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Congratulations to Shelby Shipley, Administrative Assistant Extraordinaire!
Shelby Shipley is the 2024 recipient of the Boston University College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Service Award. This award highlights her dedication to her daily CARD responsibilities, her delightful attitude, and her never ending support of our students, both graduate and undergraduate. Shelby is the heart of our Clinic, keeping her finger on the pulse of activity within CARD, and we enthusiastically congratulate her on this well-deserved honor. This is the second consecutive year that our Administrative Staff have received this honorable award. Haydee Torres, who has been a longstanding devoted employee, was the proud recipient of last year's award.
Congratulations to Graduate Student, Kevin Narine, on a Well-Deserved Award!
Kevin Narine of William James College, and one of CARD’s practicum students this year, was awarded the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology Outstanding Student Clinician Award for 2024. This award is intended to recognize outstanding graduate students who are providing exceptional contributions to the field of clinical psychology through their clinical work. He was nominated by CARD in recognition of his outstanding work within our clinic this year.
Congratulations to CARD Director, Dr. Lisa Smith, 2024 APTC Clinic Director Mentor Award
Dr. Lisa Smith has received the 2024 Association for Psychology Training Clinics (APTC) Clinic Director Mentor Award for 2024. This award recognizes an APTC Training Clinic Director each year who demonstrates extraordinary mentorship of another Training Clinic Director. Dr. Smith's dedication to mentoring early clinicians makes this award such a wonderful tribute to her longstanding development of future clinicians.
Congratulations to Haydee Torres – CAS Outstanding Service Award for Staff
Haydee Torres, Administrative Secretary, Clinical Psychology Program
Our nominator states that Haydee is “the glue that holds everything together. “She is always the first to arrive on site each day, greeting faculty, students, staff and patients with a warm smile and positive attitude. As second year graduate students begin to see their first clinical cases, Haydee demonstrates patience and warmth, naturally taking on the role of educator by teaching our young clinicians how to use the communications, electronic medical records, and billing systems required by our clinic. When a clinician calls in sick, Haydee leaps into action, calling patients and rescheduling lessons. Passing by our reception area, it is not uncommon to find Haydee engaged in conversations with a nervous prospective patient. [And with Spanish as] her first language, many of our bilingual and/or Spanish speaking patients feel even more comfortable and confident. [Haydee] inspires us all to adopt her model of treating everyone with great respect, valuing all as an equally important member of our team.”
Process Based Therapy case article received the Psyche Award for Most Valuable Paper – Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy
“Process-based therapy is a model of psychological assessment and treatment designed to target processes of change most relevant to a client’s problems and well-being, in their specific context, using evidence-based strategies, regardless of theoretical provenance. This case study describes such a process-based approach wherein the therapist develops a treatment plan using empirically driven networks and selects treatment kernels based on target processes of change. It is one of the first published demonstrations of how to use process-based therapy with a client, explaining each step in treatment."
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1002849/full
Congratulations to: Clarissa Ong, Ph.D., Stefan Hofmann, Ph.D. and Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D.
Dr. Donna Pincus Presents on Building Bravery and Beyond: Evidence-Based Strategies for Anxiety
2022 Gitner Family Lecture
Building Bravery at BU and Beyond: Evidence-Based Strategies for Overcoming Anxiety
Lecturer: Donna Pincus, CAS Feld Family Professor of Teaching Excellence; Director, Child and Adolescent Fear and Anxiety Treatment Program, Boston University Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
"Although anxiety is a natural human emotion that can be protective, high levels of anxiety can interfere with functioning and enjoyment of life. With rates of anxiety problems increasing globally, and with clinical services in high demand, it is critical that evidence-based tools for reducing anxiety are more easily accessible. Dr. Pincus will describe the nature of anxiety and will discuss evidence-based treatment approaches for managing anxiety that can help people across the lifespan. She will describe ongoing research aimed at building community partnerships and testing novel treatment formats to increase families’ access to effective care. Equipping our community with evidence-based, anxiety reducing strategies can help decrease stress and improve overall well-being."
Date & time: November 30, 2022, 6 p.m., Tsai Performance Center
Dr. Rachel Merson on the Need for More Treatment Options for Kids Suffering with Anxiety
Dr. Rachel Merson on Discussing the Texas School Shooting Incident with Children
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