Dr. Heather Littleton’s Lab

Research Interests
Dr. Littleton’s research lab interests include the following:

• Examining the role of social cognitive factors, including coping behaviors, social support, disclosure responses, and attributions, in adjustment following trauma
• The experiences of survivors of sexual assault, mass shootings, natural disasters, and intimate partner violence
• Leveraging technology to deliver efficacious intervention and prevention programming, as well as to assess victimization risk behavior and adjustment among trauma survivors
• How experiences with discrimination at the individual and institutional levels affects sexual, gender, and racial/ethnic minority individuals’ vulnerability to, and recovery from, violence

Students

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Now Hiring

Research Associate(Postdoctoral)

The Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs is seeking qualified applicants for a post-doctoral position to work on an NIAAA funded project focused on the development and evaluation of an online, family-based dating violence and alcohol use prevention program for LGBTQIA2S+ youth and their caregivers. To apply please visit: https://cu.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=31636&lang=en