Professional Psychology

Interdisciplinary team awarded grants to transform primary care curriculum and opioid addiction training

The federal grant will help transform the primary care curriculum across faculty and graduate and undergraduate programs in family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics in addition to nurse practitioner and physician assistant programs. Continue reading

Wright State professor Julie Williams receives prestigious national award for advancement of disability issues

Julie Williams, a professor in the School of Professional Psychology, received the Distinguished Contributions to the Advancement of Disability Issues Award from the American Psychological Association. Continue reading

President Schrader presides over SOPP commencement

The Wright State University School of Professional Psychology honored 15 graduates during its commencement ceremony July 21. Continue reading

Sea change

Wright State student Saundra-Anne Morrell brings 23-year Navy career to pursuit of doctorate at School of Professional Psychology

Saundra-Anne Morrell is pursuing a doctoral degree in psychology at Wright State to prepare for a career counseling children and their parents. Continue reading

President Schrader: Wright State’s excellence to be a key focus

During her first year at Wright State, President Cheryl B. Schrader said, she will work to achieve financial stability, administrative transparency and campus conversation. Continue reading

Wright State President Cheryl B. Schrader to facilitate campus conversations in first week

As Wright State reaches the half-century mark, incoming President Cheryl B. Schrader is at the controls, pledging to help take the university to the next level. Continue reading

#SMDay: Spot on social

About 250 university professionals and students use Wright State’s social media channels to support recruitment, retention, alumni engagement, donor support and reputation management. Continue reading

Counseling cognition

Wright State’s Ernest Brown Jr. wins prestigious American Psychological Association fellowship

Ernest Brown is not only passionate about social justice, diversity and multiculturalism, but also about ethnic minority communities and forensic psychology. Continue reading

Fox 45 profiles Wright State psychology professor’s research on suicide

Fox 45’s Adam Aaro talks with Wright State professor Cheryl Meyer about a book she wrote that’s tackling a tough subject: suicide. The book is called “Explaining Suicide: patterns, motivations and what notes reveal.” Meyer wrote it after the Montgomery … Continue reading

Stressful situation

Wright State associate professor Jeremy Schumm to train Canadian clinicians in PTSD therapy for military veterans

Canadian clinicians want to adopt a model used by Jeremy Schumm when he was associate director of the PTSD program at the Cincinnati VA. Continue reading