Current Student Representatives

Frank Farach (2009-2010)

Frank Farach is in his final year of doctoral studies in Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Harvard University, where his research focused on the roles of anxiety sensitivity and induced physiological sensations in memory bias for emotional information. Following undergraduate studies, Frank served as a clinical research coordinator at the Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Related Disorders in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. At Yale, he has continued to conduct research on information-processing in anxiety, his dissertation focusing on interactions between trait anxiety and manipulated mood in the temporal allocation of attention to emotional information. Frank is deeply committed to the pursuit and promotion of scientific clinical psychology, and he appreciates the opportunity to serve the SSCP community as a student representative. He is currently on internship at the Greater Hartford Clinical Psychology Internship Consortium.

Contact Frank at frank dot farach at yale dot edu.

Becca Brock (2010-2011)

Becca is a sixth-year clinical psychology doctorate candidate at The University of Iowa. She completed her undergraduate education at North Dakota State University. Her program of research is comprised of two facets. First, she is interested in understanding how specific relationship processes (e.g., partner support transactions) impact the developmental course of intimate relationships. For example, she has conducted research demonstrating that receiving “too much” unwanted support from one’s spouse may actually be more detrimental to the marital relationship than not receiving enough support. Second, she is interested in explaining the role of intimate relationship functioning in the developmental course of individual psychopathology. For her dissertation, she is developing an integrated conceptual framework demonstrating how neuroticism, stress, and specific aspects of the marital relationship (e.g., support, conflict management, emotional intimacy) transact to contribute to the developmental course of depression and anxiety. Becca is very enthusiastic about her role as SSCP student representative and is grateful for the opportunity to serve the SSCP community.

Contact Becca at rebecca-brock at iowa dot edu.

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