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Allen L. Edwards Psychology Lectures

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The University of Washington Department of Psychology presents the fourth annual Allen L. Edwards Psychology Lecture Series. This series brings prominent, nationally recognized psychologists to the University of Washington to co-present with faculty experts from the UW Department of Psychology. In 2009 the series focused on addiction prevention and treatment, social interaction and human language.

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Programs in this series:

Addiction and the Mind #1
Dr. Alan Marlatt discusses treatment and relapse prevention techniques.

Addiction and the Mind #2
Dr. Judson Brewer discusses treatment and relapse prevention techniques.

Brain Science as a Means of Understanding Delinquency and Substance Abuse in Youth
Exploration of delinquency and substance abuse in youth.

Family Values and Culture in the Successful Adjustment of Ethnic Minority Adolescents, Part 1
Nearly half of this country’s children under five years of age are now ethnic minorities, pointing the way to a demographic shift that will reshape our country, as well as they way we study children and families.

Family Values and Culture in the Successful Adjustment of Ethnic Minority Adolescents, Part 2
How do contextual forces, including socioeconomic status, neighborhood factors, and marital relationships set the stage for parenting amongst African- and Mexican-American families?

Language and the Brain #1
Dr. Lee Osterhout explores the inner-workings of the human brain.

Language and the Brain #2
Dr. Karen Emmorey explores the inner-workings of the human brain.

Science and Politics: The Discordant Couple in the Fight Against AIDS
Implications of the growing influence of politics on HIV.

Social Networks: How Simple Parts Make Complex Systems #1
Dr. Jennifer Fewell shares her research on social insects for exploring individual behavior at the group level.

Social Networks: How Simple Parts Make Complex Systems #2
Dr. Sean O'Donnell shares his research for exploring individual behavior at the group (colony) level.

Suicidal Individuals: Evaluation, Therapies, and Ethics – Part 1
Hear about the development and evaluation of therapies used to treat individuals with suicidal behaviors.

Suicidal Individuals: Evaluation, Therapies, and Ethics – Part 2
Explore the history of excluding suicidal individuals from clinical treatment trials because including them was considered to be unethical, unsafe or too difficult to manage clinically.

Symbolic Understanding in Infants and Young Children: Challenges and Benefits – Part 1
Nothing is more important in early human development than learning to use the symbols through which we communicate with one another.

Symbolic Understanding in Infants and Young Children: Challenges and Benefits – Part 2
Nothing is more important in early human development than learning to use the symbols through which we communicate with one another.

The Promise of Prevention for Conduct Problems in At-Risk Youth, Part 1
Intervention methods and limitations in scientific knowledge that could identify and prevent conduct problems at an early age.

The Promise of Prevention for Conduct Problems in At-Risk Youth, Part 2
Intervention methods and limitations in scientific knowledge that could identify and prevent conduct problems at an early age.

The Psychology of Blink: Understanding How Our Minds Work Unconsciously - Part 1 of 2
From the University of Maryland, an interview with Walter Reich, former director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The Psychology of Blink: Understanding How Our Minds Work Unconsciously - Part 2 of 2
Recent psychological research has revealed widely held unconscious thought patterns that most people would rather not possess.

Understanding and Treating Chronic Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Discussion of psychological turmoil following exposure to trauma.

Vision and the Brain: Unseen Complexities – Part 1
Explore the problems in the context of object size and brightness perception, and discuss computational challenges in sight that require extensive neural processing.

Vision and the Brain: Unseen Complexities – Part 2
Learn how separate but interacting visual systems have evolved for the perception of objects on the one hand, and the control of actions directed at those objects on the other.

An Update on Fibromyalgia

Inside Stories: Milton Masciadri

Building a Community-based Health Care Movement

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