SEEKING: Smart, thoughtful, motivated, and academically-successful Native American students who are interested in pursuing graduate study toward making a difference in the well-being of tribal communities!
Colleagues:
I would appreciate it if you could find a way to circulate the info below to your Native students, especially graduating seniors.
Kind Regards,
Joe Gone
*****
SEEKING: Smart, thoughtful, motivated, and academically-successful Native American students who are interested in pursuing graduate study toward making a difference in the well-being of tribal communities!
My name is Dr. Joseph Gone. I'm a research psychologist on faculty in the Clinical Psychology doctoral program at the University of Michigan. I'm also an enrolled member of the Gros Ventre tribe in north-central Montana. I'm hoping to recruit a doctoral student this coming academic year who I can mentor in the field of American Indian culture and mental health.
Potential applicants need not have majored in psychology as undergraduates, but some familiarity with scholarly research is desirable. Applications to our clinical psychology doctoral program are due by December 15. Most importantly, on November 9-11, 2006, our department is hosting a special recruitment "Preview" weekend that will allow applicants from underrepresented minority groups to explore graduate education opportunities here at no cost (but you must apply ASAP at www.rackham.umich.edu/preview).
As a clinical psychologist by training, with roots in both cultural and community psychology, I explore in my research the cultural tensions in the provision of mental health services to American Indian communities. For example, in my research with American Indians I have described how:
* cultural identity in the face of catastrophic cultural disruption can include disavowals of authentic Indianness that in themselves express authentic Indianness;
* local understandings of "mental health" problems seem to depend more upon historical and spiritual explanations rather than biological or genetic ones;
* "traditional" aspects of ethnopsychology and ethnotherapeutics continue to structure contemporary experience and expectation in regard to "mental health";
* deliberate integration of indigenous and "Western" treatment approaches might still entail a subtle "Western" assimilation of Native selfhood; and
* cultural patterning of reservation communication styles systematically distorts diagnostic results in state-of-the-art psychiatric interviews.
(Publications and presentations related to these findings are available on my departmental website at http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/directory/profiles/faculty/?uniquename=jgone)
If you can imagine yourself involved in this important endeavor, I encourage you to review our program website (see http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/areas/clinical/) and to contact me early in the application process to further discuss your aptitude and interest. Our clinical program is located within one of the best departments of psychology in the world, and musters extensive resources toward research innovation and student education. For example, all graduate students admitted to our program are guaranteed five years of full funding as they pursue their doctoral degrees.
I can be reached by phone at (734) 255-1420 or by email at jgone@umich.edu.
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Joseph P. Gone, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
& American Culture
Department of Psychology
University of Michigan
2239 East Hall, 530 Church Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1043
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Tel: (734) 647-3958
Fax: (734) 615-0573
Cell: (734) 255-1420
Email: jgone@umich.edu
=========================
Website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/directory/profiles/faculty/?uniquename=jgone
Colleagues:
I would appreciate it if you could find a way to circulate the info below to your Native students, especially graduating seniors.
Kind Regards,
Joe Gone
*****
SEEKING: Smart, thoughtful, motivated, and academically-successful Native American students who are interested in pursuing graduate study toward making a difference in the well-being of tribal communities!
My name is Dr. Joseph Gone. I'm a research psychologist on faculty in the Clinical Psychology doctoral program at the University of Michigan. I'm also an enrolled member of the Gros Ventre tribe in north-central Montana. I'm hoping to recruit a doctoral student this coming academic year who I can mentor in the field of American Indian culture and mental health.
Potential applicants need not have majored in psychology as undergraduates, but some familiarity with scholarly research is desirable. Applications to our clinical psychology doctoral program are due by December 15. Most importantly, on November 9-11, 2006, our department is hosting a special recruitment "Preview" weekend that will allow applicants from underrepresented minority groups to explore graduate education opportunities here at no cost (but you must apply ASAP at www.rackham.umich.edu/preview).
As a clinical psychologist by training, with roots in both cultural and community psychology, I explore in my research the cultural tensions in the provision of mental health services to American Indian communities. For example, in my research with American Indians I have described how:
* cultural identity in the face of catastrophic cultural disruption can include disavowals of authentic Indianness that in themselves express authentic Indianness;
* local understandings of "mental health" problems seem to depend more upon historical and spiritual explanations rather than biological or genetic ones;
* "traditional" aspects of ethnopsychology and ethnotherapeutics continue to structure contemporary experience and expectation in regard to "mental health";
* deliberate integration of indigenous and "Western" treatment approaches might still entail a subtle "Western" assimilation of Native selfhood; and
* cultural patterning of reservation communication styles systematically distorts diagnostic results in state-of-the-art psychiatric interviews.
(Publications and presentations related to these findings are available on my departmental website at http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/directory/profiles/faculty/?uniquename=jgone)
If you can imagine yourself involved in this important endeavor, I encourage you to review our program website (see http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/areas/clinical/) and to contact me early in the application process to further discuss your aptitude and interest. Our clinical program is located within one of the best departments of psychology in the world, and musters extensive resources toward research innovation and student education. For example, all graduate students admitted to our program are guaranteed five years of full funding as they pursue their doctoral degrees.
I can be reached by phone at (734) 255-1420 or by email at jgone@umich.edu.
=========================
Joseph P. Gone, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
& American Culture
Department of Psychology
University of Michigan
2239 East Hall, 530 Church Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1043
=========================
Tel: (734) 647-3958
Fax: (734) 615-0573
Cell: (734) 255-1420
Email: jgone@umich.edu
=========================
Website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/directory/profiles/faculty/?uniquename=jgone
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