Clinical Psychology Laboratories

Anxiety and Health Research Laboratory

	Co-Directors	Michael Zvolensky, Ph.D & Kristin Grover, Ph.D.
	Location	38 Fletcher Place
	Phone	(802) 656-0655
	Areas	Dr. Zvolensky, Dr. Grover and Anxiety & Health Research Laboratory staff regularly provide community-based workshop and consultation regarding anxiety and substance use problems. The Anxiety & Health Research Laboratory serves principally individuals with anxiety problems, substance use disorders, or the combination of anxiety and substance use problems.
	Graduate Students	Julianna Hogan & Kirsten Langdon

Risk and Resilience Laboratory

	Director	Keith Burt, Ph.D
	Location	Room 221 John Dewey Hall
	Phone	(802) 846-7313
	Areas	The UVM Risk and Resilience Laboratory conducts studies on relations between competence in different life areas, on the one hand, and broad domains of psychopathology, on the other. We are especially interested in studying processes of resilience in those individuals who are successful in life despite facing significant adversity.
	Graduate Students	Amy Paysnick & Elyse Rosenberg

Hoza Laboratory

	Director	Betsy Hoza, Ph.D
	Location	Room 315 John Dewey Hall
	Phone	(802) 656-4717
	Areas	Our studies are aimed at better understanding the etiology, mechanisms, course and outcome of childhood ADHD. Current studies address assessment of ADHD, self-perceptual style in children with ADHD, peer relationships in children with ADHD, parenting and ADHD, treatment of childhood ADHD, and outcomes of children with ADHD over time.
	Graduate Students	Timothy LaVigne & Kate Linnea

The OWL Initiative: Promoting Resilience and Change

	Director	Sondra Solomon, Ph.D
	Location	Room 103 John Dewey Hall
	Phone	(802) 656-3004
	Areas	The OWL Initiative is a collective group of scientist-explorers examining the dynamics of exclusion, prejudice, social isolation and discrimination among stigmatized groups. Our approach is multidisciplinary and translational. Currently, we are exploring aspects of visible and concealed distinctions. We are interested in distinctions and genetic anomalies, particularly those involving the face. We ask, "Why do some adults with stigmatized attributes flourish while others do not do as well?" We also explore interventions that assist adults with distinctions in order to enhance their resilience and psychological well-being.
	Graduate Students	Victoria Baptiste & Tara McCuin
	Post-Baccalaureate Fellow	Carly Rathburn

Person Environment Zone (PEZ) Projects

	Director	Carol Miller, Ph.D & Sondra Solomon, Ph.D
	Location	Room 101 John Dewey Hall
	Phone	(802) 656-8029 or (866) 532-7183
	Email	PEZ@uvm.edu
	Website	http://www.uvm.edu/pez
	Areas	The PEZ Projects attempt to better understand how people cope with the stigma of HIV/AIDS.
	Graduate Students	Victoria Baptiste, James Hodge, Andrew Knapp, Tara McCuin & Jennifer Zangl
	Postdoctoral Fellows	Susan Richardson, Ph.D

Sexual Health Research Clinic

	Director	Alessandra Rellini, Ph.D
	Location	Room 241 John Dewey Hall
	Phone	(802) 419-0820
	Website	http://www.uvm.edu/~shrc
	Areas	The focus of the Sexual Health Research Clinic is women?s sexual function and dysfunction. We embrace an interdisciplinary approach that combines psychophysiology, endocrinology, cognitive and clinical outcome studies to better understand the multifaceted nature of sexuality. All studies conducted in the clinic are designed in the spirit of "translational research", meaning that we commit to study aspects of sexual health for the development and testing of treatments that we intend to disseminate in the community.
	Graduate Students	Jessica Clifton, Carolyn Dundon & Martin Seehuus

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) Study

	Director	Kelly Rohan, Ph.D
	Location	Room 347 John Dewey Hall
	Phone	(802) 656-9890
	Email	sadstudy@uvm.edu
	Website	http://www.uvm.edu/~sadstudy/
	Areas	The Rohan Laboratory is about to begin a 5-year randomized clinical trial, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, in which 160 community adults with seasonal affective disorder (SAD) will be treated with either our novel SAD-tailored cognitive-behavioral therapy or with standard light therapy and followed over 2 years.
	Graduate Students	Maggie Evans, Sheau-Yan Ho, Jennifer Rough & Lilya Sitnikov

Stickle Laboratory

	Director	Timothy Stickle, Ph.D
	Location	Room 408 John Dewey Hall
	Phone	(802) 656-3845
	Areas	Research is focused on factors that are associated with developing serious emotional and behavioral problems in childhood and adolescence from a developmental psychopathology perspective, aimed at increased understanding of how these problems develop and in applying this knowledge to improve assessment, prevention, and treatment.
	Graduate Students	Lauren Brush, Victoria Marini & Melissa Paiva-Salisbury

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