication attitudes, and mental-health outcomes among college students, aiming to identify early predictors of distress and improve intervention strategies. More broadly, his interests include preventive public health, cultural determinants of well-being, and the integration of digital and community-based frameworks to enhance access to mental-health support for underserved adolescents.

My research interests are: Exploring the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on the mental health, academic outcomes, and overall well-being of Black college students.

My research focuses on the intersections of trauma, adolescent development, and forensic psychology. I am particularly interested in problematic sexual behaviors, pornography use and addiction, and the role of social media in shaping identity and coping. I also will explore assessment practices to better understand and address the needs of justice-involved youth.

T. Renae Johnson is a pre-doctoral intern in PVAMU’s Clinical Adolescent Psychology program. She is currently training at a private practice that specializes in neurodevelopmental assessments. Her research interests focus on neurodevelopmental processes, mental health disparities, and trauma in underrepresented communities, with a commitment to advancing culturally responsive care for youth and families.

Jasmine Major, LCSW is a fourth-year Clinical Adolescent Psychology doctoral student at Prairie View A&M University. She specializes in working with children and adolescents and her theoretical orientation is integrative play therapy. Her research interests include developing and implementing evidence-based mental health curricula featuring play therapy interventions for use in school settings.

Research interest: Anxiety ,depression and stress in kids and adolescents; Family Trauma; Couple’s therapy; Parafilias & Causes of Suicide.

Feyisayo Ogunlana is a doctoral student in the Clinical Adolescent Psychology program at Prairie View A&M University. She obtained a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Minor in Multicultural Gender and Women’s Studies at Texas Woman’s University. Her research areas of interest include racial/ethnic mental health disparities, racial socialization, race-based traumatic stress, child and adolescent trauma, juvenile justice, womanism, culturally responsive clinical practice, education justice, and policy advocacy. She aspires to become a socially responsible licensed clinical psychologist who uses her position to practice and shape public policy that rectifies injustice and reforms the systems sustaining health disparities, inequities, and social injustice in vulnerable, marginalized, low-income, and under-resourced communities of color.