Clinical Students

Publications and presentations. Congratulations students!

AU Clinical Student Honored at State Mini-Convention

Lance Kelley was awarded first-place honoree in the paper competition at the Alabama Psychological Association's fall mini-convention for his presentation "Comparison of PTSD Symptom Patterns in Three Types of Civilian Trauma."  Lance's research is conducted under the supervision of Dr. Frank Weathers.

AU Clinical Student Honored at National Conference

Leon Butler was selected as the recipient of the 2007 "Student Poster Award" from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Addictive Behaviors Special Interest Group. Leon's poster was entitled "Brief alcohol intervention with college student drinkers: Face-to-face versus computerized feedback." His poster was based on his Master's thesis, supervised by Dr. Chris Correia.

AU I/O and Clinical Students Collaborate to Receive Conference Honors

Brennan Cox (I/O), Jared Keeley and Danny Burgess (Clinical) received an award for the Outstanding Poster Presentation at the March 2007 Southeastern Conference on the Teaching of Psychology -- "From Graduate School to the Academy:
Understanding the Transition from Student to Assistant Professor." Under the direction of William Buskist, EDGE continues to enhance scholarship by investgating issues related to effective teaching and learning at the college and university level.

AU Clinical Student Honored for Excellence in Community Service

Cami Ridley, a fifth year clinical psychology graduate student, has been recognized for her community service in the context of her clinical work. In December 2005, Cami was awarded "Friend of the Court" by Lee County Judge Lane for her exemplary service to the school-based peer mediation programs. Cami also will be honored at the 2006 annual meeting of the American Psychological Association with a Certificate of Merit given by Division 18 (Division of Psychologists in Public Service) for her accomplishments. Cami was recently awarded our program's 2006 Charles V. Lair Fellowship for her outstanding contributions to the community. Cami will begin her clinical internship this summer at the Columbus Children's Hospital in Ohio.

AU Clinical Student Honored by ABCT Special Interest Group (SIG), awarded NIMH T31

Ana Amstadter, a 3rd year clinical student, was awarded the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Disaster and Trauma SIG 2005 Student Researcher Award at ABCT's annual conference. Ana's thesis, chaired by Dr. Laura Vernon, was the basis for her award application. Ana recently accepted a NIH/NIDA fellowship through the Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs at Medical University of South Carolina and recently was awarded a NIMH T31 to examine gene-environment interactions related to traumatic event exposure and risk for psychopathology.

AU Clinical Student Honored at National Conference for Teaching Excellence

Trish Benson, a clinical psychology graduate student, is the 2006 recipient of the McKeachie Early Career Award. This award is sponsored by the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and is the highest teaching award for graduate students in the United States. Trish will be presented with the award at the 2006 American Psychological Association meeting in New Orleans.

AU Clinical Student Honored with Minority Fellowship

Meena Lambha, a 3rd year clinical student, was awarded a minority fellowship from the National Child Advocacy Center for her work at Lee County's Child Advocacy Center. Meena was an integral part of services and research activities, supervised by her major professor, Dr. Elizabeth Brestan.

AU Clinical Students Honored at National Conference

Miranda Loper was awarded the "Best Student Poster" from the 2005 Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Parenting and Families Special Interest Group. Ms. Loper's poster was entitled "Validation of a parental tolerance measure." Her poster was based on her Master's thesis, supervised by Dr. Elizabeth Brestan.

Zofia Wilamowska was awarded 2nd place for her poster entitled "Measuring change blindness in specific phobia: A replication" from the 2005 Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Student Special Interest Group. Ms. Wilamowska's poster was based on her Master's thesis, supervised by Dr. Dudley McGlynn.

AU Clinical Student Named Outstanding Graduate Minority Student

Ember Lee, a 2nd year clinical psychology graduate student and PGOP fellow, was named the 2004-2005 College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Minority Graduate Student. In addition to working at Head Start and the Child Advocacy Center's PCIT program, Ember has been a driving force behind the Department of Psychology's Diversity Committee.

AU Clinical Student GTA Honored by the College of Liberal Arts

Trish Benson, a clinical psychology graduate student in the Auburn University Department of Psychology, was awarded the GTA Excellence in Teaching Award by the AU College of Liberal Arts. Benson, who is leaving for internship this summer, has been the teacher of record for several sections of Intro to Psychology this academic year.

 

AU Clinical Psychology Graduate Student Honored at National Conference

Jason Sikorski, a clinical psychology graduate student in the Auburn University Department of Psychology, is the 2004 recipient of the McKeachie Early Career Award. This award is sponsored by the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and is the highest teaching award for graduate students in the United States. Sikorski received the award at the 2004 American Psychological Association meeting in Honolulu.

 

AU Department of Psychology Graduates Honored following National Conference

Shelli Deskins, PhD, a December 2004 graduate of the clinical psychology program, and Jill Star, B.A., a May 2004 graduate of the undergraduate psychology program at AU, were named as winners of the Student Presenter Award Competition presented by the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy's (AABT) Special Interest Group on Parenting and Families. Deskins and Star received the award following the 2004 AABT meeting in New Orleans.

Jill Star's research was based on her undergraduate honor's thesis titled, Assessing the Role of Parental Tolerance for Child Misbehavior in Predicting Child Physical Abuse. After graduating summa cum laude from Auburn in May of 2004, Jill began the clinical psychology doctoral program at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, MI. Her research mentor at CMU is Larissa Niec, PhD.

Dr. Shelli Deskin's research was based on her dissertation and was titled, The Dyadic Parent-Child Interaction Coding System (DPICS II): Reliability and Validity with School Aged Children. After completing a pre-doctoral internship at the University of Oklahoma's Health Sciences Center in July of 2004, Dr. Deskins is currently completing a research post-doctoral fellowship at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV.

 

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Last updated on April 27, 2005