Melissa Van Veldhuizen

- Graduate Student
Contact Info
Biography —
Advisor: Dr. Rick Ingram
Research Lab: Ingram Lab
My dissertation focused on how parental bonding, mood, and information processing intersect to create potential risk for depression.
Education —
Research —
My research interest is the etiology, maintenance, and effective treatment of depression and other mood disorders in adults.
Selected Publications —
Van Veldhuizen, M., Ingram, R.; The University of Kansas (in preparation).
Attachment and Bonding as Unique Predictors of Depression.
Mark B. Powers, Emily Carl, Andrew Levihn-Coon, Melissa Van Veldhuizen,
Andrew Caven, Jamie Pogue, Michelle Fresnedo, Emma D. Turner, Maris
Adams, Kiara Leonard, Haley Conroy, Crystal Lantrip, Thomas Caven, Claire
Isbell, Justin Regner, Emily Garmon, Michael Foreman, Wayne Miller, Lorie
A. Fares, Per Carlbring,…Jasper A. J. Smits. Nonpharmacologic Pain
Management Among Hospitalized Inpatients: A Randomized Waitlist
Controlled Trial of Standard Virtual Reality (CGI VR) versus Video Capture
VR (360°3D/Stereoscopic Video Capture VR). The Clinical Journal of Pain,
37(9), 678-687.
Van Veldhuizen, M., Fulton, J. (2022, August). Depression Presents: How
Depression Symptoms Manifest in Various Populations and across the Lifespan.
Presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association,
Minneapolis, MN.
Van Veldhuizen, M., Ingram, R. (2019, October). Attachment and Bonding as
Unique Predictors of Depression. Presented at Proseminar at the University of
Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.
Balderas, J., Van Veldhuizen, M., Ingram, R., Kohnle, K., & Fulton, J. (2019,
August). Adult attachment and parental bonding: Unique associations with
depression frequency and severity. Presented at the meeting of the American
Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Fulton, J., Ingram, R., Balderas, J., Kohnle, K., Van Veldhuizen, M. (August
2019). Care, control and cognition: An examination of the depressive symptoms
and parenting. Presented at the 172nd Annual Meeting of the American
Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Gustafson, T., Anderson, J., Van Veldhuizen, M., Lauber, S., Stone, W., Gentile,
D.; Iowa State University (April 2017). Predicting Early Termination of Virtual
Reality Experiences. Presented at Iowa Psychological Association (IPA),
Davenport, IA.