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UNT doctoral student, recent graduate to be honored by American Psychological Association
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- A University of North Texas doctoral student and a recent graduate will receive awards at the 2010 American Psychological Association Convention Aug. 12-15. William Q. Hua, a doctoral student in clinical health psychology and behavioral medicine, has been selected by the APA's Board of Professional Affairs and the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students to receive this year's APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology. The award is given each year to a graduate student who has demonstrated outstanding practice and application of psychology. To qualify for the award, a student must demonstrate exemplary performance in working with an underserved population in an applied setting or show that he or she has developed an innovative method for delivering health services to an underserved population. Hua, from Oklahoma City, received his bachelor's degree in psychology from Oklahoma State University in 2006 and is a fourth-year doctoral student in clinical health psychology and behavioral medicine at UNT. He is a senior researcher in the Department of Psychology's Center for Psychosocial Health Research and a project manager for the center's Project Forgive, which teaches forgiveness skills to men and women infected with HIV to help them to let go of grudges that they hold against others and society. In addition, Hua was a project manager for Growing Up Positive, the center's study of health-related behaviors, risky behaviors and overall physical and mental health of HIV-positive adolescents. Last year, Hua joined with other doctoral psychology students to form Minds for Guyana, an organization that will give UNT students a chance to go to Guyana, South America, at least once a year as members of a volunteer mental health team. Hua and the other students recently spent four weeks in Guyana, teaching staff members and caretakers at children's homes about behavioral modification strategies to improve the children's behavior. The students also worked closely with individual children who had mild to severe medical and mental health conditions, and Hua provided HIV/AIDS prevention education and sex education classes in churches, orphanages and schools in several communities. Hua's other volunteer activities include mentoring a 13-year-old through Big Brothers Big Sisters of America; serving as a cabin leader at the Make Promises Happen and Muscular Dystrophy Association summer camps in Guthrie, Okla.; taking donations during MDA telethons; and serving as the team captain for student teams at UNT's and Oklahoma State's Relays for Life for the American Cancer Society. At UNT, he was honored with the Merl E. Bonney Award for Outstanding Student in Psychology two years in a row. He is also a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. Carlin M. Anderson, who received her doctoral degree in counseling psychology from UNT last December, will be honored with the APA Division 47 Dissertation Award. This award recognizes outstanding student research that has the greatest potential for making a significant contribution to the theoretical and applied knowledge base in exercise and sport psychology. At the convention, Anderson will make a presentation of her research, which focuses on disordered eating in NCAA Division I female gymnasts, swimmers and divers. The research was funded by a grant from the NCAA. Anderson, from Seattle, is currently a post-doctoral psychology fellow at Park Nicollett Melrose Institute near Minneapolis, Minn., where she is providing counseling and group therapy to individuals suffering from eating disorders and leading a counseling group for athletes with eating disorders. At UNT, Anderson provided individual counseling to student-athletes through the Department of Psychology's Center for Sport Psychology & Performance Excellence. She helped to address concerns about anxiety, athletic performance, body image, depression, stress and other mental health issues. Anderson also developed and helped lead team-building workshops for UNT's athletic teams and developed and implemented workshops on communication, healthy bodies and healthy minds, leadership, role acceptance and team cohesion for secondary school athletes attending summer camps at UNT. In addition to being recognized by APA Division 47, Anderson's research on disordered eating in NCAA Division I female athletes was recognized by the Association for Applied Sport Psychology. She will receive the association's Dissertation Award in October. Anderson received her master's degree in psychology from UNT and her bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of California at Los Angeles. At UCLA, she was a member of the gymnastics team for five years and an undergraduate assistant coach for her final year at the university. The team placed first at the Division I national championship in 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2004. She has also worked as a counseling athletic mentor at UCLA and as a sport psychology consultant and children's gymnastics coach at a gymnastics academy in Wichita, Kansas.
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