(NAME-MCE) GRADUATE STUDENTS (OPPORTUNITY)

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Subject: GRADUATE STUDENTS (OPPORTUNITY)



SEEKING: Smart,  thoughtful, motivated, and academically-successful 
Native American students  who are interested in pursuing graduate study 
toward making a difference in  the well-being of tribal communities!

My name is Dr. Joseph Gone. I’m a  research psychologist on faculty in 
the Clinical Psychology doctoral program  at the University of Michigan. 
I’m also an enrolled member of the Gros  Ventre tribe in north-central 
Montana. I’m hoping to recruit a doctoral  student this coming academic 
year who I can mentor in the field of American  Indian culture and mental 
health.

Potential applicants need not have  majored in psychology as 
undergraduates, but some familiarity with scholarly  research is 
desirable. Applications to our clinical psychology doctoral  program are 
due by December 15. Most importantly, on November 8-10, 2007,  our 
department is hosting a special recruitment “Preview” weekend that will  
allow applicants from underrepresented minority groups to explore  
graduate education opportunities here at no cost (but you must apply  
ASAP at www.rackham.umich.edu/preview by **September 30**).

As a  clinical psychologist by training, with roots in both cultural and 
community  psychology, I explore in my research the cultural tensions in 
the provision  of mental health services to American Indian communities. 
For example, in my  research with American Indians I have described how:
*   cultural identity in the face of catastrophic cultural  
disruption can include disavowals of authentic Indianness that in  
themselves express authentic Indianness;
*      local  understandings of “mental health” problems seem to depend 
more upon  historical and spiritual explanations rather than biological 
or genetic  ones;
*      “traditional” aspects of ethnopsychology and  ethnotherapeutics 
continue to structure contemporary experience and  expectation in regard 
to “mental health”;
*       deliberate integration of indigenous and “Western” treatment 
approaches  might still entail a subtle “Western” assimilation of Native 
selfhood;  and
*      cultural patterning of reservation communication  styles 
systematically distorts diagnostic results in state-of-the-art  
psychiatric interviews.
(Publications and presentations related to these  findings are available 
on my departmental website at  
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/joseph.p.gone/home)

If you can imagine  yourself involved in this important endeavor, I 
encourage you to review our  program website (see 
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/areas/clinical/) and to  contact me early 
in the application process to further discuss your aptitude  and 
interest. Our clinical program is located within one of the best  
departments of psychology in the world, and musters extensive resources  
toward research innovation and student education. For example, all  
graduate students admitted to our program are guaranteed five years of  
full funding as they pursue their doctoral degrees.

I can be reached  by phone at (734) 255-1420 or by email at  
jgone at umich.edu.

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Joseph P. Gone,  Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
& American  Culture
Department of Psychology
University of Michigan
2239 East Hall,  530 Church Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan  48109-1043
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Tel: (734) 647-3958
Fax: (734)  615-0573
Cell: (734) 255-1420
Email:  jgone at umich.edu
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Website:  http://sitemaker.umich.edu/joseph.p.gone/home




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