September is National Suicide Prevention Month. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), 45,000 Americans died by suicide in 2016, making it the 10th leading cause of death. Of those, 46% had a diagnosed mental illness.
Palo Alto University students, faculty, and alumni are leading the campaigns to prevent suicide and raise awareness through private practice, public-private partnerships, and research.
Whether attending sessions, presenting posters and participating on panels, faculty, students and alumni made PAU proud at the 2019 American Psychological Association’s (APA) annual conference held earlier this month in Chicago. APA brings together 12,000 practitioners, scientists, educators and students to explore the most compelling issues in the discipline.
Every summer, online and distance learning students in PAU’s psychology and counseling master’s programs have a chance to come face to face with their faculty and online peers during a required week-long summer session after their first year. In addition to getting to know each other ‘offline,’ students attend courses that are core components of their program and that are often better taught in person.
Palo Alto University Plans Celebration to Honor its Founders
A celebration and reunion of the founders of Palo Alto University (PAU) is planned for September 21, 2019, thanks to the efforts of Charles Reed, Ph.D., MFT. PAU was founded as the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology (PGSP) by a group of students and professors, including Dr. Reed, who were concerned about the limited number of psychology doctoral programs in the area. Together, they launched a grassroots effort to address the problem and in 1975 opened what is today PAU.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 08, 2019
10:00-10:50
H3: 1102 Poster Session: McCormick Place/Hall F Level 3--West Building, Division 12
Technology supports emotional regulation among a geriatric cohort with psychotic spectrum disorders. Mazzone J. A., Sills J. R., Erickson, A. J., Louras, P. & Ma, F., (H-3)
June Rumiko Klein, EdD, MBA CPA, Vice President for Business Affairs and CFO for Palo Alto University, was recently elected President of the Silicon Valley chapter of the Financial Executives International (FEI). Her term officially began July 1, 2019.