Samuel Assessment Methods for Personality and Psychopathology

Calling all farm operators!

Our lab is doing a research project looking at stress in farmers and as part of that, we are developing a measure of Farm Heritage and we need help from farmers.

If you are a farmer, please consider filling out this brief survey.

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If you are not but know someone who is, please share!

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Farmers in America are killing themselves in staggering numbers Farming has by far the highest su***de rate of any occupation in the U.S. -- plummeting incomes may be one reason

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If you are so inclined to donate today, please consider directing your donation to the Department of Psychological Sciences or even directly to our lab (SAMPPL Gift Fund).

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Your donation to either goes to support research as well as the many undergraduates who engage in our programs.

It is greatly appreciated!

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Congratulations to Merdith Bucher on passing her preliminary exam today and advancing to doctoral candidacy! Excellent meta-anaylsis of the effects of personality on psychotherapy outcomes.

Sage advice on surviving - I mean thriving in - grad school from one of my best friends from grad school....Dr. Acevedo-Polakovich.

Ps: he left out the part about having a fish tank in your shared office.

"Thriving in Graduate School: Brief Thoughts on the Beautiful, Ruthless Journey" by Ignacio D. Acevedo-Polakovich, PhD I smile when I think back on my graduate school journey. It made me a better professional and person, and provided me with some of my closest and most enduring friendships. Graduate school was a time...

A great back to school, "work hard, play hard" tradition in Purdue Clinical Psychology!

We had fun celebrating the start of the fall semester and welcoming the new first-year students at our annual clinical area back-to-school party!

Congratulations to Meredith on a nice prelims proposal today! Now on to the hard work of the meta-analysis!

How well do dimensional models of personality disorder capture impulsigenic traits? http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2017-21183-001/ … Our answer in new PD:TRT paper

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A testimonial from Selena Gomez about the role Dialectical Behavior Therapy (a treatment often used for Borderline PD) has played in her life.

Selena Gomez: “DBT Has Completely Changed My Life" “I wish more people would talk about therapy. We girls, we’re taught to be almost too resilient, to be strong and sexy and cool and laid-back, the girl who’s down. We also need to feel allowed to fall apart.”

More on the possibility that Donald Trump meets criteria for Narcissitic Personality disorder, with quotes from SAMPPL collaborator, Josh Miller. This is a nice demonstration as to why it's so difficult to make mental health diagnoses....even different experts don't always agree.

The psychiatrist who wrote the guide to personality disorders says diagnosing Trump is "bu****it" Mental health professionals are divided over diagnosing Trump.

Really compelling review paper that just came out from Brent Roberts, as well as a fellow Purdue faculty, Rong Su. Personality traits do show meaningful change over the course of therapy, at least as reported by the client. Future research that looks at trait change as rated by informants (friends, spouses, and even therapists) will be really informative in showing how much personality can be moved by intervention.

You (and Your Therapist) Can Change Your Personality A big new study promises you are (probably) not stuck with yourself.

Can You Predict Your Scores on an Important Personality Test? The Big Five framework has been embraced by many personality psychologists as an important way to measure human personality.