The University of South Dakota

Faculty

 

Jan Berkhout, Ph.D. Professor & Director, Human Factors Psychology Program University of Chicago, 1962 jan.berkhout@usd.edu home page

Research interests: signal light designs for emergency vehicles, cell phone keypads, workstation evaluations, accident reconstruction.

Elizabeth Boyd, Ph.D. Professor & Director, Psychological Services Center Faculty Member, Disaster Mental Health Institute (DHMI) University of Houston, 1992 beth.boyd@usd.edu

Research interests: work with children and families within a developmental/systemic framework, trauma and mental health in Native American communities, development of ethnic identity, transracial adoption, and childhood depression.

S. Jean Caraway, Ph.D. Associate Professor University of North Dakota, 1996 jean.caraway@usd.edu

Research interests: Native American and rural mental health, women's health issues, and the effect of and treatment for traumatic victimization.

Raluca Gaher, Ph.D. Assistant Professor University of South Dakota, 2007 raluca.gaher@usd.edu

Research interests: risk and resiliency factors among OEF/OIF veterans (particularly the mediating and moderating mechanisms explaining the comorbidty between PTSD and substance use); military sexual trauma; alcohol related problems among college students; and pathological gambling. Dr. Gaher's clinical orientation is primarily cognitive-behavioral. Her preferred treatment approaches include cognitive therapy, motivational interviewing, exposure therapy, and dialectical behavioral therapy. More recent therapy interests include acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and integrating existential psychotherapies into CBT models.

 

Michael Granaas, Ph.D. Associate Professor University of Kansas, 1986 michael.granaas@usd.edu home page

Research interests: human-computer interface design, with an emphasis on real-time and statistical data displays.

 

Gerard Jacobs, Ph.D. University of South Florida, 1982 Professor & Director, Disaster Mental Health Institute (DMHI) gerard.jacobs@usd.edu

Research interests: disaster psychology, traumatic stress, reactions to traumatic stress and coping responses. His clinical specialties include disaster psychology and psychological support in international contexts.

Doug Peterson, Ph.D. Associate Professor & Director, University Honors Program Kansas State University, 1998 doug.peterson@usd.edu home page

Research interests: individual and shared mental models in training and assessment of complex systems, allocations of attention resources, risk perception.

 

Randal Quevillon, Ph.D. Professor & Chair, Department of Psychology Faculty Member, Disaster Mental Health Institute (DHMI) University of Montana, 1979 randy.quevillon@usd.edu

Research interests: stress among disaster victims and helpers, depression, professional training issues and rural community mental health. His clinical interests include marital and group therapy; bereavement counseling; cross-cultural issues; and the treatment of depression, anxiety, impulsiveness and serious and persistent mental disorders.

Frank Schieber, Ph.D. Professor University of Notre Dame, 1985 frank.schieber@usd.edu home page

Research interests: vision from vehicles, aging and driving, design of products and environments for aging population.

 

Jeffrey Simons, Ph.D. Associate Professor Syracuse University, 2000 jeffrey.simons@usd.edu home page

Research interests: role of affect regulation in marijuana use and use-related problems; broader interests include attitude structure, motivation, emotion, and dimensional models of affect dysregulation. Dr. Simons also has an interest in applied statistics and research methods. His clinical interests include cognitive-behavioral and motivational enhancement interventions.

Gemma Skillman, Ph.D. Associate Professor Syracuse University, 1999 gemma.skillman@usd.edu

Research interests: cultural competency and assessment/service delivery, and child-family disabilities and resiliency. Dr. Skillman's theoretical orientation is integrative, and developmental-contextual in approach. Her current research and clinical interests focus upon: (1) cross-cultural issues in assessment; (2) child-family risk, resiliency, and access/use of resources; and (3) affect regulation in the family context. Dr. Skillman utilizes both qualitative and quantitative approaches in research and clinical work.

Holly Straub, Ph.D. Associate Professor Texas Tech, Lubbock, Texas, 1990 holly.straub@usd.edu

Research interests: retrieval of geographical knowledge, cognitive activities associated with the entry of numerical data.

Cynthia Struckman-Johnson, Ph.D. Professor University of Kentucky, 1978 cindy.struckman-johnson@usd.edu

Research interests: applied social psychology and persuasion and advertising; sex differences in social-sexual behavior; public acceptance and use of safety devices such as automobile seat belts and child restraint systems.

X. T. (Xiao Tian) Wang, Ph.D. Professor New Mexico State University, 1993 xt.wang@usd.edu home page

Research interests: behavioral studies and computer modeling of human judgment and decision-making; electrophysical studies of emotional and cognitive processes.

Barbara Yutrzenka, Ph.D. Professor & Director, Clinical Psychology Training Program University of North Dakota, 1981 barbara.yutrzenka@usd.edu

Research interests: professional ethics, issues involved in the delivery of mental health services and, cross-cultural issues in supervision and training.

Emeritus Faculty

Gilbert French, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1956 gfrench@usd.edu

University Center Faculty (Sioux Falls)

Martin Dennis, Ph.D. Yale University, 2007 martin.dennis@sduniversitycenter.org

Staff

Clinical Psychology Training Program

Pam Jurgensen Senior Secretary Room 105 South Dakota Union 605-677-5353 pam.jurgensen@usd.edu

Human Factors Program and Psychology Department

Carla Marshall Senior Secretary Room 205 South Dakota Union 605-677-5295 carla.marshall@usd.edu

Psychology Department

Betty Castor  Staff Assistant Room 205A South Dakota Union 605-677-5351 betty.castor@usd.edu

Psychological Services Center

Penny Reifenrath Secretary Room 112 South Dakota Union 605-677-5354 penny.reifenrath@usd.edu