Laura Sue Middleton, PhD

Laura Middleton is part of the pediatric psychology team at Dayton Children’s, helping children and families navigate emotional and behavioral challenges. They provide evidence-based care to support mental health and overall wellbeing.

publications and presentations:
Gabriel, K., Middleton, L., Davis, E., & Flake, E. (2011). Psychosocial screening in children with wartime deployed parents. Military Medicine, 176, 402-407.
Flake, E., Davis, E., Johnson, P., & Middleton, L. (2009). Psychosocial effects of deployment on military children. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 30, 1-8.
Middleton, L. & Johnson, P. (n.d.). Families with kids. From the website https://www.afterdeployment.org/.
Middleton, L., Kuffel, S., & Heiman, J. (2008). A comparison of the effects of experimentally adopted schemas on sexual arousal in women with female sexual arousal disorder and sexually healthy women, Archives of Sexual Behavior, 37, 950-961.
Parmenter, B., Denney, D., Lynch, S., Middleton, L., & Harlan, L. (2007). Cognitive impairment in patients with Multiple Sclerosis: Association with the APOE gene and promoter polymorphisms, Multiple Sclerosis, 13, 25-32.
Middleton, L., Denney, D., Lynch, S., & Parmenter, B. (2006). The relationship between perceived and objective cognitive functioning in Multiple Sclerosis. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 21, 487-494.
Thompson, L. Y., Snyder, C. R., Hoffman, L., Michael, S. T., Rasmussen, H., Billings, L., Heinze, L., Neufeld, J., Shorey, H., Roberts, J., & Roberts, D. (2005). Dispositional Forgiveness of Self, Others, and Situations. Journal of Personality, 73, 313-360.
Snyder, C. R. & Heinze, L. (2005). Forgiveness as a mediator of the relationship between PTSD symptoms and hostility in survivors of childhood abuse. Cognition and Emotion, 19, 413-431.
Snyder, C. R., Yamhure, L., Shorey, H., & Heinze, L. (2003). The hopeful ones: A psychological inquiry into the positive mind and heart. In R. Jacoby and G. Keinan (Eds.), Between Stress and Hope: From a Disease-Centered to a Health-Centered Perspective. New York: Greenwood.