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Keith Renshaw joined the Clinical Faculty in August 2009. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003 and has worked as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Utah. His research focuses on attributions about psychological symptoms related to depression and anxiety disorders experienced by combat veterans.
Todd Kashdan's first book entitled, Curious? Discover the missing ingredient to a fulfilling life (William Morrow, 2009) is now available. This book challenges some conventional assumptions about how to create a fulfilling life. Instead of viewing happiness as the ultimate goal of life, instead of trying to search for order, safety, and certainty, instead of relying on what we know about people and how they are similar to us, the pleasures of uncertainty and novelty are emphasized. At the forefront is a neglected, poorly understood, essential ingredient to life fulfillment: curious exploration.
Todd Kashdan's second book will be an edited volume entitled, Designing the future of positive psychology: Taking stock and moving forward (Oxford University Press, 2009). Leading developmental, social, personality, and clinical psychologists from around the world weigh in on their definitions of positive and negative psychology, and speculate on how the two should be integrated.
The Clinical Psychology Program has produced its First Newsletter for fall 2008.
Christy Esposito-Smythers, Jerome Short, and Patrick McKnight have received funding, from NIAAA, in the amount of $344,613 for the first year of the project titled: “Alcohol, Suicide & HIV Prevention of Teens in Mental Health Treatment.” The period of performance is 09/30/2008 through 08/31/2012.
June Tangney was a 2008 Faculty Award Recipient at the Celebration of Scholarship on October 20, 2008.
John Riskind is the Editor for the new International Journal of Cognitive Therapy.
Jon Mohr and Eden King were awarded $54,996 by the American Psychological Foundation for a study of identity management strategies used in the workplace by lesbian, gay, and bisexual employees.
Kerstin Youman, a fifth-year doctoral student, has received a third-year of funding for $26,883 (during the period of 9/26/08 - 9/25/09) through the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, provided by the National Institutes of Health. Kerstin's research is on "Inmates' Race, Mental Illness, Treatment, and Outcome" under the direction of June Tangney.
Nathan Williams, a 2002 graduate of the GMU Clinical Psychology program, has received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas in the Department of Psychology.
George Mason University was named the nation’s number one university to watch on U.S. News and World Report's new list of “Up-and-Coming Schools” published on Friday, Aug. 22. The list, comprising 70 colleges and universities across the country, identifies “schools that have recently made the most promising and innovative changes in academics, faculty, students, campus or facilities.”
We are pleased to announce that at its April 2008 meeting, the American Psychological Association's Commission on Accreditation voted to renew the accreditation of the Clinical Psychology doctoral program for an additional seven years.