Publications by authors named "Brock Brady"

Despite practice guidelines for multiculturally competent care, including spiritual/religious diversity, most mental health graduate training programs do not formally address spiritual/religious competencies. Thus, we enhanced the Spiritual Competency Training in Mental Health (SCT-MH) course curriculum to train graduate students in foundational attitudes, knowledge, and skills for addressing clients' spirituality and/or religion (S/R). The hybrid (online and in-person) SCT-MH course curriculum was integrated into existing required graduate clinical courses (replacing 15% of a course's curriculum) and taught to 309 students by 20 instructors in 20 different graduate training programs across counseling, psychology, and social work disciplines.

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We developed a paper-based colorimetric sensor for facile and cost-effective detection of Pb in drinking and environmental water samples. The Pb ion-selective optodes are fabricated by inkjet printing of ionophore, chromoionophore, and ion exchanger on cellulose paper. Pb in water samples induces deprotonation of the pH chromoionophore and changes the optode color, which is acquired and analyzed by a smartphone.

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Although there are many techniques to detect pathogenic bacteria, most of them are only suited for diagnostics. We report a urinary catheter-based colorimetric sensor for potential on-body detection of , the most prevalent bacterial species in urinary tract infections associated with the use of urinary catheters. In urine, indole is secreted by and reacts with a nitrosating agent incorporated in a silicone catheter.

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While wearable chemical sensors often rely on electrochemical techniques, optical chemical sensors coupled with a smartphone or a miniaturized camera represent an attractive approach to the monitoring of sweat composition. In this paper, we modify real sports fabrics such as polyester-spandex fabrics with rational combinations of sensing chemicals including a pH indicator, an ion exchanger, and an ionophore one-step inkjet printing. Highly selective and fully reversible pH optodes as well as Na- and K-selective optodes are obtained only when the most hydrophobic sensing chemicals are used (, sodium ionophore VIII sodium ionophore VI).

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