Bio
David Hansen studies child maltreatment, such as sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect and witnessing domestic violence. He can speak about factors related to identification and reporting; assessment and intervention with victims and families; and the correlates and consequences of maltreatment. He also researches social-skills assessment and intervention with children and adolescents. His research emphasizes procedures for enhancing the effectiveness of clinical interventions, through assessing and improving adherence, generalization, maintenance, and social validity. Hansen is the co-cirector of the Family Interaction Skills Clinic, with Mary Fran Flood; and director of Project SAFE, a clinical treatment program for sexually abused children and their families. He joined the UNL faculty in 2012.
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.
Bio
Hope, who holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University at Albany-State University of New York, is director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic, one of the specialty services within UNL’s Psychological Consultation Center. Her current research interests follow two broad themes: (a) assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders (particularly social anxiety disorder) and (b) the impact of stigma and discrimination on mental health and health services, particularly for individuals who identify as transgender, lesbian, gay, or bisexual.
David DiLillo
faculty
Chairperson
Psychology
Professor of Psychology
Psychology
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.
Bio
David DiLillo received a Ph.D in clinical psychology from Oklahoma State University in 1997. His primary research interests are in the area of family violence, including child maltreatment and marital and couple violence. He has particular interest in long-term functioning of adult survivors of childhood trauma and understanding revictimization that occurs during childhood or adolescence and again in adulthood. Recent projects in his research group have focused on marital adjustment of childhood maltreatment survivors, psychosocial mediators of revictimization, emotional influences on intimate partner violence perpetration and development of a web-based measure of child maltreatment. His research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the National institute of Child Health and Human Development.