Hallie Jordan
Hallie is a third year doctoral student in the Counseling Psychology Program. She received her B.S. in Psychology and Religion from Birmingham-Southern College. For her thesis she is investigated the moderating role of alcohol protective strategies on the relationship post-traumatic stress has with alcohol consumption and alcohol-related negative consequences. Her dissertation will explore the degree to which drinking motives and alcohol protective strategies help explain the relationship PTSD has with alcohol misuse and alcohol-related negative consequences.

Nick Militello
Nick is a first year doctoral student in the Counseling Psychology Program. He received his B.S. in Psychology from Loyola University New Orleans. His general areas of research interests include marijuana use, PTSD/trauma, protective behavioral strategies, and negative outcomes

Kray Scully
Kray is a fourth year doctoral student in the Counseling Psychology Program. He received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of Southern Mississippi. For his master's thesis, Kray examined the associations among the dimensions of positive alcohol-related expectancies, alcohol-related negative consequences, and protective behavioral strategies in hazardous college drinkers. His dissertation explored the degree to which drinking refusal self efficacy helps explain the relationship between alcohol protective strategy use and alcohol outcomes. Kray is a pre-doctoral intern at the Biloxi VA.

Robert Whitley
Robert is a  second year doctoral student in the Counseling Psychology Program.  He received his B.S. in psychology from Louisiana State University and received his M.S. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Southern Mississippi.  His master’s project explored the impact that conformity to masculine gender norms had on the association between protective behavioral strategy use and hazardous alcohol use among college men.  For his dissertation, Robert is exploring the degree to which drinker identity and alcohol protective strategies help explain the relationship between masculine gender norm adherence and alcohol outcomes.