Barry R. Burkhart, Ph.D.

Laboratory Webpage


Here are some recent lab projects: 

Croysdale, A. E., Ritter, A., Burkhart, B. R. (2009, August).  Assessing Delinquency Change in a Juvenile Sex Offender Treatment Program. Poster accepted for the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, ON. (click here)

Cook, P. K. & Burkhart, B. R. (2009, August). How Deceptive are Juvenile Sexual Offenders Regarding Their Offense? Poster accepted for the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, ON. (click here)

Norwood, A. K., Burkhart, B. R., Stevens, K., & Cook, P. K. (2009, February). Effectiveness of Creative Writing on Psychological Well Being in Prison.  Poster presented at the annual meeting for the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.   (click here)

Boyles, C. G., Cook, P. K., & Burkhart, B. R. (2009, February). The Development of a  Psychopathy Content Scale for the MACI.  Poster presented at the annual meeting for the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.(click here)  

Cook, P. K., Boyles, C. G., Burkhart, B. R., & Comer, K. (2009, February).  Psychopathy and Personality Characteristics for Adolescent Offenders.  Poster presented at the annual meeting for the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA. (click here)

Burkhart, B. R., Cook, P. K., & Sumrall, R. (2008, October). Embedding Research in a Large Scale Treatment Program. Paper presented at the annual meeting for the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, Atlanta, GA. (click here)-

 Croysdale, A. E. & Burkhart, B. R. (2008, August). Comparison of Attachment Measures of Among Juvenile Sexual Offenders.  Poster session presented at the annual meeting for the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA. (click here)   

  Cook, P. K., Burkhart, B. R., Lazarte, A. A., & McQueen, D. R. (2008, August). A Measure of Depression for Incarcerated Juvenile Offenders. Poster session presented at the annual meeting for the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.(click here 

 Cook, P. K., Burkhart, B.R., Lazarte, A. A., Pirtle, D, & Carter, B. (2008, August). A Measure of Conduct Disorder for Incarcerated Juvenile Offenders.              Poster session presented at the annual meeting for the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA. (click here)

 Cook, P. K., Burkhart, B. R., Lazarte, A. A., Pirtle, D. J., & Carter, B. (2008, May). Racial Differences on the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory.  Poster              session presented at the annual meeting of American Psychological Science, Chicago, IL. (click here

 Cook, P. K., Burkhart, B. R., & Lazarte, A. A. (2008, May). Personality Characteristics of Juvenile Sexual Offenders who Admit their Offense Compared to Non-admitters. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of American Psychological Science, Chicago, IL. (click here)

 Cook, P. K., Burkhart, B. R., Lazarte, A. A., & McQueen, D. R., McCutheon, J. C., & Norwood, A. (2008, March). Iatrogenic Effects Measured within a Juvenile Sexual Offender Population. Poster session presented at the annual meeting for the Southeastern Psychological Association, Charlotte, NC. (click here) 

 McCutheon, J. C., Cook, P. K., & Burkhart, B. R. (2008, March).  Psychopathy as a Predictor of Incarceration Length of Stay. Poster session presented at the annual meeting for the Southeastern Psychological Association, Charlotte, NC. (click here)

Cook, P. K., Burkhart, B. R., Lazarte, A. A., Sturz, B. R., Smith, DL., Vandelune, G. A., & Muse, L. E. (2007, May). Examining Juvenile Offenders with the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington DC. (click here)

Cook, P. K.,Burkhart, B. R., Lazarte, A. A., Sturz, B. R., Smith, D. L., Vandelune, G. A., & Muse, L. E. (2007, May). Examining Juvenile Offenders with the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington DC. (click here)  

Cook, P. K., Burkhart, B. R., Lazarte, A. A., Ball, J., & Nichols, A. (2007, May).  Assessing  Juvenile Offender Personality Characteristics with the Jesness Inventory.  Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington DC. 

Cook, P. K., Burkhart, B. R., & D. R. McQueen (2007, February).  A Cluster Analysis of Juvenile Sexual Offenders. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA. (click here) 

McQueen, D. R., Cook, P. K., & Burkhart, B. R. (2007, February).  Measuring Success for Juvenile Sexual Offenders.  Paper presented at the annual Southeastern Psychological Association Conference, New Orleans, LA. (click here) 

Burkhart, B. R., Sumerall, R., McQueen, R., Cook, P. K., Sikorski, J. F., & Torreaday, O.(2006, October). Negotiating the Winds of Change at the State Level: Alabama’s Solution to the Problem of the Juvenile Sexual Offender. Poster session presented at the Annual meeting of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, Chicago, IL. (click here) 

Cook, P. K. & Burkhart, B. R. (2006, October).  Externalizing and Internalizing Disorders as Measured by the MACI: A Comparison of two delinquent populations. Paper presented at the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Conference, Lawrence, KS. (click here)  

Cook, P. K. & Burkhart, B. R. (2006, September).  Differences in exposure to violence within an adjudicated  adolescent sex offender population.  Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers,  Chicago, IL. (click here) 

Cook, P. K., & Burkhart, B.R. (2006, September).  MSI-J scale score differences within an adjudicated adolescent sex offender population.  Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, Chicago, IL.    

Cook, P. K., Yonge, K. C., & Burkhart, B. R. (2006, August).  A comparison of sex offenders on the Multiphasic Sex Inventory.  Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.   

Cook, P. K., Yonge, K. C., & Burkhart, B. R. (2006, August).  A comparison of personality characteristics in two delinquent populations. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.

Cook, P. K., & Burkhart, B. R. (2006, May). Psychopathology and the juvenile sex offender: Pre-treatment and post-treatment ratings on the K-SADS-PL. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Science, New York, NY. (click here)  

Cook, P. K., Dillon, J., Burkhart, B. R., & Irons, J., G. (2006, May). Evaluating treatment for adjudicated adolescent sex offenders: Pretest-posttest comparisons on the MACI. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Science, New York, NY.

Cook, P. K., Eakin, D., & Burkhart, B. R. (2006, March).  Juvenile personality characteristics: A comparison between incarcerated sex-offenders and incarcerated non-sex offending peers.  Poster presented for the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta, GA.   

 Cook, P. K., Eakin, D., & Burkhart, B. R. (2006, March).  Juvenile sexual offenders: Personality differences compared across four age groups.  Poster presented for the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta, GA.    

Burk, L. R., Burkhart, B. R., Sikorski, J. R. (2004). Construction and Preliminary Validation  of the Auburn Differential Masculinity Inventory, Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 5, 4-17. (click here)