
Mouhamad Ballout, M.A.
Director of Mental Health
Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology (Wichita State University, 2021)
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (Wichita State University, 2018)
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Ballout, M. H. N., Larson, J., Piros, H., & Clark, C. B. (2022, April). The Link between Psychological Flexibility and Criminal Thinking Styles. Poster presented at the Southwestern Psychology Association, Baton Rouge, LA.
Larson, J., Ballout, M. H. N., Piros, H., & Clark, C. B. (2022, April). The Impact of Psychological Inflexibility on Criminal Recidivism. Poster presented at the Southwestern Psychology Association, Baton Rouge, LA.
Ballout, M. H. N., Armstrong, J. A., Ewy, R., & Clark, C. B. (2019, April). Facial Emotion Recognition in Adult Violent Offenders. Poster presented at the Southwestern Psychology Association, Albuquerque, NM.
PUBLICATIONS
Clark, C. B., Armstrong, J., Ballout, M. H. N., & Ewy, R. (2020). Examining the link between facial affect recognition and violent offending: A comparison between web-recruited volunteers with histories of violent and non-violent offending. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 30(5), 228–239. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbm.2164
Ballout, M. H. N., Clark, C. B., Ewy, R., & Eichman, L. Piecing offender cognition: The link between abstract reasoning, aggression, and violence [Manuscript submitted for publication].
Ballout, M. H. N., Bauman, A., Armstrong, J. D., & Clark, C. B. Assessing the relative contribution of Moral Foundation Theory, Right-Wing Authoritarianism, and Social Dominance Orientation in the prediction of political orientation [Manuscript submitted for publication].
Ballout, M. H. N. & Clark, C. B. The Effect of Novelty on Discriminatory Decision-Making in Candidate Selection[Manuscript submitted for publication].
Mental Health Counselor – Wichita State University (April 2022- Present)
Graduate Student Clinician – Wichita State University (January 2021 – Present)
Research Assistant – Behavioral Economics and Cooperation Lab – Wichita State University (October 2017 – Present)