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Is co-author of "Art Therapy and Psychotherapy: Blending Two Therapeutic Approaches." Is a member of the American Art Therapy Association. Has utilized art therapy with children.
Director, Child and Adolescent Clinic
(765) 494-0119; home: (765) 463-3181
E-mail: dumas@vm.cc.purdue.edu
Is an expert on parent-child relationships, family problems and childhood aggression. Performs clinical work with families with psychological difficulties and treats aggressive children. Can discuss childhood aggression with regard to peer rejection and depression.
Head, Department of Psychological Sciences
(765) 494-6061; home: (765) 463-5560
E-mail: gruen@psych.purdue.edu
Has studied stress and coping including loneliness in adolescence and children's coping with chronic illness.
(765) 494-7247; home: (765) 447-4416
E-mail: mantzi@vm.cc.purdue.edu
Studies personality development and young children at risk of school failure. Evaluates early education programs for at-risk children by investigating family, school and child characteristics. Assesses joint effects of family and school environment on children's social, emotional and academic development.
development and family studies
(765) 494-0503; home: (765) 742-1632
E-mail: myerswal@cfs.purdue.edu
Can discuss child stress related to disasters and tragedy. Has conducted studies asking parents how they talk to their children about war and peace issues. Studied how television coverage of the Gulf War affected children. Is an expert in nonviolent toys and activities for children. Is co-author of "Young Peacemakers Project Book" and "Peace Works."
studies
(765) 494-2966; home: (765) 497-3452
E-mail: volkert@cfs.purdue.edu
Research includes assessment of family functioning, cross-cultural issues and how they affect family values, and gender issues in family therapy. Oversees a Head Start project to assess families with children in the program and provide them with family therapy services. Other interests include ethical issues in marriage and family therapy and grief issues.
(765) 494-9748
E-mail: xord@vm.cc.purdue.edu
Research includes eating disorders, supervision, group counseling and gender role identity. Treats eating disorders and obesity.
(765) 494-2587
Studied the impact of HIV counseling on clients' compliance with safe-sex practices. Teaches health communication.
Director, Family Research Institute
(765) 494-2952
E-mail: douglas.h.sprenkle.1@purdue.edu
Can discuss a wide range of family counseling topics including dating, marriage, sex and divorce.
Purdue North Central at Westville
(219) 785-5208; home: (219) 926-1590
E-mail: pbabcock@purduenc.edu
Has expertise in thanatology, which is the study of death and its surrounding circumstances, and has conducted and participated in workshops around the country on grief and death and dying.
(765) 494-6925; home: (765) 743-9771
E-mail: victor@psych.purdue.edu
Has expertise in family relationships in the aging family. Studies sibling relationships throughout adulthood; effects of relationships when adult children care for elderly parents; and euthanasia in old age.
Director, Gerontology Center at Calumet
(219) 989-2383; (219) 462-4574
Is an expert on aging and death and dying. Has been active in developing a community gerontology program.
(765) 494-6977; home: (765) 463-6822
E-mail: cswensen@psych.purdue.edu
Teaches principles and techniques of psychotherapy, interpersonal relations and clinical gerontological psychology. Supervises adult clinical psychology practica. Recent research examines problems in long-term marriages and the impact of cancer on marriage and family relationships. Is expert on interpersonal relationships, particularly love relationships.
(765) 494-7859
E-mail: altergottk@cfs.purdue.edu
Organized and documented a seven-nation study of daily life in old age. Researched the influence of social relationships in averting depression among elderly cancer patients. Current work focuses on transracial adoption and marriage across the life span.
(765) 494-6221
E-mail: knb@psych.purdue.edu
Is the author of a book on divorce and offspring. Has studied children's reactions to parental absence because of death or divorce. Will be available only during fall semesters through year 2000.
(765) 494-7290; home: (765) 743-5599
E-mail: rainbow@vm.cc.purdue.edu
Specializes in counseling psychology; sport psychology; marriage and family therapy; sexual assault and domestic violence.
(765) 494-4691; home: (765) 497-3810
E-mail: grauer@sri.soc.purdue.edu
Studies families and the effects of violence on family dynamics. Focuses on gender differences in attitude toward violent behavior.
Head, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
(765) 494-4666; home: (765) 463-6849
E-mail: knudsend@sri.soc.purdue.edu
Expertise and research focus on family violence, including its social and legal ramifications. Books include "Child Maltreatment: Emerging Perspective," published in 1992; and "Child Protective Services: Discretion, Decisions and Dilemmas." Published papers focus on child abuse and neglect, reporting child maltreatment, youth services, and battered women and shelters.
Chair, graduate committee, sociology and
anthropology
(765) 494-4699
E-mail: joann@vm.cc.purdue.edu
Is an expert on domestic violence and victim resources. Studies violence against women here and in other countries.
Purdue Calumet at Hammond
(219) 989-2541
Is co-author of "Systemic Treatment of Incest: A Therapeutic Handbook" and "Treating Incest: A Multiple Systems Perspective." Has been co-investigator on two large projects funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study family-therapy approaches for adolescents and women who are substance abusers. Is principal investigator on a new grant to study the efficacy of couples' therapy for in-patient drug-abusing women in Seattle. Is a consultant to mental health centers and other social service agencies and a licensed psychologist in Indiana and Illinois.
(765) 494-6996
blaze@psych.purdue.edu
Research interests include motivation and achievement in children diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Also studies peer relations, loneliness and self-concept in school-age children and the treatment of ADHD.
(765) 494-0782
E-mail: vrana@vm.cc.purdue.edu
Studies the effect of emotion on thought processes. Recent work examines the emotional reactions of African-Americans to real or imagined interactions with persons of other races. Has researched anxiety disorders with special attention to post-traumatic stress disorder. Counseled veterans of the Vietnam War at the Jackson, Miss., Veterans Administration Center.
development and family studies
(765) 494-2937
E-mail: targ@cfs.purdue.edu
Interests include families and work and women's studies. Has conducted extensive research on the effect of unemployment on communities, families and individuals. Is co-author of the book "Plant Closings: International Context and Social Costs."
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