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David J. Hansen is a professor and director of clinical training with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Psychology Department. Prior to coming to UNL in 1992, he was a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at West Virginia University, where he directed a clinical research and treatment program for physically abusive and neglectful families. At UNL, he co-directs the Family Interaction Skills Clinic and directs Project SAFE, a clinical research and treatment program for sexually abused children and their families. He has published extensively on maltreatment, clinical assessment and intervention, child and adolescent social competence and adjustment, among other topics. He is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association.
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Debra Hope is director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic. Her research interests include assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders, particularly social phobia. Her work on psychopathology emphasizes information processing models that describe the role of attention and memory in social phobia and the impact of these cognitive processes on interpersonal functioning. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology form the University at Albany-State University of New York in 1990 and joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Psychology that same year.
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DiLillo and students Anna Jaffe and Michelle Haikalis recently studied whether participating in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder research caused trauma victims to suffer further psychological injury. They reviewed 50 trauma-related studies involving nearly 74,000 participants and found no evidence of harm. Participating in research, in fact, was often helpful and therapeutic.