Interpersonal Violence, Environmental Hazards and Cognitive/Behavioral Functioning, Mental Illness Prevention and Mental Health Promotion, Factors Related to Academic Success

 

Member of American Psychological Association, American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association, Society for the Teaching of Psychology (2), and Past-President, Michigan State University Group of Analytic Students.

SGU Student Academic Affairs Committee, chair 2007-09, Member, SGU Institutional Review Board

Licensed Psychologist in Colorado, U.S. #3116.

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While attending the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Dr. Durst received a BA in Philosophy in 1992 and a BA in Psychology in 1996. She received a MA in Clinical Psychology in 2000 and a PhD in Clinical Psychology in 2005 from Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.

Dr. Durst has been at St. George’s University since 2006, working primarily as a psychologist in the Psychological Services Center. A major part of her current responsibilities includes psychological evaluations of students to assess learning disabilities, Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder, and personality and emotional issues. Dr. Durst also conducts individual therapy, contributes to SGU administrative projects, and participates in research projects and community outreach activities.

Current projects include an assessment of substance use among students at SGU, and coordinating psycho-educational groups and consulting with staff on issues of child development at the Queen Elizabeth Home for Children, one of the orphanages in Grenada.

Dr. Durst is also joint faculty in the SGU Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, teaching courses on the prevention of mental illness and promotion of mental health.

Durst, J. S. (2005). Psychopathy in adolescence: Conceptualization, stability, and prediction of aggression. Dissertation Abstracts International, 66 (09), 5083. (UMI No. 3189645)

Durst, J. S. (2007). Survey of Substance Use at St. George’s University: A Pilot Study. Unpublished manuscript, St. George’s University, Grenada.

Durst, J. S., Klump, K. L., & Frank, S. J. (2004). “Successful Psychopathy” is not an oxymoron: A review of the relevant literature. Unpublished manuscript, Michigan State University, East Lansing.

Durst, J. S. (2009). The benefit of a psycho-educational group with Grenadian orphans. Manuscript in progress.

Durst, J. S. (2009). Level of substance use and related problems in medical professional students.