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Clinical CornerFourth EditionSummer 2014CONGRATULATIONS!Susan Lane, EditorIt is time to say goodbye to several of our students as they head off totheir new internships.Gilmer GazetteUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAMeg Reuland will beheading off to Bostonwith a placement at Harvard Medical School/Children’s HospitalBoston.Riana Anderson will bein Connecticut with aplacement at Yale University, Psychiatry.Jen Green will travelsouth to the Universityof Alabama.Chris Beam will be atthe University ofWashington, School ofMedicine, Departmentof Psychiatry.We would like to congratulate all of you andwish you the best ofluck in your newendeavors!Jenna Rowen will be inBaltimore, Maryland atthe Kennedy KriegerInstitute at Johns Hopkins University.Inside this issue:In the SpotlightAwards and Honors: Students and FacultyGilmer in the News and Awards and Honors: Alumni2-345-6Featured Research7Alumni News8End of the Year Fun9Welcome First Year Students10Congratulations arein order for our recent graduates aswell! HyunJoo Shimand Shari Steinmanare pictured belowwith Lee Llewellynand Bethany Teachman. Also participating in the May2014 ceremony wereChristina Emeh andMegan Schad.
In the Spotlight: Gilmer and Sports!For this year’s fun photo theme I asked faculty and students to send in sports related pictures of themselves or family, anything fromparticipating in a sport, to being at a sporting event, or just wearing their favorite team’s apparel!Bethany Teachman’s daughters Joni and Haven, left, andabove with Bethany, after she completed the Zombie Run.Erin Horn with her championship winning little league team. Her team won both theMcIntire Little League and City Championships this year!!!Jeff Glenn in Colorado this summer.S U M M E R 20 1 4Page 2
In the Spotlight: Sports Fun!Elie Hessel and Emily Loeb hiking Humpback Rock, Spring 2014Lee Llewellyn with her husband Filip in the French Alpsthis summer. Lee is wearing a University of Alabamasweatshirt.Left: Susan Lane with her son Parker, who participated in the Dogwood Duathalon in May. Above,Noelle Hurd’s daughter Laila (top row, 2nd from right) with her basketball team.S U M M E R 20 1 4Page 3
Awards and Honors: Students and FacultyRiana Anderson:2014 A. Toy Cadwell-Colbert Student Contribution Service Award - APA Division 452014 Outstanding Graduate Student Award - Office of Graduate Diversity (University ofVirginia)2014 Ford Foundation Fellowship Program Alternate & Honorable Mention - DissertationAward2014 Outstanding Graduate Student Award - Black Student Alliance/Black Leadership Institute/NAACP(University of Virginia)2014 Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) Junior MentorDiana Dinescu:2014 Received a Doris Buffett Fellowship for volunteering at the Mediation Center of CharlottesvilleJeff Glenn:2014Received a Raven Fellowship for his project “Our Future Emotional Selves: The Role of Emotion PredictionAccuracy in Social Anxiety”Gena Gorlin:2014Received a Raven Fellowship for her project “Combining Abstract and Concrete Goal Construal to CombatRumination: A Novel Intervention Strategy”Noelle Hurd:2014 William T. Grant Foundation ScholarAlison Nagel:2013 Winner of national APAGS/Psi Chi Junior Scientist Fellowship ( 1,000)Bethany Teachman:2013 Fellow, Association for Psychological Science2014 The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Outstanding Mentor AwardYishan Xu:2014 Received a Buffet Fellowship to run a parenting workshop in ChinaJeff Glenn and Gena Gorlin receive Raven Fellowships thisspring at the Raven Society Dinner.Page 4GILMER GAZETTE
Gilmer in the NewsJoe Allen’s recent article in Child Development “What Ever Happened to the “Cool"Kids: Long-term Sequelae of Early Adolescent Pseudomature Behavior", co-authoredwith Megan Schad and Joanna Chango got picked up by more than 250 outlets, andwas the single most widely viewed article on the New York Times web site the weekof 6/27/14. See the New York Times story “Cool at 13: Adrift at 23” at 3-adrift-at-23/?php true& type blogs& r 0Noelle Hurd’s research was featured in a UVA Today article recently. Read more about her exciting work and herselection as a William T. Grant Foundation Scholar at rtResearch by Meg Reuland and Bethany Teachman was featured in the Daily s-participants/article 7b1f856a-383f-11e3-b11a-0019bb30f31a.htmlAwards and Honors: AlumniFelicia Smith (2003)2013 Elected 2013 President of the Kentucky Psychological Association2013 Awarded the 2013 Sheila Schuster Advocacy Award2013 Elected to the APA Committee of State Leaders, member-at-largeHeather Bender (2004):2014 Asked to serve as the Clinical Psychologist on the Cleft and Craniofacial Team at St. Mary's Hospital inRichmond, VAAnthony Chambers (2004):2013 Had a beautiful daughter, Allison Lauryn Chambers2013 Fellow, American Psychological Association2013 Diplomat, ABPP in Couple & Family Psychology2013 New Director of the Postdoctoral Research and Clinical Fellowship Programsin Couple and Family Psychology at the Family Institute at Northwestern University2013 New Director of the Couple Therapy Program, Family Institute at Northwestern University.2013 Selected to be a member of "Family Process" editorial board2013 Selected to be a Fellow and Board of Directors Member, American Academy of Couple and Family Psychology2013 Named one of the top 99 Professors in Therapy & Psychology by MastersinCounseling.org2013 Alumnus of the Year Award by The Family Institute at Northwestern University2014 Selected to be a Director and Board of Directors Member, Family Process Institute2014 Appointed Associate Editor of APA Journal: "Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice"2014 Elected President of APA's Division 43 (Society for Family Psychology)S U M M E R 20 1 4Page 5
Awards and Honors: AlumniAmy West (2004):2013 Promoted to Director of Psychology Training in the Department of Psychiatry at UIC. Shewill be directing the Clinical Science Pre-doctoral Psychology Internship program.Brian D’Onofrio (2005):2013 Spence Award for Transformational Early Career Contribution from the Association for Psychological ScienceAndreana Haley (2006):2014 Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas atAustin, effective August 2014Susan South (2006):2014 Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at Purdue University, effective August 2014Elise Clerkin (2010):2013 Received the Center for the Enhancement of Learning, Teaching, and University Assessment, Small teachinggrant award, Miami University. This small grant, funded by Miami University's Center for the Enhancementof Learning, Teaching, and University Assessment helped fund representatives from the National Alliance onMental Illness (NAMI) to discuss their experiences of mental illness with her students through a programcalled "In Our Own Voice."2013 A grant funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, was awarded to Miami University. Elise and her colleagues are developing and testing a computer-based experimental intervention calledAMP, which stands for Attention Modification Program. AMP is designed for individuals with co-occurringsymptoms of social anxiety and alcohol dependence, and its goal is to try to change mental habits that havebecome so automatic that they are difficult to "catch" or change on purpose.Jennifer O’Neil (2011):2014 Became a Certified Provider of Interpersonal Therapy for Depression and started the Interpersonal TherapyConsultant-in-Training which is sponsored by the VA Interpersonal Psychotherapy Training Program, Veterans Affairs Central Office.2014 Manuscript accepted for publication: O'Neil, J., Chaison, A. D., Cuellar, A. K.,Nguyen, Q. X., Brown, W. L. & Teng, E. J. (accepted). Development and Implementation of a Mentoring Program for VA Psychology Trainees. Training and Education in Professional Psychology.Matt Lerner (2013):2014 Appointed Assistant Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, & Pediatrics at Stony Brook University2014 Director's Early Independence Award: Finalist. National Institutes of Health (NIH)2014 Young Investigator Award: Best Clinical Empirical Paper of 2013. International Society for Autism Research(INSAR)2014 Who's Who Featured Person, Spring 2014. Asperger Syndrome and High Functioning Autism Association ofNew York (AHANY)2013 National Institutes of Health (NIH) - Director's Early Independence Award: Nominee. Stony BrookUniversity-wide search2014 Best Submission & Keynote Address Winner - 2013 Autism Spectrum & Developmental Disorders SpecialInterest Group (ASDD SIG). Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT)2013 Dissertation Award: Best Clinical/Behavioral Dissertation of 2012. International Society for Autism Research(INSAR)Page 6GILMER GAZETTE
Featured Research: Shari SteinmanImagine the thrill of approaching alarge drop on a roller coaster, theexcitement of looking down at theground below from the top of askyscraper, or the wonder of lookingat a beautiful view from the topof a mountain. If you had a fear ofheights, instead of judging thesesituations as thrilling, exciting, andwonderful,you wouldlikely interpretthem asterrifying,dangerous,and intolerable!Cognitivemodels ofpsychopathologysuggest that this tendency to interpret ambiguous information in anegative way maintains, and potentially causes, anxiety disorders.Cognitive Bias Modification for Interpretations (CBM-I) is a novelanxiety treatment based on cognitivemodels of anxiety, that reducesanxiety through training individualsto interpret ambiguous informationin a more positive, less negativemanner. CBM-I is completed on acomputer, without any therapist involvement. For my dissertation(Steinman & Teachman, 2014, Jour-nal of Consulting andClinical Psychology), I created aCBM-I program designed to shiftheight-relevant interpretation bias,and consequently reduce fear ofheights. I compared CBM-I to acontrol condition, the current goldstandard treatment for height fear(therapist-directed exposuretherapy), and a combination ofCBM-I and exposure therapy. Results suggested that CBM-I, aloneor in combination with exposuretherapy, was as effective as exposure therapy at reducing height fearsymptoms. This finding highlightsthe causal role of interpretations inanxiety, and provides evidence thatshifting interpretations (even without therapist involvement) can reduce fear as well as therapistdirected exposure therapy. Thissuggests that CBM-I may one daybe an alternate treatment option forfearful individuals who do not haveaccess to evidence-based clinicians.-Shari Steinman (‘14)A notation to last issue’s featured research: Some contributors were left out ofthe article describing Eric Pettersson and Eric Turkheimer’s personality questionnaire. Please note the instrument was also developed by the Turkheimer labin general, with contributions in particular by Erin Horn and Derek Ford.Page 7GILMER GAZETTE
Alumni News - Update from Brian D’OnofrioI received my doctorate in 2005after completing my clinical internship at Children’s HospitalBoston. My wife, Danica, and Ithen moved to Bloomington, INfor a position in the Departmentof Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University (IU).I am now a Full Professor and theDirector of Clinical Training inthe Clinical Science Area(starting July 2014).My research focuses on the etiology and treatment of psychological disorders using epidemiologi-cal designs and longitudinal analyses. My recent studies have focused on early risk factors, suchas prenatal exposures, and thebenefits and side effects ofADHD medications. I work withseveral international researchteams, including with collaborators at the Karolinska Institute inStockholm, Sweden and the University of Chicago. My colleagues and I have received funding from the National Institutes ofHealth, IU, private foundations,and international funding agencies. I have also received severalawards for this research, including awards from the Associationfor Psychological Science and theSociety for Research in ChildDevelopment.I teach Abnormal Psychology atthe undergraduate level and several graduate courses, includingthe Introduction to Clinical Science and Developmental Psychopathology. I also mentor severalundergraduate, graduate, andpostdoctoral students as head ofthe Developmental Psychopathology Lab at IU. I must admit thatit is hard work to just keep upwith my wonderful students.Danica and I have two children,Dominic and Caelan. We spendmost of our “free” time at theboys’ sporting events—whateversport is in season .baseball, soccer, hockey, and basketball. Weenjoy Bloomington, given thegreat family opportunities, cultural events (the IU Music School isfantastic), and IU sports. However, we never miss an opportunityto get back to Charlottesville(Danica and I were also undergrads there!)- Brian D’Onofrio (‘05)Danica, Brian, Caelan, and Dominic atCaelan’s Kindergarten Graduation inMay 2014S U M M E R 20 1 4Page 8
End of the Year Fun: Gilmer Celebrates!Clinical faculty, students, staff, and their guests enjoy the End of the Year Partyat Bethany Teachman and Brian Nosek’s home, May 2014.S U M M E R 20 1 4Page 9
Welcome First Year Students!The Clinical Department welcomesFirst Year Students AlexandraWerntz, Audrey Wittrup, and Jessica Kansky. Please read on to learna little more about them!Jessica Kansky(pictured here)graduatedSumma CumLaude fromthe Universityof Pennsylvania (C’11)with a B.A. in Psychology and Anthropology minor. Jess is very excited to join Dr. Joseph Allen’s Virginia Adolescent Research Group tofurther study her specific researchinterests in optimal developmentduring adolescence and youngadulthood. In particular, she wouldlike to study the impact of closesocial relationships (peer, familial,and romantic) on adolescents’ mental health and development as theytransition into adulthood. She isalso interested in interventions thatmay promote healthy social relationships associated with positiveadjustment and functioning .Alexandra (Alex) Werntz has beenliving in Richmond, VA for the pastyear. She is a UVA grad (’11),worked with Bethany after graduation, and recently realized that shejust couldn’t stay away fromGilmer. She is excited to work withthe PACT lab again and to collaborate with others! Her research interests include cognitive processingbiases that influence our mental andphysical health, in addition to understanding how these biases predict our health care and treatmentdecisions .Audrey Wittrup (pictured right) isfrom Boston Massachusetts. Sherecently graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, whereshe completed an Honors Thesistitled, The Relationship betweenAcademic Self-Concept andUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAPsychology Department102 Gilmer HallPO BOX 400400Charlottesville, VA 22904Achievement in High School andRisky Sexual Behavior in CollegeAged Females Over Time. Morebroadly, her research interests includeschool-based interventions and thepromotion of positive developmentfor vulnerable populations. She isvery excited to begin work in Dr. Noelle Hurd's lab.Let me know about your recent awards and media mentions sothat I may include you in our next newsletter! (send updates toSusan Lane, sfl3f@virginia.edu)Phone: 434-982-4763Fax: 434-982-5571E-mail: psy-dept@virginia.eduWe’re on the Web - Check out thedepartment website!http://avillage.web.virginia.edu/PsychPage 10GILMER GAZETTE
2013 Promoted to Director of Psychology Training in the Department of Psychiatry at UIC. She will be directing the Clinical Science Pre-doctoral Psychology Internship program. Brian D'Onofrio (2005): 2013 Spence Award for Transformational Early Career Contribution from the Association for Psychological Science Andreana Haley (2006):
