Irene G. Powch, Ph.D.

Recent Publications: Peer-reviewed

1. Powch, I. G. & Muehlenhard, C. L. (n.d.) The interplay of culture and individual differences in men’s abuse of women. Manuscript in preparation.
2. Powch, I. G. & Boehnlein, J. K. (n.d.) Early trauma and ADHD: A preliminary examination of correlations that suggest an etiological link. Manuscript in preparation.
3. Powch, I. G. & Houston, B. K. (1996). Hostility, anger-in, and cardiovascular reactivity in caucasian women. Health Psychology, 15 (3), 200-208.
4. Powch, I. G. (1994). Wilderness therapy: What makes it empowering for women? Women and Therapy, 15 (3), pp.11-27.
5. Muehlenhard, C. L., Powch, I. G., Phelps, J. & Giusti, L. (1992). Definitions of rape: Scientific and political implications. Journal of Social Issues, 48, 23-44.
6. Frank, L. G., Glickman, S. E., & Powch, I. (1990). Sexual dimorphism in the spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta). Journal of Zoology, 221, 308-313.
7. Rosenheim, J. A., Meade, T., Powch, I. G., & Schoenig, S. E. (1989). Aggregation by foraging insect parasitoids in response to local variations in host density: Determining the dimensions of a host patch. Journal of Animal Ecology, 58, 101-117.

Chapters:

1. Muehlenhard, C. L., Danoff-Burg, S., & Powch, I. G. (1996). Is rape sex or violenceConceptual issues and implications. In D. M. Buss and N. Malamuth, (Eds.), Sex, power, conflict: Feminist and evolutionary perspectives, p. 119-137. New York: Oxford University Press.

Other Written Material:

1. Powch, I. P. (2003). PTSD and ADHD: Comorbidity, symptom overlap, and significance of age at first trauma. In Johnston, H.F. (Ed.), Advances in the Treatment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders: A Continuing Education Program. University of Wisconsin Medical School and DesignWrite.
2. Scurfield, R., & Powch, I. (1997). A video and outpatient PTSD group therapy project with veterans of three wars (Monograph). Honolulu, Hawaii: VA National Center for PTSD, Pacific Islands Division.
3. Powch, I. P. (1995). Patterns of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse of women by college men: Multivariate examination of attitudes toward women, social environment, psychopathology, and childhood exposure to abuse. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
4. Powch, I. P. (1991). The relationships among, and predictors of, men's sexual, physical, and emotional abusiveness toward romantic partners and others. Unpublished master's thesis, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.

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