March 19, 2008
Graduate Students to present research at Mulitidisciplinary Conference
Wednesday, April 2 from 9 a.m. to 6:30 pm.
Higgins University Center, Grace and Lurie Conference Rooms
Clark University graduate students will present their research at the 2008 Graduate Student Multidisciplinary Conference.
Psychology professor and department chair Michael Addis will present the keynote address, "Science and Silence: The Challenge of Men's Well-Being in the New Millennium," at 3:45 p.m. An awards presentation and a reception sponsored by the Alumni Association will follow.
The conference is sponsored by the Graduate Student Council and the Graduate School. For a full program of presentations, visit http://www.clarku.edu/activelearning/present/gradcon.cfm.
Professor Addis received a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1987 and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington at Seattle in 1995. He has been at Clark since 1995. He is currently interested in theory and research related to men's mental health. His recent work is focused on links between masculine gender socialization and responses to problems in living, including help-seeking behavior, substance abuse, and variations in the ways mental health problems are perceived and characterized.
Professor Addis has also conducted research on the process and outcome of psychotherapies for mood and anxiety disorders, and the relationships between clinical research and clinical practice in psychology. In 1997 he received the New Researcher Award from the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy. In 2003, he received the David Shakow Early Career Award for contributions to the science and practice of clinical psychology from the American Psychological Association, and the Researcher of the Year award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity.
Professor Addis teaches courses in the psychology of learning, men and masculinity, psychological ethics, and assessment.