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Departmental Faculty Profiles
Funded 2013
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Zac Imel Assistant Professor Department of Educational Psychology zac.imel@utah.edu View Profile |
National Institute of Health - Federal 3 Year |
738,904.00 | Computerized Monitoring of Therapist Empathy in Motivational Interviewing |
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William Jenson Professor Educational Psychology bill.jenson@utah.eduView Profile |
US Dept of Education | $736,329 | Superheroes Social Skills Training, Rethink Autism Internet Interventions, Parent Training, EBP Classroom Training, Functional Behavior Assessment: An Autism Spectrum Disorder, Evidence Based Practice Training Track for School Psychologists |
Zac Imel
Currently, there is no objective/scalable method for evaluating the practice of evidence-based
treatments like Motivational Interviewing (MI) in clinical settings. Computer-based
assessments of MI fidelity have the potential to “scale-up” in such a manner that
the provision of performance-based feedback to therapists in the community is feasible.
The current project will apply linguistic processing approaches to develop and test
the feasibility of an initial technology for coding a central component of MI - provider
empathy and its specific behavioral indicators.
William Jenson
The Autism Training Grant is designed to provide students in the School Psychology
program at the University of Utah to be proficient in up-to-date evidence based practices
in early assessment, interventions, and parent training/coaching for students with
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The primary focus of training will be to train 40
masters level school psychologists to be experts in the assessment, diagnosis, and
interventions for students with ASD. Read more at http://ed-psych.utah.edu/school-psych/grants/autism-training-grant.php