Former Miss Jackson State University Jasmin Searcy, who is now a clinical psychology doctoral student at JSU, presented her research on Saturday, March 16, at the Southeastern Psychological Association annual conference in Atlanta.
Searcy led a symposium at the event held at the Omni CNN Center. She discussed her paper, “The Role of Childhood Trauma: Examining Associations that Put Minority Women at Risk for HIV Infection in an Urban Collegiate Environment,” and how to use a theory-based model (ecological framework) among minority women when it comes to their susceptibility to HIV infections.
Searcy is a third-year doctoral student. She was the 2007-2008 Miss JSU.
Founded in 1955, SEPA is the largest psychological organization in the southeast and one of largest in the United States. It was originally comprised of psychologists in the southeastern states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Puerto Rico. The purpose of SEPA is to advance psychology as a science, as a profession, and as a means of promoting human welfare.