Health Communication Top Paper Award Winners

By Joanna Grant, California State University, San Bernardino–

The Health Communication Interest Group congratulates its Top Four Paper Award Winners. The Top Paper Award went to Leigh Ford (Western Michigan University) and Eileen Berlin Ray (Cleveland State University) for their paper “Hope is a Fragile and Fierce Thing: Uncovering the Dialectical Tensions in Coping with Adverse Life Events.” The Top Student Paper Award went to Suzanne Pullen and David Nalos (San Francisco University) for their paper “Quantitative Study of Patients’ Perceptions of and the Impact of Bad News Delivery of Stillbirth Diagnosis by Health Care Providers.” The other Top Paper awards went to Lisa Farinelli (Augustana College) and Laura K. Guerrero (Arizona State University) for their paper “Associations between Caregiving and Health Outcomes among Parents of Children with Mental Illness: An Attachment Perspective”, and to Kellie E. Carlyle Palazzolo, Anthony J. Roberto, and Elizabeth Babin Gallagher (Arizona State University) for their paper “The Relationship between Parents’ Verbal Aggression and Responsiveness and Young Adult Children’s Intimate Partner Violence Victimization and Perpetration.”

This article originally appeared in WSCA News, v36, n2. Editor Bill Eadie