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Dr. Mariana M. Juras
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Dr. Mariana M. Juras

Assistant Professor Website: https://www.marianajuras.com.br/

INTRODUCTION

Dr. Juras is a psychologist and marriage and family therapist from Brazil. She came to the US in 2015 as a visiting research scholar in the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri. As an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology of EIU, she teaches clinical courses to undergraduate students and to graduate students of the Master's of Arts in Clinical Psychology Program. She is also an internship academic supervisor, thesis advisor and mentor undergraduate and graduate levels research studies.

My EIU Story

Awards:

2019-2020 Annual Psi Chi Faculty Contribution Award at Eastern Illinois University

2018-2019 Achievement and Contribution Award in the category of Teaching at the Eastern Illinois University

Education & Training

PhD in Clinical Psychology and Culture, University of Brasilia, Brazil

Master of Science in Clinical Psychology and Culture, University of Brasilia, Brazil

Specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy, Catholic University of Goiás, Brazil

Bachelor in Psychology, University of Brasilia, Brazil

Conference Presentations

Juras, M. M. (2019, June). Innovations and Limitations of Mixed Gender Groups for Domestic Violence Cases. Workshop presented at the 56th Annual Conference of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Toronto, Canada.


*Juras, M. M.; Rohmann, S.; Brockie, A. (2019, April). Social Network Analysis: A visual and statistical method of relational data. Paper talk presentation at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.


*Juras, M.; Wilson, L.; Webb, H. K.; Milosch, J. (2019, April). The Instructor/Professor Role in Students Mental Health. Break Out Session Panel at the 2019 Thomas A. Bonine Suicide Prevention Conference: Risk Among Youth and Throughout Life’s Stages, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL.


Baumann, A.; Vazquez, A; Macchioni, A. C.; Ribeiro, M.; Kohlsdorf, M.; Juras, M. (2019, January). Translation and Validation of the Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS) to Brazilian Portuguese: Preliminary findings. Poster presented at the 2nd Annual Symposium and Poster Session of the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences of Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO.
 

(*) Presented with undergraduate and/or graduate students

Publications

Juras, M. M., & Costa, L. F. (2018). Parenting in low-income context: Assessment of a psychosocial group intervention in Brazil. Psychology & Psychological Research International Journal, 3, 1-10. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23880/pprij-16000183

Juras, M. M., & Costa, L. F. (2016). He was neither a good father nor a good husband: Marital and parental roles in low-income separated families. Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa, 32, 1-9. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0102-3772e32ne215

Guimaraes, F. L., Juras, M. M., & Macedo, P. R. F. (2020). Violência doméstica e Grupos Mistos: percepções de mulheres e homens sobre intervenções psicossociais na Justiça [Domestic violence and multi-gender groups: women and men’s perception about psychosocial internvetions in the Justice System]. In E. C. M. R. Andrade & N. M. A. Buta (Eds.) Incursoes psicossociais na Justica: Violencias e litigios familiares [Psychosocial studies in the Justice: Family violence and litigation] (pp. 217-245). Curitiba, PR, Brazil: CRV. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24824/97865990238.6.6

Funding & Grants

2018 Student Impact Grant for Faculty Mentors, Eastern Illinois University

Research & Creative Interests

Family and Couple’s Therapy; Group Therapy; Social Networks; Parenting; Latinx Families & Multiculturality; Gender and Social Justice; Forensic Psychology; Divorce; Domestic Violence; Intimate Partner Violence; Children Maltreatment and Sexual Abuse; Criminal & Civil Justice in a psychosocial perspective.

Professional Affiliations

American Family Therapy Academy - Elected Board Member (2020-2022)