The Grad­u­ate School Pres­i­den­tial Dis­ser­ta­tion Award

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Con­grat­u­la­tions to doc­toral stu­dent, Erin Ward-Ciesielski for receiv­ing the fol­low­ing 4   pres­ti­gious awards:

SSCP Dis­ser­ta­tion Grant Award (Soci­ety for a Sci­ence of Clin­i­cal Psy­chol­ogy)

Mor­ton M. Sil­ver­man Stu­dent Award (Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion of Sui­ci­dol­ogy)

APA Dis­ser­ta­tion Research Award (Amer­i­can Psy­cho­log­i­cal Asso­ci­a­tion)

APF/COGDOP Grad­u­ate Research Schol­ar­ship (Amer­i­can Psy­cho­log­i­cal Foundation/Council of Grad­u­ate Depart­ments of Psychology/Friedman-Klarreich Fam­ily Foundation

http://www.seattlechildrens.org/about/stories/improving-the-lives-of-suicidal-teens/

http://dailyuw.com/archive/2012/10/29/science/research-cares#.UJQufGf2Tfh

Con­grat­u­la­tions Dr. Melanie Harned, Behav­ioral Tech Research and Nog­gin­Labs, Inc for win­ning 2 GOLD Bran­don Hall Awards for Best Use of Games for Learn­ing and Best Use of Vir­tual Worlds for Learn­ing for the course Foun­da­tions of Expo­sure Ther­apy.  http://www.brandonhall.com/awards/excellence-in-learning/winners-of-the-2012.html#BestUseofVirtualWorldsforLearning

Dialec­ti­cal Behav­ior Ther­apy, a treat­ment for peo­ple who have bor­der­line per­son­al­ity dis­or­der — a men­tal ill­ness that leaves them “with­out emo­tional skin” — was sin­gled out as a break­through in the new book “100 New Sci­en­tific Dis­cov­er­ies: Fas­ci­nat­ing, Unbe­liev­able and Mind Expand­ing Sto­ries” pub­lished by TIME Books.  That treat­ment was cre­ated by UW Psy­chol­ogy Pro­fes­sor Mar­sha Line­han, who has been work­ing with bor­der­line patients in the UW’s Behav­ioral Research and Ther­apy Clinic for years. Time dubbed the treat­ment “fix­ing a busted per­son­al­ity,” say­ing it is suc­cess­ful with patients who were once con­sid­ered incurable.