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Congratulations to our Clinical Psychology Students – 100% Match rate for 2021!
Congratulations to our Clinical Psychology students who had a 100% match rate for internships! Please see below for where each student matched. Courson: Nebraska Consortium Ho: VA Sepulveda in North Hills Cali Marsh: Stanford University Pineau: Southern Illinois University Polk: VA Salt Lake City Protti: VA Southeast Louisiana in NOLA Sackey: Charleston Consortium (MUSC) Sapp: […]
New PSC Director
The psychology department welcomes a Dr. Kristin Austin as the new PSC Director. Dr. Austin completed her clinical psychology internship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine/Kennedy Krieger Institute and graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University with her PhD in Clinical Psychology in 2016. She comes to the University of Mississippi with extensive […]
Sara Witcraft & co-authors publish manuscript in General Hospital Psychiatry
Clinical psychology graduate student, Sara Witcraft, and department co-authors publish manuscript in General Hospital Psychiatry examining the influence of anxiety sensitivity on acute health care use among adults with COPD.
Is LGBT progress seen as an attack on Christians?
In Dr. Joseph Wellman’s latest research, which was accepted at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, he and colleagues examine the question “Is LGBT progress seen as an attack on Christians?”. As social policies have changed to grant more equal rights to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals, some Christians in the U.S. […]
UM faculty and student collaborate on symposium examining emotion regulation in health conditions in virtual national conference
Clinical psychology graduate student, Sara Witcraft, and assistant faculty Aaron Lee, PhD, and Laura Dixon, PhD collaborate on a symposium talk that examined the influence of emotion regulation on physical health conditions (e.g., gastrointestinal distress, asthma) at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies 54th annual virtual convention in November 2020. https://www.abct.org/conv2020/index.cfm?mn=01&fn=HomePage
Graduate Student Natasha Wood Receives Research Grant to Study Extremism
Natasha Wood was awarded a research grant for her project: “The rejected loner: The role of social isolation and ostracism on extremist beliefs.” The project is being funded by Psi Chi. The research will shed light on the factors that lead to radical extremism. It will use a broadly representative national sample, and experimentally investigate […]
