Department News

A study by Jay Fournier and Rob DeRubeis shows antidepressants work best for severe depression, but provide little to no benefit otherwise.

Link to the article on Penn's home page:  http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=1791

Link to NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/health/views/06depress.html

Excerpt from Penn's home page:

Psychology Graduate Group member Thomas Wadden was presented with the George A. Bray Founders Award by the Obesity Society in October 2009. The award recognizes Wadden for significant contributions to the understanding and treatment of obesity.

Graduate Group member Edna Foa was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies at its meeting in New York in November. Prof. Foa was recognized for her sustained contribution to research on anxiety disorders and their treatment.

THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA invites applications for a faculty position in child or adult clinical psychology or in developmental psychopathology, to begin July 2010. The search will focus on applicants at the associate and full professor level, but outstanding candidates at the assistant professor level will also be considered.

(Details at http://www.searlescholars.net/go.php?id=34)

May 8, 2009

Fifteen Searle Scholars Named for 2009

For more information, click here.

British Academy and Wiley-Blackwell announce major new prize in psychology, Martin Seligman is named as first prizewinner

The British Academy has joined forces with Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons Inc., to create a major new prize for an outstanding contribution to Psychology.

Graduate group member Edna Foa has been selected to receive the 2009 Career/Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

Anne E. Kazak of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia receives 2009 APF Cummings PSYCHE Prize