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Just found this additional list
Oregon State University (non-clinical only; Kathy Becker-Blease) University of Tulsa (Lisa Cromer) University of Regina (Bridget Klest) University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (community health, Robyn Gobin) University of California, Santa Cruz (non-clinical only; contact Eileen Zurbriggen) University of California, San Diego (contact Carolyn Allard) Alliant University (contact Constance Dalenberg) Nova Southeastern University (contact Steve Gold) Saint Louis University (contact Terri Weaver) Towson University (Master's degree only; contact Bethany Brand) Penn State-Erie (Master's in Applied Clinical Psychology, Melanie Hetzel-Riggin) APA-Div 56's list of trauma psychology graduate programs ISSTD's list of academic supervisors with trauma focus List of "feminist-friendly" graduate programs and internships in psychology

I thought I'd post the top of my list of potential mentors whose work is relevant to my interest in contextualizing experiences of traumatic stress (fairly broad). I applied for Fall 2016 matriculation in PhD programs. I currently attend University of Denver, in their child and adolescent clinical psych track. Not sure if the table will be formatted okay-- I'll post a list afterward if it's wonky. Obviously this is not an exhaustive list of folks working in Trauma, more people who had interests strongly in line with my own. Feel free to post other trauma-related researchers! 
Sidenote for folks applying this round, this is an example table of how I tracked all my potential mentors. I vaguely ranked them based on how close the fit was, and only ended up applying to four. Some stuff isn't filled in, but feel free to google them! 
I'd also mention Jennifer Freyd (University of Oregon; interpersonal and institutional betrayal trauma), who I did my undergrad work with, but I'm not sure she will be taking students-- actually not sure about anyone on this list for the coming application cycle, except Dr. DePrince at DU, who is interested in taking a student this year.

  Person Email School City Match? Interest 1 Anne DePrince Anne.Deprince@du.edu University of Denver Denver, CO 1 individual characteristics/context --> violence/abuse exposure + clinical symptoms 2 Andrew Rasmussen   Fordham     social-ecologial effects of forced migration/ trauma in humanitarian disasters 3 Patricia A Frazier   Minnesotta     NOTE! counseling psych program; interface of counseling psychology and social psychology; identify factors associated with adjustment to stressful or traumatic life events. 4 Maryam Kia-Keating   UC Santa Barbara     socio-ecological!!! culture, immigrant/refugee youth, violence/trauma, PTSD 5 George A. Bonanno   Columbia     Post-traumatic resilience 6 Inger E Burnett-Zeigler i-burnett-zeigler@northwestern.edu Northwestern Chicago   depression, barriers to treatment in racial/ethnic minorities / low-income 7 Sharon Lambert slambert@gwu.edu GW DC   internalizing behavior in low-income/"urban" youth; neighborhood effects 8 Esteban V. Cardemil   Clark University Worcester, MA   Mental health care disparities for minorities, prevention and treatment, cultural adaptations, depression 9 Albert Farrell   Virginia Commonwealth University     impact of exposure to community violence and peer victimization on adolescents’ development; and identification of protective factors that promote the positive development of youth in high risk environments (e.g., those living in communities with high rates of poverty and violence).  10 Vickie M. Mays maysv@nicco.sscnet.ucla.edu UCLA   3 minority mental health 11 Lauren Cattaneo   George Mason     applies a community psychology orientation; within the area of intimate partner violence, focused on the key constructs of empowerment and survivor-centered practice to explore the best ways to assist survivors. 12 Laura McKee   Clark University Worcester, MA   internalizing psychopathology (e.g., depression and anxiety) develops in at-risk children and adolescents.

Just found this additional list
Oregon State University (non-clinical only; Kathy Becker-Blease) University of Tulsa (Lisa Cromer) University of Regina (Bridget Klest) University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (community health, Robyn Gobin) University of California, Santa Cruz (non-clinical only; contact Eileen Zurbriggen) University of California, San Diego (contact Carolyn Allard) Alliant University (contact Constance Dalenberg) Nova Southeastern University (contact Steve Gold) Saint Louis University (contact Terri Weaver) Towson University (Master's degree only; contact Bethany Brand) Penn State-Erie (Master's in Applied Clinical Psychology, Melanie Hetzel-Riggin) APA-Div 56's list of trauma psychology graduate programs ISSTD's list of academic supervisors with trauma focus List of "feminist-friendly" graduate programs and internships in psychology

Just found this additional list
Oregon State University (non-clinical only; Kathy Becker-Blease) University of Tulsa (Lisa Cromer) University of Regina (Bridget Klest) University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (community health, Robyn Gobin) University of California, Santa Cruz (non-clinical only; contact Eileen Zurbriggen) University of California, San Diego (contact Carolyn Allard) Alliant University (contact Constance Dalenberg) Nova Southeastern University (contact Steve Gold) Saint Louis University (contact Terri Weaver) Towson University (Master's degree only; contact Bethany Brand) Penn State-Erie (Master's in Applied Clinical Psychology, Melanie Hetzel-Riggin) APA-Div 56's list of trauma psychology graduate programs ISSTD's list of academic supervisors with trauma focus List of "feminist-friendly" graduate programs and internships in psychology

Yeah, I totally agree. I am finishing my first year in a research-focused Clinical Psych PhD program. I worked in the private sector before beginning my program and I try to treat school basically like a job: work ~8-4 every week day and mostly not work otherwise. The difference is that there is less consistency in grad school. If we have a big grant or paper deadline, I might work more than 40 hours. If there is a lull in work, I may work less than 40 in a given week. I study trauma, and my research group and mentor us a feminist lens-- which may contribute to the fact that they prioritize and model for me the importance of having a life outside of school/work. For example, I have had several older students and even a faculty member basically say you can get away with skimming reading for classes, perhaps only reading things that are particularly relevent to your research area. This obviously shaves off significant work. Most days I am able to arrive home by 5 and make dinner and hang out with my partner. Right now I don't do hardly any work on the weekend. 
In general, I feel WAYYYY more chill in grad school than I did in undergrad. I worked a part time (20 hr/week) job through school, and was probably doing too many extracurricular activities. I've definitely since honed my ability to say no to things!
I say this with the caveat that I am in my first year. From what I've observed in older students, my program's work distribution progresses as I describe below. I'm not sure if this is relevent, but it helps me to realize how I'll have to spread my time.
First year: focus on getting acclimated; doing well-ish in your classes (2/term); banging out your master's project; doing work in your mentor's lab; your 20-hour per week job (RA or TA)-- this often ends up being less than 20 hours; and minimal clinical training mostly starting with ~6 hours per week at the VERY tail end of the year Second year: finish your master's, keep doing your 20-hour per week job; take on more clinical work the full year (~6-9 hours per week; we begin in our neuropsych clinic this year); continue classes (2/term) Third year: do lots of research & try to publish; keep doing classes (2/term); transition to having more therapy clients (6-9 hours per week); plan for dissertation and/or apply for fellowships Fourth year: big thing is externship (~20 hours at a local hospital/VA/community clinic); possibly take a few straggler classes but probably done with classes; full steam ahead on dissertation planning / begin IRB applications & data collection; we DO NOT have to do comps at my school; continue working in mentor's lab Fifth year: DISSERTATION!!!; continue working in mentor's lab depending on whether you get a fellowship; apply to internships; possibly continue externship to get more clinical hours; continue publishing.  I've probably left something out, but that's the gist!

I have zero clue what the grad programs are like, but University of Oregon's special collections has the complete papers of Ursula LeGuin, James Tiptree/Alice Sheldon, and smatterings of Joanna Russ, Samuel Delaney, and others I'm forgetting! Carol Stabille is the professor I'm familiar with whose done work with these collections, but she teaches in the school of Journalism. Probably not super helpful, but I saw Fem Sci Fi so I thought I'd pitch that in.

Congrats, that's awesome!!!!

Hi! I'm curious if anyone in a clinical program has applied for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, especially with the recent changes. This is the relevent info from their application materials:
Individuals are not eligible to apply if they will be enrolled in an area of graduate study focused on clinical practice, for example, counseling, social work, as well as patient-oriented research, epidemiological and medical behavioral studies, outcomes research and health services research. Ineligible clinical studies include investigations to provide evidence leading to a scientific basis for consideration of a change in health policy or standard of care, and includes pharmacologic, non-pharmacologic, and behavioral interventions for disease prevention, prophylaxis, diagnosis, or therapy. Graduate study focused on community and other population-based medical intervention trials are also ineligible.
I've had mixed advice from mentors: some say you can get around this by applying with a super "general science" research program, and others say its not worth it. What's the deal? Should I just stick with NIMH/NIH fellowships? 

I might have read wrong, but it felt like you aren't clear about what the project is about-- and it is really hard to do a focused lit review without that first step. If you're trying to figure out what project to do, I think @hantoo's description is a good place to start. Try to get a sense of what literature exists, and what its general findings are. I keep a running excel doc with columns for the citation, the gist of the findings, things that are particularly relevent to my current project, and notes. This might be overkill for where you're at right now, but an idea. 
If you already know what project you're doing, it should be a little easier. You have a general sense of the story you need to tell to justify your research. Usually why the general problem is important, and how your work is filling some gap. I usually start with google scholar or a field-specific database and find some relevent articles then follow their citations / the papers that have cited them to grow the circle outward. 
Also, your advisor probably expects to have this be an ongoing convo/discovery process. They sound understanding and realistic from what you posted! 

First, I think your confusion and doubt is totally reasonable, and if I were in your position I would try as much as possible to be kind to you. Deciding where to go, and actually going there feels like (and is!) a huge decision. I think it's really exciting you had these two offers-- and I 100% agree with @fuzzylogician that it's okay to have prioritized your material wellbeing over the sensation of being welcomed. I also think it's weird that we get this one in-person glimpse during interviews, and most everything else is on paper. That is to say, there might be things about the school you turned down that were more negative that you didn't experience, and things about the school you've decided to attend that ARE really positive that, for whatever reason, did not come across.
Second, while it may feel like bridges were burned, the program or mentor probably won't be holding a grudge. It seems like you communicated in a timely manner, and they understand it's a weird time and that there's a lot of pressure on you. If anything they were probably sad that one of their top candidates wasn't able to attend-- and they likely understand that they would have better drawing power if they had more substantial financial aid. 
My final thought is that transferring isn't completely out of the question. If you HATE the school you've currently selected, you will be able to navigate those options down the road. But, I agree that it'll be best to go "full steam" toward this school, get the full picture, and find the components about that school that you like and can be excited about!

Yeah, I second @eternallyephemeral. A lot of programs will do a first-round sweep and remove people solely based on GREs/GPA. That super sucks, but when they're getting thousands of applications for a handful of positions, they use heuristics that might mean they miss out on awesome people who aren't great test-takers or who have viable reasons for lower GPA. 
I'm not sure where you are in your education, but if you're still in undergrad, look into completing an honors thesis with a lab. I ended up publishing my thesis work, both as conference posters and as first author in a peer reviewed journal. If you're not in school any more, I don't think it will be fruitful to approach a lab saying, "I'm trying to get publications, please take me on." They'll want you to be of help/service to them, and after building a relationship and demonstrating your research and writing abilities, you may have an opportunity to become a co-author. Another idea I had (that might not be feasible, but no judgement in brainstorming!) is if you have a faculty member mentor who likes you and is invested in your doing well, you probably could be a little more open with them about really wanting to write something up / create a poster and they might take you up on that. Sometimes labs will have old datasets that could still be generative, but there is no one who wants to / has time to do the work to analyze data and write it up. 

Yeah, I second @eternallyephemeral. A lot of programs will do a first-round sweep and remove people solely based on GREs/GPA. That super sucks, but when they're getting thousands of applications for a handful of positions, they use heuristics that might mean they miss out on awesome people who aren't great test-takers or who have viable reasons for lower GPA. 
I'm not sure where you are in your education, but if you're still in undergrad, look into completing an honors thesis with a lab. I ended up publishing my thesis work, both as conference posters and as first author in a peer reviewed journal. If you're not in school any more, I don't think it will be fruitful to approach a lab saying, "I'm trying to get publications, please take me on." They'll want you to be of help/service to them, and after building a relationship and demonstrating your research and writing abilities, you may have an opportunity to become a co-author. Another idea I had (that might not be feasible, but no judgement in brainstorming!) is if you have a faculty member mentor who likes you and is invested in your doing well, you probably could be a little more open with them about really wanting to write something up / create a poster and they might take you up on that. Sometimes labs will have old datasets that could still be generative, but there is no one who wants to / has time to do the work to analyze data and write it up. 

On this weeks show the crew introduce special guest, Hana, to unpack how close is too close with your advisor, see an example of the kinds of things you can learn from animal research, distinguish between a wet and a dry lab, and hear about how Hana tackled the problem of diversity in her department.
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Hi all! Anxiously waiting for 4/15? You might want to pass the time by checking out this new podcast called "Graduates Anonymous" created by two current first-year grad students documenting their experience, answering questions, and interviewing other students/relevent people. You can get it on iTunes, Stitcher, or GooglePlay.