Teaching Opportunity. We are looking for someone to teach our 3-credit Theoretical Psychopathology course to PhD students this Spring. This course covers contemporary theoretical perspectives and studies on syndromes of psychopathology. The subject matter varies from quarter to quarter; I have previously focused on schizophrenia, depression, anxiety disorders, and personality disorders. Goals: teach second year graduate students how to actively read and evaluate studies they read so they become more informed and active consumers of empirical literature, while understanding methods used in contemporary research.

The Healthy Families Clinic, a no-fee mental health clinic funded by the Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County, has completed its third successful and productive year. This year, the clinic moved to the Health Reach Clinic in Waukegan and has more than doubled the number of sessions from last year. As evidence of the excellent work students in the Psychology Department are doing to meet the mental health needs of the uninsured in Lake County Illinois, we have seen a total of 41 adults and 21 children since September and have provided over 344 therapy sessions. As well as providing a valuable service to the community, this clinic serves as a training site for our students. Psychology students work with students in the Physician Assistant program to provide multidisciplinary treatment.

Another Perfect Performance on the National Counselor Exam! The second class has graduated from the Masters in Clinical Counseling Psychology program, and once again 100% have passed the National Counselor Exam required for licensure as a Professional Counselor. Congratulations to Dr. Kessler and the Counseling Class of 2011! That makes for a perfect record two years in a row!

Department Colloquium Schedule

October 4		Terry deRoon- Cassini – Medical College of Wisconsin Psychopathology and Resilience after Traumatic Injury Thursday 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Faculty Lounge
December 6		Student Masters Project Presentations I Sara Berentsen, Julia Novitski, Jarrett Roseberry, Sarah Hampton Thursday 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Faculty Lounge
January 3		Bradley Appelhans – Rush University Instant versus Delayed Gratification in Health Behavior Thursday 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Faculty Lounge
January 31		Michael Seidenberg – Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science Searching for Preclinical Cognitive Markers of Memory Impairment in the Elderly Thursday 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Faculty Lounge
March 7		Susan McMahon – DePaul University Aggressive and Prosocial Behavior: Community Violence, Cognitive, and Behavioral Predictors among Urban African American Youth. Thursday 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Faculty Lounge
April 4		Bernadette Sanchez – DePaul University Mentoring and Positive Youth Development: Ethnic Identity as a Mediating Process Thursday 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Faculty Lounge
April 18		Student Masters Project Presentations II Chelsea Brieman, Chelsey Wilkes Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Faculty Lounge
May 2		Leah Rubin –University of Illinois at Chicago Effects of stress and stress hormones on cognition in HIV-infected women Thursday 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Faculty Lounge

Faculty News

Dr. Arthur Cantos recently presented an invited workshop on "Formulation based treatment of perpetrators of intimate partner violence," as well as an invited address on "Treatment outcome with male perpetrators of intimate partner violence: Beyond power and control" at the recent VII meeting of the "Asociacion Psicologica Iberoamericana de Clinica Y Salud (APICSA)" held at La universidad nacional de Cordoba, in Argentina. Dr. Cantos has also been appointed as the APICSA representative in the United States of America.La Asociación Psicológica Iberoamericana de Clínica y Salud is an association with the goal of bringing together psychologists and other Iberoamerican professionals who work or study in the Clinical and Health Psychology field from a cognitive behavioral perspective.

Dr. Rachel Neff Greenley is in year 3 of her Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America randomized clinical trial to improve oral medication adherence in youth with inflammatory bowel disease. She was invited to present preliminary findings showing significant improvements in youth medication adherence as a function of intervention at the 2012 Advances in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Conference on December 16, 1012 in Hollywood Beach, Florida.

Dr. Rachel Neff Greenley received the 2012 Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science College of Health Professions Outstanding Clinical Research Award.

Dr. Kenneth Kessler recently joined the Illinois Professional Counselor Licensing and Disciplinary Board.

Dr. Kristin Schneider served as the lead Guest Editor for a special issue on “Depression, Obesity, Eating Behavior and Physical Activity” which was published in 2012 in the Journal of Obesity.

Dr. Kristin Schneider and colleagues will be conducting a clinical seminar on using Behavioral Activation for depression with comorbid psychiatric and medical conditions at the Society of Behavioral Medicine annual meeting on March 20, 2013 in San Francisco. For more information check out the SBM website at http://www.sbm.org/meetings/2013/pre-conference-session-descriptions

Michael Seidenberg, Ph.D. is a co-investigator on a new four-year NIH grant, " Neuropsychological Progression of New Onset Epilepsy". The project is conducted with collaborators from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It will examine the ten year followup of psychiatric and social outcome in a cohort of children who were initially diagnosed with epilepsy between the ages of 8-18 years of age.

Dr. Scot Hill has recently published a paper in the American Journal of Psychiatry and gave an invited talk at the University of Illinois Chicago Neurobehavioral Seminar describing neuropsychological impairments in schizophrenia and psychotic bipolar disorder. This work summarizes recent findings from the Bipolar and Schizophrenia Network on Intermediate Phenotypes (B-SNIP) collaboration. Additionally, he is a co-author on a recent paper in Schizophrenia Research which found that peripheral vasopressin but not oxytocin relates to severity of acute psychosis in women with untreated first-episode psychosis.

Lawrence Perlmuter, Ph.D. was appointed to the Health Psychology Research Council of the American Psychological Association for three years and the Research Council of APA will be presenting its Symposium on Health at the meeting of APA in 2013 in Hawaii.

• Lawrence Perlmuter will be Chairing the two-hour symposium on "Family and Intergenerational Effects on Health and Functioning". His presentation is entitled: "Early Experience with Minor Illness And Family Disease History".
• Among the presenters in the symposium will be Stephanie Leung who will speak on "Intergenerational Effects of Orthostatic Hypotension".
• Others on the program include Angelle Sander of the TIRR Memorial Hermann Brain Injury Research Center in Houston who will discuss "The Impact of Family Functioning and Health Beliefs on Outcomes Following Brain Injury."
• Carolyn Tucker of the University of Florida in Gainesville addresses " The Influence of Parents On Children's and Adolescent’s Health Behaviors".
• Anne Kazak, Editor of Health Psychology, and faculty member of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia serves as Discussant.

Alumni News

New First Author Publication
Brook, M., & Kosson, D. S. (in press). Psychopathic offenders are deficient in cognitive empathy: Evidence from a laboratory measure of empathic accuracy. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

Lisa Hale, PhD, a 2004 graduate of the Clinical Psychology program, is recognized as a winner of Thinking Bigger Business magazine’s 2011 25 Under 25 Awards Program. Dr. Hale’s clinical practice, Kansas City Center for Anxiety Treatment, was chosen from over 1000 nominees as a small business (under 25 employees) representing significant achievement, vision for the future, innovation, and contribution to the Kansas City area community. As highlighted in the magazine’s write-up, “Hale developed a business model based on treatments tailored to scientific evidence and patient need, without the limitations of managed care.”

Karen L. Cassiday, PhD, an alumnus (1990) and Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, appeared on the Animal Planet channel about animal hoarding and the psychological profiles of those people. Dr. Cassiday was also interviewed about this issue on The Today Show on NBC, Nightline on ABC and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Click here to see more information about the animal hoarding program on Animal Planet.

Student News

Recent First Author Student Publications:
	Novitski, J., Steele, S., Karantzoulis, S., & Randolph, C. (2012). The Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) Effort Scale. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 27 (2), 190-195.
Recent and Upcoming Student Conference Poster Presentations:
	Allis, A., Walter, J., Kunz, J. H., & Greenley, R. N. (2012, April). Maternal coping among families of youth with inflammatory bowel disease. Poster presentation at the 2012 Regional Conference on Pediatric Psychology, April 26-28, 2012, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Bangieva, V., Schmitt, N., Leung, S.L., Stress, M., & Perlmuter, L.C. (2012, May). Orthostatic Blood Pressure Regulation: An Indicator of Verbal Memory Impairments in Children. Poster presentation at 24th Annual Association for Psychological Science Convention, Chicago, IL. Goldstein, D. (2012). The Level of Service Inventory Revised- Utility in differentiating batterer typologies. Poster presented at the 2012 Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Meetings, May 2012, Chicago, IL. Goldstein, D.S., Sworowski, L.A., Matthews, M.A., & Novitski, J.I. Cross-Validation of Failure Rates, Sensitivity and Specificity and Predictive Power Findings on the REY-15, TOMM, VSVT, WMT, and CVLT-II Among Criminal Defendants Using a Compensation-Seeking Sample. Isaac Ray Forensic Group. Planning to present at the International Neuropsychological Society Conference in Waikoloa, HI (February, 2013). Gumidyala, A. P., & Greenley, R. N. (2012, April). Predictors of health-related quality of life in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease: A cumulative risk model approach. Poster presentation at the 2012 Regional Conference on Pediatric Psychology, April 26-28, 2012, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Gumidyala, A. P., Greenley, R. N., Stephens, M. (2012, February). Impact of maternal and family functioning on health-related quality of life in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease. Paper presented at the 5th Annual Interdisciplinary Pediatric Behavioral Health Research Conference, February 25, 2012, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Kay, C. D., Song, W., Kandah, C. C., Seidenberg, M., & Woodard, J. L. (February, 2013). Discriminability of transient and enduring remote famous names in Alzheimer’s disease. Poster presentation at the 41st Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Waikoloa HI [submitted]. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, TBA. Kay, C. D., Seidenberg, M., Kandah, C. C., Matthews, M. A., Lancaster, M. A., Durgerian, S., Nielson, K. A., Smith, J. C., Woodard, J. L., Smith, J. C., Figueroa, C. M., Hazlett, K. E., Hantke, N. C., Sugarman, M., Norman, A. L., & Rao, S. M. (February, 2013). Fine motor variability, APOE-ε4, and longitudinal memory outcome in healthy elders. Poster presentation at the 41st Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Waikoloa HI [submitted]. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, TBA. Matthews, M.A., Mitchell, E.H., Novitski, J.I., Sworowski, L.A., Rogers, T.L., & Goldstein, D.S. The Relationship Between Intelligence and Effort in Test Profiles of Criminal Defendants. Isaac Ray Forensic Group. Planning to present at the International Neuropsychological Society Conference in Waikoloa, HI (February, 2013). Matthews, M.A., Novitski, J.I., Sworowski, L.A., & Goldstein, D.S. Sensitivity and Specificity of Response Latencies from the Victoria Symptom Validity Test and WAIS-III Digit Symbol Incidental Recall as Embedded Measures of Effort Among Criminal Defendants. Isaac Ray Forensic Group. Planning to present at the International Neuropsychological Society Conference in Waikoloa, HI (February, 2013). Mitchell, E.H., Matthews, M.A., Novitski, J.I., Sworowski, L.A., & Goldstein, D.S. Increasing the Positive Predictive Power of the Rey Fifteen Item Test in Criminal Defendants Through the Use of Alternative Scoring Methods and Sample-Relevant Cutoff Scores. Isaac Ray Forensic Group. Planning to present at the International Neuropsychological Society Conference in Waikoloa, HI (February, 2013). Novitski, J., Feigon, M.S., Dickson, D., Guidotti Breting, L.M., & Sweet, J.J. Investigation of the Relationship Between Level of Insight in Patients with Dementia and Performance on the MMSE and the Mattis Dementia Rating Scale-2nd Edition. NorthShore University Health System. Presented at the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology Conference in Seattle, WA (June, 2012). Novitski, J., Gonzalez, D., Guidotti Breting, L. M., & Seidenberg, M. Metamemory for Famous Names in MCI. Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science Department of Psychology. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society Conference in Montreal, Canada (February, 2012). Novitski, J., Karantzoulis, S., & Randolph, C. Sensitivity and Specificity of the RBANS in Mild Cognitive Impairment. Chicago Neuropsychological Services. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society Conference in Montreal, Canada (February, 2012). Novitski, J.I., Matthews, M.A., Sworowski, L.A., & Goldstein, D.S. Sensitivity and Specificity of Commonly Available Embedded Effort Measures in a Sample of Adult Criminal Defendants. Isaac Ray Forensic Group. Planning to present at the International Neuropsychological Society Conference in Waikoloa, HI (February, 2013). Thomason, M., Greenley, R. N., Fortin, H., Stolzman, S., & Polfuss, M. (2012, April). Parent self efficacy to support youth healthy eating and physical activity in an obese youth population. Poster presentation at the 2012 Regional Conference on Pediatric Psychology, April 26-28, 2012, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Recent Student Conference Paper Presentations:
	Victoria Bangieva & Stephanie Leung 2012 Midwestern Psychological Association Orthostatic Blood Pressure Regulation and Cognition in Children Dan Goldstein 2012 International Family Violence and Child Victimization Research Conference Distinctions in the Perceived Attitudes of Domestic Violence Perpetrators by Typology and Ethnicity Dan Goldstein 2012 Midwestern Psychological Association Utility of the Level of Service Inventory-Revised in Differentiating family-only and generally violent perpetrators of intimate partner violence Stephanie Leung & Victoria Bangieva Society for Behavioral Medicine Mood and Blood Pressure Regulation in Response to Orthostatic Challenge in Children Eve Nguyen 2012 Regional Conference on Pediatric Psychology White Coat Adherence in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Student Grants:
	Melissa Lancaster obtained an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F31) for her dissertation project entitled: Longitudinal White Matter Changes in Individuals at Risk for Alzheimer's Disease Molly Mishler Thomason was awarded Honorable Mention for the Society of Pediatric Psychology Marion and Donald Routh Student Research Grant
Life Outside of RFUMS:
	Congratulations to Dana Gonzales who was married in July 2012 and to Sarah (Knight) VanMoffaert who was married in September 2012. Amitha Gumidyala completed the Rock and Roll half marathon in Las Vegas in December to support the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America. Mary Maraventano is a chairperson for the National Psoriasis Foundation for medical outreach and advocacy in Chicago and participated in the Golf FORE a Cure fundraiser which raised over $4000 for psoriasis research. Mary Maraventano is active in the Positive Psychology group working with Veterans with PTSD at James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Facility.

Awards and Honors

CHP Dean's Award for Scholarship - Awarded to the student with the highest GPA
	Ph.D. Program	Nancy Beckman
	M.S. in Clinical Counseling Program	Nichole Howard
CHP Dean's Award for Research - Awarded to a graduating doctoral student who has demonstrated outstanding research
	Ph.D. Program	Tiffany Brakefield
CHP Clinical Education Award - Awarded to one graduating student in each clinical program for outstanding performance in the clinical training site
	Ph.D. Program	Justin Matsuura
	M.S. in Clinical Counseling Program	Wesley Ross
Christine Louro Award - Recognizes the student who most highly reflects dedication and competence in both the science and practice of psychology
	Ph.D. Program	Victoria Bangieva
Kriszta Szabo Award - Recognizes the student who makes a contribution to issues of cultural diversity and sensitivity
	Ph.D. Program	Christopher Parkinson
Excellence in Research by a Doctoral Student - Awarded to the early doctoral student who shows the greatest promise in research
	Ph.D. Program	Chelsey Wilkes
Excellence in Research by a Master of Science Student - Awarded to the Master of Science student who shows the greatest promise in research
	M.S. in Clinical Counseling Program	Eve Nguyen
Slovak American Charitable Association Scholarship 2012
	Recipient	Victoria Bangieva
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago Academic Scholarshi, 2012-2013
	Recipient	Daniel Goldstein
American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology Student Travel Scholarship (Seattle, WA, June, 2012)
	Recipient	Julia Novitski