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The Clinical Psychology Program has produced its First Newsletter!
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 is a 2008 Faculty Award Recipient at the Celebration of Scholarship on October 20, 2008, 4:30 to 6:30 in the Mason Hall Atrium.
John Riskind is the Editor for the new International Journal of Cognitive Therapy.
Forthcoming is Todd Kashdan's first book entitled, Curious? Discovering the missing ingredient to a fulfilling life (HarperCollins, 2009). 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.
We have an opening for a tenure-track Assistant Professor to begin in August 2009 that is described at http://www.gmu.edu/departments/psychology/jobs.html
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.
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.