People
Directors
Dr. Lawrence Cohen (CV)
Dr. Cohen is Professor of Psychology at the University of Delaware. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Florida State University in 1977. He has studied the stress and coping process in adults for the past 20 years. He is also interested in daily diary research. Current diary research involves depressed adults in cognitive therapy (in collaboration with the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research) and breast cancer patients and their spouses/partners (in collaboration with Christiana Care and the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center). His research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. At the University of Delaware, Dr. Cohen directed the Psychological Services Center from 1980-1985, the Clinical Psychology Program from 1987-1992, and was the Department’s Associate Chair from 1994-2002.
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Dr. Jean-Philippe Laurenceau (CV)
Dr. Laurenceau is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Delaware. He received his Ph.D. from the clinical psychology doctoral program at Pennsylvania State University. His primary research interests focus on understanding the intrapersonal and interpersonal processes by which partners in marital and romantic relationships develop and maintain intimacy, which is supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the University of Delaware. He is also interested in daily diary methodology to study breast cancer patients and their spouses. This study is a collaborative project with Dr. Cohen. Dr. Laurenceau is interested in using diary methods (e.g., experience sampling, social interaction records, electronic daily diaries) and the application of emerging modern methods for the analysis of dyadic and longitudinal data. Although his clinical experience has included working with adult anxiety and depression as well as supervising doctoral and psychiatry medical students, Dr.Laurenceau specializes in couples therapy and pre-marital counseling/education.
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Graduate Students
Amber Belcher (http://w3.psych.udel.edu/people/AmberBelcher.asp)
Amber is fourth year clinical graduate student working with Dr. Jean-Philippe Laurenceau. Her central research focus concerns adjustment to chronic life stressors in marital relationships. To study these processes, our lab examines the daily lives of women with breast cancer and their spouses. A central focus of hers concerns the social support, psychological adjustment, and relationship functioning of breast cancer women and their spouses during cancer treatment. She is also currently a psychology extern at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center (HFGCC).
Elana Graber (http://w3.psych.udel.edu/people/ElanaGraber.asp)
Elana is a third year clinical graduate student working with Dr. Jean-Philippe Laurenceau. One area of my research examines the effects of gratitude on close relationships using a daily diary methodology designed to capture everyday events and emotions. A second line of research utilizes behavioral observation to examine the importance of positive and negative affect expressed during newlywed couples’ interactions to predict long-term relationship outcomes.
Brendt Parrish (http://w3.psych.udel.edu/people/BrendtParrish.asp)
Brendt Parrish is a third year graduate student. After graduating from Arizona State University, he worked for several years in a large chronic pain laboratory examining health and wellness outcomes from the biopsychosocial perspective. His fascination with the disruptiveness of vicious cycles has led him to want to examine Depression, which follows along this pattern. Some of his recent work has examined the lasting effects of a history of recurrent depression on current physical and mental health. He is currently working on his first year project examining how stress-coping styles are changed in individuals who respond quickly and have better prognosis to CBT therapy for depression.
Collaborators
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Dr. James A. Coan (http://www.virginia.edu/psychology/people/detail.php?id=249)
Dr. Coan is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia. He is interested in the neuroscience of emotional expression and individual emotion-regulation capabilities, as well as the social regulation of neural processes underlying emotional responses. Specifically he is working with Dr. Laurenceau in using the SPAFF to code newlywed couples and predict their divorce.
Dr. Adele Hayes (http://w3.psych.udel.edu/people/faculty/hayes.asp)
Adele Hayes is an Associate Professor and is the Director of the Clinical Psychology Program at the University of Delaware. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dr. Hayes is working with Dr. Laurenceau in exploring the use of modern methods for the analysis of change for elucidating change processes in psychological interventions. Dr. Hayes has experience treating depression, anxiety disorders, and personality disorders.
Dr. Steve Most (http://w3.psych.udel.edu/people/faculty/StevenBMost.asp)
Dr. Most examines to what degree do we control what we see, and what implications might this have for how different people perceive the same events. Specifically he has worked with Dr. Laurenceau on how a perceived relationship threat changes the cognitive abilities of those in a romantic relationship.
Dr. Scott Siegel (link)
Scott Siegel
Dr. V. Carrie Smith (http://w3.psych.udel.edu/people/faculty/CarrieSmith.asp)
Dr. Smith is interested in examining people’s perceptions of their daily social experiences. More specifically, she focuses mainly on how various situational factors and individual differences affect the way people navigate their daily social lives. Dr. Smith is working with Dr. Laurenceau and his graduate students on exploring the daily emotional experiences in romantic couples.
